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City of Champions

Author : Stefan Szymanski
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620974436
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book City of Champions written by Stefan Szymanski and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The changing fortunes of Detroit, told through the lens of the city's major sporting events, by the bestselling author of Soccernomics, and a prizewinning cultural critic From Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to the Bad Boys, from Joe Louis and Gordie Howe to the Malice at the Palace, City of Champions explores the history of Detroit through the stories of its most gifted athletes and most celebrated teams, linking iconic events in the history of Motown sports to the city's shifting fortunes. In an era when many teams have left rustbelt cities to relocate elsewhere, Detroit has held on to its franchises, and there is currently great hope in the revival of the city focused on its downtown sports complexes—but to whose benefit? Szymanski and Weineck show how the fate of the teams in Detroit's stadiums, gyms, and fields is echoed in the rise and fall of the car industry, political upheavals ushered in by the depression, World War II, the 1967 uprising, and its recent bankruptcy and renewal. Driven by the conviction that sports not only mirror society but also have a special power to create both community and enduring narratives that help define a city's sense of self, City of Champions is a unique history of the most American of cities.

Terror in the City of Champions

Author : Tom Stanton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493018183
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Terror in the City of Champions written by Tom Stanton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller Detroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group was executing a wicked plan of terror, murdering enemies, flogging associates, and contemplating armed rebellion. The Legion boasted tens of thousands of members across the Midwest, among them politicians and prominent citizens—even, possibly, a beloved athlete. Terror in the City of Champions opens with the arrival of Mickey Cochrane, a fiery baseball star who roused the Great Depression’s hardest-hit city by leading the Tigers to the 1934 pennant. A year later he guided the team to its first championship. Within seven months the Lions and Red Wings follow in football and hockey—all while Joe Louis chased boxing’s heavyweight crown. Amidst such glory, the Legion’s dreadful toll grew unchecked: staged “suicides,” bodies dumped along roadsides, high-profile assassination plots. Talkative Dayton Dean’s involvement would deepen as heroic Mickey’s Cochrane’s reputation would rise. But the ballplayer had his own demons, including a close friendship with Harry Bennett, Henry Ford’s brutal union buster. Award-winning author Tom Stanton weaves a stunning tale of history, crime, and sports. Richly portraying 1930s America, Terror in the City of Champions features a pageant of colorful figures: iconic athletes, sanctimonious criminals, scheming industrial titans, a bigoted radio priest, a love-smitten celebrity couple, J. Edgar Hoover, and two future presidents, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. It is a rollicking true story set at the confluence of hard luck, hope, victory, and violence. .

The Detroit Wolverines

Author : Brian Martin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662786X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Detroit Wolverines written by Brian Martin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Detroit Tigers were founding members of the American League and have been the Motor City's team for more than a century. But the Wolverines were the city's first major league club, playing in the National League beginning in 1881 and capturing the pennant in 1887. Playing in what was then one of the best ballparks in America, during an era when Detroit was known as the "Paris of the West," the team battled hostile National League owners and struggled with a fickle fan base to become world champions, before financial woes led to their being disbanded in 1888. This first-ever history of the Wolverines covers the team's rise and abrupt fall and the powerful men behind it.

Wire to Wire

Author : George Cantor
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1623681510
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Wire to Wire written by George Cantor and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning Detroit columnist George Cantor revisits the 1984 World Series champion Detroit Tigers with unparalleled insight into what the season meant to a reeling city filled with delirious fans. The book delves into the details of a year when fantasy became reality--the Tigers chewed up their opponents, spit them out, and catapulted to the top without looking back--and provides fans with the opportunity to relive a season in history that baseball aficionados won't soon forget.

Goodfellows

Author : Rick Gosselin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938532641
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Goodfellows written by Rick Gosselin and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Ambrose High, one of the most storied programs in Michigan high-school history, didn't even have its own football field. But success pulsated from the three-story building in Detroit between 1957 and 1967, when tiny St. Ambrose produced six football All-Americas, 16 all-state performers, future NFL players, and Super Bow champs. They were products of this legendary school where old-fashioned values trumped individual glory, and where football was the glue of this community.

