(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496237170)
The stories of thirteen Black Minor League baseball players during the post–Jackie Robinson era, from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, who were figuratively and literally left behind even as both baseball and the country claimed a newfound racial progress...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496229854)
Bouton examines the remarkable life of a player and an author who forever changed the way we view not only sports books but professional sports as a whole. Named a Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors Digest...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496217707)
From the day he first stepped into the Yankee clubhouse, Jim Bouton (1939&;2019) was the sports world&;s deceptive revolutionary. Underneath the crew cut and behind the all-American boy-next-door good looks lurked a maverick with a signature...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jun-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812224412)
When the Philadelphia Phillies signed Dick Allen in 1960, fans of the franchise envisioned bearing witness to feats never before accomplished by a Phillies player. A half-century later, theyre still trying to make sense of what they saw.Ca...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812248012)
Dick Allen is considered by some to be the best baseball player not in the Hall of Fame and by others to be the games most destructive and divisive force—ever.God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen unveils the strange and...Loe edasi...
Intended as a readable textbook for undergraduates and their instructors, Understanding Baseball is designed to offer insights and inroads into baseball history as a rewarding academic subject worthy of careful scholarly attention. Each chapter intr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jan-2015, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252080975)
Probes the less well-known but no less meaningful other side of baseball: episodes not involving equality, patriotism, heroism and virtuous capitalism, but power--how it is obtained, and how it perpetuates itself. Through the growth and development o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Feb-2012, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252036804)
Probes the less well-known but no less meaningful other side of baseball: episodes not involving equality, patriotism, heroism and virtuous capitalism, but power--how it is obtained, and how it perpetuates itself. Through the growth and development o...Loe edasi...
Each year, thousands of men and women make a decision that will ultimately change not only the course but the quality of the rest of their lives: they decide to become lawyers. From the moment that thick congratulatory envelope arrives, accepting an...Loe edasi...
This book begin by discussing the specifics of an inning of the Black Friday Game and examines how Philadelphians view themselves and their city as well as how the Phillies have played a role in these visions. Events that unfolded during the afterno...Loe edasi...
