Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution, Paperback - Neil Lanctot

Reducere. The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial ...

Reducere. Rube Foster, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard...they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people hea...

Reducere. DescriptionThe story of Willie Mays's rookie year with the Negro American League's Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the ma...

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...

Reducere. "We are the ship; all else the sea."-Rube Foster, founder of the Negro National League The story of Negro League baseball is the story of gifted at...

Reducere. The Kansas City Monarchs are arguably the best-known of all Negro League teams, thanks in part to the inimitable Satchel Paige's association with t...

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...

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...

Forget the steroid-addled, overpaid, and unmotivated players: America's pastime is still alive and well, and is still the heartfelt sport it's alwa...

The fascinating story of how the three most influential American progressives of the early twentieth century split over America's response to World...

Reducere. New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the ...

Reducere. W. E. B. Du Bois's groundbreaking social study of black Americans living in Philadelphia at the end of the 1800s remains an outstanding and thoroug...

Baseball Under the Palms: A History of Miami Minor League Baseball - The Early Years (1892-1960), tells the fascinating story of the growth of hard...

DANDYISM. The Rise and Fall of a Concept - Petru Stefan Ionescu

How a more positive form of identity politics can restore public trust in government. This book explores the philosophical underpinnings of 'illibe...

Reducere. Greg Larson was a starry-eyed fan when he hurtled headfirst into professional baseball. As the new clubhouse attendant for the Aberdeen IronBirds, ...

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Reducere. On any given spring evening, 360, 000 children around the world can be found on the dusty mounds and grassy fields of a Little League field. With m...

Reducere. A cautionary tale about the life of former kingpin Azie Faison, who has become the fabric of street legend Faison was a ninth grade dropout who ear...

New B-format paperback - The extraordinary history of Mercia and its rulers from the seventh century to 1066. Once the supreme Anglo-Saxon kingdom,...

Reducere. Marc Bolan was the very first superstar of the Seventies. As the seductive focus of "T Rex", he revelled in fame and fortune, released a string of ...

What were the origins of the ANC Youth League, where has it gone wrong and how can it once again become an organization that represents and support...

The inside story of how the Dodgers won their first championship in more than 30 years--but helped cripple the sport of baseball in the process.Pub...

Publisher: London League Publications LtdAuthor(s): Neil JonesIllustration(s): 40 black & white photosNumber of pages: 186Publication date: 2022Dim...

Reducere. DescriptionThe dramatic story of the United States' destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the af...

Reducere. Offering a rarely seen female perspective on gang life, this raw and powerful memoir tells not only of one woman s struggle to survive the streets ...

Reducere. While Jackie Robinson is justly famous for breaking the color line in major league baseball in 1947, other young African American players, among th...

On any given spring evening, 360, 000 children around the world can be found on the dusty mounds and grassy fields of a Little League field. With m...

The rise and fall of an international drug ring: a thrilling international true crime adventure from the bestselling author of GANGS

Packed with rare and unpublished images, this is the definitive story of an iconic British brand - Bass.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): Ha...

DescriptionA history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. ...

Code 3: The Rise & Fall of a Private Ambulance Empire proves that people from all walks of life are attracted to the strange realm that is Emergenc...

On December 30, 2019, Carlos Ghosn became the most famous fugitive on the planet when the former chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance...

In 1960, a ten-year old boy in Levittown is exhilarated by his hometown heroes--an All Star youth baseball team--as they win 13 consecutive games t...

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...

While Big Steel has been shrinking, minimills have been growing, and they now turn out about one-fifth of the raw steel produced in the United Stat...