Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Prefatory Note Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Prologue Chapter 4 1 Down Chrome Chapter 5 2 The Playing Fields of New Jersey Chapter 6 3 Scottdale, 1930 Chapter 7 4 A Ducky Buffalo, Houston, 1931 Chapter 8 5 Waiting for the Call, Houston, 1932 Chapter 9 6 With the Big Club, St. Louis, September 1932 Chapter 10 7 Playing left Field for the Cardinals, 1933 Chapter 11 8 The Gas House Year Chapter 12 9 Ten in the Top Three, 1935 Chapter 13 10 Sixty-Four Doubles, 1936 Chapter 14 11 A Triple Crown Year, 1937 Chapter 15 12 Three RBI Crowns in a Row, 1938 Chapter 16 13 Just Second in RBIs, 1939 Chapter 17 14 Traded, 1940 Chapter 18 15 The Bums Go to the World Series, 1941 Chapter 19 16 The Best Clutch Hitter in the League, 1942 Chapter 20 17 Rickey Again, 1943 Chapter 21 18 The Best Right-Handed Hitter in Baseball, 1944 Chapter 22 19 New York and Boston, 1945 Chapter 23 20 The First Playoffs, 1946 Chapter 24 21 Yogi in the Spring and Sportsman's Again, 1947 Chapter 25 22 Up and Down, 1948 Chapter 26 23 Miami Manager Medwick, 1949 Chapter 27 24 Insurance Man, 1950 Chapter 28 25 Raleigh, 1951 Chapter 29 26 Tampa and Out, 1952 Chapter 30 27 Amadee and the Billikins Until...1953-1967 Chapter 31 28 A Godlet, 1968 Chapter 32 29 Batting Teacher, 1969-74 Chapter 33 30 Muscles, 1975 Chapter 34 31 Since Medwick Chapter 35 32 Medwick's Legacy Chapter 36 Bibliography

About the Author

Thomas Barthel is an Associate Professor of English and has contributed to The Dictionary of American Biography, The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, and The Biographical Dictionary of American Sport: Baseball. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), Barthel's other books include a biography of Pepper Martin.

Reviews

...highly readable and instructive...Barthel has created a creditable piece of work that reveals much about Ducky Medwick the man, more than enough about the details of Medwick's baseball achievements, and a very good feel for the world of the ball player in an earlier time. Aethlon: Journal of Sports Literature The bulk of this biography carefully details Medwick's Cardinal career and credentials, especially 1934 through 1939 when he was the main cog in the Cardinals' potent attack. According to Barthel, those years alone should have been enough to gain Medwick an early spot in Cooperstown. He was the only player (other than Wagner, Musial, and Mize) to lead the NL in extra-base hits for three straight years. He is still the Cardinal leader in doubles and runs batted in; he also finished in the NL top five in twelve offensive categories a total of seventy-seven times. Elysian Fields Quarterly Is the book worth it? A very definite yes! Atom Tabloid and Citizen Gazette