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Best Game Ever
Pirates vs. Yankees, October 13, 1960
Av Jim Reisler
Häftad, 2009
226 kr
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October 13, 1960: the hardscrabble Pirates were a colourful bunch of overachievers led by Roberto Clemente and Bill Mazeroski, making the franchise's first World Series appearance in thirty-five years against a heavily favoured Yankee squad featuring such legends as Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, …
Igniting the Flame
America''s First Olympic Team
Av Jim Reisler
E-bok, 2012
244 kr
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The story of the fourteen men – largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book – who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, timed for publication leading up to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and the 2012 …
Voices of the Oral Deaf
Fifteen Role Models Speak Out
Av Jim Reisler
Häftad, 2002
275 kr
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The deaf world is a complex one, divided by the allegiance of some to Deaf Culture, which emphasizes communication by sign-language, and by others to oralism, which emphasizes speech as the primary means of communication, and still others to a program called Total Communication, which stresses both …
Before They Were the Bombers
The New York Yankees' Early Years, 1903-1915
Av Jim Reisler
Häftad, 2005
501 kr
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Many histories of the New York Yankees only skim the early years in their rush to pick up with the 1919 season when Babe Ruth joined the team and go on to celebrate the careers of Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Whitey Ford, and the team's World Series titles. But what about the …
Black Writers/Black Baseball
An Anthology of Articles from Black Sportswriters Who Covered the Negro Leagues, rev. ed.
Av Jim Reisler
Häftad, 2007
373 kr
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This revised edition is an anthology of 10 African American sportswriters who covered baseball's Negro Leagues in the first part of the 20th century. The writers include Sam Lacy, Wendell Smith, Frank A. Young, Joe Bostic, Chester L. Washington, W. Rollo Wilson, Dan Burley, Ed Harris, A.S. "Doc" …
Cash and Carry
The Spectacular Rise and Hard Fall of C.C. Pyle, America's First Sports Agent
Av Jim Reisler
Häftad, 2008
396 kr
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C.C."Cash and Carry" Pyle made several fortunes representing professional football and tennis players--before losing everything and disappearing into history's dustbin. This work reevaluates Pyle's fast life and times while analyzing his extraordinary and enduring legacy.In 1925, Pyle rocked the …
Walk of Ages
Edward Payson Weston's Extraordinary 1909 Trek Across America
Av Jim Reisler
Inbunden, 2015
403 kr
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On his seventieth birthday in 1909, a slim man with a shock of white hair, a walrus mustache, and a spring in his step faced west from Park Row in Manhattan and started walking. By the time Edward Payson Weston was finished, he was in San Francisco, having trekked 3,895 miles in 104 days. Weston's …
Talented Misters Hoy and Taylor
The Remarkable Journeys of Baseball's Greatest Deaf Players
Av Jim Reisler
Inbunden, 2026
397 kr
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Igniting the Flame
America's First Olympic Team
Av Jim Reisler
Inbunden, 2012
290 kr
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The story of the fourteen men - largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book - who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, timed for publication leading up to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and the 2012 …
