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Summary:

"Forty Years a Giant is the life story of Horace Stoneham, who inherited the New York Giants major league baseball franchise in 1936, and owned and operated the organization until 1976"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Horrie, I Bought You a Ball Club
• 2. Roaring into the Twenties
• 3. Hard Truths
• 4. Brooklyn Is Still in the League
• 5. War, Peace, and Nice Guys
• 6. We Knew Segregation Was Wrong
• 7. Horace Stoneham Has Finally Got a Winner
• 8. We Have No Chance to Survive Here
• 9. Open Your Golden Gate
• 10. It's Bye-Bye Baby
• 11. No Cigar
• 12. Certainly the Move Will Hurt Us
• 13. Resilience
• 14. I Never Thought I Would Trade Willie
• 15. You Can't Get Discouraged.

Author/Creator:

Treder, Steve , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Forty years a Giant: the life of Horace Stoneham [by Treder, S.]

Subjects:

Stoneham, Horace, 1903-1990

New York Giants (Baseball team) — History

San Francisco Giants (Baseball team) — History

National League of Professional Baseball Clubs — History

Major League Baseball (Organization) — History

Sports team owners — United States — Biography

Baseball — New York (State) — New York — History

Baseball — California — San Francisco — History

Baseball — United States — History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

GV939.S7457 T74 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781496227256 (electronic bk.)
1496227255 (electronic bk.)
9781496224194 [Invalid]
1496224191 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1245472968

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6534045 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302037571