60 Feet Six Inches and Other Distances from Home: The (Baseball) Life of Mose YellowHorse
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (702 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 093010076X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 180 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A book that needs to be on every shelf, in every home RLC Through Fuller's careful research and beautifully written poetry, we get a unique, intriguing, and entertaining biography on the life of Mose Yellowhorse. As a proud member of the Pawnee Nation, I highly commend Fuller for his dedication to see this work to its completion. For without him, Mose's story would have remai. Challenging and Atypical Biography A Customer What the author has done in this work is bring together varied perspectives--from Native to non-Native--in order to tell the life story of a neglected, yet historical, Indian ballplayer. (I had never really heard of Mose YellowHorse before reading the book.) That someone has finally taken up this task is admirable, and. Could not put the book down! A Customer I don't normally read sports biographies, however, a friend of mine, aware of my interest in American Indian history, recommended this book to me after she'd had the priviledge of attending one of the author's readings. Fascinating indeed! The life and legend of Mose Yellowhorse is told wonderfully and passionately thr
Although YellowHorse probably would have eschewed the mythic spotlight under which Fuller places him, this passionate, impressionistic chronicle tells a fascinating story about a trailblazing Native American athlete. Fuller's biography reveals the heartbreak, joy, and triumph that stand behind those unassuming statistics. His postbaseball life was darkened by a long period of excessive drinking, but he used the same determination that fueled his baseball career to overcome his dependency. All rights reserved. YellowHorse, a Skidi Pawnee, honed his pitching skills by hunting small game with thrown rocks. Using a sometimes disconcerting combination of narrative text and verse, Fuller re-creates a life notable for its dichotomies and its dignity. From Booklist Mose YellowHorse pitched two years in the major leagues for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1921 and 1922, winning eight games. Yell
in Creative Writing and Native American literatures from Oklahoma State University, where he researched this book for eight years, with the help of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. The author is donating half of his royalties to establish the Mose YellowHorse Higher Education Endowment.. In 1999 he completed his Ph.D. Poetry, oral histories (from tribal elders), critical essays, letters, cartoons, photographs, and newspaper accounts are all included as a way of focusing on cross-cultural tensions.Todd Fuller teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Drake University. Avid and loving in the tribute it pays to this too-neglected American original, but willi
He currently teaches courses in creative writing, Native American studies, and American literature at Drake University. His poems and essays on YellowHorse have appeared in such journals as the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Crazyhorse, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West, the South Dakota Review,