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Cracks in the Outfield Wall

Author : Chris Holaday
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469678861
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Cracks in the Outfield Wall written by Chris Holaday and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-known story of integration in baseball is Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color line in 1947 after coming up through the minor leagues the previous year. His story, however, differs from those of the many players who integrated the game in the Jim Crow South at all professional levels. Chris Holaday offers readers the first book-length history of baseball's integration in the Carolinas, showing its slow and unsteady progress, narrating the experience of players in a range of distinct communities, detailing the influence of baseball executives at the local and major league levels, and revealing that the changing structure of the professional baseball system allowed the major leagues to control integration at the state level. Holaday illuminates many smaller stories along the way, including desegregation in Little League and American Legion baseball, the first Black players to play in the tiny foothills town of Granite Falls, North Carolina, and the pipeline of Afro-Cuban players from Havana to the Carolina leagues. By showing how race and the national pastime intersected at the local level, Holaday offers readers new context to understand the long struggle of equality in the game.

Chicago's Wrigley Field

Author : Paul Michael Peterson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738533759
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book Chicago's Wrigley Field written by Paul Michael Peterson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "visual-historical tour" of 91 seasons of Chicago baseball from the focal point of the Cubs' stadium, featuring photographs that show the ballpark's history, legions of fans, and surrounding neighborhood.

American Icon

Author : Teri Thompson
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307273431
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book American Icon written by Teri Thompson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was an epic downfall. In twenty-four seasons pitcher Roger Clemens put together one of the greatest careers baseball has ever seen. Seven Cy Young Awards, two World Series championships, and 354 victories made him a lock for the Hall of Fame. But on December 13, 2007, the Mitchell Report laid waste to all that. Accusations that Clemens relied on steroids and human growth hormone provided and administered by his former trainer, Brian McNamee, have put Clemens in the crosshairs of a Justice Department investigation. Why did this happen? How did it happen? Who made the decisions that altered some lives and ruined others? How did a devastating culture of drugs, lies, sex, and cheating fester and grow throughout Major League Baseball's clubhouses? The answers are in these extraordinary pages. American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime is about much more than the downfall of a superstar. While the fascinating portrait of Clemens is certainly at the center of the action, the book takes us outside the white lines and inside the lives and dealings of sports executives, trainers, congressmen, lawyers, drug dealers, groupies, a porn star, and even a murderer—all of whom have ties to this saga. Four superb investigative journalists have spent years uncovering the truth, and at the heart of their investigation is a behind-the-scenes portrait of the maneuvering and strategies in the legal war between Clemens and his accuser, McNamee. This compelling story is the strongest examination yet of the rise of illegal drugs in America’s favorite sport, the gym-rat culture in Texas that has played such an important role in spreading those drugs, and the way Congress has dealt with the entire issue. Andy Pettitte, Jose Canseco, Alex Rodriguez, and Chuck Knoblauch are just a few of the other players whose moving and sometimes disturbing stories are illuminated here as well. The New York Daily News Sports Investigative Team has written the definitive book on corruption and the steroids era in Major League Baseball. In doing so, they have managed to dig beneath the disillusion and disappointment to give us a stirring look at heroes who all too often live unheroic shadow lives.

Cracks in the Outfield Wall

Author : Chris Holaday
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Cracks in the Outfield Wall written by Chris Holaday and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-known story of integration in baseball is Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color line in 1947 after coming up through the minor leagues the previous year. His story, however, differs from those of the many players who integrated the game in the Jim Crow South at all professional levels. Chris Holaday offers readers the first book-length history of baseball's integration in the Carolinas, showing its slow and unsteady progress, narrating the experience of players in a range of distinct communities, detailing the influence of baseball executives at the local and major league levels, and revealing that the changing structure of the professional baseball system allowed the major leagues to control integration at the state level. Holaday illuminates many smaller stories along the way, including desegregation in Little League and American Legion baseball, the first Black players to play in the tiny foothills town of Granite Falls, North Carolina, and the pipeline of Afro-Cuban players from Havana to the Carolina leagues. By showing how race and the national pastime intersected at the local level, Holaday offers readers new context to understand the long struggle of equality in the game.

