Baseball's Natural: The Story of Eddie Waitkus

by John Theodore

Book Overview

Baseball's Natural: The Story of Eddie Waitkus is John Theodore's true account of the slick-fielding first baseman who played for the Cubs and Phillies in the 1940s and became an immortalized figure in baseball lore as the inspiration for Roy Hobbs in Bernard Malamud's The Natural.

The son of Lithuanian immigrants, Edward Stephen Waitkus (1919-1972) grew up in Boston and served in the Pacific during World War II. His...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809324504
• ISBN13: 9780809324507
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.5"