352 pages
50 photographs, index
April 2017
978-1-4962-0097-6
$32.95 Add to CartApril 2017
978-1-4962-0095-2
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Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Passing By and Drawn In
2. Midwest Connections
3. Sandlots and Love of the Game
4. An Emerging Star in the Minors
5. False Start
6. A Magical Summer on the Island
7. Motor City Mischief
8. The Returned Prodigal and the Coming Phenom
9. The Dream Team
10. The First Trade
11. Love and War and a Little Baseball
12. A Summer to Remember
13. The End of an Era
14. Challenging the Great One
15 The Showdowns Continue
16. The Underdog Arises
17. Good but Not Lucky
18. A Lost Season
19. Free Agency in 1924?
20. The Temperamental Spitballist
21. Back Where I Belong
22. Clouds Approaching
23. The Season That Wasn’t
24. Hope Springs Eternal
25. The Comeback
26. Moment in the Sun
27. The Master at Work
28. Promises and Secrets
29. A Star Surfaces and Crashes
30. A Day of Death and Rebirth
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index