Detroit

Author : David Lee Poremba
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439621527
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Detroit written by David Lee Poremba and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999-02-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional sports have played an important part in the history of the people and the City of Detroit since the turn of the century. Detroit sports teams have given the city a unique identity and provided the means to gain both a sense of community pride and a unity of spirit. At no other time was this more evident than during the decades from the 1920s through the 1950s, when Detroit teams rose consistently to the top of their individual professions. In 1935, the three professional sports teams in Detroit accomplished a remarkable feat by each winning their respective league titles and going on to capture the World Championships of baseball, football, and hockey, earning for the City of Detroit the honored sobriquet of City of Champions. Here began a close and lasting relationship between Detroit sports teams and their fans.

Detroit Lions

Author : Katie Lajiness
Publisher : Big Buddy Books
ISBN 13 : 9781680785333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Detroit Lions written by Katie Lajiness and published by Big Buddy Books. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to the Detroit Lions football team.

The Detroit Lions Story

Author : Allan Morey
Publisher : Torque Books
ISBN 13 : 9781626173651
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Detroit Lions Story written by Allan Morey and published by Torque Books. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engaging images accompany information about the Detroit Lions. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--

Breakfast of Champions

Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Breakfast of Champions written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author questions the condition of modern man in this novel, depicting a science fiction writer's struggle to find peace and sanity in the world.

DIY Detroit

Author : Kimberley Kinder
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452949859
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book DIY Detroit written by Kimberley Kinder and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ten years James Robertson walked the twenty-one-mile round-trip from his Detroit home to his factory job; when his story went viral, it brought him an outpouring of attention and support. But what of Robertson’s Detroit neighbors, likewise stuck in a blighted city without services as basic as a bus line? What they’re left with, after decades of disinvestment and decline, is DIY urbanism—sweeping their own streets, maintaining public parks, planting community gardens, boarding up empty buildings, even acting as real estate agents and landlords for abandoned homes. DIY Detroit describes a phenomenon that, in our times of austerity measures and market-based governance, has become woefully routine as inhabitants of deteriorating cities “domesticate” public services in order to get by. The voices that animate this book humanize Detroit’s troubles—from a middle-class African American civic activist drawn back by a crisis of conscience; to a young Latina stay-at-home mom who has never left the city and whose husband works in construction; to a European woman with a mixed-race adopted family and a passion for social reform, who introduces a chicken coop, goat shed, and market garden into the neighborhood. These people show firsthand how living with disinvestment means getting organized to manage public works on a neighborhood scale, helping friends and family members solve logistical problems, and promoting creativity, compassion, and self-direction as an alternative to broken dreams and passive lifestyles. Kimberley Kinder reveals how the efforts of these Detroiters and others like them create new urban logics and transform the expectations residents have about their environments. At the same time she cautions against romanticizing such acts, which are, after all, short-term solutions to a deep and spreading social injustice that demands comprehensive change.

Waterfront Porch

Author : John H. Hartig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948314022
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Waterfront Porch written by John H. Hartig and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique history depicts Detroit as a city of innovation, resilience, and leadership in responding to change, and examines the current sustainability paradigm shift to which Detroit is responding, pivoting as the city has done in the past to redefine itself and lead the nation and world down a more sustainable path. This book details the building of a new waterfront porch alongside the Detroit River called the Detroit RiverWalk to help revitalize the city and region and promote sustainability practices.

