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Baseball's Roaring Twenties: A Decade of Legends, Characters, and Diamond Adventures
ISBN: 9781442274259 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the 1919 Black Sox scandal, baseball needed men willing and able to pump life back into the game during tough times. Numerous ballplayers stepped forward and left their mark on the national pastime as it continued to thrive and grow during a decade that became known as the Roaring Twenties, a raucous, happy time period when a free-spirited nature prevailed. In Baseball s Roaring Twenties: A Decade of Legends, Characters, and Diamond Adventures, Ronald T. Waldo recounts the rollicking escapades surrounding a distinctive collection of players, managers, and umpires that truly...
Following the 1919 Black Sox scandal, baseball needed men willing and able to pump life back into the game during tough times. Numerous ballplayers st...
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Cincinnati Red and Dodger Blue: Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Rivalry
ISBN: 9781442275386 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Call it the forgotten rivalry. The Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Dodgers may not share geographical boundaries, and today they don t even play in the same division, but for a period of time in the 1970s Dodgers vs. Reds was the best rivalry in Major League Baseball. They boasted the biggest names of the game Johnny Bench, Steve Garvey, Pete Rose, Don Sutton, and Ron Cey, to name a few and appeared in the World Series seven out of nine years. In Cincinnati Red and Dodger Blue: Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Rivalry, Tom Van Riper provides a fresh look at these two powerhouse teams and the...
Call it the forgotten rivalry. The Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Dodgers may not share geographical boundaries, and today they don t even play i...
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Tumultuous Times in America's Game: From Jackie Robinson's Breakthrough to the War Over Free Agency
ISBN: 9781538127353 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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America's Game in the Wild-Card Era: From Strike to Pandemic
ISBN: 9781538145937 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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191,02 |
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The Reshaping of America's Game: Major League Baseball after the Players' Strike
ISBN: 9781538145951 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Rickwood Field: A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark
ISBN: 9780393069334 / Angielski / Twarda / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Allen Barra has journeyed to his native Alabama to capture the glories of a century of baseball lore. In chronicling Rickwood Field's history, he also tells of segregated baseball and the legendary Negro Leagues while summoning the ghosts of the players themselves --Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Ted Willians, and Willie Mays -- who still haunt baseball's oldest Cathedral. But Rickwood Field, a place where the Ku Klux Klan once held rallies, has now become a symbol of hope and triumph, a stadium that reflects the evolution of a city where baseball was, for...
Allen Barra has journeyed to his native Alabama to capture the glories of a century of baseball lore. In chronicling Rickwood Field's history, he also...
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192,49 |
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Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball
ISBN: 9780803217058 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Berra, Rizzuto, Lasorda, Torre, Conigliaro, Santo, Piazza. Casual baseball fans in fact, even many nonfans know these names, not as Italian Americans, but as some of the most colorful figures in Major League Baseball. Ever since future Hall of Famer Tony Lazzeri became a key part of the Yankees Murderers Row lineup of 1926, Italian Americans have been among the most prominent and intriguing players in the game. The first comprehensive study of the topic, Beyond DiMaggio is also a social history of baseball, tracing the evolution of American perceptions toward those of Italian descent...
Berra, Rizzuto, Lasorda, Torre, Conigliaro, Santo, Piazza. Casual baseball fans in fact, even many nonfans know these names, not as Italian Americans,...
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192,49 |
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Mustaches and Mayhem: Charlie O's Three-Time Champions: The Oakland Athletics: 1972-74
ISBN: 9781943816071 / Angielski / Miękka / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In modern baseball history, only one team not named the New York Yankees has ever won three consecutive World Series. That team was the Oakland Athletics, who captured major league baseball's crown each year from 1972 through 1974. Led by such superstars as future Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter and Rollie Fingers, in the final years before free agency and the movement of players from one team to another forever changed the game, the Athletics were a largely homegrown aggregate of players who joined the organization when the team called Kansas City its home, developed as...
In modern baseball history, only one team not named the New York Yankees has ever won three consecutive World Series. That team was the Oakland Athlet...
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The SABR Book of Umpires and Umpiring
ISBN: 9781943816453 / Angielski / Miękka / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collaboration of 34 SABR members. This book includes biographies of all the umpires in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, other notable arbiters, essays about professional female umpires, umpiring in the Negro Leagues, explorations of the baseball rules, umpire equipment, and much more. During the work on this book, we interviewed 56 major league umpires, former umpires, supervisors and umpire administrators, and others whose jobs cause them to interact with umpires. We hope to shed light on the umpiring profession past and present, the work involved on the field, and the...
A collaboration of 34 SABR members. This book includes biographies of all the umpires in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, other nota...
