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Pittsburgh Sports: Stories from the Steel City
ISBN: 9780822957737 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Summer afternoons at Forbes Field, playoff Sundays with the Steelers, winter nights at the Igloo cheering for Mario and the Penguins: Pittsburgh Sports captures all that and more. With stories from sports fans, historians, and former athletes, Pittsburgh Sports mixes personal experiences with team histories to capture the full range of what it means to be a sports fan--in Pittsburgh, or, by extension, anywhere. A book that can be read cover-to-cover, or in bits and pieces, Pittsburgh Sports includes chapters on the ill-fated Pittsburgh Pipers, who won the... Summer afternoons at Forbes Field, playoff Sundays with the Steelers, winter nights at the Igloo cheering for Mario and the Penguins: Pittsburgh... |
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113,30 zł |
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Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes
ISBN: 9780029269008 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Jack Johnson defeated white heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries in 1910, it was America's notions of racial superiority that staggered under his blows. Amid riots and lynchings, the search began for the Great White Hope who could put the uppity new champion in his place. Here is the startling true story of the most famous--and most hated--black American of his day. Papa Jack takes us into a violent and sordid world. It is an astonishing tale of black defiance--and white retribution--set against the dramatic canvas of sports and spectacle in Jim Crow America.
When Jack Johnson defeated white heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries in 1910, it was America's notions of racial superiority that staggered under his bl...
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91,29 zł |
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The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub: A Random History of Boston Sports
ISBN: 9780674015043 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When you hear the words Boston sports, does your mind flash to a place or to a person? Do you think of a fly ball arching over the Green Monster, a Celtic breaking across the parquet at Boston Garden, rowers skimming along the Charles River in autumn, or runners tackling the grueling stretch of Heartbreak Hill during the Boston Marathon? Or do you conjure faces - a smiling Babe Ruth, a bearded Bill Russell, a determined Rocky Marciano, a boyish and nimble Bobby Orr, or a defiant Pedro Martinez? Most likely, it is impossible to separate the two, impossible to imagine Bob Cousy on any court...
When you hear the words Boston sports, does your mind flash to a place or to a person? Do you think of a fly ball arching over the Green Monster, a Ce...
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114,39 zł |
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Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation at War
ISBN: 9780547844602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A rousing celebration of a moment in history when college football was more than metaphor and entertainment, it was a gritty sidebar to real war. Robert Lipsyte, author of An Accidental Sportswriter Each year the Army and Navy football teams meet for one epic game. Across the nation, fans tune in to see who will emerge victorious. But no game will ever match the one that was played on December 2, 1944. America was in the midst of World War II: soldiers and sailors were dying around the globe, and the home front suffered through shortages. But for one day, all that was forgotten...."A rousing celebration of a moment in history when college football was more than metaphor and entertainment, it was a gritty sidebar to real war. ... |
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87,11 zł |
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John Wayne: American
ISBN: 9780803289703 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 762 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "John Wayne remains a constant in American popular culture. Middle America grew up with him in the late 1920s and 1930s, went to war with him in the 1940s, matured with him in the 1950s, and kept the faith with him in the 1960s and 1970s. . . . In his person and in the persona he so carefully constructed, middle America saw itself, its past, and its future. John Wayne was his country s alter ego."Thus begins John Wayne: American, a biography bursting with vitality and revealing the changing scene in Hollywood and America from the Great Depression through the Vietnam War. During a long movie...
"John Wayne remains a constant in American popular culture. Middle America grew up with him in the late 1920s and 1930s, went to war with him in the 1...
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155,56 zł |
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Jack Dempsey: THE MANASSA MAULER
ISBN: 9780252071485 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1919 to 1926, Jack Dempsey began his boxing career as a skinny boy of sixteen, riding the rails and participating in hastily staged saloon bouts against miners and lumberjacks. This biography charts the life and career of a man widely regarded as one of the toughest ever to enter the ring.
Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1919 to 1926, Jack Dempsey began his boxing career as a skinny boy of sixteen, riding the rails and participati...
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88,13 zł |
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Before the Curse: The Chicago Cubs' Glory Years, 1870-1945
ISBN: 9780252078163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Before the Curse: The Chicago Cubs' Glory Years, 1870 1945" brings to life the early history of the much beloved and often heartbreaking Chicago Cubs. Originally called the Chicago White Stockings, the team immediately established itself as a powerhouse, winning the newly formed National Base Ball League's inaugural pennant in 1876, repeating the feat in 1880 and 1881, and commanding the league in the decades to come. The legendary days of the Cubs are recaptured here in more than two dozen vintage newspaper accounts and historical essays on the teams and the fans who loved them. The... "Before the Curse: The Chicago Cubs' Glory Years, 1870 1945" brings to life the early history of the much beloved and often heartbreaking Chicago C... |
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88,13 zł |
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Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X: The Fatal Friendship (A Young Readers Adaptation of Blood Brothers)
ISBN: 9780316478854 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A young readers edition of Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X (Basic Books, 27K combined copies sold)-focusing on the remarkable relationship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, and how the shifting tides of their bond affected the movement for Black pride and independence in the 1960s.
