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Baseball in Long Beach

By Bob Keisser

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2013
ISBN
9781625840660, 9781609499969
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6685684 bytes)
Series
Sports History
Pages
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Time added
2022-11-06 06:09:48
History; Sports & Recreations; Nonfiction; HIS0360

Description

More than two hundred Major League Baseball players have hailed from Long Beach and its suburbs. This hotbed of horsehide heroics includes Hall of Famers Bob Lemon, Duke Snider and Tony Gwynn, as well as longtime stars Ron Fairly, Bob Bailey, Bobby Grich, Chase Utley and Jered Weaver. Negro League and Pacific Coast League clubs enjoyed Long Beach connections. Many players whose cleats tore up legendary Rec Park and Blair Field are enshrined in the city's baseball/softball hall of fame. The winning tradition continues as Long Beach State's "Dirtbags" sent more players to the bigs in 2010 and 2011 than any other college. Join baseball historian Bob Keisser as he recounts Long Beach's greatest baseball stars, teams and stories.

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