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192,49 |
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The 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox: Pandemonium on the Field
ISBN: 9781943816491 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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20-Game Losers
ISBN: 9781943816590 / Angielski / Miękka / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Sabr 50 at 50: The Society for American Baseball Research's Fifty Most Essential Contributions to the Game
ISBN: 9781496222688 / Angielski / Twarda / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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192,49 |
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The Rocket: Baseball Legend Roger Clemens
ISBN: 9781597970884 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Big names have always dominated baseball, and one of the biggest in recent history is Roger Clemens--the Rocket. As a baseball great, he has shown what it means to succeed, both on the field and off, in his near quarter century of major-league service. The Rocket: Baseball Legend Roger Clemens journeys from Clemens's humble and sometimes difficult childhood through his illustrious career in Boston, Toronto, New York, and Houston. Clemens rose through the ranks, setting a new example of devoted work ethic and responsibility to team and fan alike. Through it all he remained a dedicated...
Big names have always dominated baseball, and one of the biggest in recent history is Roger Clemens--the Rocket. As a baseball great, he has shown wha...
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The Faith of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture
ISBN: 9780664223052 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Faith of 50 Million features essays by religion scholars who analyze the relationship between baseball and theology in American culture. Topics include the sense of national identity, baseball and civil religion, "saints and sinners," baseball and the American Dream with regard to racial integration, women and baseball, baseball as metaphor, and baseball as spiritual autobiography. Readers will love this fascinating intersection of baseball, race, American civil religion, and contemporary sports culture. The Faith of 50 Million features essays by religion scholars who analyze the relationship between baseball and theology in American culture.... |
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72 Stories: From the Baseball Collection of Geddy Lee
ISBN: 9780063450196 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Cunning Kind of Play: The Cubs-Giants Rivalry, 1876-1932
ISBN: 9780786411566 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Warren N. Wilbert's history of the rivalry between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants begins in 1876, when the Cubs won the first NL championship. The story ends in 1932 when John McGraw stepped down as manager of the Giants.
Warren N. Wilbert's history of the rivalry between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants begins in 1876, when the Cubs won the first NL championshi...
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POW Baseball in World War II: The National Pastime Behind Barbed Wire
ISBN: 9780786411863 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nearly 130,000 American soldiers and 19,000 American civilians were captured during World War II. Baseball, in various forms, was a common activity among these prisoners of war. This work is the story of POW baseball. It is divided into the various prison camps.
Nearly 130,000 American soldiers and 19,000 American civilians were captured during World War II. Baseball, in various forms, was a common activity am...
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When Baseball Returned to Brooklyn: The Inaugural Season of the New York-Penn League Cyclones
ISBN: 9780786414598 / Angielski / Miękka / 357 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Major league baseball has a long, rich history in Brooklyn. From 1883 until their move west to Los Angeles following the 1957 season, the Dodgers were the emotional center of the borough's diverse population. But Brooklyn would be without a professional team until June of 2000 when the Cyclones took the field at Prospect Park, just blocks from Ebbets Field, as part of the New York-Penn League and the Toronto Blue Jays' farm system. This work follows the rookie-level club's first season, bridging the present to the past with comparisons of the Cyclones to the Dodgers of yesteryear. Each day of...
Major league baseball has a long, rich history in Brooklyn. From 1883 until their move west to Los Angeles following the 1957 season, the Dodgers were...
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A Tale of Four Cities: Nineteenth Century Baseball's Most Exciting Season, 1889, in Contemporary Accounts
ISBN: 9780786416783 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1889 baseball season is unique in the history of baseball. This work presents accounts from the major newspapers of each of the four teams' cities - the New York Times, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the Boston Herald, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch - to capture the day-by-day excitement of the 1889 pennant race.
The 1889 baseball season is unique in the history of baseball. This work presents accounts from the major newspapers of each of the four teams' cities...
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195,12 |
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The League That Lasted: 1876 and the Founding of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs
ISBN: 9780786417551 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early 1870s, baseball was chaos, mired in mismanagement and corruption. William Hulbert, the owner of Chicagos National Association team, believed that a league run efficiently with honest competition wouldsurvive and flourish. Hulbert, relying on his pragmatic philosophy of molasses now, vinegar later and working with his prize recruit Albert Spalding, founded the National League in 1876.
That inaugural season of the National League is chronicled in this heavily documented work. The league fell far short of Hulberts dreams in its first season, but he stuck to his belief that... In the early 1870s, baseball was chaos, mired in mismanagement and corruption. William Hulbert, the owner of Chicagos National Association team, belie...
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