The Story of the New York Giants

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...

DescriptionFor almost fifty years, the Cleveland Indians were a joke. They had won the 1948 World Series with one of the greatest teams of all time...

Reducere. To the batters who faced him, pitcher Sal Maglie looked like the hurler from hell. Tall and sinister in appearance, with glowering dark eyes and a ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1957 Horace Stoneham took his Giants of New York baseball team and headed west, starting a gold rush with bats and balls rather than ...

Reducere. Jack receives beans from his neighbor and - lo and behold! - those beans lead him up a beanstalk and into the company of giants. How will he ever g...

Reducere. DescriptionTwo years after the establishment of the American Baseball League in 1901, New Yorkers Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchased the Ameri...

Reducere. Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeWidely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound ...

DescriptionFrank Castle: Avenger of Midgard The War of the Realms has brought monsters and mayhem to the streets of New York City, but New York has...

Amber Communications Group, Inc.'s imprint Colossus Books has published Before the Legend: The Rise of New Kids on the Block and...a Guy Named Maur...

Reducere. In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed and bestselling first memoir, Home, Julie Andrews continues her story with her arrival in Hollywood, ...

Reducere. As a scientist and peanutrician, Dr. Peanut leads a rich and nutty life. But daily he and his young peanut patients face the dangers of being eaten...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates' imaginative look at the last days of five giants of American literature, now available in a de...

Reducere. There are very few major personalities in the world of sports who have so much to say about our National Pastime. And even fewer who are as well re...

Reducere. "Chicago's temple of improvisational comedy." --New York Times Since opening in 1959, The Second City has transformed the state of comedy as we kno...

Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold anthology--written by the best children's authors--...

Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold anthology--written by the best children's authors--...

DescriptionHow streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture. Television, once a broadcast medium, now al...

DescriptionHow streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture. Television, once a broadcast medium, now al...

Reducere. In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in historythe Supremestold ...

Jazz could not contain Fred Hersch. Hersch's prodigious talent as a sideman--a pianist who played with the giants of the twentieth century in the a...

DescriptionInto Woods is an exuberant, profound, and often wonderfully funny account of ten years in the life of author Bill Roorbach. A paean to n...

The 1930 Major League baseball season was both marvelous and horrendous, great for hitters, embarrassing for pitchers. In totality it was just this...

Reducere. Here is the absorbing story of twenty-two men who gather every fall to painstakingly reenact what ESPN called "the most shocking play in NFL histor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pat Hagerty I will teach you how to win more bets, but first a story... I was hungover. I had spent the previous night in a...

A 2014 CASEY Award finalist for the best baseball book of the year. "For baseball fans of a certain age, it's the ugliest thing they've ever seen i...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chance's boast is manifest--these days, the question is when will the Cubs ever...

Reducere. Christopher AwardsRonde and Tiki are a team. They are twins, they are each other's best friends and biggest fans, and they play on the same footbal...