Healing Politics

Author : Abdul El-Sayed
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683358139
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Healing Politics written by Abdul El-Sayed and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir about restoring the health of our people, and our democracy, from a physician and “one of the brightest young stars” of the progressive movement (Sen. Bernie Sanders). A child of immigrants, Abdul El-Sayed grew up feeling a responsibility to help others. He threw himself into the study of medicine and excelled—winning a Rhodes Scholarship, earning two advanced degrees, and landing a tenure-track position at Columbia University. At thirty, he became the youngest city health official in America, tasked with rebuilding Detroit’s health department after years of austerity policies. But El-Sayed found himself disillusioned. He could heal the sick—even build healthier, safer communities—but that wouldn’t address the social and economic conditions causing illness in the first place. So he left health for politics, running for Governor of Michigan and earning the support of progressive champions like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders. This memoir traces the life of a young idealist, weaving together powerful personal stories and fascinating forays into history and science. Marrying his unique perspective with the science of epidemiology, El-Sayed diagnoses an underlying epidemic afflicting our country, an epidemic of insecurity. And to heal the rifts this epidemic has created, he lays out a new direction for the progressive movement. This is a bold, personal, and compellingly original book from a prominent young leader. “In Healing Politics, Abdul El-Sayed doesn’t just diagnose the causes of our broken politics; he gives us a prescription and treatment plan.” —Representative Pramila Jayapal

How to Kill a City

Author : PE Moskowitz
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568585241
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book How to Kill a City written by PE Moskowitz and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification -- and the lives that are altered in the process. The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. P. E. Moskowitz's How to Kill a City takes readers from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised. Along the way, Moskowitz uncovers the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification in New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York. The deceptively simple question of who can and cannot afford to pay the rent goes to the heart of America's crises of race and inequality. In the fight for economic opportunity and racial justice, nothing could be more important than housing. A vigorous, hard-hitting expose, How to Kill a City reveals who holds power in our cities-and how we can get it back.

The Page Fence Giants

Author : Mitch Lutzke
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476671656
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Page Fence Giants written by Mitch Lutzke and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Page Fence Giants, an all-star black baseball club sponsored by a woven-wire fence company in Adrian, Michigan, graced the diamond in the 1890s. Formed through a partnership between black and white boosters, the team's respectable four-year run was an early integration success--before integration was phased out decades ahead of Jackie Robinson's 1947 debut, and the growing Jim Crow sentiment blocked the Page Fence Giant's best talent from the major leagues. This book tells the the story of a long-ignored team at the close of the 19th century, whose Hall of Famer second baseman Sol White was but one of their best players.

Tiger Stadium

Author : Michael Betzold,
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786464488
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Tiger Stadium written by Michael Betzold, and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built in 1912, Detroit's Tiger Stadium provided unmatched access for generations of baseball fans. Based on a classic grandstand design, its development through the 20th century reflected the booming industrial city around it. Emphasizing utility over adornment and offering more fans affordable seats near the field than any other venue in sports, it was in every sense a working-class ballpark that made the game the central focus. Drawing on the perspectives of historians, architects, fans and players, the authors describe how Tiger Stadium grew and adapted and then, despite the efforts of fans, was abandoned and destroyed. It is a story of corporate welfare, politics and indifference to history pitted against an enduring love of place. Chronological diagrams illustrate the evolution of the playing field.

The Tigers of '68

Author : George Cantor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781589799288
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Tigers of '68 written by George Cantor and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tigers of '68 is the uproarious, stirring tale of this team--a group of hell-raisers who brawled on the field and partied hard afterward. This book revisits the main performers of this illustrious team and weaves their stories into a cohesive narrative that captures all the drama and color of Detroit's 1968 season Hailed as a "sparkling saga" by Library Journal, Cantor's account relives a championship before the days of runaway salaries, divisional championships, drug suspensions, and designated hitters.

Built in Detroit

Author : Robert K. Morris
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475994360
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Built in Detroit written by Robert K. Morris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1935. In the middle of the Great Depression, after months of unemployment, Ken Morris found a job at the Briggs Manufacturing Company, the toughest auto company in Detroit. He would eventually play a pioneering role in building one of the cleanest, most socially progressive labor unions the world has known-the United Automobile Workers. Bob Morris, Ken's son, tells not only his father's story, but also the UAW's story: the battles with companies, the struggles within the union, and then the vicious attacks on Detroit labor leaders in the late 1940s. He also provides portraits of early auto industrialists, their companies, their henchmen and the gangsters they hired to destroy the labor movement.