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Black Baseball Out of Season: Pay for Play Outside of the Negro Leagues
ISBN: 9780786469246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Negro League ballplayers, earning paychecks comparable to those of blue-collar workers, needed an off-season source of income to make ends meet. Many of them found the answer in baseball, by joining racially integrated barnstorming teams that toured the country after the regular season ended, or by playing in the organized winter leagues that operated in Florida, California, in a number of Caribbean countries, and in Central and South American countries.
Negro League ballplayers, earning paychecks comparable to those of blue-collar workers, needed an off-season source of income to make ends meet. Many ...
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187,69 zł |
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Backstop: A History of the Catcher and a Sabermetric Ranking of 50 All-Time Greats
ISBN: 9780786421770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It's often said that catcher is the most important, most demanding defensive position in baseball. This view explains why so many light-hitting catchers have enjoyed long--and by all accounts successful--major league careers. Yet arguments over the all-time greats invariably privilege offensive standouts, and even among these players batting statistics are more likely than fielding numbers to affect ranking. So what, historically, have been the expectations for major league catchers, and who stands as the greatest in a more balanced view of offensive and defensive contributions? In Part I of...
It's often said that catcher is the most important, most demanding defensive position in baseball. This view explains why so many light-hitting catche...
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187,69 zł |
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The California Winter League: America's First Integrated Professional Baseball League
ISBN: 9780786438815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the first complete history of the California Winter League from its murky beginnings around 1912 to its golden years in the twenties and thirties to its demise in the mid-1940s. It provides an overview of the local amateur ball clubs evolution into the semi-professional league, detailed summaries for the official seasons of 1920 through 1947, and accounts of the exciting pennant races between the Negro League teams and the white professional teams.
This is the first complete history of the California Winter League from its murky beginnings around 1912 to its golden years in the twenties and thirt...
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187,69 zł |
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Red Sox Roll Call: 200 Memorable Players, 1901-2011
ISBN: 9780786464715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since the Boston Red Sox came into existence in 1901, some of the greatest players ever to step onto a baseball diamond have filled its rosters. Starting with Cy Young, the parade of legendary players included Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk, Roger Clemens, Pedro Martinez, Manny Ramirez, and David Ortiz, among others. This work profiles 200 of the most memorable players to have donned Boston's red, white, and blue. Some, like Williams, enjoyed long, illustrious careers with the Red Sox. Others, like Smokey Joe Wood, shone brightly for only a...
Since the Boston Red Sox came into existence in 1901, some of the greatest players ever to step onto a baseball diamond have filled its rosters. Start...
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248,25 zł |
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The Rise of Mike Tyson, Heavyweight
ISBN: 9780786496488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Covering Mike Tyson's complete amateur and professional boxing career, this book follows the Brooklyn native from his early years as a 12 year old criminal in Brownsville to his 1988 heavyweight unification match with Michael Spinks. The book focuses on the Catskill Boxing Club - where boxing guru Cus D'Amato trained the 210-pound teenager in the finer points of the art and developed his impregnable defense - and on his home life with D'Amato and his surrogate mother Camille Ewald, and the other boys who shared the house with him. Tyson's boxing education began in the unauthorized "smokers"...
Covering Mike Tyson's complete amateur and professional boxing career, this book follows the Brooklyn native from his early years as a 12 year old cri...
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218,27 zł |
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The Evolution of Pitching in Major League Baseball
ISBN: 9780786424689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Are today's major league baseball pitchers better than ever? Or do they pale in comparison to the great hurlers of 20, 30 or 40 years ago? This book tackles a debate that has been traveling baseball circles for several years. With changes in everything from the size of the playing field to the composition of the ball, it's a tall task to compare pitchers over the 170-year history of the sport in America. No stone is unturned as this work delves into every facet from the ancient roots of the game to the bigger size of today's players. The first chapters reach back to the first known "batting...
Are today's major league baseball pitchers better than ever? Or do they pale in comparison to the great hurlers of 20, 30 or 40 years ago? This book t...
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218,27 zł |
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Gabby Hartnett: The Life and Times of the Cubs' Greatest Catcher
ISBN: 9780786418503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gabby Harnett is believed by many to be the greatest catcher of all time.
Gabby Harnett is believed by many to be the greatest catcher of all time.
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187,69 zł |
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Visitors to Ancient America: The Evidence for European and Asian Presence in America Prior to Columbus
ISBN: 9780786419173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Researchers in American anthropology and archaeology from the late seventeenth century to the present - including Cotton Mather, John Wesley Powell, Thor Heyerdahl, and Betty Meggers, among others - all had discoveries that lead to the following conclusion: America was visited by Europeans well before the time of Christopher Columbus. Divided into two main parts, this work is a comprehensive study of the evidence suggesting that ancient European and Asian mariners visited the United States more than 1000 years ago. would support the theory of ancient incursions to America. A review of ancient...
Researchers in American anthropology and archaeology from the late seventeenth century to the present - including Cotton Mather, John Wesley Powell, T...
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187,69 zł |
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Venice
ISBN: 9780226561493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this magisterial history, National Book Award winner William H. McNeill chronicles the interactions and disputes between Latin Christians and the Orthodox communities of eastern Europe during the period 1081-1797. Concentrating on Venice as the hinge of European history in the late medieval and early modern period, McNeill explores the technological, economic, and political bases of Venetian power and wealth, and the city's unique status at the frontier between the papal and Orthodox Christian worlds. He pays particular attention to Venetian influence upon southeastern Europe, and from... In this magisterial history, National Book Award winner William H. McNeill chronicles the interactions and disputes between Latin Christians and th... |
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195,63 zł |
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Games and Songs of American Children: With a New Introduction by William K. McNeil
ISBN: 9780806313511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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142,93 zł |
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Pathmarks
ISBN: 9780521439688 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the first time that a seminal collection of fourteen essays by Martin Heidegger (originally published in German under the title Wegmarken) has appeared in English in its complete form. The volume includes new or first-time translations of seven essays, and thoroughly revised, updated versions of the other seven. They will prove an essential resource for all students of Heidegger, whether they work in philosophy, literary theory, religious studies or intellectual history.
This is the first time that a seminal collection of fourteen essays by Martin Heidegger (originally published in German under the title Wegmarken) has...
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267,65 zł |
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Welcome to Paraiso
ISBN: 9798218061814 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,52 zł |
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