Borchert Field

Author : Bob Buege
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 087020789X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Borchert Field written by Bob Buege and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone lucky enough to live on Milwaukee’s near north side between 1888 and 1952 could experience the world without ever leaving the neighborhood. Nestled between North Seventh and Eighth Streets and West Chambers and Burleigh, Borchert Field was Milwaukee’s major sports venue for 64 years. In this rickety wooden stadium (originally called Athletic Park), Wisconsin residents had a close-up view of sports history in the making, along with rodeos, thrill shows, and even multiple eruptions of Mount Vesuvius. In Borchert Field, baseball historian Bob Buege introduces the famous and fascinating athletes who dazzled audiences in Milwaukee’s venerable ballpark. All the legendary baseball figures—the Bambino, Satchel Paige, Ty Cobb, Joltin’ Joe, Jackie Robinson, the Say Hey Kid—played there. Olympic heroes Jim Thorpe, Babe Didrikson, and Jesse Owens displayed their amazing talents in Borchert. Knute Rockne’s Fighting Irish competed there, and Curly Lambeau’s Green Bay Packers took the field 10 times. Buege tells stories of other monumental moments at Borchert as well, including a presidential visit, women ballplayers, the arrival of television broadcasting, the 1922 national balloon race, and an appearance by scat-singing bandleader Cab Calloway. Borchert Field is long gone, but every page of this book takes readers back to the sights, sounds, and spectacle of its heyday.

The Project Kids

Author : Coach Mike Manley
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1098015959
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Project Kids written by Coach Mike Manley and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's go back to the time of rotary phones, party lines, TV screens that were fifteen inches, and the beginning of rock and roll. What was it like growing up in a Housing Authority project? Take a journey throughtime withnine friends in the fifties, as they try to show you kids are the same yesteryear as they are today. Or are they? Faith,friendship, and loyalty are the key words of the book. This book will make you laugh, cry, and wonder were the fifties the good old days. So when your grandkids ask,"How was it when you weregrowing up?"Hand them this book!Coach Mike Manley is a retired New York City physical education teacher. He often states there are 17,500 former students walking around sore from the thousands of pushups, sit-ups, jumping jacks, and chain breakers they did in hisclass His love of teaching, coaching, sports, and faith canbe traced back to his days growing up in a housing project. His book the Project Kids: Takes Us back to the 1950s.Many of the adventures with his eight friends will make you laugh, cry, and wonder how they grew up in such a small part of the world. Mike's book took forty-eight years in the making, and now he can check it off his bucket list.Mike still coaches on Cape Cod where he lives with his wife Carol.

When Baseball Was Still King

Author : Gene Fehler
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786493089
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book When Baseball Was Still King written by Gene Fehler and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball in the 1950s comes to life through the words of 92 players from the fifties. In their conversations with author Gene Fehler, they tell, in more than a thousand stories and comments, of memorable moments, their dealings with umpires and managers, injuries and trades that affected their careers, regrets and joys that still remain with them so many years later. Players spoken to include Hall of Famers, All Stars, journeymen, and a few who were in the big leagues for the proverbial cup of coffee. Regardless of stature, they all have wonderful stories to tell about big league life in the 1950s, high and low, and moments with other players.

Going, Going ... Caught!

Author : Jason Aronoff
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786441135
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Going, Going ... Caught! written by Jason Aronoff and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-01-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Willie Mays' World Series catch of Vic Wertz's long drive in 1954 immediately comes to mind, there are many catches that have been called "the greatest." This work documents baseball's best catches by outfielders from 1887 through 1964 (the year of Duke Snider's retirement, the demolition of the Polo Grounds, and, arguably, Willie Mays' last great grab). After introductory chapters on factors that influenced the catches and their legacies--from ballpark quirks, changes to the baseball and the evolution of baseball gloves, to sportswriters and photography--the book describes famous catches by decade from such players as Mays, Willie Keeler, Joe DiMaggio, Duke Snider, Roberto Clement, Curt Flood and many others. Extensive research yields a wealth of information for each catch, including commentary by period sportswriters, players, and, often, the man who snagged the ball.

The Somerset Ball

Author : Mikel D. Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491774371
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book The Somerset Ball written by Mikel D. Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970 Tilghman baseball team was a conglomeration of students from all over Paducah, a town of about thirty thousand in West Kentucky. The Blue Tornado already had a proud history of success in football, basketball, track and baseball. However, little was expected from this years team. Fielding a starting roster and coaches with limited experience, the team began with a mediocre record, but became a tough opponent as the season progressed- ultimately surprising everyone by making it to the finals of the Kentucky State High School Tournament. The tournament was one of the most memorable in Kentucky sports history, including teams from Madisonville, Louisville Trinity, Lexington Lafayette, Somerset, Russell, Covington Catholic, Elizabethtown and Paducah Tilghman. This is a story about growing up in a small Midwestern town - remembering life in Paducah and a tribute to the great players across the State as told through photographs, statistics, news accounts and memories of the 1960s.

