The day the modern athlete was born.
On New Year's Day, 1975, Catfish Hunter left the Oakland A's for a three-million-dollar contract with the New York Yankees, becoming the highest-paid pitcher in baseball history.
Sports journalist Bill Libby, author of Parnelli, follows Hunter from his years anchoring the Oakland A's through their three World Series titles (1972, 1973, and 1974) to the auction that made him a superstar. The book draws on direct cooperation from Hunter, Reggie Jackson, and figures from across baseball.
Catfish: The Three Million Dollar Pitcher is an insider account of the moment modern sports flew, for better or worse, into the stratosphere.
Readers of baseball biography, sports history, free agency, sports management, and the lives of American athletes will find, in this deeply researched work, a primary-source account of one of the transactions that reshaped American professional sports.
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By Bill Libby
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On New Year's Day, 1975, Catfish Hunter left the Oakland A's for a $3,000,000 contract with the New York Yankees, becoming, at the time, the highest-paid pitcher in baseball history. This is the story of the beginning of the modern sports superstar, told by veteran journalist Bill Libby (Parnelli). Libby follows Catfish from his days with the 3-peat Oakland A's to the auction that made him a multi-millionaire. With cooperation from Hunter, Reggie Jackson and numerous players and management, Catfish: the Three Million Dollar Pitcher is a thrilling insider account, an invaluable piece of sports history.