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Black Giants

By: John B. Holway

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Xlibris Corporation

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147716376X

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9781477163764

Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues

Revised Edition

By: John B. Holway

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Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues

Revised Edition

By: John B. Holway

The foremost historian of the "blackball" era spent nearly 10 years researching this acclaimed oral history, interviewing 17 outstanding players including Cool Papa Bell, Buck Leonard, and Willie Wells. Over 80 vintage photographs.

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450

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Courier Corporation

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0486136477

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9780486136479

The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History

Premiere Issue Digital Re-Issue

By: Edited by John Thorn

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The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History

Premiere Issue Digital Re-Issue

By: Edited by John Thorn

Back in 1982, the Society for American Baseball Research was still young, barely a decade past its founding, and had grown to some 1600 members. One of their number, a "defrocked English Lit guy poking around in journalism," suggested to the board of directors that SABR, and the world, might benefit from a publication along the lines of American Heritage, only about baseball. Before long that member, John Thorn, found himself at the helm of the newly christened periodical, The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History. The very first issue included names we think of today as luminaries in the field of baseball history and analysis: Harold Seymour, Lawrence S. Ritter, Pete Palmer, David Voigt, Bob Broeg, and more. Over the years the significance of that flagship issue has only grown, while the inventory has dwindled. SABR is pleased to present a replica edition here, with the addition of a new preface by John Thorn, now the official historian of Major League Baseball. This issue includes: Nate Colbert's Unknown RBI Record by Bob Carroll Nineteenth-Century Baseball Deserves Equal Time by Art Ahrens Dandy at Third: Ray Dandridge by John B. Holway How Fast Was Cool Papa Bell? by Jim Bankes The Field of Play by David Sanders Ladies and Gentlemen, Presenting Marty McHale by Lawrence S. Ritter Remembrance of Summers Past by Bob Broeg The Merkle Blunder: A Kaleidoscopic View by G. H. Fleming A Tale of Two Sluggers: Roger Maris and Hack Wilson, by Don Nelson Baseball's Misbegottens: Expansion Era Managers by David Voigt The Early Years: A Gallery by Mark Rucker and Lew Lipset The Egyptian and the Greyhounds by Lew Lipset All the Record Books Are Wrong by Frank J. Williams Goose Goslin's Induction Day by Lawrence S. Ritter The Great New York Team of 1927—and It Wasn't the Yankees by Fred Stein Modern Times: A Portfolio by Stuart Leeds Books Before Baseball: A Personal History by Harold Seymour, Ph.D. Ballparks: A Quiz by Bob Bluthardt Runs and Wins by Pete Palmer Baltimore, the Eastern Shore, and More by Al Kermisch David and Goliath: Figures by Ted DiTullio Double Joe Dwyer: A Life in the Bushes by Gerald Tomlinson

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SABR, Inc.

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1933599812

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9781933599816

Josh Gibson

By: John Holway

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Josh Gibson

By: John Holway

The inspiring story of this African American baseball hero.

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Facts On File

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0791018725

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9780791018729

Ted the Kid

By: John Holway

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Ted the Kid

By: John Holway

Ted Williams is perhaps the most fascinating, the most controversial - yes, and possibly the greatest - figure in American sports history.Â Only Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali, and Michael Jordan stand on a pedestal with him. It is sad that millions of young people know only what they have read of his death.Â This book is not about his death.Â It is about his life. Ted Williams was an enigma, who just wouldn't fit into a mold.Â The Boston press once took a poll to name the least cooperative, most temperamental, most generous, and most cooperative players on the Red Sox.Â Williams came in first in every category. I knew Ted Williams for 45 years, beginning in 1957, and saw him play for 20, beginning in 1941.Â This has given me a unique box seat to this amazing chapter of Americana.Â To me he is the Beethoven and Monet of baseball. But why another Ted Williams book? Ted is already the subject of a large and growing hagiography of excellent and readable books.Â His own My Turn At Bat is one of the most engaging autobiographies in sports literature.Â I made a modest contribution in 1991 with The Last 400 Hitter, about his magnificent season of 1941. Each biography draws on different sources.Â They are like the blind men who clutch different parts of an elephant.Â Each adds to the mosaic, as each gropes to discover this ebullient yet elusive and enigmatic man. In the present work I have tapped hitherto untapped sources in hopes of presenting the most complete story yet assembled of an amazing Renaissance man.Â Based on half a century of research, I have examined this many-sided genius from as many new angles as possible, hoping to paint the Cromwellian portrait that he himself would have wanted, warts and all. Ted and I spent hours probing his memory for games and players now largely lost to living memory. Beginning 20 years ago I also probed the memories of dozens of men, many now gone, who played with and against

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AuthorHouse

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1418436445

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9781418436445

Sandy Koufax

By: John F. Grabowski

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Sandy Koufax

By: John F. Grabowski

* Captivating portraits that will appeal to baseball lovers of all ages * Contains thrilling accounts of pivotal games * Filled with action photographs & statistics

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Chelsea House Publications

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0791011801

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9780791011805

South of the Color Barrier

How Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican League Pushed Baseball Toward Racial Integration

By: John Virtue

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South of the Color Barrier

How Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican League Pushed Baseball Toward Racial Integration

By: John Virtue

This book tells the story of how Mexican multimillionaire businessman Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican League hastened the integration of major league baseball. During the decade that preceded Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier, almost 150 players from the Negro League played in Mexico, most of them recruited by Pasquel.

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McFarland

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0786432934

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9780786432936

Book's by John B. Holway

Black Giants

Black Giants

Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues

Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues

The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History

The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History

Josh Gibson

Josh Gibson

Ted the Kid

Ted the Kid

Sandy Koufax

Sandy Koufax

South of the Color Barrier

South of the Color Barrier

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