Yogi

Author : Jon Pessah
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316310980
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Yogi written by Jon Pessah and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the definitive biography of Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees icon, winner of 10 World Series championships, and the most-quoted player in baseball history. Lawrence "Yogi" Berra was never supposed to become a major league ballplayer. That's what his immigrant father told him. That's what Branch Rickey told him, too—right to Berra's face, in fact. Even the lowly St. Louis Browns of his youth said he'd never make it in the big leagues. Yet baseball was his lifeblood. It was the only thing he ever cared about. Heck, it was the only thing he ever thought about. Berra couldn't allow a constant stream of ridicule about his appearance, taunts about his speech, and scorn about his perceived lack of intelligence to keep him from becoming one of the best to ever play the game—at a position requiring the very skills he was told he did not have. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and four years of reporting, Jon Pessah delivers a transformational portrait of how Berra handled his hard-earned success—on and off the playing field—as well as his failures; how the man who insisted "I really didn't say everything I said!" nonetheless shaped decades of America's culture; and how Berra's humility and grace redefined what it truly means to be a star. Overshadowed on the field by Joe DiMaggio early in his career and later by a youthful Mickey Mantle, Berra emerges as not only the best loved Yankee but one of the most appealingly simple, innately complex, and universally admired men in all of America.

The Essentials of Sports Reporting and Writing

Author : Scott Reinardy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135591164
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Essentials of Sports Reporting and Writing written by Scott Reinardy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-02 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text covers the full experience of sports writing. Authors Wayne Wanta and Scott Reinardy approach the topic using their own professional experience as sports writers and editors to give students a realistic view of the sports writing profession. After the overview and introduction to sports journalism, the authors move into the stages of article writing, organized around article beginnings, middles, and endings. The text also covers other types of sports stories, such as columns, profiles, and news, and addresses style and ethics issues. It provides students with a full understanding of how to produce quality content for sports stories, as well as offer insights as to what to expect in the sports reporter position.

60 Feet, 6 Inches and Other Distances from Home

Author : Todd Fuller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book 60 Feet, 6 Inches and Other Distances from Home written by Todd Fuller and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mose YellowHorse's 1920 fastball traveled "in the neighborhood of ninety-five miles an hour," and Todd Fuller's bio of YellowHorse is a similarly powerhouse affair. Avid and loving in the tribute it pays to this too-neglected American original, but willing to distinguish Mose the myth from the everyday Mose the man, this deeply researched and widely encompassing journey through baseball, politics, poetry, prose, stats, tribal life, and comic strip shenanigans is surely Fuller's equivalent of having all the bases loaded."--Albert Goldbarth Mose YellowHorse (1898-1964), a Skidi Pawnee, played professional baseball for nearly a decade, most notably with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1921 and '22. Aside from his baseball achievements, YellowHorse, as a boy, traveled with and performed in Pawnee Bill's Wild West show, later served in the Army during World War I, and also appeared as a character in Chester Gould's Dick Tracy comic strip. After his death, he earned induction into both the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame and the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame. His baseball glove remains on permanent display at the Baeball Hall of Fame and Museum. Using a structural pattern based on an old-time Pawnee Indian storytelling session, many voices and perspectives collaborate to form a multi-faceted recreation of Mose YellowHorse's life. Poetry, oral histories (from tribal elders), critical essays, letters, cartoons, photographs, and newspaper accounts are all included as a way of focusing on cross-cultural tensions. Todd Fuller teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Drake University. In 1999 he completed his Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Native American literatures from Oklahoma State University, where he researched this book for eight years, with the help of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. The author is donating half of his royalties to establish the Mose YellowHorse Higher Education Endowment.

Brush Back

Author : Sara Paretsky
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399160574
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Brush Back written by Sara Paretsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago’s V. I. Warshawski confronts crooked politicians and buried family secrets in the gritty new novel from New York Times–bestselling author Sara Paretsky. No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she’d be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that’s precisely what she ends up doing when she responds to Frank Guzzo’s plea for help. For six stormy weeks back in high school, V.I. thought she was in love with Frank. He broke up with her, she went off to college, he started driving trucks for Bagby Haulage. She forgot about him until the day his mother was convicted of bludgeoning his kid sister, Annie, to death. Stella Guzzo was an angry, uncooperative prisoner and did a full twenty-five years for her daughter’s murder. Newly released from prison, Stella is looking for exoneration, so Frank asks V.I. for help. V.I. doesn’t want to get involved. Stella hated the Warshawskis, in particular V.I.’s adored mother, Gabriella. But life has been hard on Frank and on V.I.’s other childhood friends, still stuck on the hardscrabble streets around the dead steel mills, and V.I. agrees to ask a few questions. Those questions lead her straight into the vipers’ nest of Illinois politics she’s wanted to avoid. When V.I. takes a beating at a youth meeting in her old hood, her main question becomes whether she will live long enough to find answers.

