Chief Bender's Burden (Hardcover)

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• Format: Hardcover   Learn more about the Hardcover format using Tower WIKI.
• Number of Pages: 384
• ISBN: 0803243219
• WAPI (Tower ID): 111725904
• Release Date: April 1, 2008
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #287606 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
• #9572 in Biography & Autobiography (See Top 100 Biography & Autobiography Bestsellers)
• #250 in Sports - General (See Top 100 Sports - General Bestsellers)

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The greatest American Indian baseball player of all time, Charles Albert Bender, was, according to a contemporary, "the coolest pitcher in the game." Using a trademark delivery, an impressive assortment of pitches that may have included the game's first slider, and an apparently unflappable demeanor, he earned a reputation as baseball's great clutch pitcher during tight Deadball Era pennant races and in front of boisterous World Series crowds. More remarkably yet, "Chief" Bender's Hall of Fame career unfolded in the face of immeasurable prejudice. This skillfully told and complete account of Bender's life is also a portrait of greatness of character maintained despite incredible pressure--of how a celebrated man thrived while carrying an untold weight on his shoulders. With a journalist's eye for detail and a novelist's feel for storytelling, Tom Swift takes readers on Bender's improbable journey--from his early years on the White Earth Reservation, to his development at the Carlisle Indian School, to his big break and eventual rise to the pinnacle of baseball. The story of a paradoxical American sports hero, one who achieved a once-unfathomable celebrity while suffering the harsh injustices of a racially intolerant world, "Chief Bender's Burden" is an eye-opening and inspiring narrative of a unique American life.

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