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Stranger to the Game: 2the Autobiography of Bob Gibson
by
Bob Gibson
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Lonnie Wheeler
Hall of Famer Bob Gibson fires off a no-holds-barred reflection on his life in baseball. From Gibson's early days in the Jim Crow South to his glory days as a World Series-winning pitcher, Stranger to the Game is the candid memoir of one of the game's greatest pitchers and most outspoken black players.
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Published in 1994, this autobiography of the legendary Cardinals pitcher has its share of “By the seventh inning, we had dueled to a 1 to 1 score…” type of reminiscences. Nonetheless, Gibson’s candid, outspoken voice and perspective on the game captures the reader’s attention. Gibson’s tale could be viewed as a sequel to Satchel Paige’s story as told in Larry Tye’s recent biography, since Satchel epitomized life when baseball was segregated, and Gibson represented part of the coming of age of in
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Bob Gibson was the competitor's competitor: unafraid to challenge any batter on the inside of the plate, prone to berating teammates if they fraternized with opponents during a game, and willing to create a mystique to intimidate other teams to the detriment of a comfortable relationship with the media and, quite often, his fans. His stellar pitching in 1968 (ERA of 1.14, the lowest in the "modern" era of baseball) was instrumental in fundamental changes to the game, including the lowering of th
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Feb 02, 2013
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I did a study of baseball players for a course on autobiography in grad school (admittedly, just to piss off my professor, who assigned a reading list of sadists, masochists, a eunuch, locked-in-an-attic loners and other oddballs.
Most of what I read was useless, repetitive junk. Gibson was the exception. He was smart, opinionated, funny (often unintentionally). He wrote three autobiographies: One right after the Cards won a championship about the "winning year," one right after he retired when h ...more
Most of what I read was useless, repetitive junk. Gibson was the exception. He was smart, opinionated, funny (often unintentionally). He wrote three autobiographies: One right after the Cards won a championship about the "winning year," one right after he retired when h ...more
Watching the Phillies lose to the underdog Giants, I said to a fellow-watcher, "Gibson would have had Cody Ross on his ass four times on his next at bat." The book is worth it for the chapter on the lost art of brushback pitching, in which Gibson takes us through the fine points and clarifies his intentions. A very intelligent pitcher, a very intelligent man.
Very shallow book. The baseball stuff was okay but not very deep. The other things he wrote about were just not interesting. Not that the subjects were not interesting his take on them were shallow. Read the book he wrote with Reggie Jackson. It is much better
well written,lots of great insight to the way the game used to be played, no whining millionares just hardnosed baseball and men who played for the love of the game
I was struck by how brutally honest this autobiography was. A salute to Gibson and his co-writer, Lonnie Wheeler.
Every bit as passionate, intelligent, and forthright as you would expect.
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BOB GIBSON is a baseball Hall of Famer who played 17 seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals. During that time he was a two-time Cy Young Award and World Series winner. He is also the author of Stranger to the Game: The Autobiography of Bob Gibson and Sixty Feet, Six Inches, which was written with Reggie Jackson and coauthor Lonnie Wheeler and Pitch by Pitch : My View of One Unforgettable Game, also w
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al does a great job doing current cards games; would love bob & al to talk about pitching. that would be a ...more
Jul 25, 2015 01:09AM