wyszukanych pozycji: 16
Mike Donlin
ISBN: 9781496238962 / Twarda / 2024 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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160,80 zł |
Historical Dictionary of Baseball
ISBN: 9781442255319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as "our game, the American game," and George Will compared calling baseball "just a game" to the Grand Canyon being "just a hole." Countless others have called baseball "the most elegant game," and to those who have played it, it's life. The Historical Dictionary of Baseball is primarily devoted to the major leagues it also includes entries on the minor leagues, the Negro Leagues, women's baseball,...
Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symb...
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229,32 zł |
Bridging Two Dynasties: The 1947 New York Yankees
ISBN: 9780803240940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Of all the New York Yankees championship teams, the 1947 club seemed the least likely. Bridging the gap between the dynasties of Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel, the team, managed by Bucky Harris, was coming off three non-pennant-winning seasons and given little chance to unseat the defending American League champion Boston Red Sox. And yet, led by Joe DiMaggio, this un-Yankees-like squad of rookies, retreads, and a few solid veterans easily won the pennant over the Detroit Tigers and the heavily favored Red Sox, along the way compiling an American League record nineteen-game winning... Of all the New York Yankees championship teams, the 1947 club seemed the least likely. Bridging the gap between the dynasties of Joe McCarthy and C... |
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124,44 zł |
New York Yankees Openers: An Opening Day History of Baseball's Most Famous Team, 1903-2017, 2d ed.
ISBN: 9781476667652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For many Americans, Opening Day was, and remains, the true marker of each year's beginning. Here we relive the Opening Days of baseball's most storied and glamorous team, the New York American League club that began as the Highlanders and achieved glory as the Yankees. As we watch the Yankees year by year, we watch them, as well as baseball and the social fabric of America, change gradually, and at times radically. We begin early in the century, when the team played at Hilltop Park and follow them as their opening day venue shifted to the Polo Grounds, the gigantic new Yankee Stadium, Shea...
For many Americans, Opening Day was, and remains, the true marker of each year's beginning. Here we relive the Opening Days of baseball's most storie...
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250,02 zł |
Willie Keeler: From the Playgrounds of Brooklyn to the Hall of Fame
ISBN: 9781442246539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Playing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Willie Keeler is still considered one of baseball's most accomplished batters in the history of the game. Wee Willie's popular "Hit 'em where they ain't" explanation for his batting success has become part of baseball lore. He is known for his quick-thinking at the plate and for his record-setting forty-four-game hitting streak in 1897 that was not surpassed until Joe DiMaggio broke the record in 1941. In addition to being one of baseball's most accomplished hitters, Keeler was an integral part of two memorable teams--the Baltimore...
Playing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Willie Keeler is still considered one of baseball's most accomplished batters in the his...
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262,08 zł |
1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York
ISBN: 9780803220607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a Major League game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, two teams emerged to fight for the future of the game. They were also battling for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers as the city rose in dramatic fashion to the pinnacle of the baseball world.1921 captures this crucial moment in the history of baseball, telling the story of a season thatpitted the New York Yankees against their Polo Grounds...
At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a Major League game ...
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150,37 zł |
Hugh Casey: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Brooklyn Dodger
ISBN: 9781442277595 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Hugh Casey was one of the most colorful members of the iconic Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1940s, a team that took part in four great pennant races, the first National League playoff series, and two exciting World Series over the course of Casey's career. That famed team included many outsized personalities, including executives Larry MacPhail and Branch Rickey, manager Leo Durocher, and players like Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Dixie Walker, Joe Medwick, and Pete Reiser. In Hugh Casey: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Brooklyn Dodger, Lyle Spatz details Casey's life and career, from his birth...
Hugh Casey was one of the most colorful members of the iconic Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1940s, a team that took part in four great pennant races, the fi...
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223,86 zł |
Historical Dictionary of Baseball
ISBN: 9780810878129 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as "our game, the American game," and George Will compared calling baseball "just a game" to the Grand Canyon being "just a hole." Countless others have called baseball "the most elegant game," and to those who have played it, it's life. The Historical Dictionary of Baseball is primarily devoted to the major leagues it also includes entries on the minor leagues, the Negro Leagues, women's baseball,...
Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symb...
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1171,50 zł |
Yankees Coming, Yankees Going: New York Yankee Player Transactions, 1903 Through 1999
ISBN: 9780786440832 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Yankees made the most infamous transaction in sports history, purchasing Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox for a reported $125,000. This work chronicles the Ruth purchase as well as the more than 600 additional transactions made by the Yankees.
The Yankees made the most infamous transaction in sports history, purchasing Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox for a reported $125,000. This work chro...
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158,81 zł |
Baseball Records Update 1993
ISBN: 9780910137515 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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21,57 zł |
Comeback Pitchers: The Remarkable Careers of Howard Ehmke and Jack Quinn
ISBN: 9781496222022 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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160,80 zł |
The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership That Transformed the New York Yankees
ISBN: 9781496219664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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114,06 zł |
The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership That Transformed the New York Yankees
ISBN: 9780803248656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the team's inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering group that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. With four winning seasons to date, the team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, Cap "Til" Huston. Three years later, when Ruppert hired Miller Huggins as manager, the unlikely partnership of the two figures began, one that set into motion the Yankees' run as the dominant baseball franchise of the 1920s and the rest of the twentieth century, capturing six American League pennants with Huggins at the helm and four more during Ruppert's...
From the team's inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering group that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. With fou...
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145,18 zł |
1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York
ISBN: 9780803239999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, the two teams that emerged to fight for the future of the game were also battling for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers as the city dramatically rose to the pinnacle of the baseball world.
1921 tells the story of a season that pitted the New York Yankees against their Polo Grounds landlords and hated rivals, John McGraw s Giants, in the first all New York... At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a game and the revel...
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103,69 zł |
The Midsummer Classic: The Complete History of Baseball's All-Star Game
ISBN: 9780803292734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 612 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Examines the history of All-Star baseball, providing play-by-plays, rosters, and box scores of each game; and discusses how All-Star games have been influenced by racial integration, expansion teams, and the designated hitter.
Examines the history of All-Star baseball, providing play-by-plays, rosters, and box scores of each game; and discusses how All-Star games have been i...
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160,80 zł |
The Team That Forever Changed Baseball and America: The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers
ISBN: 9780803239920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Of all the teams in the annals of baseball, only a select few can lay claim to historic significance. One of those teams is the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, the first racially integrated Major League team of the twentieth century. The addition of Jackie Robinson to its roster changed not only baseball but also the nation. Yet Robinson was just one member of that memorable club, which included Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Pete Reiser, Duke Snider, Eddie Stanky, Arky Vaughan, and Dixie Walker. Also present was a quartet of baseball s most unforgettable characters: co-owners Branch Rickey...
Of all the teams in the annals of baseball, only a select few can lay claim to historic significance. One of those teams is the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers,...
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160,80 zł |