Birdie

Authors:

By Birdie Tebbetts, James Morrison

Format:

Hardback

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Price:

£12.99

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Baseball, Biography

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Further Details

• Published: 1st Mar 2002
• ISBN: 1572434554
• Pages: 192

From the Publisher:

To hear Birdie Tebbetts tell it, the catcher is definitely in the catbird seat - and that unique perspective pretty much shaped the way he saw things during his 65-year career in baseball. In Birdie: Confessions of a Baseball Nomad, Birdie tells about - and on - the impressive cast of characters he came to know intimately in his stints as catcher, manager, front office exec and scout. The book is written with Jim Morrison (foreword by Reggie Jackson).

Tebbetts spins tale after tale about his colleagues and competitors in Detroit, Boston, Cleveland, New York, Milwaukee and Cincinnati where, as manager, he was featured in a Time Magazine cover story in 1957. His razor-sharp stories are drawn from his meticulous and voluminous diaries (largely in code) written through six decades and from the audiotapes he made in his later years. We see Hank Greenberg advising Birdie on negotiating his first big contract; Ted Williams desperately trying to rally his team into banning sportswriters from the clubhouse; and Casey Stengel revealing the secret of his winning ways.