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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Charlie Dressen
    sub title: a baseball odyssey
  name:
    name part: Fleitz, David L.
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: x, 245 pages : illustrations.
  abstract: "Charlie Dressen was a true baseball character. A scrappy, undersized infielder with the Cincinnati Reds during the 1920s, Dressen became a manager with a reputation as the greatest sign-stealer in baseball. He honestly believed that he could win games by out-managing and out-strategizing the other team, no matter how much talent they had. His regard for his own baseball intelligence can be summed up in his famous phrase, "Hold 'em for seven innings, boys. I'll think of something." He enjoyed many successes, but also presided over the epic collapse of his 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers, who lost a 131/2 game lead to their most hated rivals, the New York Giants. Bobby Thomson's playoff home run won the pennant for the Giants, handing Dressen perhaps the most devastating defeat in baseball history. But Charlie bounced back, as he always did. He was an eternal optimist, talkative and opinionated in the Casey Stengel mold. He lived and breathed baseball, made more friends than enemies, and played a key role in the rivalry between the Dodgers and the Giants during the 1950s. This is the first-ever biography of the man who reigned as one of baseball's most colorful personalities for more than 40 years"-- Provided by publisher.
  note: David L. Fleitz.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Dressen, Charles
      name part: 1894-1966
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team)
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Baseball players
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Infielders (Baseball)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Baseball
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Joueurs de base-ball
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports
  classification: GV865.D67 F54 2026
  classification: 796.357092
  classification: SPO003030
  classification: BIO016000
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2026007552
    identifier: (OCoLC)1534337290
  identifier: 9798368600772 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781476695143
  identifier: 1476695148
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 260606
    record change date: 20260612211735.5
    record identifier: in00005784806
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng