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Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star
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by Tom Swift
Sales Rank: 26710
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Discount: 34 %
List Price: $24.95
$16.47
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on 4-17-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 346 pages
Published by: University of Nebraska Press April 1, 2008
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0803243219
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0803243217
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
Tom Stanton : “An entertaining, absorbing read. Tom Swift paints a vivid portrait of Charles ‘Chief’ Bender, an American Indian who rose to baseball stardom in the early 1900s and conquered mighty opponents as he silently struggled to cope with the effects of virulent prejudice. Swift breathes life into a long-dead hero who merits remembrance.”—Tom Stanton, author of Ty and the Babe and The Final Season
Tom Adelman : “Vividly written and carefully crafted, this book charges like a steam train, fueled by compassion and puffing with rousing courage.”—Tom Adelman, author of The Long Ball
Bill Crawford : “Meticulously researched and eloquently written, Chief Bender’s Burden brings alive a true master of America’s game. Bender’s rise from the playing fields of the Carlisle Indian School to the Baseball Hall of fame is fascinating and inspiring. One contemporary commentator called him ‘the coolest pitcher in the game,’ and this is the coolest book on the shelf.”—Bill Crawford, author of All American: The Rise and Fall of Jim Thorpe
Norman Macht : “Tom Swift has done a great service to Chief Bender and to baseball historians by telling the full and accurate story of Bender’s life for the first time.”—Norman Macht, author of Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball
Gerald Vizenor : “Charles Albert Bender was raised on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, graduated from the Carlisle Indian School, and matured as an extraordinary World Series pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics. Tom Swift has created an outstanding, perceptive, memorable biography of a Native American Indian member of the Baseball Hall of fame.”—Gerald Vizenor, author of The People Named the Chippewa
Book Description
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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