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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. 16-18 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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166,12 |
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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. 16-18 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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166,12 |
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Baseball's Other All-Stars: The Greatest Players from the Negro Leagues, the Japanese Leagues, the Mexican League, and the Pre-1960 Winter Leagues
ISBN: 9780786407842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a survey of the greatest baseball players who never played in the US major leagues. The greatest players from the various professional leagues outside organized baseball in the US are reviewed, and all-star teams are selected from each.
This is a survey of the greatest baseball players who never played in the US major leagues. The greatest players from the various professional leagues...
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166,12 |
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The Evolution of Pitching in Major League Baseball
ISBN: 9780786424689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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193,06 |
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Miracle in Chavez Ravine: The Los Angeles Dodgers in 1988
ISBN: 9780786435012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After winning the 1981 World Series, raising the expectations of management and fans, the Los Angeles Dodgers followed up with six years of disappointing finishes. By the time they ended the 1987 season 17 games behind the hated Giants, general manager Fred Claire had seen enough. Over the winter Claire radically restructured the team, bringing in fiery players like outfielder Kirk Gibson, closer Jay Howell and shortstop Alfredo Griffin to spark the team out of complacency. Led by Gibson and pitcher Orel Hershiser, the upstart Dodgers outlasted Houston in a race for the NL West title. They...
After winning the 1981 World Series, raising the expectations of management and fans, the Los Angeles Dodgers followed up with six years of disappoint...
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166,12 |
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Red Sox Roll Call: 200 Memorable Players, 1901-2011
ISBN: 9780786464715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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The Rise of Mike Tyson, Heavyweight
ISBN: 9780786496488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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193,06 |
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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. 16-18 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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166,12 |
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Cool Papas and Double Duties: The All-Time Greats of the Negro Leagues
ISBN: 9780786422296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Many of the great ballplayers of the Negro League have been forgotten simply because baseball's Hall of Fame would not recognize black players until Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige made their way into the Hall of Fame. For this book, more than 50 former Negro League players and baseball historians were asked to vote for players who they believe should have been included in the Hall of Fame, and to select an All-Time Negro League All-Star Team. In addition to presenting and discussing their choices, the book profiles the lives and careers of the players selected. Appendices include rosters...
Many of the great ballplayers of the Negro League have been forgotten simply because baseball's Hall of Fame would not recognize black players until J...
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166,12 |
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All-Stars for All Time: A Sabermetric Ranking of the Major League Best, 1876-2007
ISBN: 9780786435005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This work uses practical measures to scientifically rank major league players, position by position, according to their offensive and defensive skills. The author has adjusted individual statistics for the era in which the player was active and for home park factor in order to put all eligible players on a level playing field. For each position, the author has identified the top contenders for best offensive, defensive and all-around player, and provides a brief history of each of the candidates.
This work uses practical measures to scientifically rank major league players, position by position, according to their offensive and defensive skills...
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219,48 |
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The Single-Season Home Run Kings: Ruth, Maris, McGwire, Sosa and Bonds
ISBN: 9780786414413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This revised edition reviews the careers of each home run titan, with special attention to the record-breaking seasons. The cultural and social changes that may have affected both the players' season totals and fan reception are also considered.
This revised edition reviews the careers of each home run titan, with special attention to the record-breaking seasons. The cultural and social change...
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166,12 |
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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. 16-18 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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166,12 |
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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. 16-18 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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166,12 |
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Venice
ISBN: 9780226561493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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Salmon Production, Management, and Allocation: Biological, Economic, and Policy Issues
ISBN: 9780870713545 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Based on papers presented at the World Salmonid Conference held Oct. 2-3, 1986, in Portland, Or. and sponsored by the Salmonid Foundation.
Based on papers presented at the World Salmonid Conference held Oct. 2-3, 1986, in Portland, Or. and sponsored by the Salmonid Foundation.
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146,58 |
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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. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Pathmarks
ISBN: 9780521439688 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Welcome to Paraiso
ISBN: 9798218061814 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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An Arkansas Folklore Sourcebook
ISBN: 9781682261583 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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An Arkansas Folklore Sourcebook
ISBN: 9781557282545 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Arkansas's rich folklore tradition is treated in this collection of eight essays covering the history of folklore research in the state, traditional songs and music, "tall tales," folk architecture, traditional foods and their preparation, superstitions and beliefs, and festivals and celebrations. Includes extensive bibliographies of reference works, and audio and video recordings.
Arkansas's rich folklore tradition is treated in this collection of eight essays covering the history of folklore research in the state, traditional s...
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