God Almighty hisself : the life and legacy of Dick Allen
When the Philadelphia Phillies signed Dick Allen in 1960, fans of the franchise envisioned bearing witness to feats never before accomplished by a Phillies player. A half-century later, they're still trying to make sense of what they saw. Carrying to the plate baseball's heaviest and loude...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: baseball's way
- The individualist
- The double standard
- A job, not a game
- What fight?
- Rules
- Seniority don't drive in runs
- When I don't like something, I rebel
- A threat to the game
- I am my own man
- Public relations men, not ballplayers
- Dick, not Richie
- The system
- The return
- No apologies
- Free agent
- Epilogue: his way.