Research Catalog

Title

Trading Manny : how a father and son learned to love baseball again / Jim Gullo

Author

Gullo, Jim, 1957-

Publication

Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, 2012.

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Details

Description

viii, 255 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Around when his seven-year-old son Joe was developing a passion for baseball, the steroid scandal of 2007 surfaced, forcing Jim to re-evaluate the sport and answer his son's tough questions in an effort to recapture his love for the game.

Subject

• Baseball > Corrupt practices > United States
• Baseball players > Drug use > United States
• Doping in sports > United States
• Anabolic steroids > Health aspects > United States
• Steroids > Health aspects

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The house that juice built: Joe -- What the Cards said -- No comment -- Still the king -- Gorilla food -- Every frog is spotty -- Enough needles to go around -- The 33 million reasons to take steroids -- My eternal shame over Omar Vizquel -- Eighty pounds in a week -- Abject humiliation -- 104 more cheaters -- Jamie Moyer's changeup -- Back to the bushes -- "I don't want to talk about steroids!" -- Journey back to baseball: Robbing my father -- The worst sport in the history of baseball -- Gas is up and so is Manny -- If it's not broken -- Dear Manny, part two -- Weiser -- Gynecomastia -- The sad story of Taylor Hooton -- Do this for the game -- Ball four -- Joe meets the Garfoose -- Crazy Louie -- Bottom of the ninth -- Seasons.

ISBN

• 9780306820175 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 030682017X (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780306821028 (e-book)
• 0306821028 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2011032070

OCLC

744287789

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library