Bucketfoot Al: The Baseball Life of Al Simmons Contemporary accounts and other recollections give us a sense of Al Simmons the person and the ballplayer, his connections to people, his teams and his ability to capture the fans' imagination in his halcyon days..Al Simmons, at top form i
| TITLE | : | Bucketfoot Al: The Baseball Life of Al Simmons |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.52 (864 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0786461438 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 251 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2011-06-06 |
| GENRE | : |
Al Simmons, at top form in the Roaring Twenties, sparked one of baseball's greatest dynasties, the Philadelphia Athletics, to multiple championships, before becoming just another ballplayer. While his achievements demonstrated greatness, he was not an easy man to like--for those competing against him or with him--and he seemed to play to the level of team expectation. Contemporary accounts and other recollections give us a sense of Al Simmons the person and the ballplayer, his connections to people, his teams and his ability to capture the fans' imagination in his halcyon days.
Editorial : About the AuthorClifton Blue Parker is a magazine editor at the University of California, Davis, and a former newspaper journalist and Congressional press secretary. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), he lives in Davis, California.
Many of these refer to food, but other's are just about life in general.
While especially helpful to anyone wanting to understand the beginnings of eating disordered thinking, this book is just a plain good read for anyone who enjoys seeing life from another's perspective.
Thanks to Lori for sharing this part of her life with us.. You may think you know it all, but then you get stuck on a project and this book will get you out of the bind.
Fantastic! Jeff T.. Kindle Edition.
Bottom Line:
I nearly lowered the rating to three stars but, since the novel definitely keeps one turning the pages to find out what happens next, I definitely have to rate this at four stars. A textbook style review with bibliography of research. A typical example of a problem to which Polya's method applies is the following. I imagine that the class discussions associated with s
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