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| #1552335 in Books | University of Nebraska Press | 1995-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.99 x.85 x5.00l,.83 | File type: PDF | 371 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Knowing McGraw|By Timothy Schum|Well-research but unfortunately relies on a lot of secondary sources rather than original sources as no one is left to recount McGraw's contributions to the game.
Alexander did his best to recreate McGraw's character. We learn a good bit about his terrible temper and how he tried to intimidate umpires to see things his way.
|.com |Alexander's marvelous biography of McGraw does what McGraw's own My Thirty Years in Baseball couldn't: it lets the volcano that was the man erupt in all its raw glory. A true baseball original, McGraw, as Alexander describes, "ate gunpowder every m
“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 of the Giants, winning ten pennants—a record matched only by Casey Stengel. His...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.John McGraw | Charles C. Alexander. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
