Overview
One of the most influential - and controversial - figures in baseball of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, Paul Richards was a player, manager, and general manager, a participant in many of the historic changes that marked 'the end of baseball as we knew it'. Richards managed the Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles - laying the foundation for the Orioles' championship clubs of the 1960s and 1970s - and built the expansion Houston team from scratch. Best known for inventing the giant mitt for knuckleball catchers, Richards was also the first manager to track on-base percentage and the first to monitor pitch counts. He constantly experimented with tactics and strategies, and he preached the need for constant practice of the game's fundamentals. Drawing on Richards' writings and personal papers, plus previously undiscovered audio recordings, Warren Corbett chronicles the life and times of the baseball wizard who left an indelible mark on America's national pastime.
Full Product Details
Author: Warren Corbett ,
C. Paul Rogers
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press,U.S.
Imprint: Southern Methodist University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.839kg
ISBN: 9780870745560
ISBN 10: 0870745565
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 15 October 2009
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A fine biography, impressively researched and well written. Corbett captures the full Paul Richards - a true Texan, a complicated, flawed man who was something of a baseball genius, A major figure in American baseball history, Richards is in danger of being forgotten, and he shouldn't be. Corbett's biography keeps his achievements alive for new generations of baseball fans. - Charles C. Alexander, author of Spoke: A Biography of Tris Speaker Paul Richards taught me more baseball than any manager I ever played for. He was a leader and was my mentor on the field and in the front office. I looked up to him and believed in him and my faith was always rewarded. Corbett gives Paul his due at long last. - Eddie Robinson, four-time American League All-Star, former general manager of the Atlanta Braves and Texas Rangers A remarkably thorough and well-researched study of a significant figure in baseball history. - Judith Testa, author of Sal Maglie: Baseball's Demon Barber A fascinating study of one of baseball's most fascinating figures. This well-researched story of Paul Richards's sixty years as a genius of the game provides true insight into a remarkable player, manager, and executive who shaped an exciting era of the sport's history. - Ernie Harwell, winner of the Baseball Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting
Author Information
WARREN CORBETT was briefly a minor league baseball broadcaster before turning to news reporting. A past winner of the Aviation/Space Writers Association award, he is a contributor to the Society for American Baseball Research's Biography Project at http://bioproj.sabr.org and editor of a trade publication in Washington, D. C.
