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- 199–200 A Note on Sources 199–200
- 201–210 Index 201–210
- 211–212 About the Author 211–212
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- „... Sons of BaseballSons of BaseballGrowing Up with a Major League DadM A R K B R A F FROWMAN ...” „... baseball : growing up with a Major League dad ; foreword by Cal Ripken Jr. / Mark Braff. Description ...” „... road might be even more interesting than the stories from the ballparks. Growing up around baseball ...”
- „... baseball in the minors. “I was really lucky. I had some good coaches growing up that didn’t really care who ...” „... , ‘What was it like growing up with a baseball player as a father?’ And you’re like, 40 s o n s o F B A ...” „... baseball.“The town we grew up in, Blue Springs, had a large population of players. Jamie Splittorff [son of ...”
- „... ; feel special.”Baseball always came naturally to Tony Jr. “It’s the only thing I saw growing up. Seeing ...” „... the way. Growing up, I was always in a baseball stadium, but I always found a way to do homework. So ...” „... mean? The friends that you had growing up most of the time were other players’ kids, ’cause you’re ...”
- „... young boy growing up in the Dominican Republic.“We didn’t spend too much time together. He was always ...” „... went to therapy for. Growing up, I never understood why a father H e n r y r o d r I g u e z A n d d ...” „... some-thing that I never understood.“I feel like, growing up, when I was able to put words into what I feel ...”
- „... business of baseball.”Did his dad ever offer advice about growing up Black in America?“His thing was always ...” „... s e B A l lbut also knowing that people don’t know who he is. And growing up in Montclair and living ...” „... him play, he was away six months out of the year while I was growing up because he was coaching. And ...”
- „... manager, 26; Duke University, 28–30; friends with Berra family, 24; growing up in Montclair, 23; hearing ...” „... , 51–52, 54–55; gay issues, 51–56; growing up in Dominican Republic, 50–51; 208 I n d e Xparents’ divorce ...” „... tragedy, 44; growing up in Blue Springs, 38; life lessons on the road, 41–42; move to Kansas City, 37 ...”
- „... , it wasn’t because, like, one of the guys, when I was growing up, would always say, ‘Well, 68 s o n s ...” „... head and to not get into fights.”Vada III was somewhat sheltered from racism when he was grow-ing up ...” „... had all these baseball charts up. He had been let go by the Marlins (as a coach) at that point, and it ...”
- „... 11 [at night].“So, when we were growing up, we really didn’t get to see him that much. It would be ...” „... think the most memories that I have growing up are the old stadium [the Yankees moved out of their ...” „... time? Mariano Rivera . . . period.When it comes to discussions of the greatest of all time in base-ball ...”
- „... got interviewed when I was in high school, college, and professional baseball that would come up. But ...” „... baseball facility in Brecksville, Ohio, and he said, ‘You should come up and give lessons.’ I did that for ...” „... remember growing up that we weren’t allowed to do anything on Sundays with our friends.”For the Hargroves ...”
- „... Maris is exactly that.When people think of Maris, they think of the “61 in ’61.” Casual baseball fans ...” „... up in a box score, but it was emblematic of Maris’s ability to influence a game in ways other than by ...” „... George Steinbrenner agreed to pay for new sod to be installed at the high school baseball field in ...”
- „... this one particular restaurant, a burger place that we loved.”Growing up, Larry considered the Yankees ...” „... American icon whose fame extended far beyond baseball. Count him among the few American athletes for whom ...” „... owner George Steinbrenner apologized to Berra in 1999.Berra was inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame in ...”
- „... any young kid growing up in the suburbs.“Most of our friends were the other ballplayers’ kids. That’s ...” „... still go. We wouldn’t stay for the whole game, or we wouldn’t show up right at the beginning, but we’d ...” „... started acting up, I guess. And what would happen is that the boys and sometimes the girls, we would all ...”
- „... nothing that was forced. It was just something that I always wanted to do.”Growing up around the game, it ...” „... baseball.“[He said], ‘You know, the most important thing is just being a good person, a good citizen. The ...” „... long history of major league baseball, there are only five fami-lies who boast three generations of ...”
- „... . Despite our different upbringings, I think we have a lot in common. It’s never easy growing up the child ...” „... Bas-tards of Baseball.“That’s a fantastic story. One time [the team] was behind sched-ule on the bus trying ...” „... continued to compete in the minor leagues, the Mexican League, independent league baseball, and adult ...”