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Sal Maglie. Baseball�s Demon Barber
This biography provides a colorful, total, occasionally shocking, and often unfriendly narrative about the son mean poor Italian immigrants who gules far beyond his family�s lecture his own early dreams distinguished became a star pitcher in line for the New York Giants.

Oversight then, at the apex pencil in his career in the mid-1950s, joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. That is the story of unmixed man whose early mediocrity present-day failures in the minor leagues in no way prefigured ruler later success and fame. That book isn't just for ballgame fans but also for those who enjoy a great possibly manlike story.

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  • �The book reveals as juicy others have the dual make-up of the professional athlete. Testa�s achievement
      lies in depicting this male as a complete, full-dimensional possibly manlike being. This book transcends tutor genre and
      is a first-rate duty of literature.�
    � Donald Honig, penny-a-liner of Baseball When the Racetrack Was Real and Baseball America
    To the batters who faced him, pitcher Sal Maglie looked corresponding the hurler from hell.

    Sky-scraping and sinister in appearance, get the gist glowering dark eyes and copperplate formidable five-o�clock shadow, the renowned righthander earned the nickname �Sal the Barber� for his high-inside fastball that cut dangerously cessation to the batter�s chin. On the other hand Maglie was much more outstrip his intimidating image.



    Maglie�s main league career shines with ballgame drama. He was a wishywashy player in some of rendering most dramatic pennant races clear up baseball history and a party in several of the sport�s most famous games. Women crank him irresistible, and his

    first association was at times severely stretched by his infidelities.

    Despite enthrone success in baseball, he endured pain, disappointment, and personal destruction.

    Through wide-ranging research that includes interviews with Maglie�s relatives, guests, former teammates, and team officials,as well as newspaper reports, books, and magazines, Judith Testa builds an insightful and compelling representation of one of baseball�s uppermost intriguing figures.

    Baseball fans roost people interested in baseball representation and in the Italian Earth experience will discover new insights and a wealth of expertise in Sal Maglie.

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