Urban Shocker: Silent Hero of Baseball's Golden Age

by Steve Steinberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803295995
• ISBN13: 9780803295995
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"