Big Klu: The Baseball Life of Ted Kluszewski

by William A. Cook

During the mid-1950s, an unlikely star stood alongside baseball standouts Mickey Mantle, Henry Aaron and Willie Mays--a slugger with a funny name and muscles so bulging that he had to cut the sleeves off his uniform to swing freely. Ted Kluszewski played little baseball in his youth, making a name for himself instead as a hard-hitting football player at Indiana University before showing potential on the diamond and being signed by the Cincinnati...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786469994
• ISBN13: 9780786469994
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher