Uppity Uppity

Uppity

My Untold Story About The Games People Play

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Publisher Description

There are very few major personalities in the world of sports who have so much to say about our National Pastime. And even fewer who are as well respected as Bill White.

Bill White, who's now in his mid 70s, was an All-Star first baseman for many years with the New York Giants, St.Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies before launching a stellar broadcasting career with the New York Yankees for 18 years. He left the broadcast booth to become the President of the National League for five years.

A true pioneer as an African-American athlete, sportscaster, and top baseball executive, White has written his long-awaited autobiography in which he will be candid, open, and as always, most forthcoming about his life in baseball. Along the way, White shares never-before-told stories about his long working relationship with Phil Rizzutto, insights on George Steinbrenner, Barry Bonds, Reggie Jackson, Thurman Munson, Bob Gibson, Bart Giamatti, Fay Vincent, and scores of other top baseball names and Hall of Famers.

Best of all, White built his career on being outspoken, and the years fortunately have not mellowed him. Uppity is a baseball memoir that baseball fans everywhere will be buzzing about.

GENRE
Sports & Outdoors
RELEASED
2011
April 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Grand Central Publishing
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
3.1
MB

Customer Reviews

TashTish ,

Good book by a good man

I grew up with Bill White announcing the Yankee games of the 1970s as part of the classic trio of Phil "the Scootah" Rizzuto and straightman Frank Messer. A class act all the way, he sheds new light (to me) regarding his time as an All-Star first baseman in a most tumultuous time. I'll always laugh at his once being addressed once by Rizzuto: "White! Did you ever play for the Yankees? No? That's right, you never did. That's why you have the right, to sing the blues."

BJS317 ,

Uppity

A great baseball book written by a great baseball man.
Read the book in one day.

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