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Immaculate

A History of Perfect Innings in Baseball

By: John Cairney

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Immaculate

A History of Perfect Innings in Baseball

By: John Cairney

Getting 3 batters out in order on nine pitches is one of the most remarkable feats in baseball. Since the late 1800s, only 71 pitchers have been able to do it. Yet, unlike other rare achievements in baseball, such as pitching a perfect game, the “immaculate inning” does not capture the same attention or consideration. In a game that is as unpredictable as baseball, perfection, when it occurs, should be cause for both reflection and celebration. In Immaculate, Cairney provides a short history of perfect innings through the stories of the pitchers who pitched them. Beginning with an brief overview of the numbers, the remaining chapters, one for each immaculate inning on record in major baseball, provides insight into the men, their careers and details of the inning itself, from the first recorded perfect inning in 1889 to the most recent string of innings last MLB season in 2014. The names include pitching greats such as Jim Bunning, Sandy Koufax, Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson, but also many lesser known, if not colorful, pitchers like “Sloppy” Thurston and Bill Wilson. The teams include famous franchises like the Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees, but also clubs now defunct like the Boston Beaneaters and the Montreal Expos. Using immaculate innings as benchmarks, the book provides an engaging and entertaining journey through the history of professional baseball that will delight both the serious student of the game, as well as the fan who enjoys reading about the game.

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190

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Mosaic Press

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1771611162

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9781771611169

Protest and Progress

New York's First Black Episcopal Church Fights Racism

By: John Hewitt

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Protest and Progress

New York's First Black Episcopal Church Fights Racism

By: John Hewitt

As both a preeminent scholar of Balck Angelican and Episcopalians and devout parishoner, the late James Hewitt writes an illuminus hsitory of one of the most famous black congregrations in America. From its humble beginnings, St. Philip's originated from classes conducted by Elais Neau and other Angelic clerks for the society for the propagations of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. From these cateisem classes emerged a higly educated, African-American group comprised of free and enslaved blacks. W.E.B Dubuois hailed it as the foundation for the Talented Tenth in his classic book Souls of Balck Folk After the American Revolution, St. Philip's has since becoem the church of middle-class blacks across New York City. Hewlitt's careful and percise scholarship chronicles over two centuries of of the church's history, which fills a significant lagun in African-American Religious history.

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180

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Routledge

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1317776178

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9781317776178

Placenames of Georgia

By: John H. Goff

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Placenames of Georgia

By: John H. Goff

John Goff wrote for people of all reasonings--historians, linguists, anthropologists, geographers, cartographers, folklorists, and those ubiquitous intelligent readers. Comprising one of the most informative and appealing contributions to the study of toponymy, his short studies have never before been widely available. Placenames of Georgia brings together the sketches that appeared in the Georgia Mineral Newsletter and other longer articles so that all interested in Georgia and the Southeast can share Professor Goff's intimate knowledge of the history and geography of his state and region, his linguistic rigor, and his appreciation of the folklore surrounding many of Georgia's names.

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542

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University of Georgia Press

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0820331295

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9780820331294

Prelude to Afghanistan

The Ontogenesis of an Airline Pilot

By: John G. Bigelow

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Prelude to Afghanistan

The Ontogenesis of an Airline Pilot

By: John G. Bigelow

This story began long ago in the back seat of a Harvard WWII trainer, and ended years later in the cockpit of an Airbus A320. In between, the author flew World War II cargo airplanes in the Arctic, crop-dusted and crashed in Idaho, flew whore-house charters to Nevada in a DC-3, DC-6s and DC-7s across the Pacific and Atlantic. He had a closet full of uniforms when, in 1966, he was hired by Pan Am The Worlds Most Experienced Airline. Twenty-three years later, the once-proud airline was on its knees. Fortune blessed him again, and he took up residence in southern France, employed as an instructor and test pilot with Airbus Industrie. This is a fictional account of some of that journey the central player, Clay Hutchinson. We see Clay: Confronting inauspicious beginnings and frequent, humbling failures. We see him crawling out of a dark hole, and setting off on a long trip, learning along the way how to become a better human being. This is a recollection of an unfinished journey during which, Clay discovers Afghanistan. And there, he grows up a little. Not entirely. Never entirely.

