{"product_id":"forty-years-a-giant-9781496224194","title":"Forty Years a Giant","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is the life story of Horace Stoneham, who inherited the New York Giants Major League Baseball franchise in 1936 and owned and operated the organization until 1976.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Steve Treder makes an important contribution to the field of baseball history with \u003ci\u003eForty Years a Giant\u003c\/i\u003e. Readers will soak up the fascinating story of Horace Stoneham, who, at long last, receives the attention he so richly deserves.\"—Jason Cannon, \u003ci\u003eNINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“No one better understands the Giants of the mid-twentieth century than Steve Treder, so I knew this was a perfect pairing of author and subject. I was not disappointed. This is an absorbing look at one of baseball’s most fascinating teams.”—Mark Armour, author of \u003ci\u003eJoe Cronin: A Life in Baseball\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Masterful. . . . This richly contextualized book rescues Stoneham from the sidelines of New York City’s baseball world and places him alongside Walter O’Malley in the story of the sport’s success in California, where he belongs. It is a delight.”—Roberta Newman, author of \u003ci\u003eHere’s the Pitch: The Amazing, True, New, and Improved Story of Baseball and Advertising\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Horace Stoneham [was] a true baseball pioneer. . . . Giants fans especially will enjoy both Treder’s thorough narrative of the Stoneham years in New York and in San Francisco—the players, the games, the seasons—and his extensive and balanced portrait of the man most responsible for that history.”—Robert F. Garratt, author of \u003ci\u003eHome Team: The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Horace Stoneham may be one of the most underappreciated baseball executives of the twentieth century. Thanks to Steve Treder we now have a book that recognizes his significance and reflects the Giants’ prominence in many of the fascinating and consequential moments of more than five decades of baseball history.”—Daniel R. Levitt, author of \u003ci\u003eEd Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees’ First Dynasty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sometimes you just don’t know what you were missing until you’ve got it. More than players, more than coaches, more than anyone else really, it’s always been the owners who determine the fates of baseball franchises. Which makes it all the more surprising that Steve Treder’s outstanding book is the first comprehensive biography of Horace Stoneham, who owned one of baseball’s titanic teams through forty years of revolutionary change.”—Rob Neyer, author of Casey Award–winning \u003ci\u003ePower Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Treder's biography of long-time New York\/San Francisco Giants owner Horace Stoneham is a thorough exploration of his 40-year tenure in baseball ownership between 1936 and 1976.\"—Charlie Bevis, \u003ci\u003eBevis Baseball Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction         \u003cbr\u003e Prologue: Sunday, September 21, 1975    \u003cbr\u003e 1. Horrie, I Bought You a Ball Club    \u003cbr\u003e 2. Roaring into the Twenties    \u003cbr\u003e 3. Hard Truths        \u003cbr\u003e 4. Brooklyn Is Still in the League    \u003cbr\u003e 5. War, Peace, and Nice Guys    \u003cbr\u003e 6. We Knew Segregation Was Wrong    \u003cbr\u003e 7. Horace Stoneham Has Finally Got a Winner    \u003cbr\u003e 8. We Have No Chance to Survive Here    \u003cbr\u003e 9. Open Your Golden Gate    \u003cbr\u003e 10. It’s Bye-Bye Baby    \u003cbr\u003e 11. No Cigar        \u003cbr\u003e 12. Certainly the Move Will Hurt Us    \u003cbr\u003e 13. Resilience        \u003cbr\u003e 14. I Never Thought I Would Trade Willie    \u003cbr\u003e 15. You Can’t Get Discouraged    \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue        \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Notes        \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography        \u003cbr\u003e Index    ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409234043223,"sku":"9781496224194","price":26.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496224194.jpg?v=1730506071","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/forty-years-a-giant-9781496224194","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}