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1 online resource (289 pages). |
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text file |
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Fire Ant
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Fire Ant.
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| Contents |
Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. How It All Started; 2. The Lingering Legend; 3. The Walkers of Birmingham; 4. The Walker Family Baseball Dynasty; 5. Watch Out, Babe, Dixie Is Coming; 6. Estelle Shea Walker; 7. Arrival in Brooklyn; 8. The 1941 Pennant and the 1944 Batting Title; 9. Jackie's Early Years; 10. Jackie and Dixie in 1947; 11. The Pennant, the World Series, and the Long Farewell; 12. The Final Playing Years and a New Career; 13. The Sweet Dodger Days; 14. Dixie, a Baseball Lifer; 15. Estelle Carries the Torch; 16. History's Verdict. |
| Summary |
Fred "Dixie" Walker was a gifted ballplayer from a family of gifted athletes. (His father, uncle, and brother all played major league baseball.) Dixie Walker played in the majors for 18 seasons and in 1,905 games, assembling a career batting average of .306 while playing for the Yankees, White Sox, Tigers, Dodgers, and Pirates. Walker won the 1944 National League batting title, was three times an All-Star, and was runner-up for Most Valuable Player in the National League in 1946. He was particularly beloved by Brooklyn Dodgers fans, to whom he was the "People's Choice." But few remember any of. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Walker, Dixie, 1910-1982.
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Walker, Dixie, 1910-1982. |
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Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
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Baseball players. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Walker, Susan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Allen, Maury. Dixie Walker of the Dodgers : The People's Choice. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, ©2010 9780817355999 |
| ISBN |
9780817383589 (electronic book) |
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0817383581 (electronic book) |
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9780817355999 |
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