Smoky Joe Wood - 9780803278417

Smoky Joe WoodThe Biography of a Baseball Legend\nAuthor(s): Gerald C. Wood\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803278417, 978-0803278417\nSynopsis\nWINNER OF THE 2014 SEYMOUR MEDAL sponsored by the Society for American Baseball Research and finalist for 2014 SABR Larry Ritter Award\n\nThough his pitching career lasted only a few seasons, Howard Ellsworth Smoky Joe Wood was one of the most dominating figures in baseball history-a man many consider the best baseball player who is not in the Hall of Fame. About his fastball, Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson once said: Listen, mister, no man alive can throw harder than Smoky Joe Wood.\n\nSmoky Joe Wood chronicles the singular life befitting such a baseball legend. Wood got his start impersonating a female on the National Bloomer Girls team. A natural athlete, he pitched for the Boston Red Sox at eighteen, won twenty-one games and threw a no-hi.