Chief Bender's Burden

The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star

Автор: Tom Swift

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Издател: University of Nebraska Press

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The greatest American Indian baseball player of all time, Charles Albert Bender, was, according to a...

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Автор

Tom Swift

Език

Английски език

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Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2008

страници

346

EAN

9780803243217

Enbook ID

04923304

Издател

University of Nebraska Press

Теглоt

658

Размери

3887 x 5817 x 29

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The greatest American Indian baseball player of all time, Charles Albert Bender, was, according to a contemporary, 'the coolest pitcher in the game'. Using a trademark delivery, an impressive assortment of pitches that may have included the game's first slider, and an apparently unflappable demeanor, he earned a reputation as baseball's great clutch pitcher during tight Deadball Era pennant races and in front of boisterous World Series crowds. More remarkably yet, 'Chief' Bender's Hall of Fame career unfolded in the face of immeasurable prejudice. This skillfully told and complete account of Bender's life is also a portrait of greatness of character maintained despite incredible pressure - of how a celebrated man thrived while carrying an untold weight on his shoulders. With a journalist's eye for detail and a novelist's feel for storytelling, Tom Swift takes readers on Bender's improbable journey - from his early years on the White Earth Reservation, to his development at the Carlisle Indian School, to his big break and eventual rise to the pinnacle of baseball. The story of a paradoxical American sports hero, one who achieved a once-unfathomable celebrity while suffering the harsh injustices of a racially intolerant world, Chief Bender's Burden is an eye-opening and inspiring narrative of a unique American life.

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