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'30: Major League Baseball's Year of the Batter
ISBN: 9780786436668 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1930 season was unlike any other in baseball history. Big league rosters included more Hall of Famers than at any time before or since. For the first time, this remarkable season is covered in full, from spring training to the final out of the World Series.
The 1930 season was unlike any other in baseball history. Big league rosters included more Hall of Famers than at any time before or since. For the fi...
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The California Winter League: America's First Integrated Professional Baseball League
ISBN: 9780786438815 / Angielski / Miękka / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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The Santurce Crabbers: Sixty Seasons of Puerto Rican Winter League Baseball
ISBN: 9780786438952 / Angielski / Miękka / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Santurce Crabbers are one of the most storied franchises in the Caribbean. Their first owner, Pedrn Zorrilla, was a visionary. He signed up such eventual Hall of Famers as Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Ray Dandridge and Leon Day during the teams first decade. Santurce was the most successful winter league team of the 1950s.
The Santurce Crabbers are one of the most storied franchises in the Caribbean. Their first owner, Pedrn Zorrilla, was a visionary. He signed up such e...
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The Negro Leagues in New Jersey: A History
ISBN: 9780786439003 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book covers New Jerseys extensive role in segregated baseball, from the White Stockings historic refusal to play the integrated Newark Little Giants in 1887, to the Gentlemens Agreement (decided in the Garden State), through the demise of the Negro Leagues. Throughout, it focuses on the people (players and others), with extensive coverage of New Jerseys ball parks and teams.
This book covers New Jerseys extensive role in segregated baseball, from the White Stockings historic refusal to play the integrated Newark Little Gia...
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Mack, McGraw and the 1913 Baseball Season
ISBN: 9780786436750 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author provides a carefully researched account of the season-long dominance of the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Athletics with the narrative building toward a dramatic collision in the Fall Classic.
The author provides a carefully researched account of the season-long dominance of the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Athletics with the narrati...
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Teenager on First, Geezer at Bat, 4-F on Deck: Major League Baseball in 1945
ISBN: 9780786437948 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title tells how the Second World War was in the bottom of the ninth inning in Germany and Japan, but back in America the bases were loaded with baseball players, many of them new to the big leagues. While the game's stars traded their stockings and gloves for khaki and rifles, America's leaders believed baseball boosted morale.
This title tells how the Second World War was in the bottom of the ninth inning in Germany and Japan, but back in America the bases were loaded with b...
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Jack Coombs: A Life in Baseball
ISBN: 9780786439591 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a biography of Jack Coombs, a baseball star of the early years of the 20th century and later a successful college coach and author of a highly-regarded instructional book. One of the few players of his era to have graduated from college, Coombs was a star pitcher for Connie Mack's Athletics and later the Brooklyn Robins.
This is a biography of Jack Coombs, a baseball star of the early years of the 20th century and later a successful college coach and author of a highly...
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Christy Mathewson: A Game-By-Game Profile of a Legendary Pitcher
ISBN: 9780786441211 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During his remarkable 17-year career (1900-1916), Christy Mathewson was the dominant pitcher in the National league. His 373 wins will stand as the third highest total in baseball history. This title includes tales of his personal life and the colorful characters who were a part of baseball in the early 1900s.
During his remarkable 17-year career (1900-1916), Christy Mathewson was the dominant pitcher in the National league. His 373 wins will stand as the th...
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The 1976 Cincinnati Reds: Last Hurrah for the Big Red Machine
ISBN: 9780786438549 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1976 the Cincinnati Reds were one of the last to be considered a dynasty. This book documents the season of one of the greatest teams in baseball history.
The 1976 the Cincinnati Reds were one of the last to be considered a dynasty. This book documents the season of one of the greatest teams in baseball ...
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Black Barons of Birmingham: The South's Greatest Negro League Team and Its Players
ISBN: 9780786438068 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents the history of Birmingham Black Barons, a Negro League team. This book emphasizes the accomplishments of both within the organized black leagues of the 1920s, the 1930s, and the years 1940 through 1947 (the year Robinson broke the color line).
Presents the history of Birmingham Black Barons, a Negro League team. This book emphasizes the accomplishments of both within the organized black leag...
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The Red Sox Before the Babe: Boston's Early Days in the American League, 1901-1914
ISBN: 9780786439119 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until 2004, when the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series Championship in 86 years, the team had been plagued by the Curse of the Bambino, a mythical drought attributed to the team's loss of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. This book covers the team's early years from the diamond to the executive offices.
