The first full biography of "the black Babe Ruth", Negro League legend Josh Gibson, this intriguiing portrait pulls no punches in showing the dark side of this great athlete, but is similarly tireless in tracking down his glories. Based on interviews with Gibson's contemporaries, the book also features eight pages of photos from Gibson's son's personal collection.
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The first full biography of "the black Babe Ruth", Negro League legend Josh Gibson, this intriguiing portrait pulls no punches in showing the dark side of this great athlete, but is similarly tireless in tracking down his glories. Based on interviews with Gibson's contemporaries, the book also features eight pages of photos from Gibson's son's personal collection.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 319pp Illus. with photos. Indexed. The Negro Leagues outstanding hitter-known as the 'black Babe Ruth' and one of the best catchers in the Negro Leagues. Despite this, an unhappy life that ended at age 34. (bb/1)
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Very Good jacket. New York. 1996. May 1996. Simon & Schuster. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684804026. 319 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Michael Accordino. keywords: Baseball History Sports American African America. DESCRIPTION-There's a distinct sound that results from a great hitter making pure contact with a baseball, a thunder-clap of power that lesser hitters can only aspire to. Before his first exposure to Josh Gibson, long-time Negro leagues all-star Buck O'Neil had heard the sound just once, coming from the bat of Babe Ruth. It is as 'the black Babe Ruth' that Gibson is best remembered, but while Ruth invited the adoration of millions with his easy smile, becoming a beloved symbol of the national pastime, Gibson lived his life bathed in the darkness that came both from the shadow world of the Negro leagues and from within his own tortured soul. The legends that grew up around Gibson are legion. It is said that he is the only man to have hit a fair ball out of Yankee Stadium. Some claim he hit as many as seventy-five home runs in a season. He was a frightening hitter to face, and in addition he played the most demanding position on the field, donning the mask, chest protector, and shin guards-the so-called tools of ignorance-required to play catcher, the defensive team's true leader and quarterback. What Satchel Paige was to pitching in the Negro leagues, Gibson was to hitting: their greatest star, biggest gate attraction, and most important symbol. But while Satchel Paige was not just a pitcher but an entertainer, mindful of the need to please the crowd and always ready to join what he called 'the social ramble, ' Gibson was a harder man, a victim of a harder life. Forever haunted by the death in childbirth of the woman he loved, he destroyed his body through drink and drugs even as he kept launching tape-measure home runs into the far reaches of the bleachers. Even at his peak, it was not unusual for him to spend part of a season in a hospital, drying out or under sedation for his violent rages. If Satchel Paige is baseball's Louis Armstrong, belatedly loved as an accommodating caricature that belies the greatness of his accomplishments, Josh Gibson is its Charlie Parker, a genius dead too soon in a body that bore the consequences of the life he led. In 1943, during one of his frequent hospital stays, Gibson was diagnosed with a brain tumor; he would not consent to an operation, and instead went on bigger and wilder binges in his rage at the dying of the light. Three years later, at age thirty-four, he hit.361 and led his league in homers; the following January, he was dead-not as some have speculated of a broken heart brought on by seeing Jackie Robinson about to reach the major leagues, a dream Gibson knew would be forever denied him, but rather of a stroke brought on by his medical condition and his own excesses. Mark Ribowsky, the widely acclaimed biographer of Satchel Paige, pulls no punches in his portrait of this magnificent, troubled athlete. Ribowsky shows us Gibson's dark side, but he also enhances Gibson's historical status even as he separates fact from fiction by examining the truth behind his legendary performances. THE POWER AND THE DARKNESS is the most complete thorough, authoritative account of the life of black ball's greatest hitter, and one of its most important stars. inventory #22117.
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