Gene Myers (Sports editor)'s Books

Burying the Black Sox

How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded

By: Gene Carney

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Burying the Black Sox

How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded

By: Gene Carney

New insight on baseball's most famous scandal

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380

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U of Nebraska Press

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ISBN 10

1597971081

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9781597971089

Decade of Champions

By: Gene Myers (Sports editor)

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Decade of Champions

By: Gene Myers (Sports editor)

A collection of essays by various sports writers on major sporting events, milestones and achievements in Michigan during the 1980's, both college and professional. Includes many photographs.

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212

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0937247146

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9780937247143

Youth Squad

Policing Children in the Twentieth Century

By: Tamara Gene Myers

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Youth Squad

Policing Children in the Twentieth Century

By: Tamara Gene Myers

Starting in the 1930s, urban police forces from New York City to Montreal to Vancouver established youth squads and crime prevention programs, dramatically changing the nature of contact between cops and kids. Gone was the beat officer who scared children and threatened youth. Instead, a new breed of officer emerged whose intentions were explicit: befriend the rising generation. Good intentions, however, produced paradoxical results. In Youth Squad Tamara Gene Myers chronicles the development of youth consciousness among North American police departments. Myers shows that a new comprehensive strategy for crime prevention was predicated on the idea that criminals are not born but made by their cultural environments. Pinpointing the origin of this paradigmatic shift to a period of optimism about the ability of police to protect children, she explains how, by the middle of the twentieth century, police forces had intensified their presence in children's lives through juvenile curfew laws, police athletic leagues, traffic safety and anti-corruption campaigns, and school programs. The book describes the ways that seemingly altruistic efforts to integrate working-class youth into society evolved into pervasive supervision and surveillance, normalizing the police presence in children's lives. At the intersection of juvenile justice, policing, and childhood history, Youth Squad reveals how the overpolicing of young people today is rooted in well-meaning but misguided schemes of the mid-twentieth century.

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215

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0228000327

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9780228000327

From Boxing Ring to Battlefield

The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins

By: Gene Pantalone

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From Boxing Ring to Battlefield

The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins

By: Gene Pantalone

World champion boxer Lew Jenkins fought his whole life. As a child, he fought extreme poverty during the Great Depression; in his twenties, he fought as a professional boxer and became a world champion; and at the pinnacle of his boxing career, Jenkins fought in World War II and the Korean War. From Boxing Ring to Battlefield: The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins details for the first time this extraordinary story. Despite his talent for boxing, Jenkins often fought and trained in drunken stupors. And though he became the world lightweight champion, he soon wasted his ring title and all his money. Unable to find meaning in life at the peak of his boxing success, Jenkins discovered values to which he could cling during World War II and the Korean War. His efforts earned him one of the highest decorations for bravery, the Silver Star. From Boxing Ring to Battlefield features exclusive interviews with Lew Jenkins’s son and grandson, providing a personal perspective on the life of this complicated war hero. The first biography of Jenkins, this book will fascinate boxing fans and historians alike.

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257

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

1538116758

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9781538116753

Snowshoeing

By: Gene Prater

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Snowshoeing

By: Gene Prater

Essential handbook updated with the latest developments in equipment and techniques for snowshoeing. -- Features the high-tech equipment changes that have revolutionized snowshoeing Learn to navigate through snow-clad woods, compete in races, and climb to new summits with easily learned techniques in Snowshoeing. This complete update of the late Gene Prater's classic how-to manual has all the latest information on snowshoeing equipment -- from various types of snowshoes to bindings to clothing. Expert snowshoer Dave Felkley offers techniques for all types of terrain and snow conditions, including flats, hills, mountains, powder, crust, and ice, plus instructions on conditioning and cross-training and information on snowshoe racing. Also included is information on navigation and route-finding; winter safety, with emphasis on the dangers of avalanches; camping; and gauging snow conditions.

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Mountaineers Books

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0898864976

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9780898864977

Book's by Gene Myers (Sports editor)

Burying the Black Sox

Burying the Black Sox

Decade of Champions

Decade of Champions

Youth Squad

Youth Squad

From Boxing Ring to Battlefield

From Boxing Ring to Battlefield

Snowshoeing

Snowshoeing

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