Strike Four!: The Crankshaft Baseball Book

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Paperback Book Details

  • Paperback
  • 231 Pages
  • Released: April 15, 2014
  • Originally Released: 2014
  • Publisher: The Kent State University Press / Black Squirrel B

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The Toledo Mud Hens?a farm team for the Detroit Tigers?once had a budding pitcher named Ed Crankshaft. At least that's how partners in cartooning, writer Tom Batiuk and artist Chuck Ayers, scripted the main character in Crankshaft. This enjoyable volume collects all of Crankshaft's baseball-themed exploits. Fans will enjoy revisiting Crankshaft's reminisces about his minor league pitching career and his comic attempts to recapture his youthful successes on the diamond.

 Strike Four! portrays Crankshaft's greatest triumph when, on a sultry summer night in 1940, the Tigers came to town for an exhibition game against the Mud Hens. Pitching for the Mud Hens, Ed faced the top of the Tigers lineup?Hank Greenberg, Charlie Gehringer, and Rudy York?and struck out all three. The next year, the Tigers called Ed up to the major leagues, but unfortunately, so did Uncle Sam. After his service, Crankshaft returned home, but not to play baseball. He married and had two daughters. His grandson Max was his last chance to reprise his baseball career, but it was not meant to be.

 Strike Four! The Crankshaft Baseball Book allows Batiuk and Ayers to explore a man's life and humorously and touchingly to examine how only barely touching the brass ring shaped it?and left him a little cranky.

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Baseball | Comic books, strips, etc

Product Info

  • ISBN: 9781606351925
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1/lbs (approx)
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