Ichiro and Gorgeous George: A Fan's Look at Baseball, Life and Ichiro Suzuki's Magnificent Run at George Sisler's Single Season Hit Record
Автор:Mark D. Arnold Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 58 ISBN: 1479260231 The 2004 baseball season was, for the Seattle Mariners, a disaster. The team won 63 games that year, which as any fan knows means they lost 99, and finished in last place in the American League West Division. By mid August of the 2004 season most Mariner fans were being distracted from the team's won / lost record however. The reason? They were busy watching Ichiro Suzuki, the team's right fielder and the first Japanese regular position player in the Major Leagues, as he wielded his bat like a wand while chasing down one of the longest standing major records in baseball: George Sisler's all time record for hits in a single season. While the rest of the team was stinking up Safeco Field with their play, Ichiro was gracing this otherwise lost Mariner season with magic! Written from a fan's perspective, "Ichiro and Gorgeous George" is the story of Ichiro Suzuki's marvelous assault on Sisler's record. Told against the backdrop of Ichiros's first few seasons as a Seattle Mariner,...
