|
San Francisco Seals (Images of Baseball) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Martin Jacobs, Jack Mcguire
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $12.69
You Save: $7.30 (37%)
New (21) Used (11) Collectible (1) from $4.31
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 426891
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0738529850
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357640979461
EAN: 9780738529851
ASIN: 0738529850
Publication Date: June 13, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand New, Perfect Condition, Please allow 4-14 business days for delivery. 100% Money Back Guarantee, Over 1,000,000 customers served.
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
For more than half a century, San Francisco Seals baseball was a fertile source of future major league players, with a legacy firmly grounded in the annals of Pacific Coast League baseball. Paul and Lloyd Waner, Ping Bodie, Earl Averill, William Kamm, Ferris Fain, Harry Heilmann, Smead Jolly, Lefty ODoul, Frankie Crosetti, the DiMaggio brothers (Joe, Vince, and Dom), Larry Jansen, and others all launched their careers as Seals. From 1903 to 1957, the Seals were the toast of the town, offering tight pennant races and intense games with the Oakland Oakstheir cross-bay rivalswhile playing at Recreation Park and Seals Stadium. In almost 6 decades, the Seals won 11 pennants and 4 Governors Cups. They survived the earthquake and fire of 1906, the Great Depression, and two world wars.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 The BEST Seals Book June 7, 2008
Wow! This is one of the best purchases I ever made. Really. The pictures of the SF Seals are truly grand. Brought me back in history to a nicer time that I wish I had experienced firsthand. The DiMaggio brothers were hometown gods!
 Amateurish but interesting. August 26, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Anyone who was a fan of the San Francisco Seals back in the day would find this interesting. The production is earnest but amateurish.
Great Pictorial History August 10, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This Arcadia book traces in pictures and words the history (from its origins in 1903 to their final game in 1957) of a great San Francisco baseball team. No not the San Francisco Giants, but rather the San Francisco Seals who for half a century were the "toast" of San Francisco. Through countless pictures and accompanying text, the reader learns about the origins of the team, its countless triumphs and defeats, pennants, ballparks (including Recreation Park and Seals Stadium), and also its players. Among them of course were the incomparable Joe DiMaggio, Smead Jolley, Paul & Lloyd Waner, Harry Heilmann, Lefty Gomez, Larry Jansen, Ferris Fain, and so many others. And also the Seals' long time manager, Lefty O' Doul. I find it interesting especially after looking through this book that when you visit the shopping center in San Francisco where Seals' Stadium once stood, there is no trace (not even a plaque to commemorate it) of the stadium ever having existed.
This book is a loving tribute to the long gone Seals, created by the authors who were (and still are) longtime Seals' fans.
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
