Covering All the Bases
Price: $75.00
Hard Cover. Champaign, IL: Sagamore Publishing, 1993. First Edition. Fine / Dust Jacket Included.
Foreword by Jack Brickhouse and Chuck Heaton. First edition, first printing. Signed by Boudreau in blue marker on front free endpaper. With CAS Certificate of Authenticity. Publisher's navy blue paper-covered boards, spine stamped in gilt; in its original blue pictorial dust jacket designed by Michelle R. Dressen, with a portrait of Boudreau attributed to Bob Allen to front panel. Fine book; very good or better unclipped dust jacket, with some soiling to front panel. With baseball bat-shaped "Sports Worlds Ltd" bookmark laid in. Overall, a pleasing copy. Lou Boudreau (1917-2001) "covered all the bases" by excelling as a player, manager, and broadcaster. He was an 8x All-Star, and in 1948 he won the AL MVP award and led the Cleveland Indians to a World Series title as player-manager. He famously developed the "Williams shift" to counter left-handed hitter Ted Williams, which involved an ingenious realignment of the defense. He was elected to the National Hall of Fame in 1970. Item #LBRS001
