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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Whether you are a Yogi fan, a baseball fan, or a sports historian, you will enjoy this book. It was very detailed (occasionally a little more than I was seeking to know), but overall it provided a wealth of facts I found interesting. I've been a Yogi fan for many years and thought I knew quite a bit of the history of the legend, but this book proved my knowledge was truly minor in what I found fascinating to know. It digs into his personal life as well as his highly acclaimed career. Whether it's details of WWII, his struggle to be noticed and taken seriously by the scouts, or how rapidly he proved his ability and quickly was listed as one of the highest-paid stars in the MLB, everything about the king of the one-liners found it's way into this book. The author blended a life story with facts few fans ever knew about this legend. This book may not be for someone just hoping for a biography, but a true fan will be amazed at the journey of one of the greatest baseball players in the history of the game. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Lawrence 'Yogi' Berra was never supposed to become a major league ballplayer. That's what his immigrant father told him. That's what Branch Rickey told him, too--right to Berra's face, in fact. Even the lowly St. Louis Browns of his youth said he'd never make it in the big leagues. Yet baseball was his lifeblood. It was the only thing he ever cared about. Heck, it was the only thing he ever thought about. Berra couldn't allow a constant stream of ridicule about his appearance, taunts about his speech, and scorn about his perceived lack of intelligence to keep him from becoming one of the best to ever play the game-at a position requiring the very skills he was told he did not have. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and four years of reporting, Jon Pessah delivers a transformational portrait of how Berra handled his hard-earned success-on and off the playing field-as well as his failures; how the man who insisted 'I really didn't say everything I said!' nonetheless shaped decades of America's culture; and how Berra's humility and grace redefined what it truly means to be a star. Overshadowed on the field by Joe DiMaggio early in his career and later by a youthful Mickey Mantle, Berra emerges as not only the best loved Yankee but one of the most appealingly simple, innately complex, and universally admired men in all of America"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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