Baseball player and manager Hugh Ambrose Jennings was the kind of colorful personality who inspired nicknames. Sportswriters called him ""Ee-yah"" for his famous coaching box cry and ""Hustling Hughey"" for his style of play. But to the nearly 100 other men from northeast Pennsylvania who followed Jennings from the coal mines to the major leagues, he was known as ""Big Daddy,"" not for his physical stature but for his iconic status to men desperate to escape the mines. Jennings' story is emblematic of how the national pastime and the American dream came together for a generation of ballplayers.
- ISBN10 1322609756
- ISBN13 9781322609751
- Publish Date 1 January 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint McFarland & Company
- Format eBook
- Pages 233
- Language English