A young readers edition of Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X (Basic Books, 27K combined copies sold)-focusing on...
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76,32 zł |
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Joe Louis: Hard Times Man
ISBN: 9780300177633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Richly researched and utterly captivating, this extraordinary biography presents the full range of Joe Louis' power in and out of the boxing ring.
Richly researched and utterly captivating, this extraordinary biography presents the full range of Joe Louis' power in and out of the boxing ring.
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262,52 zł |
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Pittsburg State University: A Photographic History of the First 100 Years
ISBN: 9780700616442 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It began modestly, as a series of high school courses to train young men and women in industrial and domestic arts. Then in 1903 the Kansas legislature set in motion a chain of educational innovations by authorizing an auxiliary program of the normal college at Emporia. The State Manual Training Normal School opened its doors to 54 students, and ten years later it became independent. The ensuing century saw it evolve into Kansas State Teachers College in 1923, then Kansas State College of Pittsburg in 1959, and finally in 1977 the Pittsburg State University that 7,000 students now attend....
It began modestly, as a series of high school courses to train young men and women in industrial and domestic arts. Then in 1903 the Kansas legislatur...
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189,25 zł |
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Charles A. Lindbergh: The Power and Peril of Celebrity 1927 - 1941
ISBN: 9781881089421 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Charles Lindbergh was the biggest celebrity of the first half of the twentieth century, and the first to be exposed to the full and unrelenting glare of the modern mass media. His name and face were everywhere - on movie screens, on the radio, in books, in magazines, in newspapers - after his transatlantic flight suddenly transformed the quiet and shy young Minnesotan into a national icon. In 1927, Americans hailed their new hero as both an apostle of modernity and a bastion of traditional values.
When his baby was kidnapped and killed during the lowest days of the Great... Charles Lindbergh was the biggest celebrity of the first half of the twentieth century, and the first to be exposed to the full and unrelenting glare ...
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136,23 zł |
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Rising Tide: Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie's Last Quarter
ISBN: 9781455526321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to victory and transformed football into a truly national pastime."
During the bloodiest years of the civil rights movement, Bear Bryant and Joe Namath-two of the most iconic and controversial figures in American sports-changed the game of college football forever. Brilliantly and urgently drawn, this is the gripping account of how these two very different men-Bryant a legendary coach in the South who was facing a pair of ethics scandals that... "The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to vi...
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74,08 zł |
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Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
ISBN: 9780465093229 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X, the most famous minister in the Nation of Islam--a sect many white Americans deemed a hate cult--saw the potential in Clay, not just for boxing greatness, but as a means of spreading the Nation's message. The two became fast friends, keeping their interactions secret from the press for fear of jeopardizing Clay's career. Clay began living a double life--a patriotic "good Negro" in public, and a radical reformer behind...
In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of...
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81,42 zł |
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The Road to Madness: How the 1973-1974 Season Transformed College Basketball
ISBN: 9781469668840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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142,75 zł |
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Pioneer Horse Breeders: Coke Roberds, Si Dawson, the Peavys, Casements and Semotans
ISBN: 9780578532769 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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231,53 zł |
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Pioneer Horse Breeders: Coke Roberds, Si Dawson, the Peavys, Casements and Semotans
ISBN: 9780578533650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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173,58 zł |
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War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War
ISBN: 9781541672680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,75 zł |
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A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory
ISBN: 9780743212335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In late February and early March of 1836, a Mexican army led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna lay siege to a mission known as the Alamo, held by a small band of rebels that included Davy Crockett, James Bowie, and William Travis. In the dark early morning of March 6, all inside the fort were dead -- and one of America's most enduring legends was born.
Randy Roberts and James S. Olson retell the story of the Alamo from both the Mexican and the American perspectives, delving into the historical accuracy of such myths as Bowie's famous line in the sand, Crockett's celebrated fight to... In late February and early March of 1836, a Mexican army led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna lay siege to a mission known as the Alamo, held by...
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108,72 zł |
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Pittsburg
ISBN: 9781531639587 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pittsburg was purposely located in the center of the Cherokee-Crawford coal field of southeastern Kansas in 1876. The city's founders intended for the new mining camp to serve as a convenient shipping point for the tons of bituminous coal that would be extracted from the region. Little did the founders anticipate how quickly Pittsburg would become the dominant city in the rapidly industrialized southeastern corner of Kansas and one of the most populous cities in the state. Immigrants from over 50 ethnic groups came to Pittsburg to provide the necessary labor for the deep-shaft coal mines, the...
Pittsburg was purposely located in the center of the Cherokee-Crawford coal field of southeastern Kansas in 1876. The city's founders intended for the...
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139,40 zł |
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Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People's History, Volume 1 to 1877
ISBN: 9780190280956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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469,81 zł |
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