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The Short Life of Hughie McLoon
- A True Story of Baseball, Magic and Murder
Af: Allen Abel
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Short Life of Hughie McLoon af Allen Abel, 9781989555217
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Engelsk
Sider:
220
ISBN-13:
9781989555217
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1989555217
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Udg. Dato:
1 jun 2020
Størrelse i cm:
14,8 x 22,4 x 0,7
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
1 jun 2020
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The Short Life of Hughie McLoon

- A True Story of Baseball, Magic and Murder
Af: Allen Abel
Engelsk
Hardback 2020
Format:
Hardback
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"This could be a great work of fiction. The damndest thing is it’s all fact.” - Michael Farber, Sports IllustratedIt was a time of Prohibition, jazz, and gangland murder, and it was baseball’s age of magic, when even Hall of Fame players believed that rubbing the hump of a hunchback guaranteed a hit.Broken and deformed by a childhood fall from a seesaw, Hughie McLoon never grew taller than forty-nine inches but he made himself one of the lucky ones. He was chosen as the batboy and mascot of the Philadelphia Athletics. Although the team finished last in each of the three seasons that the A’s rubbed his hump and Hughie tended their bats, he became a local celebrity. He loved the crowds and they loved him back.Graduating from batboy to boxing manager, and running his own speakeasy while serving as a secret agent for the Chief of Police, Hughie was the toast of Philly until one summer night in 1928 he was caught in a murderous crossfire outside his tavern. Twenty-six years old, he bled to death on Cuthbert Street. The next day, 15,000 admirers lined up to see his four-foot corpse. The age of magic was now over.The Short Life of Hughie McLoon is Allen Abel’s haunting and stylish biography of the most remarkable and beloved of the baseball mascots, and a new chapter in the complicated mythology of the American dream.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
220
ISBN-13:
9781989555217
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1989555217
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 jun 2020
Størrelse i cm:
14,8 x 22,4 x 0,7
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
1 jun 2020
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