Willie's Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend, Hardcover - John Klima

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

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...

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...

A definitive new account of the professional and personal life of one of Hollywood's most unforgettable, influential stars. Archie Leach was a poor...

Reducere. Bonnie and Clyde may be the most notorious--and celebrated--outlaw couple America has ever known. This is the true story of how they got that way. ...

A gripping and fast-paced narrative, Pulizer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik tells the story of the titanic battle between two giants of the Gilded Ag...

Reducere. A woman tries to feed her husband a fried drumstick. Dragons roam a flat earth. The last Black man in the whole entire world dies again. And again....

Reducere. On the morning of March 5, 1959, Luvenia Long was listening to gospel music when a news bulletin interrupted her radio program. Fire had engulfed t...

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. WINNER OF THE 2014 SEYMOUR MEDAL sponsored by the Society for American Baseball Research and finalist for 2014 SABR Larry Ritter AwardThough his pi...

Reducere. Move It On OverMind Your Own BusinessHealing Hands Of TimeCan I Sleep In Your ArmsSend Me The Pillow You Dream OnI'm So Lonesome I Could CryI'm Mov...

In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of sh...

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

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...

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

Social conflict and the making of a globalized place at Rosia Montana - Filip Alexandrescu

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 ...

The Outbreak of the First World War: Structure, Politics, and Decision-Making - Jack S. Levy, John A. Vasquez

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...

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. 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 first full biography of the star Negro Leaguer and Hall of Famer James "Cool Papa" Bell (1903-1991) was a legend in black baseball, a lightning ...

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...

Reducere. There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about ...

Reducere. Numbering 4, 000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro d...

Reducere. Description Charter members of the American League and the country's last "neighborhood" pro baseball franchise, the White Sox are one of the few ...

Reducere. DescriptionFor more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and mus...

William Hannibal Thomas served with distinction in the US Colored Troops in the Civil War and was a preacher, teacher, lawyer, state legislator, an...

Reducere. This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of...

Reducere. A "Philadelphia Inquirer "Best Book of the Year A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his...

DescriptionThis volume gathers an array of voices to tell the stories of Cleveland's twentieth century Jewish community. Strong and stable after an...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Michelle JonesIllustration(s): 61 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

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

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 ...

An award-winning historian's revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and inte...

Reducere. The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several n...

Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans In 1869, when the final spik...

A fascinating exploration of the world's worst mass extinction - and how it shaped all subsequent life on our planetPublisher: The History Press Lt...

"It's official Take a Psycho to Work Day. Why else would I be here?"Hunted. Hated. Betrayed. Outcast Dagger Ixur is on the run for his life. As one...

Known internationally as a symbol of elegance and luxury, Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria is one of the world's most famous hotels. David Freeland take...