Slide, Kelly, Slide: The Wild Life and Times of Mike King Kelly by Marty Appel

Slide, Kelly, Slide: The Wild Life and Times of Mike King Kelly

American Sports History

Marty Appel

244 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sports emotional informative slow-paced
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Mike "King" Kelly was the hard-living, hard-drinking son of a Civil War veteran whose skills at baseball and infectious charm turned him into the game's first hero, and a symbol of what it meant to be a celebrity in America in the 1880s and 1890s....

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