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Rooney
A Sporting Life
Av Rob Ruck, Maggie Jones Patterson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
510 kr
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Born to an Irish Catholic working-class family on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Art Rooney (1901–88) dabbled in semipro baseball and boxing before discovering that his real talent lay not in playing sports but in promoting them. Though he was at the center of boxing, baseball, and racing in …
Rooney
A Sporting Life
Av Rob Ruck, Maggie Jones Patterson m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
415 kr
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Born to an Irish Catholic working-class family on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Art Rooney (1901–88) dabbled in semipro baseball and boxing before discovering that his real talent lay not in playing sports but in promoting them. Though he was at the center of boxing, baseball, and racing in …
Tropic of Baseball
Baseball in the Dominican Republic
Av Rob Ruck
Häftad, 1999
249 kr
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In a new afterword Rob Ruck looks at the current state of baseball in the country that has produced Sammy Sosa and many other major league stars.
Raceball
How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game
Av Rob Ruck
E-bok, 2011
242 kr
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From an award-winning writer, the first linked history of African Americans and Latinos in Major League Baseball After peaking at 27 percent of all major leaguers in 1975, African Americans now make up less than one-tenth--a decline unimaginable in other men''s pro sports. The number of Latin …
Mal Goode Reporting
The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer.
Inbunden, 2025
416 kr
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Mal Goode (1908–1995) became network news’s first African American correspondent when ABC News hired him in 1962\. Raised in Homestead and Pittsburgh, he worked in the mills, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, and went on to become a journalist for the Pittsburgh Courier and later for …
Pittsburgh Rising
From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920
Häftad, 2025
284 kr
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Over 170 years, Pittsburgh rose from remote outpost to industrial powerhouse. With the formation of the United States, the frontier town located at the confluence of three rivers grew into the linchpin for trade and migration between established eastern cities and the growing settlements of the …
Mal Goode Reporting
The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer
Häftad, 2025
344 kr
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Mal Goode (1908–1995) became network news’s first African American correspondent when ABC News hired him in 1962. Raised in Homestead and Pittsburgh, he worked in the mills, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, and went on to become a journalist for the Pittsburgh Courier and later for …
Tropic Of Football
The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL
Av Rob Ruck
Inbunden, 2018
441 kr
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Football is at a crossroads, its future imperiled by the very physicality that drives its popularity. Its grass roots - high school and youth travel program - are withering. But players from the small South Pacific American territory of Samoa are bucking that trend, quietly becoming the most …