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327

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AuthorHouse

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1481709380

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9781481709385

American Picturesque

By: John Conron

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American Picturesque

By: John Conron

American Picturesque offers a magisterial account of the concept of the picturesque and its manifestation in many aspects of nineteenth-century American life. Conron's study ranges over the entire phenomenon, tracing the development of the picturesque aesthetic in genre, landscape, and topographical painting, rural cottages and villas."--BOOK JACKET.

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484

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Penn State Press

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0271042737

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9780271042732

Union Casualties at Gettysburg

A Comprehensive Record

By: Travis W. Busey,John W. Busey

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Union Casualties at Gettysburg

A Comprehensive Record

By: Travis W. Busey,John W. Busey

This reference work chronicles and categorizes more than 23,000 Union casualties at Gettysburg by generals and staff and by state and unit. Thirteen appendices also cover information by brigade, division and corps; by engagements and skirmishes; by state; by burial at three cemeteries; and by hospitals. Casualty transports, incarceration records and civilian casualty lists are also included.

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1911

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McFarland

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0786456183

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9780786456185

The History of New England from 1630 to 1649

By: John Winthrop

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The History of New England from 1630 to 1649

By: John Winthrop

What a combination--John Winthrop, our first source on the early history of New England, and James Savage, the leading name in New England genealogy. "Savage's Edition of Winthrop's Journal," as this work is usually referred to, was inspired by the discovery of a third part (manuscript) of Winthrop's History of New England in the year 1816. Mr. Savage, a distinguished member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the author of the seminal Genealogical Dictionary of New England, was assigned the task of transcribing the newly discovered manuscript and integrating it with the previously published pages of Winthrop's Journal. Applying his customary acumen to the task, Savage completed his transcription and collation of the History of New England in time for an 1825 publication, adding his own learned annotations about the men, women, and events Winthrop referred to, yielding a work perhaps twice as long as the original journal"--Publisher website (January 2009).

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806346485

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9780806346489

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

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Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

The latest volume in the critically acclaimed Letters of Benjamin Disraeli series contains or describes 952 letters (778 perviously unpublished) written by Disraeli between 1852 and 1856.

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708

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University of Toronto Press

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080204137X

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9780802041371

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874

By: John Evelev

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Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874

By: John Evelev

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appreciation that advocated for an improved and manipulated natural landscape, played in the social, spatial, and literary history of mid-nineteenth century America. It argues that the picturesque was not simply a landscape aesthetic, but also a discipline of seeing and imaginatively shaping the natural that was widely embraced by bourgeois Americans to transform the national landscape in their own image. Through the picturesque, mid-century bourgeois Americans remade rural spaces into tourist scenery, celebrated the city streets as spaces of cultural diversity, created new urban public parks, and made suburban domesticity a national ideal. This picturesque transformation was promoted in a variety of popular literary genres, all focused on landscape description and all of which trained readers into the protocols of picturesque visual discipline as social reform. Many of these genres have since been dubbed "minor" or have been forgotten by our literary history, but the ranks of the writers of this picturesque literature include everyone from the most canonical (Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, and Poe), to major authors of the period now less familiar (such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Margaret Fuller), to those now completely forgotten. Individual chapters of the book link picturesque literary genres to the spaces that the genres helped to transform and, in the process, create what is recognizably our modern American landscape.

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289

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Oxford University Press

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0192647326

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9780192647320

Pattern for Conquest

By: George O. Smith,John Betancourt

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Pattern for Conquest

By: George O. Smith,John Betancourt

Earthmen are overwhelmed by alien invaders, but they then attempt to conquer their foes from within. "[Smith] can slip right in with 'Skylark' Smith and 'World Wreckers' Hamilton and slap the stars around." —P. Schuyler Miller

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Wildside Press LLC

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1667640046

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9781667640044

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

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Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

Benjamin Disraeli was perhaps the most colourful Prime Minister in British history. This seventh volume of the highly acclaimed Benjamin Disraeli Letters edition shows also that he was a dedicated, resourceful, and farsighted statesman. It contains 670 letters written between 1857 and 1859. They address friends, family, political colleagues, and, not least, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. During this period, Disraeli shepherded a fragile Conservative government through the Indian Mutiny, the Second Opium War with China, the Orsini bomb plot, and the Franco-Austrian-Piedmontese War, only to fail at home over parliamentary reform. Day-by-day politics and behind-the-scenes strategy dominate, while lighter-hearted letters to friends and family reveal the private Disraeli's charm and wit. With an appendix of 115 newly found letters dating from 1825, as well as information on 219 unfound letters, full annotations to each letter, an exhaustive name-and-subject index and a comprehensive introduction, this volume will be a vital resource for new understanding of this enigmatic statesman.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802087280

