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Society of American Baseball Research
PreviewSABR Roster Larry Aaronson Franklin A Aasen Craig W Abbott Brett Abbott Ken D Abramson David C Accardi Michael A Aceardo Ernie Accorsi Stephen Acee Edward Achorn Jody Ackerman Alan J Ackerman Mike Ackerman Dick Acton ...
The Great Eight: The 1975 Cincinnati Reds
Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)Joe Posnanski, The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart- Stopping World Series; The Story ofthe 1975 CincinnatiReds (New York: William Morrow, 2009), 42. 4. Posnanski, The Machine, 42, 43. 5. Morgan and Falkner, Joe ...
Sweet '60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates
PreviewSources. The National Baseball Congress ofAmerica, 1955 Official Baseball Annual Private database of José A. Crescioni, the late SABR member who compiled statistics for the Puerto ...
The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign ...
Robert EliasSamuel O. Regalado, Viva Baseball! Latin American Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998); Samuel O. Regalado, “Viva Baseball! The Beginnings of Latin American Baseball,” in Baseball History ...
Baseball and the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender, and ...
Robert EliasThe early baseball experiences of Asian Americans and other ethnics during the first half of the twentieth century are described by historian Joel Franks, and filmmaker Kerry Yo Nakagawa traces the history of Japanese American baseball and ...
Directory
National Research Council (U.S.). Commission on Life SciencesAMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAMMALOGISTS AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ZOOLOGISTS Richard W. Thorington, Jr. Curator of Mammals Division of Mammals American Society of Mamma logis ts Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560 ...
Barbed Wire Baseball
Marissa MossTraces the childhood dream of Japanese-American baseball pioneer Kenichi Zenimura of playing professionally and his family's struggles in a World War II internment camp where he introduces baseball to raise hope.
Mexican American Baseball in Los Angeles
Francisco E. BalderramaImages of Baseball: Mexican American Baseball in Los Angeles celebrates the flourishing culture of the great pastime in East Los Angeles and other communities where a strong sense of Mexican identity and pride was fostered in a sporting ...
Our Game: An American Baseball History
Charles C. AlexanderOur Game is a book by Charles C. Alexander, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Ohio University and author of acclaimed baseball books Our Game: An American Baseball History and Rogers Hornsby: A Biography, and Breaking the Slump ...
The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2002
Preview... Cal Ripken, Jr. Roberta Newman Assessing Outcomes of Baseball Labor Negotiations Paul D. Staudohar Letting the Gini Out of the Bottle: A Look at Inequality in Major League Baseball Since ¡985 Brian O'Roark and G. Dirk Mateer PART 3.
The Cambridge Companion to Baseball
PreviewCOnTEnTS List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgments Baseball: a chronology Introduction 1 leonard cassuto 1 The rules of baseball 9 steven p. gietschier 2 Baseball in literature, baseball as literature 21 stephen partridge and ...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
More editionsIssues for 1898-1901 include Review of American chemical research, v. 4-7; 1879-1937, the society's Proceedings.
American Jews and America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy ...
Larry RuttmanSol Gittleman First-Generation Jewish American, Realizing the American Dream T here can be no question that the United States. 22. Tufts University professor of baseball history and baseball author Sol Gittleman, the poor man's Dustin ...
Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research ...
American Association for Cancer ResearchConsists of abstracts presented at the 65th- annual meetings of the American Association for Cancer Research and the 10th- annual meetings of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Storied Stadiums: Baseball's History Through Its Ballparks
Curt SmithA baseball historian traces the history of American major league baseball through personal reminiscences, anecdotes, and facts about its early fields, grandstands, and modern-day stadiums, offering a fascinating tour of more than 125 ...
Asian American Sporting Cultures
Preview54 Kerry Yo Nakagawa, “Manzanar: Family, Friends, and Desert Diamonds Behind Barbed Wire,” in The National Pastime: Endless Seasons, Baseball in Southern California, ed. Jean Hastings Ardell and Andy McClue (Society for American ...
Test Your Baseball Literacy
R. Wayne SchmittbergerTest Your Baseball Literacy Entertaining quizzes on every facet of the Great American Game--from Shoeless Joe to Sadaharu Oh "The questions in Test Your Baseball Literacy really test your knowledge, not just your memory.
Baseball in Washington,
Frank CeresiJust 13 years after Alexander Cartwright codified baseball's rules, the Washington Nationals Baseball Club formed and in 1867 toured the country spreading the "baseball gospel.
Mexican American Baseball in the Central Coast
Richard A. SantillánThis book remedies the glaring omission of baseball images and stories of Mexican American neighborhoods in the Central Coast of California.
Baseball America Almanac
More editionsA companion volume to Baseball America's Directory, this annual reference reviews the previous year's major and minor league baseball season and includes complete statistics and a summary of college and amateur baseball. Original.
Curse of the Black Bambino: Baseball's Failure to Attract ...
Anup SinhaCurse of the Black Bambino looks at the reasons why Black athletes are choosing to play football and basketball over baseball and what can be done to bring African-American athletes back to the game of baseball.
Playing for Their Nation: Baseball and the American Military ...
Steven R. Bullock"Steven R. Bullock describes how virtually every significant American military installation around the world boasted formal baseball teams and leagues designed to soothe the anxieties of combatants and prepare them physically for battle.
Who's Better, Who's Best in Baseball?
Elliott KalbThese are just a few of the hotly debated questions in Who's Better, Who's Best in Baseball? that will fire the blood of baseball fans. Ornery, opinionated, and brimming with baseball intelligence, Elliott Kalb, a.k.a.
Best of Baseball Prospectus: 1996-2011
Baseball ProspectusSince 2003, Baseball Prospectus has published dozens of exclusive articles every month to subscribers to its groundbreaking Baseball Prospectus Premium service. Now, we're taking the next step by bringing the BP archives to your bookshelf.
One-Armed Wonder: Pete Gray, Wartime Baseball, and the ...
William C. KashatusA biography of the baseball player who had only one arm, from his childhood in the coal district of northeastern Pennsylvania to his one year with the American League's St. Louis Browns
Mexican American Baseball in Ventura County
Richard A. SantillánMexican American Baseball in Ventura County pays tribute to the legendary teams and players from Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, Simi Valley, Moorpark, Santa Paula, and other surrounding neighborhoods.
Law books, 1876-1981: books and serials on law and its ...
R.R. Bowker Company1892, 2158, 2981 American Society for Legal History. Northeastern States Branch. 2067 American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. 1897,2271, 2985,3081, 3252 American Society for Public Administration. 3070 American Society of ...
Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan
Peter MorrisThis detailed history of early baseball in rural Michigan focuses on the evolution of America's pastime from child's game to organized sport and challenges the notion that baseball's development was strictly an East Coast phenomenon
Viva Baseball!: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger
Samuel Octavio RegaladoChronicles the struggles of Latin American baseball players in the United States from the late 1800s to the present.
Baseball Research Journal
More editionsMitchell S. Soivenski Table 1. Expansion Year One Won-Lost Records Table 2. Winning. A JL MS the National League prepares for its first expansion in 24 years in 1993, baseball fans in general and those in Florida and Colorado in particular ...
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