Dennis Snelling
Auteur de The Greatest Minor League: A History of the Pacific Coast League, 1903-1957
A propos de l'auteur
Dennis Snelling is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the Pacific Coast League Historical Society. He lives in Rocklin, California. (Visit www.dennissnelUng.com.)
Œuvres de Dennis Snelling
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 83
- Popularité
- #218,811
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 16
- ISBN
- 13
Johnny Evers. One of the greatest ballplayers and competitors that has ever lived. Sadly though he is remembered by many only thanks to a poem with the line “Tinkers to Evers to Chance.” In fact those three names are so linked that the three were featured in a biography together by author Gil Bogen who wrote "Tinker, Evers, and Chance--A Triple Biography" in 2003. He couldn’t even get his own biography...til now. In this book Dennis Snelling tells the story and life of Johnny Evers, one of the fiercest competitors ever and the heartbeat of the teams that he played on. Although he has become known as a sourman who couldn’t hit and who only was famous thanks to the poem, Snelling reveals just how great of a player, and teammate, that Evers was. Also make sure that you read the endnotes as they contain some interesting additional stories and pay attention to the wonderful photos scattered throughout the book of Evers, his teammates, and other contemporaries.
Snelling gives us an indepth look at how Evers played the game and defined his position for years to come. Snelling shows us the pressures that Evers applied to himself to winning, his attempts to keep his business afloat, his broken marriage, the death of his young daughter, and the loss of his best friend in a car that he was driving. Its no wonder that Evers was often described as a crabby man after all of that. Snelling brings Evers to life so that we have a better understanding of the man, and the player, that he was.
If all you know about Evers is that poem, do yourself a favor and pick up this book and learn just how great of a player he was. You won’t regret it. Four out of five stars.… (plus d'informations)