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22 produkter
1919 World Series
What Really Happened?
Häftad, 2001
384 kr
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One of baseball's infamous events is the 1919 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. Overshadowed by the suspicion cast upon, and the subsequent indictment of, eight White Sox players for throwing the games, the 1919 World Series has often been simplistically and …
Summer of '64
A Pennant Lost
Häftad, 2002
396 kr
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The 1964 season, highlighted by two significant trades, a game-winning home run, and three no-hitters, was a dramatic one for the National League. But even more thrilling was that season's final week and the race for the pennant.All the drama of the 1964 National League season through the …
Pete Rose
Baseball's All-Time Hit King
Häftad, 2003
396 kr
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On September 11, 1985, with a sell-out crowd of 52,000 fans on hand at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium and millions of others watching on television, Pete Rose collected hit number 4,192 of his career and passed Ty Cobb as the all-time career hits leader. As he reached first base, thousands of …
Waite Hoyt
A Biography of the Yankees' Schoolboy Wonder
Häftad, 2004
396 kr
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Waite Hoyt was much more than a baseball player. A multi-faceted, sometimes troubled man, Hoyt was a vaudevillian, a mortician, a writer, a painter, and (of course) a Hall of Fame pitcher. He was also an alcoholic who overcame his demons and became one of the first players to make the transition to …
Louisville Grays Scandal of 1877
The Taint of Gambling at the Dawn of the National League
Häftad, 2005
396 kr
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By the mid-1870s, gambling in baseball threatened the public's confidence in the sport and its very existence as a professional enterprise. Recognizing this, Chicago owner William A. Hulbert and seven of his colleagues formed the National League, dedicating it to such high-minded ideals as …
August "Garry" Herrmann
A Baseball Biography
Häftad, 2007
506 kr
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August Garry Herrmann entered the murky waters of 19th century machine politics in Cincinnati, serving as a trusted lieutenant to one of the most powerful political bosses in the country, George B. Cox. Herrmann, a gifted man who introduced modern management principles to municipal government and …
King of the Bootleggers
A Biography of George Remus
Häftad, 2008
327 kr
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As a pharmacist turned lawyer turned master prohibition era bootlegger, George Remus is now remembered as one of the most notorious figures of the American prohibition. Even though he was a lifelong teetotaler, Remus built one of the nation's largest illegal liquor empires with little regard to …
Jim Thorpe
A Biography
Häftad, 2011
396 kr
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Most biographies of Jim Thorpe (1888-1953) emphasize his Olympic glory and his remarkable abilities in track and football. Thorpe's 1912 gold medals in the decathalon and pentathalon and his talent on the gridiron rank him high among outstanding athletes of the twentieth century. That Thorpe also …
Big Klu
The Baseball Life of Ted Kluszewski
Häftad, 2012
384 kr
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During the mid-1950s, an unlikely star stood alongside baseball standouts Mickey Mantle, Henry Aaron and Willie Mays--a slugger with a funny name and muscles so bulging that he had to cut the sleeves off his uniform to swing freely. Ted Kluszewski played little baseball in his youth, making a name …
Bibb Falk
The Man Who Replaced Shoeless Joe
Häftad, 2015
396 kr
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Born in Austin, Texas, in 1899, Bibb August Falk was the classic stereotype of a Texan, standing six feet. He brimmed with confidence and played the game of baseball with swagger. He played three years of varsity football and baseball at the University of Texas before being signed by the Chicago …
Johnny Temple
All-Star Second Baseman
Häftad, 2016
396 kr
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Cincinnati Reds leadoff hitter Johnny Temple batted over .300 three times between 1954 and 1959. A tobacco chewing and tough-talking hustler, he had a fiery disposition on the field, which led many sportswriters, teammates and opposing players to refer to him as a throwback to baseball's early …
Collision Course
The Basketball Lives of Bob Cousy and Oscar Robertson and The Collapse of the Cincinnati Royals
Häftad, 2019
225 kr
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America and the Automobile
A Historical Entertainment of the Mechanics, Moguls, and Moments that Changed a Nation
Häftad, 2020
214 kr
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Touring America by Automobile in the 1920s
The Travel Journals of Hepzy Moore Cook
Inbunden, 2017
230 kr
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Opinions and Practice of the Founders of the Republic
The administration of Abraham Lincoln sustained by the sages and heroes of the revolution
Häftad, 2017
242 kr
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