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San Antonio at Bat: Professional Baseball in the Alamo City
ISBN: 9781585443451 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the first "Play ball " of each spring through the hot days of summer, minor-league teams across the nation give local fans a chance to relax and enjoy the national pastime, to preview tomorrow's stars, and to "root, root, root for the home team."
In this story of professional baseball in the Alamo City from 1888 to the present, "San Antonio Express-News" sportswriter David King hits the highlights--athletic and human--that have filled the city's diamonds for 115 years. He tells about the team that left Austin on a road trip and never returned--deciding to make San Antonio its home... From the first "Play ball " of each spring through the hot days of summer, minor-league teams across the nation give local fans a chance to relax and ...
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The Glory Years of the Detroit Tigers: 1920-1950
ISBN: 9780814335895 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the three decades between 1920 and 1950, the Detroit Tigers won four American League pennants, the first world championship in team history in 1935, and a second world crown ten years later. Star players of this era-including Ty Cobb, Harry Heilmann, Charlie Gehringer, Hank Greenberg, Mickey Cochrane, George Kell, and Hal Newhouser-represent the majority of Tigers players inducted into the Hall of Fame. Sports writers followed the team feverishly, and fans packed Navin Field (later Briggs Stadium) to cheer on the high-flying Tigers, with the first record season attendance of one million... In the three decades between 1920 and 1950, the Detroit Tigers won four American League pennants, the first world championship in team history in 1... |
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The Detroit Tigers: A Pictorial Celebration of the Greatest Players and Moments in Tigers History
ISBN: 9780814341575 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New edition of the popular comprehensive history of Detroit Tigers baseball.
New edition of the popular comprehensive history of Detroit Tigers baseball.
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Ford Frick: Baseball's Third Commissioner and His Four Decades of Shaping the Game
ISBN: 9781496243492 / Angielski / 01-04-2026 Książka dostępna od: 01-04-2026 |
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The Land of Sand and Cotton: Texas, Workingmen, and Professional Baseball in 1888
ISBN: 9781496245960 / Angielski / 01-04-2026 Książka dostępna od: 01-04-2026 |
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Diamond Mines: Baseball & Labor
ISBN: 9780815628590 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays comprising this text aim to shed new light on the interaction of labour, management and government in contemporary major league baseball.
The essays comprising this text aim to shed new light on the interaction of labour, management and government in contemporary major league baseball.
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The Kings of Casino Park: Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932
ISBN: 9780817317423 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orleans Item as the lynch law center of Louisiana. race relations were bad, and the Depression was pitiless for most, especially for the working class a great many of whom had no work at all or seasonal work at best. Yet for a few years in the early 1930s, this unlikely spot was home to the Monarchs, a national-caliber Negro League baseball team. Crowds of black and white fans eagerly filled their segregated grandstand seats to see the players...
In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orl...
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The Red Stockings of Cincinnati: Base Ball's First All-Professional Team and Its Historic 1869 and 1870 Seasons
ISBN: 9780786404674 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How the Red Stockings were formed, who the players were, and why things came to an end are all covered in this history.
How the Red Stockings were formed, who the players were, and why things came to an end are all covered in this history.
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They Tasted Glory: Among the Missing at the Baseball Hall of Fame
ISBN: 9780786404841 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For one brief period in the early 1940s, Pete Reiser was the equal of any outfielder in baseball, even Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, but his penchant for running into outfield walls while playing defense prematurely ended his journey to Cooperstown. Pitcher Herb Score was a brilliant pitcher until a Gil McDougald line drive shelved his career. And Thurman Munson was one of the games best catchers in the late 1970s until a tragic plane crash ended his life. These three players and fourteen others (Smoky Joe Wood, Vean Gregg, Kirby Puckett, Hal Trotsky, Tony Oliva, Paul Dean, Ewell Blackwell,...
For one brief period in the early 1940s, Pete Reiser was the equal of any outfielder in baseball, even Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, but his penchant...
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Moments in the Sun: Baseball's Briefly Famous
ISBN: 9780786405497 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Baseball's ranks are filled with those whose careers may not have been as spectacular as Ruth or Mays but who played essential roles in the game's history. Some were well-known in their day; others were lesser lights whose feats and misdeeds were so notable they deserve to be remembered. Bert Shepard pitched a game for the Washington Senators in 1945 despite being shot down over Germany the year before and losing a leg. Bo Belinsky no-hit the powerful Baltimore Orioles in 1962, but he finished his career with a disappointing 28-51 record. The 40 other subjects profiled in this volume prove...
Baseball's ranks are filled with those whose careers may not have been as spectacular as Ruth or Mays but who played essential roles in the game's his...
