Paul Dickson's "Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son" is in the class of "The Boys of Summer", "A False Spring" and "The Echoing Green". Aptly subtitled, Durocher was the definition of "Prodigal Son" in the true sense of the phrase. Leo Durocher played by baseball's rules some of the time, but by his own rules all of the time and garnered praise from some and near hatred from others throughout his 40 /5(87). In the first line of "Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son," author Paul Dickson offers an audacious proposition. The subject of this book, he asserts, is nothing less than the sport's "all-time leading character." Then, having challenged himself with an outlandish and bold statement, Dickson backs it up with a compelling and superbly readable biography. · From Paul Dickson, the Casey Award–winning author of Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick, the first full biography of Leo Durocher, one of the .
Leo Durocher is an outsized figure in baseball history. Dickson's book tries to cover a lot of ground in just about pages. Most of the emphasis is on Durocher's turbulent off-field life. The baseball field was just another stage for Durocher to perform on. He is the prototype for the angry, dirt-kicking umpire. "Strenuously researched and studded with footnotes, Paul Dickson's Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son is an unflinching portrait of a brilliant bastard. Mr. Dickson gives the devil his due and leaves no doubt why so many people could respect Durocher's baseball genius and still hate his guts.". Lefty O'Doul: Baseball's Forgotten Ambassador * Dennis Snelling. Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son * Paul Dickson. Lost Ballparks * Dennis Evanosky and Eric J. Kos. The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic * Richard Sandomir.
Leo Durocher () was baseball's all-time leading cocky, flamboyant, and galvanizing character, casting a shadow across several eras, from the time of Babe Ruth to the Space Age Astrodome, from Prohibition through the Vietnam War. Strenuously researched and studded with footnotes, Paul Dickson’s Leo Durocher: Baseball’s Prodigal Son is an unflinching portrait of a brilliant bastard. Mr. Mr. Dickson gives the devil his due and leaves no doubt why so many people could respect Durocher’s baseball genius and still hate his guts. Paul Dickson's "Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son" is in the class of "The Boys of Summer", "A False Spring" and "The Echoing Green". Aptly subtitled, Durocher was the definition of "Prodigal Son" in the true sense of the phrase. Leo Durocher played by baseball's rules some of the time, but by his own rules all of the time and garnered.
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