Uppity: My Untold Story About the Games People Play - Hardcover

White, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446555258 ISBN 13: 9780446555258

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

There are few major personalities in the world of sports who have so much to say about our National Pastime and even fewer as well respected as Bill White. Bill White, who's now in his mid 70s, was an All-Star first baseman for many years with the New York Giants, St.Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies before launching a stellar broadcasting career with the New York Yankees for 18 years. He left the broadcast booth to become the President of the National League for five years.

A true pioneer as an African-American athlete, sportscaster and top baseball executive, White has written his long-awaited autobiography in which he is candid, open and forthcoming about his life in baseball. Along the way, he shares never-before-told stories about his long working relationship with Phil Rizzuto, insights on scores of top baseball names and Hall of Famers. Best of all, White built his career on being outspoken, and the years fortunately have not mellowed him. UPPITY is a baseball memoir that baseball fans everywhere will be buzzing about.

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Review:

Sometimes brutally frank, White dishes the dirt on almost all of the leading baseball and broadcasting names in a truly controversial baseball memoir that will not be easily forgotten.
--Publishers Weekly


A baseball memoir that pulls no punches as it settles scores and attempts to set the record straight.--Kirkus Reviews

Book Description:

The extraordinarily outspoken Bill White tells, for the first time, the inside stories of his life in the world of baseball, as a major league All-Star, accomplished sportscaster for the Yankees, and as President of the National League.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0446555258
• ISBN 13: 9780446555258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 330