About this title: 'He ate gunpowder every morning,' complained one umpire, 'and washed it down with warm blood.' That described John McGraw, who in the 1890s was the rowdiest member of the ferocious Baltimore Orioles, the club that pioneered the hit-and-run, the cutoff, the squeeze play, and the 'Baltimore chop.' In 1902, he began his thirty-season reign as manager ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780670807307ISBN:0670807303
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. Audience: General/trade. Hardcover with DJ, VG/VG, 358 pages with photos. read more
Edition: FIRST PRINT
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: VIKING, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780670807307ISBN:0670807303
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. BIOGRAPHY. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 358 PAGES. FORMER OWNERS GIFT NOTE ON FRONT END PAPER. WHITE JACKET. BOOK IS CLEAN AND SECURE. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking, New York
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780670807307ISBN:0670807303
Description: Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Trade Edition. 6.25" x 9.25" "....Charles C. Alexander gives us the definitive portrait of one of baseball's most charismatic, competitive, and savvy players--and the most accomplished manager the game has ever known. " 358 pages. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Price clipped. Some very minor edge wrinkling to dj. Mylar wrapped dj. read more
Description: Alexander, Charles C., Viking, nd (1988), c1988, 1st Edition, boards & cloth w/gilt spine titles, fine w/dj, 358 pp w/index, bibliography & notes, B & W illus., tall 8vo, 'There has been only one manager and his name is McGraw-Connie Mack' read more
Edition: 1st Ed, 1st Printing
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Viking Penguin, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780670807307ISBN:0670807303
Description: VG/VG+/No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" 0670807303 A handsome copy bound in red cloth covers with gilt letters.358 pages. Last ten pages have faint dampstain. One corner bumped a bit. Otherwise a tight, clean, complete copy with very clean internals. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: Viking Press, NY
Date Published: 1988
Description: Viking, NY. 8vo 9 1/4", 385 pp Near Fine, red boards with gold spine titling, black and white illustrations in a Fine dustwrapper. A bright tight clean hardcover copy. read more
Description: Alexander, Charles C., University of Nebraska Press, nd (1995), c1988, 1st printing (of this edition), illus. soft cover, fine, 361 pp w/index, bibliography & notes, B & W photographic illus., 8vo. read more
Edition: First Bison Book printing.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780803259256ISBN:0803259255
Description: Very Good. No DJ Issued. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. clean bright pgs., tight binding, a well maintained softcopy, cover has slight edge/coverwear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 380 p. Audience: General/trade. 8vo 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall. includes b&w photographs. "Diligently researched and artfully written, John McGraw illuminates not only the man but the transformation of America and its national pastime between 1890 and 1930. " read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780670807307ISBN:0670807303
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. Audience: General/trade. 1st ed, fine in fine dust jacket. Cobb's biographer tries his hand with the irascible and volatile Mr. McGraw and succeeds equally well. BW photos. read more
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