(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813955018)
A new biography revealing the remarkable story of Jackie Robinson as a civil rights crusaderJackie Robinson is one of the most enduring icons of the great American pastime-the man who broke baseballs color line in the twentieth century, opening the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813955018)
A new biography revealing the remarkable story of Jackie Robinson as a civil rights crusaderJackie Robinson is one of the most enduring icons of the great American pastime-the man who broke baseballs color line in the twentieth century, opening the...Loe edasi...
From humble beginnings in sh , Japan, to becoming one of Major League Baseballs brightest stars, Shohei Ohtani has stunned the world - not only with his extraordinary talent and discipline but also with his quiet humility. As both a dominant pitche...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476657509)
At the heart of this book are thirty-four personality profiles of North Carolina natives who played baseball in the major leagues. Many of their stories are told for the first time. Collectively, the profiles paint a picture of a time long gone, w...Loe edasi...
From the prison cage to the batting cage, Ron LeFlores journey to the major leagues was anything but ordinary. When twenty-three-year-old Ron LeFlore played his first organized baseball game, it was in a yard at the State Prison of Southern Michigan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252048753)
Celebrated as a democratic space for all Americans, the major league ballpark in fact privileged the middle- and upper-class white male fan while tacitly marginalizing poor urban residents and people of color. Seth S. Tannenbaum examines how the game...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643366821)
An improbable dream fulfilled in one unforgettable seasonIn 2016, a Conway, South Carolina, mid-major baseball team that had once played on borrowed fields and traveled in hand-me-down vans shocked the college baseball world. Veteran head coach Gary...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643366821)
An improbable dream fulfilled in one unforgettable seasonIn 2016, a Conway, South Carolina, mid-major baseball team that had once played on borrowed fields and traveled in hand-me-down vans shocked the college baseball world. Veteran head coach Gary...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Mar-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9798368600772)
Charlie Dressen was a true baseball character. A scrappy, undersized infielder with the Cincinnati Reds during the 1920s, Dressen became a manager with a reputation as the greatest sign-stealer in baseball. He honestly believed that he could win g...Loe edasi...
What are sports, really? What do we love about them? And what, in our digital age, have they become On Sports reads like a conversation between friends at the ballparkin those golden days before the kiss cam and college co-eds with T-shirt cannons sp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Mar-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9798368600680)
In 1889, the Louisville Colonels, the citys major league baseball team, lost 111 games, won only 27, and went bankrupt in midseason. The new owners found there was not one manager with any history of success willing to take the reins due to the c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781621904021)
Whether loved or reviled, the New York Yankees have had an impact on American culture that extends well beyond baseball. Since the early twentieth century, movies, novels, memoirs, pop songs, and even TV sitcoms have either dealt directly with the Br...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781621905004)
Amid anti-Vietnam war protests, political assassinations, and urban unrest, the United States had descended into an era of domestic turmoil by the summer of 1968. Americans were split along nearly every imaginable line, and discord penetrated all fac...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Mar-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476658179)
The vivid language of baseball pervades and invigorates American and other forms of English. Its many figures of speech, metaphors and idioms not only add color and drama to the national pastime but also provide eloquence and enlightenment in ever...Loe edasi...
From Seaver to deGrom, meet the 50 greatest Mets ever to take the fieldranked, remembered, and relived.In The 50 Greatest Players in New York Mets History, sports historian Robert W. Cohen ranks the top 50 players ever to perform for one of Major Lea...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476657899)
This book presents a multi-dimensional simulation, a "e; Utopian Baseball Fantasy,"e; to explore what might have happened had baseball integrated before the 1934 major league season. Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige and nearly 100 of his...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476657615)
This book profiles 136 Negro League players, managers, and executives, presenting details of their playing careers and the circumstances surrounding their deaths. It includes Hall of Famers like Josh Gibson and Rube Foster; stars like Rap Dixon, B...Loe edasi...
An unflinching, all-access look at the friendship between Mickey Mantle and Billy Martintwo beloved Yankees and flawed heroes who embodied both triumph and self-destructionThrough meticulous research and exclusive interviews with the late Mantle and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Feb-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476655017)
Through conducting painstaking research and dozens of interviews, Robert Gaunt produced an exceptional book on minor league history. He captured the spirit of baseball in the towns of Eastern North Carolina and the important role played by the game...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476658162)
Whenever literate baseball fans gather, one question invariably arises: "e;What are the best baseball books "e; This volume offers an answer from an expert who has spent a lifetime reading, evaluating, and honoring great baseball books. He...Loe edasi...
