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warlocke

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  1. Willie Mays. The Life, The Legend.

     

    I'm a softy for baseball history to begin with, and along comes the definitive, authorized biography of the greatest player of my lifetime, and arguably the most complete player in the game's history. His story is amazing - graduated high school in Alabama and, one year later, was playing for the NY Giants in the middle of one of the most famous pennant races of all time (won in a playoff by "the shot heard 'round the world"). He was rookie of the year as a 20 year old.

     

    I also enjoy nonfiction about the Fifties, and the stories of the integration of baseball and of society at large and the rise of televised sports are major topics of the first half of the book. Great stuff.

     

    Go Giants!