Big Sticks: The Batting Revolution of the Twenties
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- Synopsis
- Big Sticks is an exhilarating account of the home-run barrage of the twenties and its most illustrious purveyor, Babe Ruth. William Curran recreates all the excitement of the decade when the long ball first came into fashion and baseball was changed forever into a hard-hitting offensive game. Although most fans are familiar with the greatest stars of the past, many are unfamiliar with the actual achievements of men like Ty Cobb, George Sisler, Lou Gehrig, Rogers Hornsby, and even Babe Ruth. Curran gives us the stories of these hitters' greatest moments in the years of their greatest glory--years when teams scored an average of 11 runs a game, when a .374 hitter could be shipped back to the minors, years of unprecedented, and unequaled, hitting. The understood explanation for this power surge has been the notion that the ball changed in 1920. Curran comes up with his own reasons--Ruth's new style of swing, copied from Joe Jackson; the outlawing of the spitball, which put pitchers at a great disadvantage; the use of clean baseballs after Ray Chapman was beaned by a dirty, uncontrollable ball and died--and in so doing explodes the myth of the rabbit ball. Big Sticks is the first book to chronicle a decade that started with a Ruthian wallop and rose to a crescendo in 1930 before rules changes and slight changes in the ball tempered the triumphs of the twenties.
- Copyright:
- 1990
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 288 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780688064693
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 11/20/08
- Copyrighted By:
- William Curran
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Sports
- Submitted By:
- Garyp
- Proofread By:
- mary stephens
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.