The St. Louis Baseball Mosaic: Ten Cultural and Entertainment Histories of the Gateway City and Her Favorite Game
Language: English
Published by Independently published July 2022, 2022
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- Title
- The St. Louis Baseball Mosaic: Ten Cultural and Entertainment Histories of the Gateway City and Her Favorite Game
- Author
- Chris Moeller
- Publisher
- Independently published July 2022
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- New
- Signed
- Signed By Author
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798835729739
- Seller catalogs
- Local Authors
If you love baseball, the St. Louis Cardinals, Browns, and/or Stars, or just the beautiful and complicated city that these major professional teams have called their home, then you need The St. Louis Baseball Mosaic, which combines stories from the game's colorful past with a rich local history and pointed social commentary. The book does double and triple duty as a lighthearted personal memoir of its author and as a twentieth century entertainment history for the city of St. Louis.
Highlighted biographies within the text are those of...
Ernie Orsatti, the Hollywood stuntman and one-time stand-in for Buster Keaton who graduated from the motion picture business to become the primary center fielder for the Cardinals' famous Gashouse Gang of the 1930s.
Helene Robison Britton, the first female owner of any team in the major North American professional sports leagues.
Joaquin Andujar, the entertaining but volatile star pitcher of the 1982 world champion Cardinals, and
Ralph "Blackie" Schwamb, the notorious and nearly-forgotten convicted murderer and one-time pitcher for the nearly-equally-forgotten St. Louis Browns.
Better-known baseball stars and personalities of the Mound City are charmingly detailed here as well: Cooperstown Hall of Famers Branch Rickey, Dizzy Dean, Ozzie Smith, Cool Papa Bell, Yogi Berra, Bob Gibson, and the dynamic duo of Bill Veeck and Satchel Paige. A chapter on "Stan Musial & Biggie's" landmark restaurant in the city pinch-hits as a bio of Musial himself.
This is a book jam-packed with amusing and informative stories, passionately and creatively presented. Ostensibly, each of the ten chapters, and individual histories, revolves around a piece of baseball memorabilia, but these stories bend, they loop, and they meander. They present a whole host of complex heroes, and a handful of villains besides. It's a book as unique as its historical subjects and a must-read for all residents and fans of what has come to be called "Baseball City, USA."
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