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9780802087287

Tales from the Indiana Hoosiers Locker Room

A Collection of the Greatest Indiana Basketball Stories Ever Told

By: John Laskowski,Stan Sutton

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Tales from the Indiana Hoosiers Locker Room

A Collection of the Greatest Indiana Basketball Stories Ever Told

By: John Laskowski,Stan Sutton

Covers over a century of Indiana University (IU) basketball. This title explains the excitement, the disappointment, the laughter, and the celebration that has turned IU basketball into a statewide religion. It reveals the history of the Indiana program through the memories of the school's hundreds of lettermen.

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193

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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1613210167

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9781613210161

Visions of Paradise

Glimpses of Our Landscape's Legacy

By: John Warfield Simpson

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Visions of Paradise

Glimpses of Our Landscape's Legacy

By: John Warfield Simpson

This book synthesizes views of America's changing environment, and the Ideal of that environment, from the time of the Founding Fathers to the present. It is an exceptionally engaging account of American attitudes toward pristine and altered landscapes which they encountered, settled in, modified, and moved westward from during the last three centuries.

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422

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Univ of California Press

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0520213645

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9780520213647

John Laskowski's Tales from the Hoosier Locker Room

By: John Laskowski,Stan Sutton

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John Laskowski's Tales from the Hoosier Locker Room

By: John Laskowski,Stan Sutton

Limited Leatherbound Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Autographed by author John Laskowski and IU greats Stan Sutton, Ray Pavy, Dane Fife, Damon Bailey, Jimmy Rayl and Dick Van Arsdale. Includes certificate of authenticity. John Laskowski's Tales from the Hoosier Locker Room is a series of anecdotes and memories covering almost a century of Indiana University basketball. The book spotlights not only the championship teams of Branch McCracken and Bob Knight, but also the Cinderella Hoosiers of 2002, who advanced to the NCAA Tournament's final game under Mike Davis. The book spans multiple generations of Indiana players and fans. It includes little known facts about IU icons such as Don Schlundt, Jimmy Rayl and Damon Bailey and relives the passion surrounding five NCAA championships.

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212

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1582617600

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9781582617602

Black on Black

Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa

By: John Cullen Gruesser

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Black on Black

Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa

By: John Cullen Gruesser

Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Combining cutting-edge theory, extensive historical and archival research, and close readings of individual texts, Gruesser reveals the diversity of the African American response to Countee Cullen's question, "What is Africa to Me?" John Gruesser uses the concept of Ethiopianism—the biblically inspired belief that black Americans would someday lead Africans and people of the diaspora to a bright future—to provide a framework for his study. Originating in the eighteenth century and inspiring religious and political movements throughout the 1800s, Ethiopianism dominated African American depictions of Africa in the first two decades of the twentieth century, particularly in the writings of Du Bois, Sutton Griggs, and Pauline Hopkins. Beginning with the Harlem Renaissance and continuing through the Italian invasion and occupation of Ethiopia, however, its influence on the portrayal of the continent slowly diminished. Ethiopianism's decline can first be seen in the work of writers closely associated with the New Negro Movement, including Alain Locke and Langston Hughes, and continued in the dramatic work of Shirley Graham, the novels of George Schuyler, and the poetry and prose of Melvin Tolson. The final rejection of Ethiopianism came after the dawning of the Cold War and roughly coincided with the advent of postcolonial Africa in works by authors such as Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, and Alice Walker.

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University Press of Kentucky

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081315880X

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9780813158808

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Placenames of Georgia

Placenames of Georgia

Prelude to Afghanistan

Prelude to Afghanistan

American Picturesque

American Picturesque

Union Casualties at Gettysburg

Union Casualties at Gettysburg

The History of New England from 1630 to 1649

The History of New England from 1630 to 1649

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874

Pattern for Conquest

Pattern for Conquest

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

Tales from the Indiana Hoosiers Locker Room

Tales from the Indiana Hoosiers Locker Room

Visions of Paradise

Visions of Paradise

John Laskowski's Tales from the Hoosier Locker Room

John Laskowski's Tales from the Hoosier Locker Room

Black on Black

Black on Black

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