Long Taters: A Baseball Biography of George ""Boomer"" Scott
Author:   Ron Anderson
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:  

9780786449767


Pages:   308
Publication Date:   12 December 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Long Taters: A Baseball Biography of George ""Boomer"" Scott


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When African American first baseman George ""Boomer"" Scott made his debut in the major leagues in 1966, he took the field for the Boston Red Sox--the last major league team to field a black ballplayer, only seven years before. An eight-time Gold Glove Award winner, a three-time All-Star, and an important member of the Red Sox 1967 Impossible Dream American League Champions, Scott stroked 271 ""taters""--a term he coined for home runs that has been memorialized in baseball lexicon. Yet throughout his career, the outspoken player faced an ongoing struggle to gain racial acceptance. This detailed biography chronicles Scott's youth in violently racist Mississippi, his impressive 14-year professional career, and the challenges he faced off the field. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the former slugger, this work celebrates one of Boston's legends and reveals the barriers that still existed for black ball players years after Jackie Robinson paved the way.

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Author:   Ron Anderson
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9780786449767


ISBN 10:   0786449764
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   12 December 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments delete ix Foreword by Bill Jenkinson delete xi Preface delete 1 1. Pee-tuck delete 5 2. When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Gets Going delete 25 3. Great Scott delete 43 4. Mind’s Made Up—He’s Staying delete 52 5. Tape Measures to Goin’ Fishin’ delete 67 6. An Irascible Sort delete 86 7. That Glorious Summer delete 101 8. Nothing But Gibson delete 129 9. Bewitched delete 140 10. Rehab delete 160 11. A Confident Boomer delete 173 12. The Key delete 191 13. Mentor delete 205 14. I’ll Never Quit delete 217 15. A Garden City delete 226 16. Bricks and Bats delete 237 17. Arriba King Kong delete 246 Notes delete 263 Bibliography delete 277 Index delete 284

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"""a good read""--At Home Plate."


a good read --At Home Plate.


a good read --<i>At Home Plate</i>.


Author Information

Ron Anderson has written for several publications of the Society for American Baseball Research and has been a speaker at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. He lives in Concord, New Hampshire.

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