INSCRIBED BY SLUGGER RUSTY STAUB, “LE GRAND ORANGE”
(STAUB, Rusty) ROBERTSON, John. Rusty Staub of the Expos. Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice-Hall of Canada, (1971). Octavo, original orange paper boards, original dust jacket.
First edition of this biography of the clean-up-man Montreal fans called “Le Grand Orange,” inscribed, “To John, Rusty Staub.”
“They finally did it! They traded me. I didn’t think they’d have the guts to go through with it.” Staub describes with frankness “the machinations of behind the scenes wheeling and dealing between club owners and managements and the inside tensions within professional ball clubs.” Smith 19713. Grobani 8-175.
Book fine, dust jacket only lightly soiled. An about-fine inscribed copy.