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Through the figure of Harry Hooper (1887-1974), star of four World Series championship teams and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Paul Zingg describes baseball's transformation from an often rowdy spectacle to a respectable career choice and entertainment institution. Zingg chronicles Hooper's rise from a sharecropper background in California to college and then to the pinnacle of his sport. Boston's lead-off hitter and right fielder from 1909 to 1920, Hooper later played for the Chicago White Sox, managed in the Pacific Coast League, and coached Princeton's team. When he retired in 1925, he held every major fielding record for an American League right fielder. Hooper's diaries, memoirs, and six decades of letters offer a rich and colorful commentary on the evolution of the game, as well as insight into the tensions between a player's public and private lives.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Sports & outdoor recreation Ball games

• Full title: Harry Hooper
• Subtitle: AN AMERICAN BASEBALL LIFE
• Author: Paul Zingg
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9780252071706
• ISBN: 0252071700
• ID: 04869122
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Weight: 463 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. January 2004

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