On the Run: The Never Dull and Often Shocking Life of Maury Wills

A Fair copy in a Good dust wrapper of a professional baseball autobiography which is ".a book that is at once charming and terrifying, hilarious, moving, and--ultimately--triumphant." Wear to dust wrapper with sunning, creasing and an imprint of writing. Dust wrapper spine is sunned with smudging where the spine label used to be. Dust wrapper is not price clipped. Sunning to top edge of inside flaps. Small closed tear to inside front flap. White boards have tape marks where the cover was attached. Red spine still has crisp gilt lettering. Slight lean to volume. Wear to all page edgings with spotting along the side. Library stamp in black ink along the top page edgings. Library cataloger's notes in black ink on the Dedication page. From verso:"First Carroll & Graf edition 1991" Rear flyleaf has been torn out along the spine. Creasing to side edging of page 193 through 211. Contents:"Prologue; Bump and Judy; In Control; Lonely nights; In the books; Changes; The projects; Boot black, nacky sack; Jerry Priddy; Half pints; You've got to be a football hero; The $500 man; The mother of my children; C-O-L-O-R-E-D O-N-L-Y; "I want to pitch"; "Where do I stay?"; Switch-hitter; Laying it down; "On your marks."; "This is the big leagues, kid"; Back to the barracks; Martin Luther King; Perfect Practice; Playing like Cobb; Flashing spikes; All's fair.; Diamond doctor; Don't let up; It takes a thief; "Eat a steak!"; The All-Star Game; Family feuds; Dodger Blue; Sandy and Don; The Roseboro-Marichal affair; Warren Giles; Giant killing; Pitchers; The best of the rest; Clemente; A matter of style; Plunka-plunka-plunk; Doris; Edie; Why white; Racism; A-hunting I won't go; Getting paid; The men in blue; One monkey doesn't stop the show; Harry the Hat; And give me a couple dollars; Back from the moon; Last days of a Dodger; Ink stains; Hunting duck--bagging peacock; Fowling Street; A broken record; Dropping in; Judy; The good times end; Liquor by the case; Signing off; Judy gets a present; Manager Maury Wills; The winter of my discontent; Cananea Reyes; Japan; Spring Training; 6 -- 18 = Goodbye; Devastation; Addicted; Jonesing; Dropping in on the hereafter; Bringing 'em back alive; Sex and the single addict; Stupid drug tricks; Angela; The Care Unit; Caught stealing; The wedding from hell; Faltering steps; Farewell to Fowling Street; Fear of success; Rock bottom; One day at a time; AA; Afterword" 334 Pages; 86 Chapters."Summary:Maury Wills electrified the sports world in 1962 when he stole 104 bases, breaking Ty Cobb's hallowed record. He was the Dodger team captain, an All-Star, and one of the most popular figures in the game. But no one, even Wills, realized the personal price he was paying for this public acclaim. In this memoir, Wills candidly admits how he sacrificed his family and those who loved him for success on the field and how, finally, he was forced to pay for his lonely pursuit with a life bereft of all feeling except an uncontrollable need to consume suicidal amounts of cocaine and alcohol"Description: 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.". …