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A Giant among Giants: The Baseball Life of Willie McCovey
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Willie McCovey, known as Stretch, played Major League Baseball from 1959 to 1980, most notably as a member of the San Francisco Giants for nineteen seasons. A fearsome lefthanded power hitter, McCovey ranked second only to Babe Ruth in career home runs among lefthanded batters, and tied for eighth overall with Ted Williams at the time of his retirement. He was a sixtime AllStar, threetime National League home run champion, and 1969 league MVP, and he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986 in his first year of eligibility. Known as a deadpull linedrive hitter, McCovey was called the scariest hitter in baseball by pitcher Bob Gibson.Born in Mobile, Alabama, McCovey encountered daunting hurdles, such as Jim Crow laws that prevented him from playing organized ball as a youth and playing for Major League managers such as Tom Sheehan and Alvin Dark, who took a dim view of his abilities. But neither that nor other difficulties on the fieldthe platooning, the slights, the unrelenting injuriesseemed to affect McCovey, as he remained grateful to be playing baseball.McCovey was the most treasured Bay Area icon of all, a humble, approachable superstar who earned the admiration of seemingly everyone he encountered. McCoveys life wasnt measured in his home run and RBI totals, though those were impressive. His greatest significance lay in the warmth and respect he extended and which others reciprocated. These elements elevated McCovey to a pantheon where relatively few athletes reside. He remains synonymous with not just the team he ennobled but also the city he represented.In A Giant among Giants, the first biography of McCovey, who passed away in 2018 at the age of eighty, Chris Haft tells the story of one of baseballs best hitters and mostbeloved players.
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