Until 2004, when the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series Championship in 86 years, the team had been plagued by the Curse of the Bambino, a my...
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No Girls in the Clubhouse: The Exclusion of Women from Baseball
ISBN: 9780786440184 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author builds on recently published histories of women as amateur and professional players, umpires sports commentators and fans to analyze the cultural and historical contexts for excluding females from America's past time.
The author builds on recently published histories of women as amateur and professional players, umpires sports commentators and fans to analyze the cu...
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Ted Williams and the 1969 Washington Senators: The Last Winning Season
ISBN: 9780786441365 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth review of the Washington Senators baseball team's last winning season. 1969 was an unlikely high point in an otherwise lacklustre 11-year stay in the capital. Prior to that season they had been perennial cellar dwellers and after 1969 the team declined rapidly, leading to an acrimonious departure to Texas.
An in-depth review of the Washington Senators baseball team's last winning season. 1969 was an unlikely high point in an otherwise lacklustre 11-year ...
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The Negro Leagues Chronology: Events in Organized Black Baseball, 1920-1948
ISBN: 9780786442362 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a comprehensive year-by-year reference to various dates in Negro League history. This book includes controversies that defined the experience of black baseball organizers - such as player rights disputes, failure to adhere to league schedules and violations of league rules.
Presents a comprehensive year-by-year reference to various dates in Negro League history. This book includes controversies that defined the experience...
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Making the Big Red Machine: Bob Howsam and the Cincinnati Reds of the 1970s
ISBN: 9780786439805 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book chronicles the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1979, when general manager Bob Howsam built the lineups that won four National League pennants and two World Series. Manager Sparky Anderson pulled the levers of the machine, earning the moniker Captain Hook for his habit of changing pitchers.
The book chronicles the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1979, when general manager Bob Howsam built the lineups that won four National League pennants an...
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Baseball's First Inning: A History of the National Pastime Through the Civil War
ISBN: 9780786441945 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describes the evolution of baseball from early bat and ball games to its growth and acceptance in different regions of the country. This title focuses on The New York clubs (the Atlantics, Excelsiors and Mutuals), serving as examples of how the sport became more sophisticated and popular.
Describes the evolution of baseball from early bat and ball games to its growth and acceptance in different regions of the country. This title focuses...
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The Major League Pennant Races of 1916: The Most Maddening Baseball Melee in History
ISBN: 9780786436309 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1916 baseball season encompased the drama that made the sport America's national pastime. This work features full rosters, player biographies, statistics, photographs and an appendix of the sportswriters who chronicled the season.
The 1916 baseball season encompased the drama that made the sport America's national pastime. This work features full rosters, player biographies, sta...
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Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost
ISBN: 9780786441242 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Southpaw Harvey Haddix had logged an unspectacular career by the time he took the mound on May 26, 1959. Haddix faced the Milwaukee Braves and set down the first 36 batters in a row, or 12 innings' worth - a perfect game three innings longer than the norm. This book intends to recount Haddix's one-of-a-kind performance.
Southpaw Harvey Haddix had logged an unspectacular career by the time he took the mound on May 26, 1959. Haddix faced the Milwaukee Braves and set dow...
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The Irish in Baseball: An Early History
ISBN: 9780786434190 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Professional baseball took root in America in the 1860s during the same years that the sons of the first wave of Irish famine refugees began to reach adulthood, and the Irish quickly demonstrated a special affinity for baseball. This is a survey of the enormous contribution of the Irish to the American pastime and the ways in which Irish immigrants and baseball came of age together. Chapters cover Irish immigrants in Boston; the Chicago White Stockings; the Shamrocks, Trojans and Giants; Charlie Comiskey; Patsy Tebeau and the Hibernian Spiders; Ned Hanlon and the Orioles; Hugh Duffy and Tommy...
Professional baseball took root in America in the 1860s during the same years that the sons of the first wave of Irish famine refugees began to reach ...
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Fathers and Sons in Baseball Broadcasting: The Carays, Brennamans, Bucks and Kalases
ISBN: 9780786438150 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Features first-hand accounts and original interviews that illuminate how the father-son relationship thrives because of baseball, and, sometimes, in spite of it. This title includes a foreword by Chip Caray, speeches by Joe Buck about his father Jack, and articles by Skip Caray, Chip Caray and Marty Brennaman.
Features first-hand accounts and original interviews that illuminate how the father-son relationship thrives because of baseball, and, sometimes, in s...
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