Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Hey Hey, Holy Cow and Hallelujah The world of sports is as life itself. The Chicago Cubs team after a strange year for baseball and the world at large, is now embarked on building something from yesterday's success, forgetting past failures and starting all over again. That's the way of... RRP: $47.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Breaking the Color Barrier The history of sports and race is messy. In baseball Jackie Robinson is universally touted as the first black major league player, which conveniently forgets Moses Fleetwood Walker and other players of color who appeared on 19th century diamonds... RRP: $15.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Wonder Boy - The Story of Carl Scheib The Youngest Player in American League History Carl Scheib, from Gratz, PA, was a young farm boy of 16 who was signed to a major league contract by Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics. Carl enjoyed 11 years in the major leagues, interrupted by his... RRP: $36.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Societas Americana Societas Americana (American Society) is the legacy of the Cooper family. The Coopers were itinerant laborers who specialized in building parks during the American Civil War. They began to also teach and play baseball as they traveled around the United... RRP: $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added 1975 Red Sox The 1975 American League Champion Boston Red Sox squared off with the Cincinnati Reds in what is widely recognized as one of the best World Series ever played. The Major League Baseball Network has named its sixth game "the greatest game ever played."... RRP: $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added East Lake Golf Club East Lake Golf Club was heralded as "one of the finest in the United States" when its first holes were completed in 1907. Bobby Jones called East Lake his home course, as did Alexa Stirling, Watts Gunn, and Charlie Yates. It flourished in the early 1900s... RRP: $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Mexican American Baseball in Los Angeles RRP: $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added University of Maine Ice Hockey Maine's long winters would seem the ideal place for hockey to develop, but blistering winter conditions, frigid temperatures, and windchill made the sport unpleasant and even dangerous. The problem was not solved until 1976, when Harold Alfond donated a... RRP: $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Hartford Whalers The Hartford Whalers began their existence in Boston as the New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association (WHA). The Whalers played in every season of the WHA's seven-year existence and were the league's first champions. Although their games were... RRP: $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Chicago's Soldier Field Located on scenic Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Soldier Field was designed in 1919 and opened on October 9, 1924, as Municipal Grant Park Stadium. The stadium--modeled in the Greco-Roman architectural tradition with classic Doric colonnades--was designed... RRP: $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Bear Memories Halas would provide food according to how we had fared against the Packers. If we won, it was steaks for everybody. But if we lost, we were lucky to be served hamburgers. --Harlan Hill, 1950s "I didn't have any particular grievance with any of the Packer... RRP: $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added St. Louis' Big League Ballparks Baseball came to St. Louis before the dawn of the major leagues. It was a gentleman's game, a simple summer pastime, and its popularity grew as the city evolved. Local amateur teams proliferated, and interest in forming a team of professionals resulted... RRP: $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Comiskey Park The Chicago White Sox opened Comiskey Park on July 1, 1910. Their owner, Charles Comiskey, wanted a new, modern, park made of steel and concrete to replace the old South Side Park. Comiskey Park was the home of the White Sox for the next 80 years, and... RRP: $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Cincinnati Reds Imagine crouching 15 feet from home plate during a Cincinnati Reds baseball game with a camera at eye level. A major league player like Ted Kluszewski comes barreling towards the plate as you flash the bulb while the catcher makes the tag. That was one... RRP: $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Baseball in Rochester Few cities can boast of a longer or richer baseball tradition than Rochester, New York. The game's roots in the Flower City can be traced to the early nineteenth century, when a primitive form of baseball was being played on Mumford's Meadow near the... RRP: $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Mustang Miracle In 1957, when very few Mexican-Americans were familiar with the game of golf, and even less actually played it, a group of young caddies which had been recruited to form the San Felipe High School Golf Team by two men who loved the game, but who had... RRP: $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sogobujutsu David C. Falcaro, a longtime martial arts expert, presents this textbook exploring the history, philosophy, codes of conduct, psychology, and traditions of the Neji Gekken Ryu. Falcaro is a Sodenke-that is, he has received scrolls after attaining... RRP: $53.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Gerrit Smith Miller This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,... RRP: $32.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added North Pacific Association of Amateur Oarsmen. Constitution, By-laws and Rules 1920 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,... RRP: $33.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Springfield Wheelmen's Gazette; v. 3 May 1885-Mar. 1886 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,... RRP: $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Wheel; v. 12 no. 1-26 Apr. 1-Sept. 23 1887 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,... RRP: $70.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added In the Best Interests of Baseball? In the Best Interests of Baseball? is a thoughtful, balanced look at the impact of the ninth commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig, on the sport as well as an examination of the commissioner's position in a historical context. The more controversial topics... RRP: $49.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Beyond Dimaggio Berra, Rizzuto, Lasorda, Torre, Conigliaro, Santo, Piazza. Casual baseball fans-in fact, even many nonfans-know these names, not as Italian Americans but as some of the most colorful figures in Major League Baseball. Ever since future Hall of Famer Tony... RRP: $55.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Wally Yonamine Wally Yonamine was both the first Japanese American to play for an NFL franchise and the first American to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II. This is the unlikely story of how a shy young man from the sugar plantations of Maui... RRP: $45.