Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, Paperback

Reducere. History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Mey...

Reducere. In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Serie...

Reducere. The gripping story of how one of the most infamous scandals in American history-the Black Sox scandal-continued for nearly a year following the fix...

Reducere. All kinds of spurious rumors had swirled around the 1919 World Series. Allegations about a fixed game between the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phi...

Reducere. This book was inspired by the last Negro League World Series ever played and presents biographies of the players on the two contending teams in 194...

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Reducere. In 1906 the baseball world saw something that had never been done. Two teams from the same city squared off against each other in a World Series th...

Reducere. The Black Sox Scandal is a cold case, not a closed case.When Eliot Asinof wrote his classic history about the fixing of the 1919 World Series, Eigh...

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Reducere. Roy Tucker and his Brooklyn Dodgers teammates summon every ounce of their collective skill to fight for the greatest title in baseball--World Serie...

Reducere. In the summer of 1932, with the Cubs in the thick of the pennant race, Billy Jurges broke off his relationship with Violet Popovich to focus on bas...

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Tells the story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn he...

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Losing his wife to one of the many sicknesses that haunt the diamond mine camp, Zouga and his sons must find another way through the country, helpi...

Description"Richly layered....An entertaining and informative portrait of two underappreciated teams in an unforgettable time."--Boston Sunday Glob...

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Publisher: Eight BooksAuthor(s): Sarah LeaIllustration(s): 300Number of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 173 x 248 x 37Cover type: Hardb...

Reducere. If you love Baseball, then you will enjoy reading about Baseball's great history of the World Series. Inside you will read about every game in Base...

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Award-winning writer Abir Mukherjee is back with another brilliant mystery novel in the Raj-era Wyndham and Banerjee series. Calcutta, 1923 When a ...

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.Publisher: Cambridge University PressAuthor(s): Allan ToddNumber of pa...

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The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s. Learning Empire looks at German worldwide en...

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DescriptionConstructing the World traces the global convergence of artistic vocabularies--principally realism and the New Objectivity--between 1919...

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Reducere. Those she trusted betrayed her. Her broken heart still wounds her. Only love can save her. The explosive and stunning finale in The Breathing Serie...

The remarkable story of the 2019 World Series champion Washington Nationals told by the Washington Post writer who followed the team most closely. ...

Reducere. The 1964 Little League World Series was unique and memorable. The final game was won on a no-hitter spun by a pitcher on an All-Star team from the ...

Reducere. From the bestselling coauthor of The Money and the Power, the "compelling corporate history" (The National Book Review) and inside story of the Bec...

Publisher: Aftershock ComicsAuthor(s): Garth EnnisNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 169 x 259 x 11Cover type: Paperback / softb...

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Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the late...

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