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Big Klu: The Baseball Life of Ted Kluszewski
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Big Klu: The Baseball Life of Ted Kluszewski Paperback - 2012

by Cook, William A

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Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 2012. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff pictorial wraps. As issued. vii,186 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs..
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  • Title Big Klu: The Baseball Life of Ted Kluszewski
  • Author Cook, William A
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 196
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland and Co., Jefferson, NC
  • Date 2012
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 043507
  • ISBN 9780786469994 / 0786469994
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012034490
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the jacket flap

During the mid-1950s, an unlikely star stood alongside baseball standouts Mickey Mantle, Henry Aaron and Willie Mays--a slugger with a funny name and muscles so bulging that he had to cut the sleeves off his uniform to swing freely. Ted Kluszewski played little baseball in his youth, making a name for himself instead as a hard-hitting football player at Indiana University before showing potential on the diamond and being signed by the Cincinnati Reds. Between 1953 and 1956, no other player in major league baseball hit more home runs than Kluszewski. If not for a back injury, he might have gone down in major league history as one its greatest players. With detailed statistics from both his football and baseball careers, this biography chronicles the unusual odyssey that took Kluszewski to the big leagues and ultimately made him a ballgame icon in the 1950s.

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About the author

William A. Cook is the author of numerous books, including 11 on baseball history, and has appeared in productions on ESPN2 and the MLB Network. A former health care administrator and township councilman in North Brunswick, New Jersey, he resides in Manalapan, New Jersey.