Kelly At Home on Third
Boland, Kevin and Gruber, Kelly
Sold by Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
AbeBooks Seller since 2 January 2008
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSold by Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
AbeBooks Seller since 2 January 2008
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketBOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. FRONT JACKET PHOTO: Terry Hancey. BACK JACKET PHOTOS: Clockwise from top left, Gruber collection, Canada Wide, Terry Hancey, and Gruber collection. JACKET DESIGN: Bruce W. Bond. CONTENTS: Preface; 1 The Twilight Zone 2 Diamond in the Rough 3 Dreams Die Hard 4 Waterloo 5 Dirty Al 6 Gwoo-bah! 7 Life in the Slow Lane 8 The Harder They Fall 9 The Brass Rings 10 Fielder's Choice 11 To Have and Have Not 12 Good Ol' Boys 13 Hittin' 14 Stars in His Eyes 15 The "Inside" Story 16 A Tall Shadow 17 The Hendricks Brothers 18 Temptation 19 And Kody Makes Three; Appendix; Kelly Gruber: By the Numbers; Career Highs; Chronology. SYNOPSIS: The story of the Blue Jays' 1990 Most Valuable Player and most popular star. From Texas to Toronto by way of Cleveland and a dozen other towns in between--that's the trail third baseman Kelly Gruber of the Toronto Blue Jays has blazed to superstardom in the decade since he left home at the age of 18 to become a professional ballplayer. And what a cast of characters there were to help him along the way: How about Dirty Al Gallagher, one of Gruber's tougher managers in the minor leagues, who could chew tobacco, smoke a cigar and snore up a storm all at the same time? How about Bob Quinn, the architect of the 1990 World Series Champion Cincinnati Reds, whose 1983 blunder allowed the Blue Jays to swipe Gruber from the Cleveland Indians? Then there's Jimy Williams, the nice guy who got no respect as manager of the Blue Jays; his hot-tempered predecessor Bobby Cox; and cool-as-a-cucumber Cito Gaston, who manages the team today. And of course there is the stellar third baseman himself. In Kelly: At Home on Third we hear of the ballplayer's dog days in the minors, including his fight to hit the breaking ball and rescue his career from dismal statistics. Kelly discusses how he plays today, sharing the secrets of his impressive batting technique and of how he sizes up the guys on the mound. We learn how Kelly's personal life fits into his life in the leagues: his family in Texas, his Canadian wife Lynn and their son Kody, and his strongly held Christian faith. As open and earthy as his home turf of Texas, Kelly offers opinions on all the fun, feuds and scandals that are packed into the 162-game season. Kevin Boland is a veteran sports reporter and writer. He has been a journalist for over twenty-five years and has written for most of the major dailies in Canada, as well as for Reuters in London, England and the Mexico City Daily News. He is also the author of Dave Stieb: Tomorrow I'll be Perfect. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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