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Tricksters in the Madhouse
Lakers Vs. Globetrotters, 1948
Häftad, 2007
188 kr
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In February 1948 the brand-new, all-white Minneapolis Lakers were arguably the greatest basketball team in America, favored to win the World Professional Basketball Tournament later that year. Meanwhile the Harlem Globetrotters, at the center of black basketball, were riding their own incredible …
Kokomo Joe
The Story of the First Japanese American Jockey in the United States
Häftad, 2009
263 kr
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The first Japanese American jockey, Kokomo Joe burst like a comet on the American horse-racing scene in the summer of 1941. As war with Japan loomed, Yoshio "Kokomo Joe" Kobuki won race after race, stirring passions far beyond merely the envy and antagonism of other jockeys. His is a story of the …
Enemies
World War II Alien Internment
Häftad, 2009
254 kr
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They were called aliens and enemies. But the World War II internees John Christgau writes about were in fact ordinary people victimized by the politics of a global war. The Alien Enemy Control Program in America was born with the United States’s declaration of war on Japan, Germany, and Italy and …
Birch Coulie
The Epic Battle of the Dakota War
Häftad, 2012
197 kr
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In the days following the Battle of Birch Coulie, the decisive battle in the deadly Dakota War of 1862, one of President Lincoln's private secretaries wrote: "There has hardly been an outbreak so treacherous, so sudden, so bitter, and so bloody, as that which filled the State of Minnesota with …
Michael and the Whiz Kids
A Story of Basketball, Race, and Suburbia in the 1960s
Häftad, 2013
263 kr
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Imagine a boy, five feet tall and one hundred pounds, who wants to play high school basketball. Now imagine that he was blind until the age of six and that he's the first black student to attend his suburban school. And there you have Michael Thompson in 1965 in San Bruno, California. He played at …
Incident at the Otterville Station
A Civil War Story of Slavery and Rescue
Häftad, 2013
225 kr
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While elated Northerners were celebrating victory at Gettysburg and toasting Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, Missourian Charles W. Walker was rousing his thirteen slaves in the dark of night. In defiance of a standing Union order prohibiting the transfer of slaves among states, he …
Origins of the Jump Shot
Eight Men Who Shook the World of Basketball
Häftad, 1999
283 kr
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Before the jump shot, basketball was an earth-bound game. In fact, inventor James Naismith did not originally intend for players to move with the ball. The inspired invention of the dribble first put the ball handler in motion. The jump shot then took the action upward. But where, when, and how did …
Gambler and the Bug Boy
1939 Los Angeles and the Untold Story of a Horse Racing Fix
Häftad, 2013
262 kr
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"Scandal on the Turf!" the Los Angeles Times proclaimed. It was October 1940, a mere few months after Seabiscuit had won the Santa Anita Derby, and now this bombshell: "Six Jockeys Admit Horse Races Fixed." The Gambler and the Bug Boy recounts this dark chapter in horse racing history. At its …
Sierra Sue Ii
The Story of a P-51 Mustang
E-bok, 2000
133 kr
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During World War II, 15,000 P-51 Mustang fighter planes were produced by North American Aviation. Arguably the best fighter plane ever made, today there are less than a hundred left flying in the world. Of those, only a handful saw combat. Sierra Sue: The Story of a P-51 Mustang is the story of one …
