Sports and American Culture Series – serie
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Off the Rim Volume 1
Basketball and Other Religions in a Carolina Childhood
Av Fred Hobson
Häftad, 2006
243 kr
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Why should a particular game, played with a round ball by twenty-year-olds in short pants often hundreds of miles away, mean so much to me, since I seem to have so little to gain or lose by its outcome?"" Fred Hobson thus begins ""Off the Rim"", his narrative of college basketball and society, of …
High-flying Birds
The 1942 St. Louis Cardinals
Inbunden, 2009
333 kr
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1942: Americans suddenly found themselves at war but were not about to be distracted from the National Pastime. The Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees were looking to continue their World Series rivalry from the 1941 season, and a youthful team from St. Louis was determined to stop them. With …
Before They Were Cardinals
Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St Louis
Av Jon David Cash, Jon David Cash
Häftad, 2011
243 kr
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An in-depth analysis that examines the infancy of major-league baseball in St. Louis during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Gibson's Last Stand
The Rise, Fall, and Near Misses of the St. Louis Cardinals, 1969-1975
Häftad, 2013
198 kr
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During star-pitcher Bob Gibson’s most brilliant season, the turbulent summer of 1968, he started thirty-four games and pitched every inning in twenty-eight of them, shutting out the opponents in almost half of those complete games. After their record-breaking season, Gibson and his teammates were …
If You Were Only White
The Life of Leroy ""Satchel"" Paige
Häftad, 2013, 15+ år
243 kr
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“If You Were Only White” explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever—an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country. Leroy …
Breaking Babe Ruth
Baseball's Campaign against Its Biggest Star
Inbunden, 2018
325 kr
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Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball’s draconian labor system. To the baseball establishment, Ruth’s immense popularity represented opportunity, but his rebelliousness …
