Johnny Mize: A Biography of Baseball's Big Cat

During his 15-season Major League career, slugger Johnny Mize was among the preeminent power hitters in baseball, a star for the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Giants, and a clutch player for the New York Yankees when they won five straight World Series in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Raised in rural Georgia, Mize caught the tail end of the Cardinals' Gas House Gang era and had his career interrupted by World War II before achieving greatness at the plate. An MVP, perennial All-Star and four-time National League home-run champion, he made a science of batting and wrote a book on it (How to Hit, 1953). This first full-length biography traces the arc of Mize's career through his prime years in the limelight to his retirement, when renewed interest in his legacy saw him inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Author: Lew Freedman
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 05/05/2022
Pages: 207
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.91w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9781476685939
ISBN10: 1476685932
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Baseball | History
- Biography & Autobiography | General

About the Author
Lew Freedman is a long-time, prize-winning journalist for such newspapers as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Anchorage Daily News and Wyoming's Cody Enterprise. Specializing in sports and the outdoors, he has written more than 100 books. He lives in Columbus, Indiana.