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Kiss It Good-Bye : The Mystery, the Mormon, and the Moral of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates by John Moody (2010, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherShadow Mountain Publishing

ISBN-101606411497

ISBN-139781606411490

eBay Product ID (ePID)80055027

Product Key Features

Publication Year2010

Book TitleKiss It Good-Bye : the Mystery, the Mormon, and the Moral of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates

TopicReligious, Baseball / General, General, Sports

Number of Pages350 Pages

LanguageEnglish

IllustratorYes

GenreSports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorJohn Moody

FormatHardcover

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2009-041834

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal796.357/640974886

SynopsisIn 1960, an upstart Pittsburgh Pirates team beat the highly favored New York Yankees in the World Series. Given the power of a Yankee roster that included Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Yogi Berra, that improbable victory did more than give long-suffering Pirates fans something to cheer about; it put Pittsburgh on the map. Though John Moody was only six years old during that magical baseball season, he was a devoted fan of the Pittsburgh team. The star pitcher for the Pirates and John's first hero was Vernon Law-- an unsophisticated Idaho country boy, widely known as The Deacon, a friendly nickname derived from his strict Mormon upbringing. Law was a relatively young man at the time and should have enjoyed several more seasons of fame and success, yet his career went into decline following that phenomenal Series. In this insightful book, John Moody explores a compelling mystery that has persisted now for nearly fifty years, revealing at last why Vernon Law was unable to continue his dominance of Major League batters. The book is more than just another expose. Recalling a distant time in American sports, Kiss It Good-bye contains a universal theme: a son's affection for his father and the bond that was forged between them because of their love of baseball. It is a book that will be welcomed by fathers, sons, and baseball fans of every age.

LC Classification NumberGV697.A1M5955 2010