American Baseball: From Postwar Expansion to the Electronic Age
- ISBN-10
- 0271038306
- ISBN-13
- 9780271038308
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-11-01
- Publisher
- Penn State Press
- Author
- David Quentin Voigt
Description
In sheer batting virtuosity, the left-handed swinging Williams was rivaled only by Cobb, Ruth, and Hornsby. Over a 19-year career that twice was interrupted by combat service as a fighter pilot, Williams posted a lifetime .344 average ...
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- 2010-11-01
- 397 pages
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- Penn State Press
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