{"product_id":"so-young-so-great-bob-feller-electrifies-baseball-and-america-hardback-9781496245595","title":"So Young, So Great; Bob Feller Electrifies Baseball and America (Hardback) 9781496245595","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSo Young, So Great\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBob Feller Electrifies Baseball and America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJim Ingraham (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496245595\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 13 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.572 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\u003cp\u003e\"An animating, highly readable account of a career launch perhaps unparalleled in American sport.\"—Alan Moores, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A teenager pitching regularly in the Major Leagues while still in high school? Only one player has ever done it: Bob Feller, ninety years ago. They don't make 'em like that anymore, as you will learn in Jim Ingraham's new book \u003ci\u003eSo Young, So Great\u003c\/i\u003e.\"—Mike Hargrove, manager of the Cleveland Indians, 1991–99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The year is 1936, and Bob Feller enters the world of Major League Baseball one year after Babe Ruth, who at age forty, walks away from the game as a player. At age seventeen Feller comes off the family farm and stuns the baseball establishment with his record-breaking debut, just as the game is looking for a new idol. He was the American boy in the American game. Kudos to Jim Ingraham for identifying the period of 1936–41 in Feller's long and remarkable life to share with us. This period of Feller's life, filled with incredible stories of a teenage boy thrust into the national spotlight, would be the foundation of his baseball career, which would result in induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.\"—Bob DiBiasio, senior vice president of public affairs for the Cleveland Guardians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Bob Feller hit the Major League Baseball scene, he instantly became one of the most famous athletes in the country. Everything Feller did made headlines, primarily because anything he did had never been done before, especially by someone his age. To this day, Feller is the only pitcher to have signed his first professional contract and played in the Major League while still in high school. By the age of seventeen he had set an American League record for most strikeouts in a game, and by nineteen, he had broken his own Major League strikeout record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo Young, So Great\u003c\/i\u003e covers the first six years of Feller's career, from 1936 to 1941, from his discovery in the small town of Van Meter, Iowa, as a high school junior, to his immediate entry into the Major Leagues with no minor league detours, the extensive media coverage of his every move and his box office appeal to fans, and his record-breaking feats up to his enlistment into World War II at age twenty-two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore signing a contract with the Cleveland Indians, Feller was a prospect of such magnitude that Major League scouts were fighting in hotel lobbies to get to Feller, still a minor, to sign a Major League contract. His high school graduation was broadcast nationally on radio. And when he had to have his wisdom teeth removed, a photographer and reporter were in the room to document it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy focusing on the first six years of Feller's career, \u003ci\u003eSo Young, So Great\u003c\/i\u003e captures in revelatory detail Feller's unprecedented arrival, as a high school teenager, on the Big League stage, and his rapid ascension into one of the game's all-time greats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Once Upon a Time, There Was an Arm on a Farm\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: High School Confidential\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Crashing the Big-League Party\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Three Stars in a Car\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: How Does it Feel to Strike ’\u003cbr\u003eEm Out at Only 17?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Out-Judging the Judge\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: An American Original\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: The Big Hurt\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Best in Class\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: Independence Day\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: An 18-Year-Old Cash Cow\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: Sweet 16\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13: One of a Kind\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14: A New Contract and a New Catcher\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15: Born to Be Who He Was\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16: Rolling with Rollie\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 17: Managerial Malfeasance?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 18: A New Strikeout King\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 19: View from the Batter’\u003cbr\u003es Box\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 20: A Boy Among Men Pitching Like a Man Among Boys\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 21: Feller by Night\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 22: All-Star Fire-Balling Fireman\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 23: Hard To Hit, Harder To Beat\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 24: A Record-Breaking Contract At 21\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 25: An Opening Day for the Ages\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 26: The Star of Stars\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 27: Mutiny on the Team, Transcendence on the Mound\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 28: Flying Vegetables and Floyd Giebell\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 29: Another MVP Snub\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 30: King Robert the First\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 31: How Does it Feel to be You at Only 22?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 32: In the Lap of the Gods\u003cbr\u003e\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":52600322949400,"sku":"9781496245595","price":24.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/so-young-so-great-bob-feller-electrifies-baseball-and-america-hardback-9781496245595","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}