Willies Time (Writing Baseball)

by Charles Einstein

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This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Willie's Time: Baseball's Golden Age restores to print Charles Einstein's vivid biography of one of baseball's foremost legends. With a new preface from the author, this volume replays the most dramatic moments of the Say Hey Kid's career - from the 1951 Miracle Giants to the Amazing Mets of 1973 - and takes us inside the lives of Ruth, DiMaggio, Aaron, Durocher, and others along the way. Einstein offers a compelling and complete look at Mays: as a youth in racist Birmingham, a triumphant symbol of African American success, a sports hero lionized by fans, and yet all the while, still a very human figure destined to play for two decades amid baseball's Golden Age. First published in 1979, Willie's Time was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
  • ISBN10 0425046583
  • ISBN13 9780425046586
  • Publish Date 1 May 1980 (first published 1 January 1979)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 11 October 2008
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Berkley Publishing Group
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Language English