Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Epigraph
Prologue: Beaumont, Texas, Summer 1950
1. Stockyards Boy
2. Making It
3. Toward Stardom
4. Best in His League
5. Troubles
6. .424—and Cardinals Manager
7. The Summit
8. Touring the National League
9. “Enough of Second-Guessers”
10. Browns Blues
11. Vagabond Years
12. Making It Back
13. “As Changeless as Gibraltar”
14. “I Belong in Baseball”
Epilogue: “What Else Is There?”
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Also by Charles C. Alexander
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