Title
Tony Oliva: The Life and Times of a Minnesota Twins Legend,Used
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If not for the botched Bay of Pigs invasion, Minnesota might never have known one of its most popular baseball players, Twins threetime batting champion and eighttime AllStar Tony Oliva. In April 1961, the twentytwoyearold Cuban prospect failed to impress the Twins in a tryout, but the sudden rupture in U.S.Cuba relations made a return visa all but impossible. The story of how Olivas unexpected stay led to a second chance and success with the Twinsas well as decades of personal and cultural isolationis told for the first time in this fullscale biography of the man the fans affectionately call Tony O.With unprecedented access to the very private Oliva, baseball writer Thom Henninger captures what life was like for the Cuban newcomer as he adjusted to major league play and American cultureand at the same time managed to earn Rookie of the Year honors and win the American League batting title in his first two seasons, all while playing with a knuckle injury. Packed with neverbeforepublished photographs, the book follows Oliva through the 1965 season, all the way to the World Series, and then, with repaired knuckle and knee, into one of the most dramatic pennant races in baseball history in 1967. Through the voices of Oliva, his family, and his teammatesincluding the Cuban players who shared his cultural challenges and the future Hall of Famers he mentored, Rod Carew and Kirby Puckettthe personal and professional highs and lows of the years come alive: the Gold Glove Award in 1966, a third batting title in 1971, the devastating injury that curtailed his career, and, through it all, the struggle to build a family and recover the large and closeknit one he had left behind in Cuba.Nearly forty years after Olivas retirement, the debate continues over whether his injuryshortened career was Hall of Fame calibera question that gets a measured and resounding answer here.
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