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Babe

The Legend Comes to Life

By: Robert W. Creamer

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Babe

The Legend Comes to Life

By: Robert W. Creamer

“The best biography ever written about an American sports figure.” —Sports Illustrated Nearly a century has passed since George Herman Ruth made his major league debut, and in that time millions of words have been used to describe baseball’s greatest hero. But for a man like the Babe, for whom the phrase “larger than life” seems to have been coined, those millions of words have created a mythologized legacy. Who was the real Babe Ruth? Relying on exhaustive research and interviews with teammates, family members, and friends, historian Robert W. Creamer separates fact from fiction and paints an honest and fascinating portrait of the slugger. This is the definitive biography of a man who was, in legend and in truth, the best who ever lived.

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Open Road Media

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1453220658

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9781453220658

Baseball and Other Matters in 1941

By: Robert W. Creamer

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Baseball and Other Matters in 1941

By: Robert W. Creamer

This is a baseball book, but whether Creamer intended it or not, it's much, much more."-Sports Illustrated. "[Creamer] recalls this momentous year in baseball and world history. He reprises Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, Ted Williams's .406 batting average, Hank Greenberg and the draft, the furious Dodgers-Cardinals pennant fight, and the ensuing World Series. All this is portrayed against the looming U.S. entry into World War II."-Library Journal. Robert W. Creamer, one of the best and most perceptive writers on baseball, remembers the baseball-and other matters-of 1941 in a tribute to the game that is also part memoir. Creamer was a long-time writer and editor at Sports Illustrated. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including the following Bison Books: Stengel: His Life and Times, Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat, Jocko, and The Quality of Courage.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803264062

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9780803264069

Stengel

His Life and Times

By: Robert W. Creamer

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Stengel

His Life and Times

By: Robert W. Creamer

One of the most endearing of American heroes, Casey Stengel guided the New York Yankees to ten pennants in twelve seasons. Here is the brilliant manager stripped naked—the person underneath all the clowning, mugging, and double-talking. Robert Creamer shows us Casey at twenty-two, famous from his very first day in the big leagues. We see Casey’s playing career fall apart as he is traded, shunted to last-place teams, hampered by injuries, considered finished—until he bats a glorious home run in the 1923 World Series. Here are Casey’s managing successes and failures—dismissed by the Yankees, he returns to the limelight with his new and inept New York Mets, the team he single-handedly lifts into the nation’s consciousness. “I’m a man that’s been up and down,” Casey said in a serious moment. Certainly his knack for bouncing back made him a legend in our national pastime. Here are the stories and gags, the Stengelian style, the full dimensions of the man.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803263678

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9780803263673

Much More Than a Game

Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921

By: Robert F. Burk

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Much More Than a Game

Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921

By: Robert F. Burk

To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams--and those who play on them--our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball. During what Burk calls baseball's "paternalistic era," from 1921 to the early 1960s, the sport's management rigidly maintained a system of racial segregation, established a network of southern-based farm teams that served as a captive source of cheap replacement labor, and crushed any attempts by players to create collective bargaining institutions. In the 1960s, however, the paternal order crumbled, eroded in part by the civil rights movement and the competition of television. As a consequence, in the "inflationary era" that followed, both players and umpires established effective unions that successfully pressed for higher pay, pensions, and greater occupational mobility--and then fought increasingly bitter struggles to hold on to these hard-won gains.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807875376

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9780807875377

A Dawn Like Thunder

The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight

By: Robert J. Mrazek

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A Dawn Like Thunder

The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight

By: Robert J. Mrazek

One of the great untold stories of World War II finally comes to light in this thrilling account of Torpedo Squadron Eight and their heroic efforts in helping an outmatched U.S. fleet win critical victories at Midway and Guadalcanal. Thirty-five American men -- many flying outmoded aircraft -- changed the course of the war, going on to become the war's most decorated naval air squadron, while suffering the heaviest losses in U.S. naval aviation history. Mrazek paints moving portraits of the men in the squadron, and exposes a shocking cover-up that cost many lives. Filled with thrilling scenes of battle, betrayal, and sacrifice, A Dawn Like Thunder is destined to become a classic in the literature of World War II.

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Hachette+ORM

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0316040983

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9780316040983

The Boys of Adams' Battery G

The Civil War Through the Eyes of a Union Light Artillery Unit

By: Robert Grandchamp

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The Boys of Adams' Battery G

The Civil War Through the Eyes of a Union Light Artillery Unit

By: Robert Grandchamp

Raised from Rhode Island farmers and millworkers in the autumn of 1861, the Union soldiers of Battery G fought in such bloody conflicts as Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, and Cedar Creek. At the storming of Petersburg on April 2, 1865, seven cannoneers were awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in the face of the enemy. This history captures the battlefield exploits of the "Boys of Hope" but also depicts camp life, emerging cannon technology, and the social events of the Civil War.

