The Last of His Kind Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness
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Produktdetails
Format
ePUB 3
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
07.05.2024
Verlag
Grand Central PublishingSeitenzahl
368 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
2463 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780306832611
This definitive biography of Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw examines the genesis of his brilliance, his epic quest to win the World Series, and his singular place within the evolving baseball landscape-based on exclusive interviews with Kershaw and more than 200 others.
"The literary equivalent of a perfect game." -Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times
In an age when baseball became more impersonal, Clayton Kershaw personified the game's lingering humanity, with his joy and suffering on display each October as he chased a championship. He pitched through pain, placing his future at risk on the game's grandest stages. He endeared himself to teammates and foes alike with his refusal to make excuses, and with his willingness to shoulder the blame when he failed. He further impressed them when he returned, year after year, even as his body broke down from the strain of his profession. When the Dodgers finally won a title in 2020, and again in 2024, the television cameras inevitably found Kershaw in his triumph.
The Last of His Kind traces Kershaw's path from a boyhood fractured by divorce to his development as one of the most-heralded pitching prospects in Texas history to his emergence in Los Angeles as the spiritual heir to Sandy Koufax. The book also charts Kershaw's place in the churn of baseball history as his own stubbornness butted against the game's evolution.
The narrative of baseball in the 21st century can be told through Kershaw's career-to understand how baseball is played today, and how it got that way, you must understand the journey of Clayton Kershaw.
"The literary equivalent of a perfect game." -Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times
In an age when baseball became more impersonal, Clayton Kershaw personified the game's lingering humanity, with his joy and suffering on display each October as he chased a championship. He pitched through pain, placing his future at risk on the game's grandest stages. He endeared himself to teammates and foes alike with his refusal to make excuses, and with his willingness to shoulder the blame when he failed. He further impressed them when he returned, year after year, even as his body broke down from the strain of his profession. When the Dodgers finally won a title in 2020, and again in 2024, the television cameras inevitably found Kershaw in his triumph.
The Last of His Kind traces Kershaw's path from a boyhood fractured by divorce to his development as one of the most-heralded pitching prospects in Texas history to his emergence in Los Angeles as the spiritual heir to Sandy Koufax. The book also charts Kershaw's place in the churn of baseball history as his own stubbornness butted against the game's evolution.
The narrative of baseball in the 21st century can be told through Kershaw's career-to understand how baseball is played today, and how it got that way, you must understand the journey of Clayton Kershaw.
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