Harry Hooper
An American Baseball Life
The biography of a forgotten Red Sox star and Hall of Famer
Paper – $20.95
978-0-252-07170-6
Publication Date
Paperback: 01/22/2004
Series: Sport and Society
About the Book
Through the figure of Harry Hooper (1887-1974), star of four World Series championship teams and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Paul Zingg describes baseball's transformation from an often rowdy spectacle to a respectable career choice and entertainment institution.Zingg chronicles Hooper's rise from a sharecropper background in California to college and then to the pinnacle of his sport. Boston's leadoff hitter and right fielder from 1909 to 1920, Hooper later played for the Chicago White Sox, managed in the Pacific Coast League, and coached Princeton's team. When he retired from playing in 1925, he held every major fielding record for an American League right fielder. Hooper's diaries, memoirs, and six decades of letters offer a rich and colorful commentary on the evolution of the game, as well as insight into the tensions between a player's public and private lives.
About the Author
Paul J. Zingg is a former president of California State University, Chico. He is the coauthor of Runs, Hits, and An Era: The Pacific Coast League, 1903-58.Related Titles
