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Gordon, Alison : Foul Balls: Five Years In The American League

McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1984

ISBN 0771034253

When Alison Gordon started covering the Blue Jays for The Toronto Star in 1979, the club was an unlikely collection of cast-offs and hangers-on. The pitching roster ...read like an eye chart and often threw as if they needed glasses. Holding the opposition hitless through the playing of both national anthems was considered a good outing. Five years later the Toronto team is the toast of baseball. And here is the inside story on the Blue Jays' flight to the top. Included are revealing profiles of some of today's leading stars...along with sketches of the memorable athletes... who toiled for Toronto when the low-flying Jays were in last place. Gordon had almost as difficult a time as the Blue Jays during her early years covering the Blue Jays during her early years covering the team. The appearance of a woman reporter in a locker room in 1979 caused some baseball old-timers to choke on their tobacco. Despite the inevitable trials-by-childishness, Gordon was accepted, after her first season, as one of the scribes. And for the next four years her springs and summers were a blur of scorecards, deadlines and plane rides. In Foul Balls she recalls some of the memorable moments of her seasons in the sun:...Gordon takes the reader on an around-the-league road trip, covering all the bases,as well as the locker rooms, press boxes, and ballparks. To some players, owners and managers she throws bouquets, to others, spitballs.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Jacket: Near Fine

1st Canadian Edition.

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