A biography of Ron Santo who has earned a living at the great American pastime as third baseman for the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox.
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A biography of Ron Santo who has earned a living at the great American pastime as third baseman for the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox.
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Add this copy of Ron Santo, 3b to cart. $3.49, fair condition, Sold by Crowded Nest rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Putnam Publishing Group.
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Fair. residual sticker glue mark at top of front cover; tight binding; front flyleaf neatly trimmed off. 143 p. Index. Putnam Sports Shelf. Audience: Children/juvenile. "as is"
Add this copy of Ron Santo 3b to cart. $45.00, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.
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George Loh. Good in Fair jacket. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. 143, [1] pages. DJ is price clipped and has some wear, tears and soiling. Previous owner's mailing label in on the fep. Index. James Patrick Brosnan (October 24, 1929-June 28, 2014) was an American baseball player and author who played in Major League Baseball in 1954 and from 1956 through 1963. A right-handed pitcher, he appeared in 385 games, largely in relief, for the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox. Brosnan was listed as 6 feet 4 inches tall and 197 pounds. During his career, Brosnan was known as an intellectual, for keeping books in his locker to read and for his personal habits of puffing on a pipe while wearing his glasses, reading books during games. His teammates often referred to him as "The Professor". While known as a moderately effective pitcher, both as a starter and a reliever, Brosnan gained greater fame by becoming one of the first athletes to publish a candid personal diary. Brosnan's book, The Long Season, a season which found him being traded from St. Louis to Cincinnati at approximately the halfway point of the 1959 baseball season, touched on the subjects of racial awareness, boredom, fatigue, and skirt-chasing by players, as well as the never-ending stress of trying to maintain a position on the big league roster. Two years later, Brosnan again kept a diary, a fortuitous circumstance as the Reds would win the National League championship in 1961, before falling to the New York Yankees in the World Series. Brosnan's book was published under the appropriate title Pennant Race. Ronald Edward Santo (February 25, 1940-December 3, 2010) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) third baseman who played for the Chicago Cubs from 1960 through 1973 and the Chicago White Sox in 1974. In 1990, Santo became a member of the Cubs broadcasting team providing commentary for Cubs games on WGN radio and remained at that position until his death in 2010. In 1999, he was selected to the Cubs All-Century Team. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2012. Santo was an All-Star for nine seasons during his 15-year career. He led the National League (NL) in triples one time, in walks four times, and in on-base percentage two times. He batted.300 or more and hit 30 or more home runs four times each, and is the only third baseman in MLB history to post eight consecutive seasons with over 90 runs batted in (RBI) (1963-70). He also was a Gold Glove Award winner for five consecutive seasons. He led the NL in total chances eight times, in games, putouts and assists seven times each, and in double plays six times. From 1966 to 1974, he held the NL record for assists in a single season. He also set NL records for career assists (4, 532), total chances (6, 777) and double plays (389) at third base, all of which were eventually broken between 1986 and 1988 by Mike Schmidt. His NL total of 2, 102 games at third base is 52 short of Eddie Mathews' league record, and he ranks sixth in putouts (1, 930) and ninth in fielding percentage (.954). Santo became the first player in major league history to wear a batting helmet with protective ear flaps, when in 1966, in the midst of trying to break the Cubs' modern consecutive-game hitting streak record of 27 games (set by Hack Wilson in 1929), Santo was sidelined for nearly two weeks following a pitch thrown by the Mets' Jack Fisher. The beaning fractured his cheekbone and ended his consecutive playing streak. When he returned (and broke the hitting record with a 28-game streak) he was wearing an improvised ear flap on his batting helmet in order to protect the injury; ear flaps have since become standard equipment on batting helmets.
Add this copy of Ron Santo, 3b (Putnam Sports Shelf) to cart. $54.10, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Putnam.
