Ira Berkow
Auteur de Hank Greenberg: Hall-of-Fame Slugger
A propos de l'auteur
Ira Berkow has been a sports columnist and feature writer for the New York Times for more than twenty years.
Œuvres de Ira Berkow
The Gospel According to Casey: Casey Stengel's Inimitable, Instructional, Historical Baseball Book (1992) 18 exemplaires
The Man Who Robbed The Pierre: The Story of Bobby Comfort and the Biggest Hotel Robbery Ever (1987) 10 exemplaires
Counterpunch: Ali, Tyson, the Brown Bomber, and Other Stories of the Boxing Ring (2014) 7 exemplaires
It Happens Every Spring: DiMaggio, Mays, the Splendid Splinter, and a Lifetime at the Ballpark (2017) 6 exemplaires
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Neighborhoods Within Neighborhoods: Twentieth Century Life on Chicago's Far North Side (2002) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1940-01-07
- Sexe
- male
- Prix et distinctions
- Pulitzer Prize finalist (Commentary, 1988)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 23
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 361
- Popularité
- #66,480
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 53
But Brissie's leg was shattered during an artillery attack in Italy in 1944 and he had to beg the doctors not to amputate. Luckily for Brissie, he found one Army doctor willing to try to save the leg. Brissie went through multiple operations--his leg bone was essentially fused together from the fragments the exploding artillery shell had left behind--and he had to wear a cumbersome brace to walk, let along pitch in the major leagues. And yet pitch in the major leagues, he did, and quite effectively, despite that leg brace and the essentially constant pain he endured. In fact, Brissie was extremely well known during the post-war years as an inspiration for wounded veterans and kids with handicaps. It's surprising and more than a bit sad that his story has been largely forgotten.
Brissie was comfortable around blacks and happy to be teammates with black ballplayers, not something to be taken for granted in those early days of the integration of Major League Baseball, especially given Brissie's Southern upbringing. During the Depression, Brissie's father, a former daredevil motorcycle rider, had had a cycle repair shop in their small South Carolina town and had a black friend as a full business partner. For this sin, one night the Klan pulled Brissie's father out of their home and beat him severely in their front yard in front of the family, breaking two ribs, then lit a cross ablaze in front of the house. The lessons Brissie took from this was admiration for his father's courage and a hatred of racism.
Brissie was still alive when Berkow was working on the book (the book was published in 2009 and Brissie died in 2013) and sat for extensive interviewing. He comes across as an extremely thoughtful fellow. Berkow, a Pulitzer Prize winning jouralist, is a fine writer who clearly had a strong connection to his subject for this biography. I highly recommend this book for readers with an interest in American history and with even a passing interest in baseball.… (plus d'informations)