AN UNBREAKABLE BOND
AN UNBREAKABLE BOND The Brotherhood of Maurice Stokes and Jack Twyman Pat Farabaugh Maurice Stokes seemed destined for greatness in the National Basketball Association. An All-American at tiny Saint Francis College in western Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh native earned NBA Rookie-of-the-Year honors in 1956 and broke the league’s single-season rebounding record in 1957. The direction of Stokes’ basketball career – and his life – changed dramatically on March 12, 1958. During a game against the Detroit Pistons, the Cincinnati Royals star fell awkwardly and hit his head against the court. He became paralyzed from the neck down as a result of the fall. The “With greatly enhanced photography medicalthroughout bills, and the attention required, became almost the two volumes, Elizabeth Hughes introduces us insurmountable. to a concise history of buttons from prehistory to the 20th Century, using new Enter color photographs Jack Twyman. Stokes’ teammate with the Royals, So ManytoSeasons in the Sun the untold history of illustrate and clarify theisvarious periods.” Twyman became Maurice’s legal guardian and assumed baseball as told from the vantage point of the game’s responsibility for his friend’s medical expenses. He became “…a remarkable and impressive encyclopedia for ultimate insiders, Fred and Ed aLogan, Sheehy, tireless Pete fundraiser for Stokes. He shared Maurice’s story button collectors.” and Mike Murphy. The combined of these with service anyone who would listen and he championed the Millicentclubhouse Safro, Nationalmen Button for Bulletin, Feb. 2011 two four legendary baseball’s cause of raising money to pay Stokes’ bills. most storied Highlanders/Yankees of “The franchises, most importantthe button event to happen in Stokes was black and New York Giantsisofsurely boththe New York and San Twyman was white –- in 1950s theand new the millennium arrival of the America -- but their story transcends race. It is a story second edition ofover the Big of Buttons…” Francisco, stretches a Book century. They give us of perseverance, of selflessness, of brotherhood and of an an intimate glimpse of such baseball luminaries as unbreakable Judy Stopke, editor, National Button Bulletin, Feb. bond. 2011
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depth information pertaining to the history and prehistory of buttons, with going Pat examples Farabaugh is a faculty member in the Department of As Frankeven Deford says in the Foreword, “The players back to the Bronze Age. Communications at Saint Francis University. This is his second
come and go. Managers are hired to be fired. But book. He has also taught at Penn State University and Indiana Booklist, August 2011in the clubbies are the only employees who live University of Pennsylvania. He worked in athletic media relations locker rooms for years, even decades. Oh what those and Slippery Rock universities before at Bucknell, Saint Francis The Big Book of Buttons: his teaching career. eyes have seen, what those ears beginning have heard. They are The Encyclopedia of Button History, oral historians in the grandest sense,…”
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John McGraw, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays, The two the reader with inBarry Bonds andvolumes many provide lesser stars.
depth information pertaining to the history and prehistory of buttons, with going Pat examples Farabaugh is a faculty member in the Department of As Frankeven Deford says in the Foreword, “The players back to the Bronze Age. Communications at Saint Francis University. This is his second
come and go. Managers are hired to be fired. But book. He has also taught at Penn State University and Indiana Booklist, August 2011in the clubbies are the only employees who live University of Pennsylvania. He worked in athletic media relations locker rooms for years, even decades. Oh what those and Slippery Rock universities before at Bucknell, Saint Francis The Big Book of Buttons: his teaching career. eyes have seen, what those ears beginning have heard. They are The Encyclopedia of Button History, oral historians in the grandest sense,…”
Design, and Identification
Elizabeth Hughes•and$29.95 Marion Lester ISBN 9781937943172 • 324 pages ISBN 9781937943028 $24.95 2 vols., hardcover, 1,062 pages, $395.00 Over 400 illustrations, Order from Amazon.com, your local bookstore, or directly from St. Johann Press, P.O. Box 241, Haworth, NJ 07641. ISBN 9781878282385 Include $5.00 for shipping when ordering from publisher. (Credit card orders accepted at 201-387-1529.)
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