Urban Shocker : silent hero of baseball's golden age

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Urban Shocker : silent hero of baseball's golden age

Steve Steinberg

University of Nebraska Press, c2017

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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2018 SABR Baseball Research Award Winner Baseball in the 1920s is most known for Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, but there was another great Yankee player in that era whose compelling story remains untold. Urban Shocker was a fiercely competitive and colorful pitcher, a spitballer who had many famous battles with Babe Ruth before returning to the Yankees. Shocker was traded away to the St. Louis Browns in 1918 by Yankees manager Miller Huggins, a trade Huggins always regretted. In 1925, after four straight seasons with at least twenty wins with the hapless Browns, Shocker became the only player Huggins brought back to the Yankees. He finally reached the World Series, with the 1926 Yankees. In the Yankees' storied 1927 season, widely viewed to be the best in MLB history, Shocker pitched with guts and guile, finishing with a record of 18-6 even while his fastball and physical skills were deserting him. Hardly anyone knew that Shocker was suffering from an incurable heart disease that left him able to sleep only while sitting up and which would take his life in less than a year. With his physical skills diminishing, he continued to win games through craftiness and well-placed pitches. Delving into Shocker's baseball career, his love of the game, and his battle with heart disease, Steve Steinberg shows the dominant and courageous force that he was. Purchase the audio edition.

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List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Passing By and Drawn In 2. Midwest Connections 3. Sandlots and Love of the Game 4. An Emerging Star in the Minors 5. False Start 6. A Magical Summer on the Island 7. Motor City Mischief 8. The Returned Prodigal and the Coming Phenom 9. The Dream Team 10. The First Trade 11. Love and War and a Little Baseball 12. A Summer to Remember 13. The End of an Era 14. Challenging the Great One 15 The Showdowns Continue 16. The Underdog Arises 17. Good but Not Lucky 18. A Lost Season 19. Free Agency in 1924? 20. The Temperamental Spitballist 21. Back Where I Belong 22. Clouds Approaching 23. The Season That Wasn't 24. Hope Springs Eternal 25. The Comeback 26. Moment in the Sun 27. The Master at Work 28. Promises and Secrets 29. A Star Surfaces and Crashes 30. A Day of Death and Rebirth Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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