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Tom Swift -- Chief Bender's Burden
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Time: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:30 p.m.
Location: Common Good Books
Tom Swift is an award-winning journalist and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, many of which you probably haven’t read. He has ridden in a presidential motorcade and covered a parade of white supremacists. He has interviewed the sitting U.S. Senate majority leader and Major League Baseball players who were naked at the time. He and his wife live in Northfield, Minnesota.
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Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star(Hardcover (Cloth))
by
Swift, Tom
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$24.95
Published: University of Nebraska Press, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
The greatest American Indian baseball player of all time, Charles Albert Bender, was, according to a contemporary, “the coolest pitcher in the game.” Using a trademark delivery, an impressive assortment of pitches that may have included the game’s first slider, and an apparently unflappable demeanor, he earned a reputation as baseball’s great clutch pitcher during tight Deadball Era pennant races and in front of boisterous World Series crowds. More remarkably yet, “Chief” Bender’s Hall of Fame career unfolded in the face of immeasurable prejudice. This skillfully told and complete account of Bender’s life is also a portrait of greatness of character maintained despite incredible pressure—of how a celebrated man thrived while carrying an untold weight on his shoulders.
With a journalist’s eye for detail and a novelist’s feel for storytelling, Tom Swift takes readers on Bender’s improbable journey—from his early years on the White Earth Reservation, to his development at the Carlisle Indian School, to his big break and eventual rise to the pinnacle of baseball. The story of a paradoxical American sports hero, one who achieved a once-unfathomable celebrity while suffering the harsh injustices of a racially intolerant world, Chief Bender’s Burden is an eye-opening and inspiring narrative of a unique American life.
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