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Shares the story of the New York Yankees superstar, from his beginnings in St. Paul's striving black community to his twenty-three million dollar contract with the Yankees that made him the symbol of 1980s baseball
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Dave Winfield is best known as a New York Yankee and won a World Series ring with Toronto in 1992. Currently an executive with the San Diego Padres, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Tom Parker is an author and illustrator who has written three volumes of "Rules of Thumb", which "The Wall Street Journal" called a "brilliantly successful sample of our hidden intellectual resource." He is an IT specialist at Cornell University, a contributing writer for "Make" magazine, and a flight instructor. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
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Tom Parker is an author and illustrator who has written three volumes of "Rules of Thumb", which "The Wall Street Journal" called a "brilliantly successful sample of our hidden intellectual resource." He is an IT specialist at Cornell University, a contributing writer for "Make" magazine, and a flight instructor. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
This chatty and candid autobiography by the Yankee star and coauthor Parker (Small Business, a novel) presents not only Winfield's career as an athlete but also his views on owners, managers and players, his aid to needy children, the role of blacks in American life and especially in baseball. A brilliantly successful athlete at the University of Minnesota, Winfield began his diamond career with the San Diego Padres, where he ran up against the first owner with whom he had differences, Ray Kroc. Fed up with the Padres, although not with San Diego, he signed with the Yankees, wangling a multi-season, $23-million contract that has resulted in years of litigation with owner George Steinbrenner, about whom he is devastatingly critical. Winfield's life story underscores the fact that blacks, even if celebrities, still struggle for acceptance in the America of the 1980s. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherRandom House Value Publishing
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0517069067
- ISBN 13 9780517069066
- BindingHardcover
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