Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer, Paperback - Robert K. Fitts

Reducere. In the spring of 1964, the Nankai Hawks of Japan's Pacific League sent nineteen-year-old Masanori Murakami to the Class A Fresno Giants to improve ...

Reducere. Baseball has been called America's true melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese Ame...

Reducere. In November 1934 as the United States and Japan drifted toward war, a team of American League all-stars that included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie...

Reducere. Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first black American to play baseball in a major league. He achieved college baseball stardom at Oberlin College in ...

Reducere. William Hoy loved baseball. Growing up in the 1860s and '70s, he dreamed of one day playing in the major leagues. A far-off fantasy for many boys, ...

Reducere. Ichiro...Nomo...Hasegawa...Hideki Matsui...one by one they have come to America and made their mark as incredibly gifted and popular ballplayers. B...

Reducere. Beverly Jarosz was a victim of one of the most horrific murders in the history of the Cleveland, Ohio area. On December 28, 1964, this 16 year old ...

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Reducere. This book examines the haunting, sad, and lively depths of the Japanese soul by interpreting some of major themes in fairy tales. A Japanese Jungia...

Reducere. "A true picture of baseball." -Tim McCarver From the humble heights of a Class-A pitcher's mound to the deflating lows of sleeping on his gun-totin...

With a foreword by Charlie Sheen. A behind-the-scenes look at one of the greatest baseball movies ever. If you love watching Major League, you'll b...

Reducere. In the summer of 1932, at the beginning of the turbulent decade that would remake America, baseball fans were treated to one of the most thrilling ...

362The Era of Great Disasters examines modern disaster response in Japan, from the changing earthquake preparations and regulations, to immediate e...

The Reshaping of America's Game describes the major developments and challenges that took place in Major League Baseball during the 25-plus years f...

Reducere. Adam Renfroe, Jr. is the Philadelphia Titan. "Adam said he was gonna tell the truth in a book one day, and boy, did he ever tell it in this book" (...

Reducere. DescriptionInventive, empathetic, and strange in all the best ways, The Spinner of Dreams draws from the author's own experiences to create a story...

Now a major TV series on Prime VideoPrepare to turn the Wheel of Time - discover the first novel in one of the most influential and popular fantasy...

The Autobiography Manuscript of Major Amos Stoddard is part biography, and part autobiography. It is the story of the life and times of Major Amos ...

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Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Neg...

In Pursuit of Jubilee is about a businessman who rose to the challenge and initiated an effort that would result in one of the largest discoveries ...

Reducere. Who are they? The men in blue have masks covering their faces and there's an undeniable, deep mystique about umpires.The Umpire's Bunkhouse, Baseba...

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Reducere. *Includes pictures *Describes the history, architecture, and layout of Uruk *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading In so...

In this "sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend" (Publishers Weekly)--the remarkable Major Taylor who became the w...

Reducere. Here are the keys to turnings all your dreams into reality. Whether your dreams are to start a business, lose twenty pounds, or build better relati...

Designed to address the many challenges that first-year undergraduate music students often encounter, this book provides concrete approaches that w...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Now a major TV series on Prime VideoThe fifth novel in the Wheel of Time series - one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever publis...

Robert Baldick's Life of J.-K. Huysmans has become not just a standard reference work, to be consulted as regularly as the writing of the author wh...

They were just doing their jobs -- serving and protecting -- when the unimaginable happened: Officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini became mo...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Henry K. MillerIllustration(s): 24 b-w illustrations, 1 mapNumber of pages: 250Publication date...

Reducere. An Irish officer in the British Army, Major General Robert Ross (1766-1814) was a charismatic leader widely admired for his bravery in battle. Desp...

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Reducere. The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a respon...

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES ON PRIME VIDEOThe second novel in the Wheel of Time series - one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever publi...

Now a major TV series on Prime VideoThe third novel in the Wheel of Time series - one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever publis...

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Extensive coverage of the arrangements for the defence of Burma and the characteristics of the country. Describes the Japanese invasion, from Malay...