Tom Yawkey

Author : Bill Nowlin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496204395
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tom Yawkey written by Bill Nowlin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Few people have influenced a team as much as did Tom Yawkey (1903-76) as owner of the Boston Red Sox. After purchasing the Red Sox for $1.2 million in 1932, Yawkey poured millions into building a better team and making the franchise relevant again. Although the Red Sox never won a World Series under Yawkey's ownership, there were still many highlights. Lefty Grove won his three hundredth game; Jimmie Foxx hit fifty home runs; Ted Williams batted.406 in 1941, and both Williams and Carl Yastrzemski won Triple Crowns.Yawkey was viewed by fans as a genial autocrat who ran his ball club like a hobby more than a businessand who spoiled his players. He was perhaps too trusting, relying on flawed cronies rather than the most competent executives to run his ballclub. One of his more unfortunate legacies was the accusation that he was a racist, since the Red Sox were the last Major League team to integrate, and his inaction in this regard haunted both him and the team for decades. As one of the last great patriarchal owners in baseball, he was the first person elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame who hadn't been a player, manager, or general manager. Bill Nowlintakes a close look at Yawkey's life as a sportsman and as one of the leading philanthropists in New England and South Carolina. He also addresses Yawkey's leadership style and issues of racism during his tenure with the Red Sox. "--

Author : Bill Nowlin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496204417
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tom Yawkey written by Bill Nowlin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people have influenced a team as much as did Tom Yawkey (1903–76) as owner of the Boston Red Sox. After purchasing the Red Sox for $1.2 million in 1932, Yawkey poured millions into building a better team and making the franchise relevant again. Although the Red Sox never won a World Series under Yawkey’s ownership, there were still many highlights. Lefty Grove won his three hundredth game; Jimmie Foxx hit fifty home runs; Ted Williams batted .406 in 1941, and both Williams and Carl Yastrzemski won Triple Crowns. Yawkey was viewed by fans as a genial autocrat who ran his ball club like a hobby more than a business and who spoiled his players. He was perhaps too trusting, relying on flawed cronies rather than the most competent executives to run his ballclub. One of his more unfortunate legacies was the accusation that he was a racist, since the Red Sox were the last Major League team to integrate, and his inaction in this regard haunted both him and the team for decades. As one of the last great patriarchal owners in baseball, he was the first person elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame who hadn’t been a player, manager, or general manager. Bill Nowlin takes a close look at Yawkey’s life as a sportsman and as one of the leading philanthropists in New England and South Carolina. He also addresses Yawkey’s leadership style and issues of racism during his tenure with the Red Sox.

Author : Bill Nowlin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803296835
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tom Yawkey written by Bill Nowlin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Biography of Tom Yawkey, sole owner and cornerstone of the Boston Red Sox from 1932 to 1976"--

Author : Howard Bryant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135297762
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shut Out written by Howard Bryant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greatest institutions - its baseball team, and told from the perspective of Boston native and noted sports writer Howard Bryant. This well written and poignant work contains striking interviews in which blacks who played for the Red Sox speak for the first time about their experiences in Boston, as well as groundbreaking chapter that details Jackie Robinson's ill-fated tryout with the Boston Red Sox and the humiliation that followed.

Author : Richard A. Johnson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618622268
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Sox Century written by Richard A. Johnson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Red Sox Century chronicles the complete history of this enduring team with authority, insight, and high style. From the team's inception in 1901 and its early peak in 1918, when it won its fifth World Series, to the glory years, which saw the rise of such greats as Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Teddy Ballgame, and Yaz and the "impossible dream," to the near misses in 1975, 1986, and 2003, and finally to the glorious World Series victory in 2004 - it's all here, drawn from countless interviews and extensive research and illustrated with more than 225 photographs, many never seen before."--Jacket.

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Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1561643483
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coastal South Carolina written by and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rick Huhn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078648571X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eddie Collins written by Rick Huhn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what is sure to be the definitive book on Eddie Collins's life and long career, author Rick Huhn covers the Hall of Fame player's experiences from childhood through his days at Columbia University, his tenure with the great Athletics clubs of 1906-1914, the highs and lows of a championship and scandal with the White Sox, and his return to the A's during their final run at greatness. By the time his 25-year playing career had ended, he was a pivotal performer on five all-time great clubs, dominating his position like no one before (or since), and earning a reputation for intelligent, selfless play that followed him to Cooperstown. Also covered in detail is his tenure with the Boston Red Sox, a team he served variously as part owner, vice-president and general manager until 1951, when after 45 years in major league baseball a stroke ended his career and, weeks later, his life.

Author : Julie Lumpkin
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Total Pages : 44 pages
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Author : Ivy Press
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781599670843
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heritage Sports Auction Signature Catalog #705 written by Ivy Press and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Gregg Hodges
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439667829
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunset Lodge in Georgetown written by David Gregg Hodges and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true, “carefully researched” story of a Depression-era brothel in a Bible Belt town that thrived for over three decades and the woman who owned it (Lee Gordon Brockington, author of Pawleys Island: A Century of History and Photographs). Hazel Weisse moved to Georgetown, South Carolina, in 1936, and opened a brothel three miles south of Front Street. Aside from objections by a few ministers, most people in town looked the other way—and the business remained open for thirty-three years, until Weisse’s retirement in 1969. She was well known, making appearances every week at the stores on Front Street—and in the newspaper as a donor to charitable causes. She sent her “sporting ladies” to town for their weekly doctor visits, banking deposits, and shopping trips. But, aware of the conservative community around her business, she did not allow her employees free access to Georgetown. She approved their choices of clothes to wear in public, warned them not to look at men on the sidewalk, and forbade soliciting. Based on research, interviews, and local lore, David Gregg Hodges attempts the unravel the history behind a place spoken of in whispers—and reveals the people and stories behind the Sunset Lodge.