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Cargando... Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators: The War-Torn Career of an All-Star Shortstoppor Rob Kirkpatrick
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Being a biography of an underappreciated Senators standout of the 1930's. To some extent this is a hagiography, as the author starts right out by voicing opinion from the many who think that his output justifies his inclusion in the Hall of Fame. However, in the summing up at the end, reality sets in when he points out that Travis was basically a spray hitter with a short career who was an indifferent fielder and who played for a rather poor and obscure team, and those are factors which are often crucial in Hall election. The book's main problem was that Travis was a colorless figure and that to get this up to book length, there is considerable digression into such matters as Negro League baseball and the 1941 hitting feats of Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams which really have little or nothing to do with Travis. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A three-time All-Star, Cecil Travis (1913-2006) was well on his way to a Hall of Fame career when he was drafted for World War II in 1941. When he returned to the game in 1945, after three and a half years in the army, Travis was no longer the dominant player he had been. In the three seasons that followed--the last of his career--only once did Travis play in more than seventy-five games, and his offensive numbers plummeted. Yet his pre-war accomplishments were such that he finished his twelve-year career with a .314 batting average, and baseball maven Bill James put Travis atop his list of players most likely to have lost a Hall of Fame career to the war. This biography documents Travis's life and dynamic career. It recounts his childhood years on his family's Riverdale farm in rural Georgia, his demonstration of talent during high school, the beginning of his professional career with the Minor League Chattanooga Lookouts in 1931, his rise with the Washington Senators, the historic 1941 season in which Travis led all of baseball in hits, his time as a soldier, the decline in his play from 1945 to 1947, and his retirement. In an epilogue Cecil Travis comments on his baseball career, the effects of the war, and his life in Riverdale, where he raised livestock on the farm that was his childhood home. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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