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McFarland

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0786454571

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9780786454570

Babe

The Legend Comes to Life

By: Robert W. Creamer

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The Legend Comes to Life

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Open Road Media

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Baseball in '41

A Celebration of the Best Baseball Season Ever-- in the Year America Went to War

By: Robert W. Creamer

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Baseball in '41

A Celebration of the Best Baseball Season Ever-- in the Year America Went to War

By: Robert W. Creamer

Recreates the glory and atmosphere of the great baseball season of 1941, when DiMaggio had his record fifty-six game hitting streak, Williams batted .406, and America went to war.

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Penguin Mass Market

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0140169431

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9780140169430

Stengel

His Life and Times

By: Robert W. Creamer

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His Life and Times

By: Robert W. Creamer

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803263678

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9780803263673

Sports Illustrated Baseball

Four Decades of Sports Illustrated's Finest Writing on America's Favorite Pastime

By: Rh Value Publishing,George Plimpton,Robert W. Creamer,Frank Deford,Peter Gammons,Random House Value Publishing,Steve Wolf,Various

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Sports Illustrated Baseball

Four Decades of Sports Illustrated's Finest Writing on America's Favorite Pastime

By: Rh Value Publishing,George Plimpton,Robert W. Creamer,Frank Deford,Peter Gammons,Random House Value Publishing,Steve Wolf,Various

Includes articles on Mickey Mantle, Roberto Clemente, Nolan Ryan, Henry Aaron and his record, Willie Mays, Roger Maris, among others.

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0517182653

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9780517182659

Baseball Memorabilia

By: Robert Obojski

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Baseball Memorabilia

By: Robert Obojski

Provides information about valuable and not-so-valuable baseball collectibles, as well as baseball trivia.

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174

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Sterling Publishing (NY)

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0806972890

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9780806972893

Season of Glory

By: Ralph Houk

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Season of Glory

By: Ralph Houk

Baseball books are always in season, and this year's winner is Season of Glory, the amazing saga of the 1961 New York Yankees. Manager Ralph Houk and bestselling sports writer Robert W. Creamer recall the breathless and unforgettable moments of this ever-popular team.

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0671674110

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9780671674113

The Quality of Courage

By: Mickey Mantle

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The Quality of Courage

By: Mickey Mantle

Tells the stories of players who did their best despite personal adversity, including Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Roger Maris, Roy Campanella, Ted Williams, and Jimmy Piersall

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803282591

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9780803282599

Baseball and Other Matters in 1941

By: Robert W. Creamer

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Baseball and Other Matters in 1941

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Baseball in '41

A Celebration of the Best Baseball Season Ever-- in the Year America Went to War

By: Robert W. Creamer

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A Celebration of the Best Baseball Season Ever-- in the Year America Went to War

By: Robert W. Creamer

Recreates the glory and atmosphere of the great baseball season of 1941, when DiMaggio had his record fifty-six game hitting streak, Williams batted .406, and America went to war.

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Jocko

By: Jocko Conlan

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Jocko

By: Jocko Conlan

The ultimate umpire relives the good old days on the diamond. Jocko Conlan was an outfielder for the Chicago White Sox when, one afternoon in 1936, he became an umpire. Thus began a career lasting more than a quarter century, most of it with the National League. Through the skillful writing of Robert W. Creamer, the ebullient Jocko makes his many years of umpiring so real that the reader can smell the peanuts and hear the swat of the ball. Jocko is packed with funny stories about famous players and the beleaguered umpire?s lot.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803263813

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9780803263819

Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat

By: Red Barber

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Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat

By: Red Barber

For more than fifty years Red Barber was the voice of baseball. The game was broadcast sporadically until the late 1930s, when Barber burst into prominence by bringing it home to radio listeners, play by play. More than half a century later, he could still be heard, broadcasting over National Public Radio from his retirement home in Tallahassee. Announcing for the Brooklyn Dodgers and later for the New York Yankees, he became a legend long before his death in 1992. Red?s story reveals the growth and changes in baseball over the years, the demands of sportscasting, and the difference between radio and television reporting. Here is Red giving major play-by-plays of his own life and career with characteristic wit and integrity.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803261365

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9780803261365

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