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The Athletics of Philadelphia: Connie Mack's White Elephants, 1901-1954
ISBN: 9780786406203 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1901, American League president Ban Johnson convinced Connie Mack to move his Western League Milwaukee franchise to Philadelphia, strategically placing the team in the same market as the National League Phillies' and making the City of Brotherly Love a two-team town. The Athletics thus began their 54-year history. They won nine pennants and five World Series, yet finished last 16 times; they raided the Phillies roster in 1901, and later stripped themselves in a couple of baseball's first great fire sales; and they boasted the illustrious 100,000 dollar infield, yet were barely solvent.
In 1901, American League president Ban Johnson convinced Connie Mack to move his Western League Milwaukee franchise to Philadelphia, strategically pla...
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A Whole New Game: Off the Field Changes in Baseball, 1946-1960
ISBN: 9780786406517 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the period from the end of World War II to the first expansion of the game of baseball in 1961, the sport underwent a series of transformative changes. From 1949 to 1954, major league baseball attendance dropped more than 30 per cent, as once fiercely loyal fans turned to other leisure activities, started going to see more football, and began watching more television. In addition, the sport had to wrestle with the issues of racial integration, franchise shifts and unionization, while trying to keep a firm hold on the minds and emotions of the American public.
During the period from the end of World War II to the first expansion of the game of baseball in 1961, the sport underwent a series of transformative ...
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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 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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Take Me Out to the Cubs Game: 35 Former Ballplayers Speak of Losing at Wrigley
ISBN: 9780786408108 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "There's too much nature in that ballpark"--Harry Chiti And make no mistake, whether it's the wind full-tilt off Lake Michigan, an early-season snowstorm at Waveland and Sheffield, or spring ivy hiding the batted balls of the visiting nine, nature seems to have Wrigley Field and the Cubbies under its thumb. In this book, John Skipper talks with 35 former Chicago Cubs who relive their ball-playing days and speculate on the eternally middling and undeniably popular Northsiders. This troop of now-grizzled bears, including Claude Passeau, Hank Wyse, Alvin Dark, Don Kessinger, Joe Niekro,...
"There's too much nature in that ballpark"--Harry Chiti And make no mistake, whether it's the wind full-tilt off Lake Michigan, an early-season s...
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Dizzy and the Gas House Gang: The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals and Depression-Era Baseball
ISBN: 9780786408580 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Led by the colourful pitcher Dizzy Dean, the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals personified depression-era America. The players were underpaid and their uniforms torn and dirty, yet they went on to win the World Series in 1934.
Led by the colourful pitcher Dizzy Dean, the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals personified depression-era America. The players were underpaid and their uniform...
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The 25 Greatest Baseball Teams of the 20th Century Ranked
ISBN: 9780786409259 / Angielski / Twarda / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What was the greatest baseball team of the 20th century? Was it the 1906 Cubs? Or the 1998 Yankees? There were many great teams, and the authors have a compiled a choice of their own personal selection.
What was the greatest baseball team of the 20th century? Was it the 1906 Cubs? Or the 1998 Yankees? There were many great teams, and the authors have ...
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Early Baseball and the Rise of the National League
ISBN: 9780786409624 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Did modern baseball spontaneously arise from the genius of the American people? Did professionalism arise from a desire to make a business? This work offers insights into how early baseball operated, with focus on the National Association and how the National League came into being.
Did modern baseball spontaneously arise from the genius of the American people? Did professionalism arise from a desire to make a business? This work ...
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The Pittsburgh Crawfords
ISBN: 9780786409921 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Pittsburgh Crawfords were one of the Negro League's best and most exciting teams. This work takes a close look at the lives and careers of the team's central players and others who played for the Crawfords, all of whom together built one of the greatest teams ever to play the game.
The Pittsburgh Crawfords were one of the Negro League's best and most exciting teams. This work takes a close look at the lives and careers of the tea...
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The Road to Cooperstown a Critical History of Baseball's Hall of Fame Selection Process
ISBN: 9780786410125 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The selection process for the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York, has been the same for sixty years. This work combines an irreverent critique of the voting process with an analysis of the biases that have fostered questionable choices in Hall of Fame voting.
The selection process for the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York, has been the same for sixty years. This work combines an irreverent crit...
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The 1919 World Series: What Really Happened?
ISBN: 9780786410699 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes an objective look at the controversial baseball World Series of 1919, examining the players, managers, owners, and on-field events to separate fact from fiction in regard to the outcome.
This book takes an objective look at the controversial baseball World Series of 1919, examining the players, managers, owners, and on-field events to ...
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