Willie Stargell: A Life in Baseball
Frank Garland
Willie Stargell: A Life in Baseball
Frank Garland
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This book brings to life one of baseball’s greatest sluggers, Willie Stargell, first by examining the factors that shaped him as a man growing up in tumultuous racial times of the 1950s and ‘60s, then by recreating the major moments in his Hall of Fame baseball career, and finally by tracing his various endeavours during the post-playing days. Interviews with more than 80 people–family members, childhood friends, teammates, opponents, front office workers and others–combined with dozens of newspaper and magazine articles shed light on the iconic patriarch of one of baseball’s last great
families,
the 1970s-era Pittsburgh Pirates,
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