{"product_id":"schoolboy-the-untold-journey-of-a-yankees-hero-hardback-9781496236791","title":"Schoolboy; The Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero (Hardback) 9781496236791","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSchoolboy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWaite Hoyt (Author), Tim Manners (Author), Bob Costas (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496236791\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 April 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e260 pages, 21 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.566 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Blindsidingly fantastic. . . . Could be the most entertaining and don’t-put-down baseball book for the '24 season.\"\u003cb\u003e-Tom Hoffarth, fartheroffthewall.com\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Tim Manners wound up writing an autobiography of Yankees great and Reds announcer Waite Hoyt. The miracle is, Hoyt passed 40 years ago, in 1984. The book? It sat unfinished in a box of Hoyt's things. Fate waited for someone to discover its existence . . . . Magic.”\u003cb\u003e-Pete A. Turner, The Break it Down Show\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"A fascinating read. . . . Wonderful job. . . . Highly recommended!\"\u003cb\u003e-Chris Russo, Mad Dog Radio, Sirius XM\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Guided by the deft hand of Tim Manners, Waite Hoyt shares rollicking stories and sharp insights from a Hall of Fame career fashioned at the dawning of a dynasty unrivaled in sports: the New York Yankees. Manners takes us back to the days of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig-and well beyond-through the eyes of an early mound master whose story can finally be told.”\u003cb\u003e-Tyler Kepner, baseball columnist for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eK: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“From the trove of writings left behind by Hall of Fame pitcher Waite Hoyt, Tim Manners has woven together a warm, intensely candid, and very human story of the highest realms of success as well as the coldest moments of the ultimate realities. Very few baseball biographies have the range of triumph and anguish, of poignance and redemption, as this self-told tale of the ace of the legendary 1927 Yankees.”\u003cb\u003e-Donald Honig, author of \u003ci\u003eBaseball When the Grass Was Real\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“What a great find to tell the story in Hoyt’s own words.”\u003cb\u003e-David Maraniss, author of \u003ci\u003ePath Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Nearly forty years after his passing, baseball’s greatest storyteller finally tells his own story in his own words. From baseball to vaudeville to broadcasting, and just about anything and everything in between, Waite Hoyt led baseball’s most unique and eclectic life. Tim Manners painstakingly pieces together moments and memories to reveal fascinating insight into not just Hoyt but also the times he lived in. Hoyt’s story needed to be told, and like his legendary rain delay stories, \u003ci\u003eSchoolboy\u003c\/i\u003e makes it worth the wait. . . . What a wonderful read!”\u003cb\u003e-Lance McAlister, host of 700WLW Sports, Cincinnati\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“For baseball fans, the University of Nebraska Press is a perennial MVP-most valuable publisher. This biography shows why. Waite Hoyt, an underappreciated cog in a great Yankee machine, had a two-decade Major League career that illuminates the game a century ago.”\u003cb\u003e-George F. Will, author of \u003ci\u003eMen at Work: The Craft of Baseball\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The Yankees famed ‘Murderers’ Row’ era wasn’t just about the power of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. There were Hall of Fame–bound pitchers on that great team as well, none more prominent than the colorful local star Waite Hoyt, whose life story continues to fascinate students of the game’s history.”\u003cb\u003e-Marty Appel, Yankees historian and author of \u003ci\u003ePinstripe Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Manners’s skillfully edited and seamless narrative, compiled from Hall of Famer Waite Hoyt’s lifetime of memories, is a real baseball treasure. Success, failure, doubts, and achievements, in baseball and Hoyt’s personal life, are all here in his own words. This book will enhance Hoyt’s status as a baseball star, as well as a man.”\u003cb\u003e-Alan D. Gaff, author of \u003ci\u003eLou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWaite “Schoolboy” Hoyt’s improbable baseball journey began when the 1915 New York Giants signed him as a high school junior, for no pay and a five-dollar bonus. After nearly having both his hands amputated and cavorting with men twice his age in the hardscrabble Minor Leagues, he somehow ended up the best pitcher for the New York Yankees in the 1920s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Based on a trove of Hoyt’s writings and interview transcripts, Tim Manners has reanimated the baseball legend’s untold story, entirely in Hoyt’s own words. \u003ci\u003eSchoolboy\u003c\/i\u003e dives straight into early twentieth-century America and the birth of modern-day baseball, as well as Hoyt’s defining conflict: Should he have pursued something more respectable than being the best pitcher on the 1927 New York Yankees, arguably the greatest baseball team of all time?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Over his twenty-three-year professional baseball career, Hoyt won 237 big league games across 3,845 ⅔ innings-and one locker room brawl with Babe Ruth. He also became a vaudeville star who swapped dirty jokes with Mae West and drank champagne with Al Capone, a philosophizer who bonded with Lou Gehrig over the meaning of life, and a funeral director who left a body chilling in his trunk while pitching an afternoon game at Yankee Stadium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hoyt shares his thoughts on famous moments in the golden age of baseball history; assesses baseball legends, including Ty Cobb, Stan Musial, and Pete Rose; and describes the strategies of baseball managers John McGraw, Miller Huggins, and Connie Mack. He writes at length about the art of pitching and how the game and its players changed-and didn’t-over his lifetime. After retiring from baseball at thirty-eight and coming to terms with his alcoholism, Hoyt found some happiness as a family man and a beloved, pioneering Cincinnati Reds radio sportscaster with a Websterian vocabulary spiked with a Brooklyn accent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When Hoyt died in 1984 his foremost legacy may have been as a raconteur who punctuated his life story with awe-inspiring and jaw-dropping anecdotes. In \u003ci\u003eSchoolboy\u003c\/i\u003e he never flinches from an unsparing account of his remarkable and paradoxical eighty-four-year odyssey.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword by Bob Costas \u003cbr\u003e Preface by Tim Manners\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: Brick by Brick\u003cbr\u003e Part 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Family Web\u003cbr\u003e 2. There Goes Our Boy\u003cbr\u003e 3. Odyssey of Oddities\u003cbr\u003e 4. In the Bag\u003cbr\u003e 5. Great Big Fellas\u003cbr\u003e 6. When Schoolboys Cry\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Joy Clubs\u003cbr\u003e 8. Miss Scoville’\u003cbr\u003es Advice\u003cbr\u003e 9. A Bath in Badness\u003cbr\u003e Part 2\u003cbr\u003e 10. Industrial Strength\u003cbr\u003e 11. Red Sox Hop\u003cbr\u003e 12. Me and the Babe\u003cbr\u003e 13. Turn of the Twenties\u003cbr\u003e 14. Art of Baseball\u003cbr\u003e 15. Young and a Yankee\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Merry Mortician\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Roaring Yankees\u003cbr\u003e 18. Little Big Hug\u003cbr\u003e Part 3\u003cbr\u003e 19. Skating with Lou\u003cbr\u003e 20. Dear Ellen\u003cbr\u003e 21. The Unartful Dodger\u003cbr\u003e 22. Radio Days\u003cbr\u003e 23. The Last Drink\u003cbr\u003e 24. Then and Now\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Christopher’\u003cbr\u003es Question\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600265998616,"sku":"9781496236791","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/schoolboy-the-untold-journey-of-a-yankees-hero-hardback-9781496236791","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}