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Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star
 
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Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 346 pages
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press (15 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0803243219
  • ISBN-13: 978-0803243217
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
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  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,530,441 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Offers keen, compelling insight into the hell Bender must have endured as a Native American excelling at the great American pastime. . . . Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star is written with flawless style. The subject fascinates. Pick an afternoon when you can relax and enjoy a good book, then go get this one." -- Dwight Hobbes "Twin Cities Daily Planet" (08/20/2008)

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The greatest American Indian baseball player of all time, Charles Albert Bender, was, according to a contemporary, "the coolest pitcher in the game." Using a trademark delivery, an impressive assortment of pitches that may have included the game's first slider, and an apparently unflappable demeanor, he earned a reputation as baseball's great clutch pitcher during tight Deadball Era pennant races and in front of boisterous World Series crowds. More remarkably yet, "Chief" Bender's Hall of Fame career unfolded in the face of immeasurable prejudice.This skillfully told and complete account of Bender's life is also a portrait of greatness of character maintained despite incredible pressure - of how a celebrated man thrived while carrying an untold weight on his shoulders. With a journalist's eye for detail and a novelist's feel for storytelling, Tom Swift takes readers on Bender's improbable journey - from his early years on the White Earth Reservation, to his development at the Carlisle Indian School, to his big break and eventual rise to the pinnacle of baseball. The story of a paradoxical American sports hero, one who achieved a once-unfathomable celebrity while suffering the harsh injustices of a racially intolerant world, "Chief Bender's Burden" is an eye-opening and inspiring narrative of a unique American life.

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