Baseball Finest Moments eBook Jack L Hayes
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THE GREATEST JOB IN THE WORLD! From the very first chapter to the very end, this is an enjoyable chronicle of what went on in the clubhouse, dugout, and on the field during the early 1950s as seen through the eyes of the visiting team batboy whenever the Washington Senators played at Griffith Stadium. Back then, baseball was very different from what it is today. It was the profoundly American pastime. It was more exciting. Players were more fun and much more colorful, and most of these awesome people would give a fan a free autograph with a kindly smile. In this book you'll find out what it was like for a kid to rub elbows with Hall of Famers and other great stars, and to actually get onto the ballfield, practicing with, and getting playing tips from, his heroes. (Imagine receiving batting lessons from Ted Williams or getting tips on pitching from Satchel Paige!) You'll read about stars like the young and somewhat shy Mickey Mantle, who hit that tape-measure home run out of Griffith Stadium on April 17, 1953; about Satchel Paige's pitching prowess and his on-and off-field antics; and get a first-hand look at the Ted Williams that few people got to see. And much more! Travel to Cooperstown with the author and his wife, Darlene, some three decades later in the former batboy's life, for a meeting with the National Baseball Hall of Fame's curator, and learn about that meeting's most surprising ending. In this book you'll find scores of interesting stories about unforgettable moments in the game, and see what the batboy saw as he mingled with legendary players of the 1950s a time that may well go down as the greatest in American baseball history!
Baseball Finest Moments eBook Jack L Hayes
Baseball in the early - mid '50s: people think of the Giants, the Yankees, Ted Williams, Willie Mays. This is a story from inside the clubhouse, the visitor's clubhouse at Griffith Stadium. Jack Hayes lived in Washington, DC, and got every kid's dream job. He was a batboy.How did he get the job?
He called Clark C. Griffith, "the Old Fox", a founder of the American League and owner of the Washington Nationals, or Senators as my Dad called our team. Yep: Clark Griffith was listed in the DC phone book, and Mr. Hayes, a 15-year old who loved baseball, looked up Mr. Griffith and asked. Griff pointed Hayes to someone who handled the inside work, and just before the 1953 season, Jack Hayes was getting instructed on a batboy's job by a clubhouse manager: check the dugout after each game, gather towels, sweep out the locker room, place a uniform in each locker, clean the dirt from every pair of spikes and shine the shoes and line them up.
During a game, he wore the visiting team's uniform, carrying bats to the on-deck circle, running a relief-pitcher's warm-up jacket back to the dugout.
Before games? Jack Hayes was free to shag flies during batting practice, and players gave him advice. Hank Bauer gave Hayes his spare glove when Bauer saw a line-drive rip through the webbing on Hayes's glove. Hats off to Hank Bauer, and to the other players, from Gene Verble to Ted Williams, who took time to show Hayes how to improve.
This book is not "baseball poetry". No purple prose about the metaphysics of the diamond, nine players, nine innings; a plain book about the game, about an awesome ball-park that few people remember, about ball-players great and not-great but serious about their craft, and about the work that makes possible the games we see.
Oh, and, Jack Hayes was the visitors' batboy the day that Mickey Mantle hit a pitch from Chuck Stobbs that nicked the National Boh sign above the 60-foot back wall of the left-field bleachers and bounced into a back-yard about 550 feet from home-plate. He remembers.
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Baseball Finest Moments eBook Jack L Hayes Reviews
Baseball fan or not, this is one entertaining book that I highly recommend. It is very enjoyable, and some of the things that happened to Jack Hayes in the early 1950s, just would not be possible for a young boy today looking for a similar major league bat-boy job. I found his interactions with some of the greatest baseball players of all time, and the insight he shares on these players regarding their professional and personal lives simply fascinating!
What an unbelievable experience it must have been to by a bat-boy for a major league team. In this book, Jack Hayes manages to let us all live that experience vicariously. I grew up in Brooklyn in the 50's so the Dodgers were my team of choice. But I too traveled the city buses to see the dodgers play at Ebbets field. For 25 cents and 5 Elsie Borden Ice Cream lids, you got admission to the Grandstand. This book brought back so many memories of my childhood, watching my beloved "Bums". If you were a baseball fan in the 50's, you will love this book.
Lee
I found Jack Hayes book Baseball's Finest Moments a real joy to read. I was personally intrigued by all of the hurdles young Jack cleared so he could become a bat-boy at Griffith Stadium. I would imagine every year there are hundreds if not thousands of boys that would love to be a bat-boy at a major league ballpark. There only a few boys that actually follow through like Jack did in 1953.
In the book Jack tells us how he became the bat-boy for the visiting teams at Griffith Stadium; I enjoyed reading about Jack's adventures with some of the biggest stars in the game from the visiting teams, truly a dream job for any young man.
I personally think Baseball's Finest Moments is a well written and easy reading book that all baseball fans will enjoy reading.
Mark D. Hornbaker
"Baseball's Finest Moments" is a great read, full of charming and zany stories about some of the greatest players the game has known. The author is interesting too. Imagine a teenager having the courage to pick up the phone and call the owner of a major league baseball team to ask for a job as a batboy, and the owner helping the kid get the job. Imagine the boy meeting dozens of famous players and collecting tips and stories, even getting into the outfield with them during warmups. The book is inspirational in a lot of ways. My wife enjoyed it as much as I did. We have recommended it to a lot of friends.
Baseball in the early - mid '50s people think of the Giants, the Yankees, Ted Williams, Willie Mays. This is a story from inside the clubhouse, the visitor's clubhouse at Griffith Stadium. Jack Hayes lived in Washington, DC, and got every kid's dream job. He was a batboy.
How did he get the job?
He called Clark C. Griffith, "the Old Fox", a founder of the American League and owner of the Washington Nationals, or Senators as my Dad called our team. Yep Clark Griffith was listed in the DC phone book, and Mr. Hayes, a 15-year old who loved baseball, looked up Mr. Griffith and asked. Griff pointed Hayes to someone who handled the inside work, and just before the 1953 season, Jack Hayes was getting instructed on a batboy's job by a clubhouse manager check the dugout after each game, gather towels, sweep out the locker room, place a uniform in each locker, clean the dirt from every pair of spikes and shine the shoes and line them up.
During a game, he wore the visiting team's uniform, carrying bats to the on-deck circle, running a relief-pitcher's warm-up jacket back to the dugout.
Before games? Jack Hayes was free to shag flies during batting practice, and players gave him advice. Hank Bauer gave Hayes his spare glove when Bauer saw a line-drive rip through the webbing on Hayes's glove. Hats off to Hank Bauer, and to the other players, from Gene Verble to Ted Williams, who took time to show Hayes how to improve.
This book is not "baseball poetry". No purple prose about the metaphysics of the diamond, nine players, nine innings; a plain book about the game, about an awesome ball-park that few people remember, about ball-players great and not-great but serious about their craft, and about the work that makes possible the games we see.
Oh, and, Jack Hayes was the visitors' batboy the day that Mickey Mantle hit a pitch from Chuck Stobbs that nicked the National Boh sign above the 60-foot back wall of the left-field bleachers and bounced into a back-yard about 550 feet from home-plate. He remembers.
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