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by Charles C. Alexander

Author: Charles C. Alexander
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co; 1st edition (July 1, 1995)
Language: English
Pages: 366
ePub: 1480 kb
Fb2: 1176 kb
Rating: 4.7
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Category: Biography
Subcategory: Historical
Alexander, Charles C. (1995). Rogers Hornsby: A Biography. New York City: Henry Holt and Company. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group.
Alexander, Charles C. D'Amore, Jonathan (2004). ISBN 978-0-313-32870-1.
One of the major characteristics that author Charles C. Alexander dotes on constantly throughout the book is how blunt of a character Hornsby really was. Perhaps, then, Alexander was trying to match his writing style to his subject, but that only amounted to a book as bland as the words on the page. That being said, I cannot imagine a baseball biography being more thorough or in-depth than this one was.
Dr. Charles Alexander, professor of History and Baseball at the Ohio University at Athens for many years, has written a very good book about the life and times of Baseball Hall-of-famer Rogers Hornsby.
Ships from and sold by Books Mela. Dr. Alexander's biography of Rogers Hornsby is balanced,interesting and nuanced. Hornsby was arguably one of the 15 greatest baseball players to ever play the game. 424 batting average in 1924 was the highest batting average recorded in the 20th century.
Rogers Hornsby: A Biography. by Charles C. Alexander. A relentless competitor, Rogers Hornsby-arguably the finest right-handed hitter in baseball's history-was supremely successful on the baseball field but, in many ways, a failure off it. In this biography, Charles Alexander turns his skilled eye to this complex individual, weaving the stories of his personal and professional life with a lively history of the sport. Read on the Scribd mobile app. Download the free Scribd mobile app to read anytime, anywhere.
Charles C. Charles C. Alexander, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Ohio University, has published several important works of American intellectual and cultural history in addition to his acclaimed baseball books Our Game: An American Baseball History and Rogers Hornsby: A Biography, and Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era.
In the 1920s Rogers Hornsby was the National League's foremost star, its biggest since Honus Wagner ISBN: 0805020020 (Hornsby, Rogers, Biography). Other Products from hartmannbooks (View All). William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked.
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Rogers Hornsby facts: Rogers Hornsby (1896-1963) was the greatest right-handed hitter in baseball history. Alexander, Charles . Rogers Hornsby: A Biography, Holt, 1995. Burns, Ken and Geoffrey C. Ward, Baseball: An Illustrated History, Knopf, 1994. With a single-minded dedication to baseball, Hornsby was the National League's answer to Babe Ruth in the 1920s. New York Times, January 6, 1963.