Game of My Life Atlanta Braves: Memorable Stories of Braves Baseball
By (Author) Jack Wilkinson
With Carroll Rogers
Sports Publishing LLC
Sports Publishing LLC
11th June 2013
United States
General
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
796.357
Hardback
224
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 25mm
390g
Theirs was a prolonged run of excellence like none other in sports history. From 1991 through 2005, the Atlanta Braves won fourteen consecutive division championships, a streak no team in professional sports has ever come close to approaching. Beginning with the unexpected worst-to-first miracle of 1991, the Braves commenced an era of sustained dominance that Major League Baseball never saw coming. From the wondrous run to the 91 pennant, to Francisco Cabreras two-run single in the 92 NLCS that returned the Braves to the World Series, to Atlantas first world championship in 1995, its all here.
Captured within these pages are those memories, retold firsthand by the players who delivered the Braves to the pinnacle of pro sports, including David Justice, Terry Pendleton, Ron Gant, Lonnie Smith, Jeff Blauser, Greg Olson, and Tom Glavine. But also chronicled in Game of My Life Atlanta Braves are the franchises many dark years of mediocrity that set up such a magical run. Dating back to the Braves move from Milwaukee, this newly revised book will catch up with Braves legends like Hank Aaron, Phil Niekro, Bob Horner, and Dale Murphy, as well as the more recent stars.