Picture 1 of 1
Jerome M. Mileur High-flying Birds (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)
Another great item from Rarewaves | Free delivery!
Condition:
More than 10 available
Shipping:
Located in: GU14 0GT, United Kingdom
Delivery:
Varies
Returns:
Payments:
Shop with confidence
Seller information
- 98.4% positive feedback
Registered as a Business Seller
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:395143685861
Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- High-Flying Birds : the 1942 ST. Louis Cardinals
- Publication Name
- High-flying Birds
- Title
- High-flying Birds
- Subtitle
- The 1942 St. Louis Cardinals
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9780826218346
- ISBN
- 9780826218346
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation, History
- Topic
- Baseball / History, United States / 20th Century, Baseball / General
- Release Date
- 30/03/2009
- Release Year
- 2009
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 597g
- Series
- Sports and American Culture Series
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
About this product
Product Information
1942: Americans suddenly found themselves at war but were not about to be distracted from the National Pastime. The Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees were looking to continue their World Series rivalry from the 1941 season, and a youthful team from St. Louis was determined to stop them. With only one player older than thirty, the St. Louis Cardinals were the youngest team to win the National League pennant and World Series. Built on good pitching and tremendous speed on the base paths and in the field, the team featured rookie Stan Musial, future Hall of Famer Enos Slaughter, and ace pitcher Mort Cooper, the National League's Most Valuable Player of 1942. With their winningest season ever, posting 106 victories, the 1942 Redbirds have been called the greatest Cardinal team of all time. Jerome Mileur was just a kid from downstate Illinois, but he well remembers his view of one game from the left-field grandstand--and the thrill of attending the second game of the World Series. In this book, he brings a sure and loving grasp of his subject to reconstructing one of the most remarkable pennant drives in modern baseball history, with the Cards winning forty-three of their last fifty-one games and clinching first place on the last day of the season. Mileur provides a game-by-game account of the season with play-by-play action, not only capturing all the thrills on the Cards' way to the top but also conveying the physical and mental demands that the players endured. Counted out by nearly everyone but themselves in August, the Redbirds caught fire in the season's final weeks to pass the seemingly unbeatable Dodgers. And by winning four games out of five to defeat the New York Yankees for the championship, they handed Joe DiMaggio his only World Series defeat. More than a recapitulation of a thrilling season, Mileur's book is a reminder of how major-league baseball in 1942 differed in so many ways from today's game--one startling example is Mileur's account of how the absence of outfield warning tracks contributed to a devastating injury to Brooklyn's star outfielder, Pete Reiser. The tenor of the times is reflected as well in the juxtaposition of the baseball season with the United States' first year in the Second World War. The 1942 Cardinals were not only a remarkable team unto themselves but also the beginning of a new baseball dynasty--1942's pennant was the first of three in a row for the Cards, as well as the first of three World Series victories in a space of five seasons. This account of that tremendous season is a page-turner for anyone who loves the game and a must-read for Cardinals fans.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
ISBN-10
0826218342
ISBN-13
9780826218346
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71700536
Product Key Features
Book Title
High-Flying Birds : the 1942 ST. Louis Cardinals
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / History, United States / 20th Century, Baseball / General
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Sports & Recreation, History
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.1in
Additional Product Features
Age Range
Up
Series Volume Number
1
Lc Classification Number
Gv875.S3m55 2009
Grade from
Ninth Grade
Reviews
"This is an interesting and important study of the Cardinals in 1942. They were a superb team, a world champion, and one that signaled the beginning of a new dynasty. This book offers a fine discussion of the '42 season, giving a blow-by-blow account of each game. The subject matter of this work is both significant and timely."- Roger Launius, author of Seasons in the Sun: The Story of Big League Baseball in Missouri, "This is an interesting and important study of the Cardinals in 1942. They were a superb team, a world champion, and one that signaled the beginning of a new dynasty. This book offers a fine discussion of the '42 season, giving a blow-by-blow account of each game. The subject matter of this work is both significant and timely."