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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Main Author: Nathanson, Mitchell, 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.