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Hugh Casey: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Brooklyn Dodger
Hugh Casey was one of the most colorful members of the iconic Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1940s. He played with the likes of Jackie Robinson, Dixie Walker, Joe Medwick, and Pete Reiser, and along the way he helped redefine the role of the relief pitcher. This book covers Casey's life and career in great detail, the first to truly do so.
Book Details
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publish Date: Apr 13rd, 2017
- Pages: 336
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.30in - 1.10in - 1.40lb
- EAN: 9781442277595
- Categories: • Baseball - History• Sports
About the Author
Lyle Spatz is the former longtime chairman of the Society for American Baseball Research's Baseball Records Committee. He is the author of numerous baseball books, including Historical Dictionary of Baseball (2012) and Willie Keeler: From the Playgrounds of Brooklyn to the Hall of Fame (2015), both published by Rowman & Littlefield. Spatz is also the co-author of 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York (2010), which won SABR's Seymour Medal for best baseball history of the year. Spatz's baseball articles have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Total Baseball, Baseball Digest, and more. In 2000 he was presented with SABR's highest honor, the Bob Davids Award, and in 2017 he was a recipient of SABR's Henry Chadwick Award, established to honor the game's great researchers.
Praise for this book
Hugh Casey: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Brooklyn Dodger is a prolific baseball biographer Lyle Spatz's latest effort, and it rescues another worthy subject of the author from the mists of baseball history. The book contains much game reportage but necessarily so, as Spatz uses it to characterize Casey as a prototype of the relief pitcher role known today as 'closer.' The book also portrays the big hard-drinking Southerner as a tough and fearless competitor; a well-liked restaurateur and supporter of local civic causes; and a key member of teams that led to the establishment of the 19050s Dodgers as a NL powerhouse. Even with the benefit of the subtitle, the reader is shocked and saddened by the account of the pitcher's demise, at age 37.
Baseball author and historian Lyle Spatz presents a deeper portrait of the pitcher and the man in his latest biography, Hugh Casey: The Triumph and Tragedies of a Brooklyn Dodger.... Spatz's talent as a researcher shines through in an extensive bibliography.
4 Stars: [Spatz] examines the life and career -- from his birth in Atlanta to his suicide in that same city 37-years later -- of one of the most colorful members of the iconic Brooklyn Dodgers, [exploring] a different place in time in Brooklyn and in baseball.
With meticulous and absorbing detail, master biographer Lyle Spatz has crafted a memorable portrait of a neglected Brooklyn Dodger hurler. As unfortunate as Casey's life was off the field, Spatz has done an exemplary job of giving his career as a mound craftsman its overdue credit.
For the longest time, Hugh Casey's career was marginalized to a single World Series pitch. Thanks to the research by Lyle Spatz, fans can replay Casey's "complete game" and his bittersweet life in baseball.