A False Spring

Author : Pat Jordan
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504033647
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A False Spring written by Pat Jordan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity in America.” —Time In the late 1950s, acclaimed sportswriter Pat Jordan was a young pitching phenom, blowing away opposing batters for his Fairfield, Connecticut, high school baseball team. Fifteen major league clubs offered him a contract, but it was the Milwaukee Braves who won out, signing Jordan to a $45,000 bonus—one of the largest paid to any new player by the organization—and shipping him off to McCook, Nebraska, to play for their Class D ball club. It did not take long, however, for Jordan to realize he was out of his depth in professional baseball’s backwoods. He battled with inconsistency and a lack of control for three dismal seasons in such far-flung locales as Keokuk, Iowa, and Palatka, Florida, before the Braves released him and he gave up his dreams of big league greatness. Declared “unforgettable” by the Los Angeles Times and “a major triumph” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, A False Spring is a powerful and deeply affecting memoir about the gift of athletic talent and the heartbreak of unfulfilled promise.

Tailgates and First Dates

Author : Haley Rhoades
Publisher : Gingham Frog Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1959199021
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Tailgates and First Dates written by Haley Rhoades and published by Gingham Frog Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the one thing you are looking for is the one thing you can’t see. A tragedy, a death, and a new look on life, can Madison find a way to move forward when everything is abruptly disrupted? Madison is learning to deal with the death of her abusive mother, while witnessing the horrifying accident of her adopted mother. Her small town continues to pull her back to the place she is trying so hard to forget. Raising Liberty, finishing college, and working on her writing career consumes her time but is becoming more than one person can do on their own. Hamilton’s career is flourishing as he gets the opportunity to pitch in the World Series for the Chicago Cubs. He can’t shake the feeling that something is still missing, and when he learns Madison needs him most, it’s time for him to return. Something lovely often comes from weeks of despair. She’s not ready, but it’s time to reveal to Hamilton and his family their “secret.” Tailgates and First Dates is the 3rd book in the Locals Series. This steamy, contemporary, new adult, sports romance novel will keep you guessing with captivating characters and real to life events. Buy Tailgates and First Dates today and don’t get called out for missing this opportunity.

Fork in the Road

Author : Brooklyn Bailey
Publisher : Gingham Frog Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Fork in the Road written by Brooklyn Bailey and published by Gingham Frog Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the one thing you are looking for is the one thing you can’t see. A tragedy, a death, and a new look on life, can Madison find a way to move forward when everything is abruptly disrupted? Madison is learning to deal with the death of her abusive mother, while witnessing the horrifying accident of her adopted mother. Her small town continues to pull her back to the place she is trying so hard to forget. Raising Liberty, finishing college, and working on her writing career consumes her time but is becoming more than one person can do on their own. Hamilton’s career flourishes as he gets the opportunity to pitch in the World Series for the Chicago Cubs. He can’t shake the feeling that something is still missing, and when he learns Madison needs him most, it’s time for him to return. Something lovely often comes from weeks of despair. She’s not ready, but it’s time to reveal to Hamilton and his family their “secret.” Fork in the Road is the third book in the Country Roads Series. This closed door, small-town, new adult, second chance, slow burn, sports romance novel will keep you guessing with captivating characters and real-to-life events. Buy Fork in the Road today and don’t get called out for missing this opportunity.

The Locals Series Omnibus

Author : Haley Rhoades
Publisher : Gingham Frog Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1959199668
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book The Locals Series Omnibus written by Haley Rhoades and published by Gingham Frog Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They both have big goals. But will an unplanned baby derail their futures? Madison craves so much more out of life. Counting down the days until she leaves for college, the eighteen-year-old dreamer is ready to escape her alcoholic mother and small-town nosiness. Wanting her first time to be with someone she trusts, she approaches her best guy friend with a sexy farewell proposition. Hamilton’s excited for the next chapter. Drafted to MLB to start in the minor leagues, he treasures his one special night with his favorite girl as a fond send-off. Unwilling to let it become a final goodbye, he savors each word of their many texts and video calls to stay connected. Her stomach dropping when she finds out she’s pregnant, Madison scrambles for a way to keep it secret from their tight-knit circle, continue her longed-for education, and not destroy her bestie’s promising baseball career. Although Hamilton is confused by her sudden distance, he discovers a desire for something deeper than friendship. Will they open their hearts to each other, or will hard choices push them apart? The Locals Series Omnibus is a small-town, second chance, new adult, sports romance series. If you like fun casts of characters, coming-of-age drama, and slow-burn relationships, then you’ll love Haley Rhoades’s beautiful four book Omnibus.