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Nice Guys Finish Last

By: Leo Durocher,Ed Linn

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“I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?” The history of baseball is rife with colorful characters. But for sheer cantankerousness, fighting moxie, and will to win, very few have come close to Leo “the Lip” Durocher. Following a five-decade career as a player and manager for baseball’s most storied franchises, Durocher teamed up with veteran sportswriter Ed Linn to tell the story of his life in the game. The resulting book, Nice Guys Finish Last, is baseball at its best, brimming with personality and full of all the fights and feuds, triumphs and tricks that made Durocher such a success—and an outsized celebrity. Durocher began his career inauspiciously, riding the bench for the powerhouse 1928 Yankees and hitting so poorly that Babe Ruth nicknamed him “the All-American Out.” But soon Durocher hit his stride: traded to St. Louis, he found his headlong play and never-say-die attitude a perfect fit with the rambunctious “Gashouse Gang” Cardinals. In 1939, he was named player-manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers—and almost instantly transformed the underachieving Bums into perennial contenders. He went on to manage the New York Giants, sharing the glory of one of the most famous moments in baseball history, Bobby Thomson’s “shot heard ’round the world,” which won the Giants the 1951 pennant. Durocher would later learn how it felt to be on the other side of such an unforgettable moment, as his 1969 Cubs, after holding first place for 105 days, blew a seemingly insurmountable 8-1/2-game lead to the Miracle Mets. All the while, Durocher made as much noise off the field as on it. His perpetual feuds with players, owners, and league officials—not to mention his public associations with gamblers, riffraff, and Hollywood stars like George Raft and Larraine Day—kept his name in the headlines and spread his fame far beyond the confines of the diamond. A no-holds-barred account of a singular figure, Nice Guys Finish Last brings the personalities and play-by-play of baseball’s greatest era to vivid life, earning a place on every baseball fan’s bookshelf.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226173895

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Nice Guys Finish Last

By: Leo Durocher,Ed Linn

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The Wonder Team

The True Story of the Incomparable 1927 New York Yankees

By: Leo Trachtenberg

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The Wonder Team

The True Story of the Incomparable 1927 New York Yankees

By: Leo Trachtenberg

Details events leading to the 1927 World Series, when the New York Yankees, including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Waite Hoyt, became baseball's best team ever. Draws on interviews with everyone connected to the team, from players and management to batboys, and relates stories concerning players' personalities, skills, and hijinks on and off the field. Includes 1927 statistics and biographical sketches of management, players, and staff, plus bandw photos. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Popular Press

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0879726784

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9780879726782

Food Biochemistry and Food Processing

By: Leo M. L. Nollet,Fidel ToldrÃ¡,Soottawat Benjakul,Gopinadhan Paliyath,Y. H. Hui

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Food Biochemistry and Food Processing

By: Leo M. L. Nollet,Fidel ToldrÃ¡,Soottawat Benjakul,Gopinadhan Paliyath,Y. H. Hui

Simpson (food science and agricultural chemistry, McGill U., Canada) brings together academics and industry professionals working in food biochemistry, processing, and safety around the world for this 45-chapter textbook aimed at food scientists, researchers and technologists in the food industry, and faculty and students in food science, technology, and engineering. It combines the areas of food biochemistry and food processing to help them rationalize and develop more effective strategies to produce and preserve food. It covers the essential principles of food biochemistry, enzymology, and food processing, then the biochemistry of meat, poultry, seafoods, milk, fruits, vegetables, cereals, and fermented foods, and food microbiology and safety. Along with updates to several chapters, this edition has been revised to incorporate safety considerations and the chemical changes induced by processing in the biomolecules of food in each chapter. It includes a new section on health and functional foods and 10 new chapters on topics like thermally and minimally processed foods, separation technology, and allergens.

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John Wiley & Sons

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081380874X

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9780813808741

Leo Strauss

The Early Writings (1921-1932)

By: Leo Strauss

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The Early Writings (1921-1932)

By: Leo Strauss

This translation of eighteen virtually unknown early publications provides access for the first time to the origins of Leo Strauss's thought in the intellectual life of the German Jewish 'renaissance' in the 1920s. Themes range from the Enlightenment critique of the religion of Spinoza and the anti-critique of Jacobi, to the political Zionism of Herzl and the cultural Zionism of Buber and Ahad Ha'am. The essays and reviews reprinted in this volume document a youth caught in the "theological-political" conflict between the irretrievability of premodern religion and the disenchantedness of "honest" atheism, an impossible alternative that precipitated Strauss to seek out the possibility of a return to the level of natural ignorance presupposed in Socratic political philosophy.

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State University of New York Press

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0791488829

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9780791488829

Nice Guys Finish Last

By: Leo Durocher,Edward Linn

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Nice Guys Finish Last

By: Leo Durocher,Edward Linn

Durocher's life from his career in baseball as one of the best shortstops to his success as a major league manager.

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Simon & Schuster

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0671220578

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