Terwilliger Bunts One

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Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2006-06-01
Publisher(s): Globe Pequot
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Summary

Through fifty-seven seasons (and counting) in professional baseball, Wayne "Twig" Terwilliger has seen and done it all. He witnessed the "Shot Heard Round the World" at the Polo Grounds in 1951 and Mickey Mantle's mile-long homer at Griffith Stadium in 1953. He got a game-winning single off Satchel Paige and a home run off Whitey Ford. He turned double plays against Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson one season and with them the next. He counted Willie Mays and Roger Maris among his teammates and Ted Williams among his friends. He was part of the Minnesota Twins electrifying World Series win in 1991-and he ain't finished yet! Born in Michigan in 1925, Terwilliger was an undersized kid with modest skills and big dreams. As a marine in World War II, he played baseball between air raids and witnessed the raising of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima. In 1949, after only four months of Triple A ball, he became the starting second baseman for the Chicago Cubs-and never looked back. Terwilliger Bunts One is the story of this unlikely hero-a man with all-American values, few regrets, and an unwavering enthusiasm to "play ball!"

Author Biography

A journalism major at Marquette University and a lifelong magazine writer and editor,
Nancy Peterson knows how to organize massive quantities of information into readable and
compelling stories. Peter Boehm is an engaging interviewer, a skilled public communicator, a
natural story-teller with a discerning ear for speech, and a professional typesetter who
produces books and journals.

Table of Contents

1 Ancient History and Current Events
1(7)
2 Ivan the Terrible, Tigers, and Mom
8(9)
3 The Fall of Western Civilization
17(2)
4 San Diego to Suribachi—a Gung-Ho Marine
19(20)
5 "Primitive Savagery," or Flying with Angels
39(18)
6 Stan Musial Knows My Name!
57(22)
7 Playing in Jackie's Shoes
79(17)
8 "Isn't That Terwilliger Playing Grand Ball?"
96(14)
9 "Get on the Bus, You're Coming with Us"
110(18)
10 Short Bat and Shower Shoes 128(5)
11 Not Quite a Tiger 133(6)
12 Better Hide the Watches 139(7)
13 The Whole Shebang 146(47)
14 Ted Said... .163
15 Up and Down with the Rangers 193(17)
16 At Home in the Dome 210(25)
17 We Needed the Pants 235(22)
18 Too Young to Retire 257(15)
19 'Nuf Said 272(23)
Statistics 295(10)
Index 305

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