Big Loosh

Auteur

Jim Leeke is a former journalist, copywriter, and retired creative director. He interviewed Ron Luciano during Luciano’s first book tour in 1982. Leeke is the author of several books, including The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I (Potomac, 2024) and From the Dugouts to the Trenches: Baseball during the Great War (Nebraska, 2017), winner of the SABR Larry Ritter Award. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Texte du rabat

Big Loosh is the biography of Ron Luciano, an outsized figure who was an MLB umpire in the 1970s, worked in broadcasting, published five books, and became a personality off the field—yet whose upbeat public face was at odds with his private struggle with depression.

Contenu

Chapter 1. All-Star
Chapter 2. Tiger
Chapter 3. Orangeman
Chapter 4. Lion
Chapter 5. Arbiter
Chapter 6: Gunfighter
Chapter 7: Showman
Chapter 8: Windmill
Chapter 9: Nemesis
Chapter 10: Huckleberry
Chapter 11: Organizer
Chapter 12: Analyst
Chapter 13: Author
Chapter 14: Homebody
Chapter 15: Yorick
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography