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Pitchin' Man

Author : Paige Satchel
Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1938441060
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Pitchin' Man written by Paige Satchel and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first autobiography by Leroy “Satchel” Paige, one of the best and most colorful pitchers in the history of professional baseball. Based on interviews conducted by Cleveland sports writer Hal Lebovitz, this book was first released shortly after Paige joined the Indians in 1948 (days after his 42nd birthday and after 22 years playing with various Negro League, minor league and Puerto Rican League teams). Told in a casual first-person style, Paige's stories provide a snapshot from a bygone era of Major League baseball. Paige tells how he began his pitching career by throwing rocks (”We had a pretty rough gang down on the South Side of Mobile, near the Bay, where I was born and raised”). He describes his early years in baseball, starting at age 17 with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts in 1926, and addresses the controversy over varying claims about his age and the source of his nickname. He talks about ballplayers he had known, in particular Josh Gibson (”the best of all”) of the Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays, and Bob Feller (with whom Paige barnstormed years before joining the Indians). Includes a foreword by Indians owner Bill Veeck and a note from Indians player-manager Lou Boudreau. With Paige's help, the Indians went on to win the 1948 World Series.

The California Culturist

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The California Culturist written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Illustrated Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book American Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book American Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Phillies Reader

Author : Richard Orodenker
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592133987
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book The Phillies Reader written by Richard Orodenker and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic history of this legendary team.

Cooperstown To Dyersville

Author : Charles Fruehling Springwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429720858
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Cooperstown To Dyersville written by Charles Fruehling Springwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By what magic is a simple geographical space such as a city or town transformed into cultural significance, into a "place" people travel to, enshrine, mythologize, and consume? What stardust falls upon the ground and in the public's mind that moves us to worship a piece of property that was once an unremarkable field or vacant lot? This book, written with the passion of both baseball fan and cultural anthropologist, unravels the mysteries of Cooperstown, New York–home of the Baseball Hall of Fame–and Dyersville, Iowa–site of the baseball field made enormous by the Hollywood movie Field of Dreams. Charles Springwood provides insight into the postmodern culture of the United States in which tourist sites and "American heritages" are culturally produced and consumed, by studying the people who visit them. The results of his interviews with visitors to these sites speak to issues of youth, innocence, family, domesticity, nation, and the hegemonic practices of the "leisure class." The book provides a reading of America steeped in narratives of pastoralism and nostalgia. Behind it all (the curtain behind which the great wizard sits) is the corporate mind creating an atmosphere of false histories and reconstructed pasts. Springwood pulls the reader's heart in two directions, seeking to honor the beautiful myth of baseball's pastoralism through two sacred geographical sites while also seeking to expose the underpinnings of myth-making to a gentle but constant light.

When to Stop the Cheering?

Author : Brian Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135863601
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book When to Stop the Cheering? written by Brian Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-29 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Finalist for the 2007 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).* *Winner of the 2007 Robert Peterson Book Award of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball* When to Stop the Cheering? documents the close and often conflicted relationship between the black press and black baseball beginning with the first Negro professional league of substance, the Negro National League, which started in 1920, and finishing with the dissolution of the Negro American League in 1957. When to Stop the Cheering? examines the multidimensional relationship the black newspapers had with baseball, including their treatment of and relationships with baseball officials, team owners, players and fans. Over time, these relationships changed, resulting in shifts in coverage that could be described as moving from brotherhood to paternalism, then from paternalism to nostalgic tribute and even regret.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Western Electric News

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Western Electric News written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Satchel Sez

Author : David Sterry
Publisher : David Sterry
ISBN 13 : 9780609806432
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Satchel Sez written by David Sterry and published by David Sterry. This book was released on 2001 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents quips, anecdotes, quotations, and observations from Satchel Paige that describe his experiences in the Negro League and in major league baseball, his thoughts on fellow players, his views on race, and tributes from others.

Garnockside Lilts

Author : James Cook (of Kilbirnie.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Garnockside Lilts written by James Cook (of Kilbirnie.) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce

Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803260719
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce written by Ambrose Bierce and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasury of ninety-three short works includes horror stories, realistic narratives of war, and tall tales of the old West

Men and Horses

Author : Ross Santee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Men and Horses written by Ross Santee and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert

Author : Timothy M. Gay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439176310
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert written by Timothy M. Gay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball in 1947, black and white ballplayers had been playing against one another for decades—even, on rare occasions, playing with each other. Interracial contests took place during the off-season, when major leaguers and Negro Leaguers alike fattened their wallets by playing exhibitions in cities and towns across America. These barnstorming tours reached new heights, however, when Satchel Paige and other African- American stars took on white teams headlined by the irrepressible Dizzy Dean. Lippy and funny, a born showman, the native Arkansan saw no reason why he shouldn’t pitch against Negro Leaguers. Paige, who feared no one and chased a buck harder than any player alive, instantly recognized the box-office appeal of competing against Dizzy Dean’s "All-Stars." Paige and Dean both featured soaring leg kicks and loved to mimic each other’s style to amuse fans. Skin color aside, the dirt-poor Southern pitchers had much in common. Historian Timothy M. Gay has unearthed long-forgotten exhibitions where Paige and Dean dueled, and he tells the story of their pioneering escapades in this engaging book. Long before they ever heard of Robinson or Larry Doby, baseball fans from Brooklyn to Enid, Oklahoma, watched black and white players battle on the same diamond. With such Hall of Fame teammates as Josh Gibson, Turkey Stearnes, Mule Suttles, Oscar Charleston, Cool Papa Bell, and Bullet Joe Rogan, Paige often had the upper hand against Diz. After arm troubles sidelined Dean, a new pitching phenom, Bob Feller—Rapid Robert—assembled his own teams to face Paige and other blackballers. By the time Paige became Feller’s teammate on the Cleveland Indians in 1948, a rookie at age forty-two, Satch and Feller had barnstormed against each other for more than a decade. These often obscure contests helped hasten the end of Jim Crow baseball, paving the way for the game’s integration. Satchel Paige, Dizzy Dean, and Bob Feller never set out to make social history—but that’s precisely what happened. Tim Gay has brought this era to vivid and colorful life in a book that every baseball fan will embrace.

American Illustrated Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Scribner's Magazine

Author : Edward Livermore Burlingame
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Scribner's Magazine written by Edward Livermore Burlingame and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia

Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317459474
Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia written by Steven A. Riess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique new reference work, this encyclopedia presents a social, cultural, and economic history of American sports from hunting, bowling, and skating in the sixteenth century to televised professional sports and the X Games today. Nearly 400 articles examine historical and cultural aspects of leagues, teams, institutions, major competitions, the media and other related industries, as well as legal and social issues, economic factors, ethnic and racial participation, and the growth of institutions and venues. Also included are biographical entries on notable individuals—not just outstanding athletes, but owners and promoters, journalists and broadcasters, and innovators of other kinds—along with in-depth entries on the history of major and minor sports from air racing and archery to wrestling and yachting. A detailed chronology, master bibliography, and directory of institutions, organizations, and governing bodies—plus more than 100 vintage and contemporary photographs—round out the coverage.