Milwaukee's Miracle Braves

[moderate shelfwear, some age-toning to edges of pages, one-time owner's name + address + name-stamp on front endpaper; the jacket is just lightly soiled on the front and rear panels, but the spine panel has a number of small brown stains (like rust, almost) and a tiny tear at the top]. (B&W photographs) A collective portrait of the Milwaukee Braves team, published at the beginning of the first season after their relocation from Boston to Milwaukee. There are a few general chapters, but most of the book consists of profiles of the team's more prominent individuals: Charley Grimm (the manager), Ed Matthews, Bill Bruton, Warren Spahn, Del Crandall, Bobby Thomson, Joe Adcock, Andy Palko, Johnny Logan, Jack Dittmer, and Danny O'Connell. Career statistics through 1953 for all these players (and others) are included an an appendix. (Not mentioned in the book at all -- because why would he be -- was a rookie who just joined the team at the beginning of the 1954 season, a 20-year-old kid named Hank Aaron.) About half the chapters were written by Meany; the "others" who contributed, one chapter each, were R.G. Lynch, Ed Prell, Sam Levy, Red Thisted, Lou Chapman, Bob Wolf, and Lloyd Larson players. (The referenced "Miracle," by the way, wasn't some phenomenal season, e.g. the "Miracle Mets" of 1969; in this case the Miracle (the story of which is told in Chapter II) was simply the Boston-to-Milwaukee move in and of itself. The team finished third in that season's National League standings, behind the Giants and the Dodgers, although within a few years they did take two consecutive NL pennants, both times then facing the New York Yankees in the World Series -- winning in 1957, losing in 1958. Most of the players profiled in this book were still with the team during that 1957 championship season.)

Product Info

Publisher: A.S. Barnes and Company

Year: (c.1954)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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