Now Pitching: Bill Zuber from Amana
by Trumpold, Cliff
- Used
- as new
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- As New/No Jacket
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Middle Amana, Iowa: Lakeside Press, 1992. First. Trade Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 141 p. including B & W photos; bound-in card from Bill Zuber's restaurant in Homestead, Iowa; As new, very minor shelf wear. A very nice copy. "He was born into a religion and culture that forbade frivolities like baseball. In 1927, at the age of fourteen, he left school become an apprentice cooper. Eleven years later, he was pitching against Ted Williams in the Major League. This book traces, with sympathy, knowledge, and humor, the troubles and triumphs of an improbably sports hero: William Henry 'Bill' Zuber." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Reading Rat (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RRAB544
- Title
- Now Pitching: Bill Zuber from Amana
- Author
- Trumpold, Cliff
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Lakeside Press
- Place of Publication
- Middle Amana, Iowa
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Sports Baseball Biography US
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Biography/Autobiography;
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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