Ee-yah
The Life and Times of Hughie Jennings, Baseball Hall of Famer
Baseball player and manager Hugh Ambrose Jennings was the kind of colorful personality who inspired nicknames. Sportswriters called him ?Ee-yah? for his famous coaching box cry and ?Hustling Hughey? for his style of play. But to the nearly 100 other men from northeast Pennsylvania who followed Jennings from the coal mines to the major leagues, he was known as ?Big Daddy, ? not for his physical stature but for his iconic status to men desperate to escape the mines. The son of an immigrant coal miner from Pittston, Pennsylvania, Jennings himself became a miner at the ripe old age of 11 or 12. He eventually became a mule driver, earning $1.10 pe…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7864-2202-9
- EAN: 9780786422029
- Produktnummer: 1556500
- Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 231 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B17.0 cm x D1.3 cm 322 g
- Abbildungen: 23 photographs, tables
- Gewicht: 322
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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