Zusammenfassung
A rare glimpse of professional ballplayers, not as pitchers, hitters, managers, and coaches, but as dads and grandads.
Sons of major league baseball players grow up in a unique environment, not only because they are raised in part by professional athletes, but also because they are raised by the game itself. They come of age immersed in the distinct sounds and aromas of baseball. The locker rooms, the cinderblock-lined corridors beneath the stands, the dugouts, and the fields are the playgrounds of their youth.
In Sons of Baseball, Mark Braff interviews 18 men who share their exclusive stories, ballpark memories, and the challenges and rewards of having fathers whose talents enabled them to reach the pinnacle of their profession. Each chapter is devoted to one son talking about his experiences, from the poignancy of one son’s disclosure that his dad has not been able to acknowledge his son’s sexuality as a gay man, to the humor of another son absconding with the groundskeepers’ cart in Cleveland.
With a foreword by Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. and interviews with the sons of beloved players such as Yogi Berra, Mariano Rivera, Roger Maris, Gil Hodges, and Larry Doby, Sons of Baseball provides a unique, well-rounded perspective on the lives of professional ballplayers and their families.
Schlagworte
baseball Major League Baseball Roger Maris Jim Bouton New York Yankees Cleveland Indians Dave McNally Mike Hargrove Tony Pena Ronald Ames Guidry Vada Pinson Jr. Yogi Berra Larry Doby Leo Cardenas Mariano Rivera Michael Richardson Cincinnati Reds David Rodriguez Jack Aker Father's Day Father's Day book Father's Day gift John W. Powell John Wathan Baltimore Orioles Jerry Hairston Cleveland Guardians Boog Powell Gil Hodges Cal Ripken Chicago Cubs sons of baseball Louisiana Lightning Kansas City Royals growing up baseball baseball dads baseball family baseball fathers baseball managers baseball players baseball players' sons- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 199–200 A Note on Sources 199–200
- 201–210 Index 201–210
- 211–212 About the Author 211–212
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- „... Adair, who had two younger kids and we’d play baseball all the time.”Andy often went to the ballpark ...” „... anytime he was trying to teach me [how to play]. I mean, it’s such a father-son thing. I have a funny ...” „... year, but I got the opportunity to play professional base-ball and that’s because of who my dad was and ...”
- „... baseball history, Vada Pinson prob-ably falls into the category of “one of the greatest players you’ve ...” „... after Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier, Pin-son, an African American, had to ...” „... o F B A s e B A l lyou’re just getting “that” because your father is a baseball player.’ I got a ...”
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- „... baseball.“The town we grew up in, Blue Springs, had a large population of players. Jamie Splittorff [son of ...” „... sons of Royals players]. We all played together for a few years. Jamie and I were pretty much the only ...” „... was a baseball player, and it was just kind of how we did things. That was my normal. [People] ask ...”
- „... baseball in the basement of Yankee Stadium was always so much fun. Andre Randolph [Willie’s son] and me ...” „... , they used to have Yankee family day, which was always fun because the kids would play baseball against ...” „... , ‘Hey, throw me a ball,’ you know, if there were times that we would play baseball he would be the ...”
- „... play baseball, I had to get good grades. So [Dad] was always on top of me, pushing me to, ‘Hey, if you ...” „... was a fear factor. If I didn’t do good, I wasn’t going to be able to play baseball. That was his way ...” „... pressure [being the son of a major league player], but you could feel that people expected you to be ...”
- „... guys.”Another perk that came with being a player’s son was the thrill of air travel.“From about the time I was ...” „... like his dad. But father and son didn’t have a whole lot of opportunity to play ball together.“It was ...” „... young generation of baseball fans, learning that the founder of Boog’s Bar-B-Que at Camden Yards in ...”
- „... baseball a shot.”Kevin quickly learned what it meant to be the son of a former baseball star.“The first ...” „... player who hit sixty-one home runs in a season to break a record set thirty-four years earlier by Babe ...” „... Maris is exactly that.When people think of Maris, they think of the “61 in ’61.” Casual baseball fans ...”
- „... was a good dude.”Ironically, it turned out that Larry Jr. was the first Black baseball player at ...” „... Larry Doby and Larry Doby Jr.From Baseball to Billy Joel213Larry Doby fell about three months ...” „... , 1947, at the age of twenty-three. He was the first African American player in the American League, but ...”
- „... Postal Service, the first “single issuance” honoring a baseball player since a stamp of Lou Gehrig was ...” „... was going to Montclair High School, I went out for the baseball team in 1967. And the players all said ...” „... aside, what was it like being the son of a baseball legend and having to try out for the high school ...”
- „... , before he became a manager in the early 1960s, there was time for some father-son baseball ...” „... instruction.“We had a lot of time when he was a player. We would go to Ma-rine Park in Brooklyn, a big baseball ...” „... Hodges Field, a pair of Little League baseball diamonds whose basepaths, pitching mounds, and outfield ...”
- „... ; son meets players, 183; tips from dad, 183; winters with dad, 181–82Hargrove, Laura, 185, 186Hargrove ...” „... personnel, 174–75; Ridgewood, NJ, 167; with Maris and Mantle sons, 175–76; with other Yankee players’ kids ...” „... with Native Americans, 107; end of baseball career, 105; family summer, 109; filming of The Natural ...”
- „... particularly close to one.“The [player’s son] that I was closest to during those days was Ellie [Howard] Jr. He ...” „... Bobby Richardson and Robby RichardsonGetting Past Frank Crosetti, Baseball Cop16516With the likes ...” „... twenty-four times. He finished second to Mickey Mantle that year in the voting for Most Valuable Player, one ...”
- „... , like if there was a father-son thing at school, or a play, or a graduation from elemen-tary school and ...” „... time? Mariano Rivera . . . period.When it comes to discussions of the greatest of all time in base-ball ...” „... postseason “tournament” in all but two seasons. He was named World Series Most Valuable Player in 1999 and ...”
- „... out that he was a famous baseball player. He was getting off an airplane and he was walking Michael ...” „... was to begin play during the 1969 season. In August 1969, Bouton was traded to the Houston Astros, and ...” „... continued to compete in the minor leagues, the Mexican League, independent league baseball, and adult ...”
- „... baseball players who hailed from Cuba, we tend to think of the more recent vintage stars, like Orlando ...” „... years, which made for some difficult times.“It really didn’t dawn on me [that he was a baseball player ...” „... stopped playing ma-jor league baseball. But he continued to play [the game]. I mean, it was softball, but ...”
- „... Dave McNally and Jeff McNallyA National Television Debut at Age Seven879For baseball fans in the ...” „... twenty-four wins in 1970, and received Most Valuable Player and Cy Young Award votes during each of those four ...” „... baseball world by starting the season 15–0. And then there are McNally’s World Series exploits, both on the ...”