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Hank Greenberg

The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One

Hank Greenberg( )
Author: Kurlansky, Mark
Series title:Jewish Lives Ser.
ISBN:978-0-300-13660-9
Publication Date:Mar 2011
Publisher:Yale University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $46.95
Book Description:

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the remarkable life story of the first Jewish superstar athlete, by New York Times best-selling author Mark Kurlansky One of the reasons baseball fans so love the sport is that it involves certain physical acts of beauty. And one of the most beautiful sights in the history of baseball was Hank Greenberg's swing. His calmly poised body seemed to have some special set of springs with a trigger...
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Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General
Biography & Autobiography / Jewish
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.97 x 20.955 x 1.748 cm
Book Weight:0.364 Kilograms
Author Biography
Kurlansky, Mark (Author)
Mark Kurlansky is the author of The Basque History of the World, the New York Times bestseller Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (among the New York Public Library's Best Books of the Year in 1998), as well as A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry; A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny, and several acclaimed works of short fiction and journalism about the Caribbean. He spent seven years as the Caribbean correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.

He lives in New York City.

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