-- Roger Launius, author of Seasons in the Sun: The Story of Big League Baseball in Missouri, Here's a chance to relive that wonderful season of 1942. America was at war, but Franklin Roosevelt gave his presidential sanction for Major League Baseball to fiercely and shamelessly pursue its own specialized combat. Jerome Mileur's writing mirrors the times and captures the spirit of a great Cardinals team. In a subtle way his narrative rekindles that era's pride in being American and lures one to vicariously soak in the highs and lows of events on and off the field. I would insert only one more incidental item, which dates to sometime in the late 1950s, when my grandfather somewhat too casually said to me, "I wouldn't mind if my epitaph read He had something to do with converting Musial from a pitcher.'"-- Branch Rickey III, President, Pacific Coast League, Here's a chance to relive that wonderful season of 1942. America was at war, but Franklin Roosevelt gave his presidential sanction for Major League Baseball to fiercely and shamelessly pursue its own specialized combat. Jerome Mileur's writing mirrors the times and captures the spirit of a great Cardinals team. In a subtle way his narrative rekindles that era's pride in being American and lures one to vicariously soak in the highs and lows of events on and off the field. I would insert only one more incidental item, which dates to sometime in the late 1950s, when my grandfather somewhat too casually said to me, "I wouldn't mind if my epitaph read 'He had something to do with converting Musial from a pitcher.'"-- Branch Rickey III, President, Pacific Coast League, Here's a chance to relive that wonderful season of 1942. America was at war, but Franklin Roosevelt gave his presidential sanction for Major League Baseball to fiercely and shamelessly pursue its own specialized combat. Jerome Mileur's writing mirrors the times and captures the spirit of a great Cardinals team. In a subtle way his narrative rekindles that era's pride in being American and lures one to vicariously soak in the highs and lows of events on and off the field. I would insert only one more incidental item, which dates to sometime in the late 1950s, when my grandfather somewhat too casually said to me, "I wouldn't mind if my epitaph read He had something to do with converting Musial from a pitcher.'"- Branch Rickey III, President, Pacific Coast League
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2008-046279
Dewey Decimal
796.357/640977866
Series
Sports and American Culture Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Item description from the seller
Business seller information
Value Added Tax Number:
- GB 864 1548 11
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:395143685861
Shipping and handling
Item does not ship to United States
Item location:
GU14 0GT, United Kingdom
Ships to:
Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Americas, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Asia, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Europe, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, Finland, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Western Samoa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Excludes:
Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Belarus, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Libya, Nauru, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Somalia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Yemen
| Handling time |
|---|
| Will usually ship within 5 business days of receiving cleared payment. |
| Taxes |
|---|
| Taxes may be applicable at checkout. Learn moreLearn more about paying tax on eBay purchases |
Sales tax for an item #395143685861
Sales tax for an item #395143685861
Seller collects sales tax for items shipped to the following provinces:
| Province | Sales Tax Rate |
|---|
Return policy
| After receiving the item, contact seller within |
|---|
| 30 days after the buyer receives it |
The buyer is responsible for return shipping costs.
Payment details
Payment methods
Popular categories from this store
Seller feedback (183,108)
u***n (38)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
Product is 95% alike picture but a little more blurry. Controller play well but had a notice from psn that my joypad wasn't authentic and could by problematic🤷♂️ no trouble so far! Shipping was fast but no tracking and worst packaging ever.. like the box came banged up... send a question to seller never had a reply 😅.... Good product overall, excellent price, fast shipping, wrapped only on 4 sides out of 6, no tracking and never reply... 4★ product / 2★ seller ✌️
l***t (120)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
The book is in perfect condition, brand new, and is exactly as described. This item is difficult to find here, and the seller priced it very reasonably. It shipped from the UK to Canada, and unfortunately took a little longer to arrive than the seller hoped, but it was shipped less than 24 hours after I purchased. When I contacted the seller, they were very responsive and helpful. I would not hesitate to purchase from this seller again. Definitely recommend!
s***a (696)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
AAA seller. Item came as described and within the due date. Great communication. Well packed and no damage to the case.