wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Football's Last Iron Men: 1934, Yale vs. Princeton, and One Stunning Upset
ISBN: 9780803234017 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In November 1934, the Princeton football team unbeaten in its last fifteen games faced the 3 3 Yale Bulldogs, who gave new meaning to the term underdogs. As much a thrilling play-by-play account of college football at its finest as it is a fascinating work of sports history, this book chronicles the season that brought Princeton and Yale together in a game like no other since.Football s Last Iron Men follows the teams from the hiring of future Hall of Fame coaches Fritz Crisler and Greasy Neale through spring practice to their annual clash on November 17. The Yale Elis, it seemed, had...
In November 1934, the Princeton football team unbeaten in its last fifteen games faced the 3 3 Yale Bulldogs, who gave new meaning to the term underdo...
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62,19 zł |
They Played the Game: Memories from 47 Major Leaguers
ISBN: 9781496205506 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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124,44 zł |
Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931
ISBN: 9780803220393 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Philadelphia Athletics dominated the first fourteen years of the American League, winning six pennants through 1914 under the leadership of their founder and manager, Connie Mack. But beginning in 1915, where volume 2 in Norman L. Macht's biography picks up the story, Mack's teams fell from pennant winners to last place and, in an unprecedented reversal of fortunes, stayed there for seven years. World War I robbed baseball of young players, and Mack's rebuilding efforts using green youngsters of limited ability made his teams the objects of public ridicule.
At the age of fifty-nine... The Philadelphia Athletics dominated the first fourteen years of the American League, winning six pennants through 1914 under the leadership of their ...
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160,80 zł |
The Grand Old Man of Baseball: Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932-1956
ISBN: 9780803237650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In The Grand Old Man of Baseball, Norman L. Macht chronicles Connie Mack's tumultuous final two decades in baseball. After Mack had built one of baseball's greatest teams, the 1929-31 Philadelphia Athletics, the Depression that followed the stock market crash fundamentally reshaped Mack's legacy as his team struggled on the field and at the gate. Among the challenges Mack faced: a sharp drop in attendance that forced him to sell his star players; the rise of the farm system, which he was slow to adopt; the opposition of other owners to night games, which he favored; the postwar...
In The Grand Old Man of Baseball, Norman L. Macht chronicles Connie Mack's tumultuous final two decades in baseball. After Mack had built one o...
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160,80 zł |
Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball
ISBN: 9780803240032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 742 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Connie Mack (1862 1956) was the Grand Old Man of baseball and one of the game s first true celebrities. This book, spanning the first fifty-two years of Mack s life, through 1914, covers his experiences as player, manager, and club owner and will stand as the definitive biography of baseball s most legendary and beloved figure. Norman L. Macht chronicles Mack s little-known beginnings. He tells how Mack, a school dropout at fourteen, created strategies for winning baseball and principles for managing men long before there were notions of defining such subjects. And he details how Mack, a key...
Connie Mack (1862 1956) was the Grand Old Man of baseball and one of the game s first true celebrities. This book, spanning the first fifty-two years ...
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134,81 zł |
Uncle Robbie
ISBN: 9780910137768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Hall of Fame member Wilbert Robinson began his career as a catcher. As a Baltimore Oriole in the 1890s the hard-nosed but congenial receiver joined John McGraw, Wee Willie Keeler, and other greats on the roughest team of the game s toughest era. He went on to make a reputation with McGraw s New York Giants as a great developerof pitchers. Subsequently he took over the Brooklyn Dodgers, quickly turning them into pennant winners and gradually becoming the borough s beloved Uncle Robbie."
Hall of Fame member Wilbert Robinson began his career as a catcher. As a Baltimore Oriole in the 1890s the hard-nosed but congenial receiver joined Jo...
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51,82 zł |
Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball
ISBN: 9780803232631 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 742 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych.
Connie Mack (1862-1956) was the Grand Old Man of baseball and one of the game's first true celebrities. This book, spanning the first fifty-two years of Mack's life, through 1914, covers his experiences as player, manager, and club owner and will stand as the definitive biography of baseball's most legendary and beloved figure. Norman L. Macht chronicles Mack's little-known beginnings. He tells how Mack, a school dropout at fourteen, created strategies for winning baseball and principles for managing men long before there were notions of defining such subjects. And he...
Connie Mack (1862-1956) was the Grand Old Man of baseball and one of the game's first true celebrities. This book, spanning the first fift... |
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181,55 zł |