List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Hookey from High School; 2 The Big Leagues Were a Long Way Off; 3 Up with Detroit and Philadelphia; 4 Go West, Young Man; 5 Points South; 6 The Road Back to Triple-A; 7 Mile High, Here We Come; 8 A Car Missing a Wheel; 9 Scouting, the Toughest Job in Baseball; 10 Putting All the King's Men Together; 11 If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Albuquerque; 12 Billy Ball; 13 Retirement? What Retirement?; 14 My Own Hall of Fame; 15 I Dream of Baseball; Appendix: Career Statistics; Index
Tom Altherr is a professor of history at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. He is a coauthor of Sports in North America: A Documentary History.
"Metro's career saved him from the coal mines of western Pennsylvania and afforded him the chance to play, then manage, in dozens of venues throughout the country... With a cast that includes such varied personalities as Billy Martin, Richard Nixon, Lou Piniella and Dorothy Lamour, Safe by a Mile is a wide-ranging tale by one of baseball's happiest wanderers." - USA Today Baseball Weekly
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