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Southern Association in Baseball, 1885-1961 Ranking just below the top major and minor leagues in the first half of the twentieth century was another group of quality circuits. The Southern Association, which was formed in 1901 and had teams in several prominent Southern cities, was part of... RRP: $90.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sport History This is a fundamental text for the study of sport history. It answers the 'why,' 'how,' and 'what' questions, introducing the key principles and practices of sport history and walking the reader through the fascinating stories, debates, issues, and... RRP: $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Gender in Physical Culture This volume outlines existing research relating to gender in physical culture. The introductory chapter employs Lamont and Molnàr's (2002) idea of 'boundaries' as visible and invisible socially constructed borders that create social differences, as the... RRP: $79.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Baseball's Greatest Quotations Rev. Ed. Baseball has always had its share of colorful characters, and over the years they have expressed themselves in eminently quotable ways. In this treasury of more than 5,000 quotations, noted baseball writer and observer Paul Dickson has captured the... RRP: $32.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Metropolitans! History of the New York Mets Baseball Team If you love baseball, then you will love reading about the history of the New York Mets. Inside you will read about every season in Mets history. Since 1962 when they started at the Polo Grounds to the current day playing at Citi Field. The Mets have a... RRP: $66.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Every Diamond Does Sparkle - "The Playoffs" {Part II 2000-present} If you love Baseball, then you will enjoy reading about Baseball's great history of the Playoffs. Inside you will read about every game in Baseball Playoffs history from 2000 to the present. It is a long and glorious one, full of colorful characters and... RRP: $70.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added "The Sawx" History of the Boston Red Sox If you love baseball, then you will love reading about the history of the Boston Red Sox. Inside, you will read about every season in Red Sox history, including players stats, Playoff and World Series line scores and game recaps. Since 1901, the Red Sox... RRP: $70.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Cent ans des sports en république démocratique du Congo Par cet ouvrage sur les cents ans des sports en République Démocratique du Congo, l'auteur, non seulement nous fait voyager à travers le temps, mais nous invite aussi à la réflexion sur le devenir du sport dans sa société. Les renseignements précieux qui... RRP: $95.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Jackie Robinson The year was 1947. A talented young minor-league baseball player was called up to the majors to join the Brooklyn Dodgers. But this was no ordinary man, nor any simple achievement. This was Jackie Robinson: an all-around star athlete, a U.S. Army... RRP: $15.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added It Still Gets Foggy at Mossy Creek I wrote a book about the origin and development of intercollegiate athletics at Carson-Newman College from 1851 to 1974 which was based on my dissertation at the University of Georgia. It has been thirty eight years since the first book was completed... RRP: $79.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Eight Hateful Miles In the heart of the Bible belt, only one thing could drive folks to set aside the good Lord's commandment to love thy neighbor—one of the state's longest and most combative high-school football rivalries. Located about 25 miles west of... RRP: $49.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Savagery in Sandals <p><strong>Through the historical writings of classic scholars, poets, and commentators, <em>Savagery in Sandals </em>sheds a light on the world of the gladiatorial games and the lives of Ancient Rome's most renowned gladiators... RRP: $55.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Ice Wars This book presents the complete history of New York’s greatest modern sports rivalry: The battle between the New York Rangers and New York Islanders. More than fifty former players and broadcasters from both teams were interviewed for this book to... RRP: $80.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Hub Heroes For anyone who writes biographically about these heroes, it’s vital to provide some little-known, surprising facts to give the reader a better idea of what they were really like and give a fuller picture of their lives. I hope I have succeeded in... RRP: $33.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Cooperstown's Back Door For over 60 years, the color barrier excluded Black ballplayers from the major leagues, forcing them to form their own teams and leagues. After Jackie Robinson broke down that barrier, Black players faced another: the barrier to the Hall of Fame. At... RRP: $76.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Hoyt Wilhelm Hoyt Wilhelm's intriguing baseball career lasted two decades. A veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, the eight-time All-Star from Huntersville, North Carolina, was a standout for the New York Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox and Atlanta... RRP: $69.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Parisian Bob Caruthers Before Shohei Ohtani and Babe Ruth there was Robert Lee "Parisian Bob" Caruthers (1865-1911). A wunderkind pitcher and right fielder known throughout the country, he was the star on the mound for five league championships in 10 years, and one of two... RRP: $76.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Lineup Focusing on the ten most influential baseball books of all time, this volume explores how these landmark works changed the game itself and made waves in American society at large. Satchel Paige's Pitchin' Man informed the dialog surrounding... RRP: $57.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added When the Babe Went Back to Boston Babe Ruth was 40 and flabby in 1935. His days as a strapping, fearsome home run hitter were behind him. Baseball had flourished into big business through Ruth's swing and swag and didn't need him anymore. His dream was to become a manager but the New... RRP: $76.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Colonial Downs and More The rich heritage of Virginia horse racing traces its roots back to the colonial days of the late seventeenth century. Horse racing began as single-day events held at county fairs, family farms, and hunt meets, taking a long and meandering path to become... RRP: $31.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Sport and Protest in the Black Atlantic This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic. It brings together innovative scholarship on African, African-American, Afro-European, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-Caribbean sports in a manner that speaks effectively to the... RRP: $105.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
