Bøger af Ed Wheatley

St. Louis Cardinals: Everything You Need to Know!, offers a unique approach to telling the story of Cardinals baseball for fans young and old. Hundreds of vivid photos and accompanying vignettes allow readers to experience the players, teams, and special moments of one of baseball's greatest franchises. Within these pages, readers will find the love and joy that fans call Cardinal baseball. Relive the 19 pennants, the 11 World Series Championships, and all the special moments in-between. Which Redbird players were the best at each position and which ones made it to the Hall of Fame? Can you name their lone Triple Crown winner or the team's MVPs? What are the Perfectos and who's in the Gashouse Gang? It's a story over 140 years in the making that will simply make Redbird fans of all ages. Go Crazy for Cardinal baseball! St. Louis author Ed Wheatley covers this storied baseball franchise with an illustrated collection of highlights from the 1800s to today. Look back at your favorite Cardinals moments or discover things you never knew in St. Louis Cardinals: Everything You Need to Know!

What city broke barriers by welcoming some of the first African American baseball players in addition to the first female owners of both an MLB and NFL team? Where have local colleges dominated a specific sport, winning dozens of national titles over as many years? The answer, of course, lies in St. Louis, a hotbed of professional and amateur sports with a diverse history and an evolving legacy of success. In St. Louis Sports Memories: Forgotten Teams and Moments from America's Best Sports Town, relive the highlights from the championships to the crossroads of social change that have characterized St. Louis's sports scene for more than a century. Learn about the tennis legend who found an accepting environment to master his game during the racial turmoil of the 1960s. Make sure you can recite both the four MLB teams and the four NFL teams that have called St. Louis home. Each moment or memory is accompanied by history and anecdotes to form an indelible vignette showcasing some of the most loved as well as the long forgotten stories of the names you know and the ones you should know. Local award-winning author Ed Wheatley brings his die-hard fan perspective to this unique and nostalgic look at St. Louis's winning record. Root for the home teams and for the bygone heroes in this town that boasts one of the greatest histories in the annals of sports.

Everyone knows the rich tradition of the St. Louis Cardinals "¬‚¬"the winningest franchise in the National League. Cardinals fans grew up listening to the likes of France Laux, Dizzy, Dean, Harry Caray, and Jack Buck on radio and television. They've earned the appreciation and respect throughout the baseball world as the kind of fans that cheer their team's players, yet give a roar of applause for a great defensive play by the opposing team. In the end, it's simply the love of the game"¬‚¬"or is it more? Local author and baseball player Ed Wheatley lays out the unique role baseball has played in St. Louis and that which St. Louis has played in the world of baseball in Baseball in St Louis. Through the hardships of multiple World Wars, the poverty of the Great Depression, and times of civil and social disorder, baseball has been there, taking St. Louisans around the bases with hope and recreation. Discover the rich history of the Major League's Browns and Cardinals and the great teams of the Negro Leagues, but also find the ways baseball intertwined itself within the city's culture. St. Louis is a baseball town through and through, full of baseball lovers, and this is their story. From young children playing in farm fields and brick alleys, moving on to little leagues, high schools and colleges. Some made it to the major leagues from St. Louis, some played simply for the love of the game. This is the story of St. Louis baseball and its impact on the community, for those who played, and those who watched, and those of us still watching today.

Deep in Busch Stadium's left field, you'll find a wall of heroes The greatest Cardinals of all time are painted there, reminding us that dreams do come true. On this wall, Dizzy Dean still throws his flaming fastball. Lou Brock flashes his supersonic speed around the bases. Ozzie Smith puts on a show with his fielding magic. Just like players today, young Cardinal fans dream of joining their heroes on the wall. Will you join them one day too?

At the core of the St. Louis Browns' story is the ever-present competition on and off the baseball field with the St. Louis Cardinalsa team with whom they not only shared a city and fans, but also a stadium. It was a battle for more than pennants. It was a battle for survival and baseball loyalty. Could they run the Cardinals out of town and become St. Louis's sole baseball team? There were the good times when the Browns fielded some of the greatest players in major league history, regularly challenging the mighty Yankees for the American League Pennant in the 1920s. But there were also bad times. The team's lack of success was often impacted by poor financing, bad business decisions, and the need to trade good players to stay afloat. The Browns' story was always a story of what could have been. Filled with unique and colorful stories and illustrated by exquisite photographs, St. Louis Browns: The Story of a Beloved Team is destined to become the definitive source for the team's splendid history: the good, the bad, and the ugly.