American Jews And America`S Game, Ruttman, Abramowitz & Selig
Автор: Society for American Baseball Research ( Название: Bridging Two Dynasties: The 1947 New York Yankees ISBN: 0803240945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803240940 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4117.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Of all the New York Yankees championship teams, the 1947 club seemed the least likely. Bridging the gap between the dynasties of Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel, the team, managed by Bucky Harris, was coming off three non-pennant-winning seasons and given little chance to unseat the defending American League champion Boston Red Sox. And yet, led by Joe DiMaggio, this un-Yankees-like squad of rookies, retreads, and a few solid veterans easily won the pennant over the Detroit Tigers and the heavily favored Red Sox, along the way compiling an American League–record nineteen-game winning streak. They then went on to defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in a dramatic seven-game World Series that was the first to be televised and the first to feature an African American player.
Bridging Two Dynasties commemorates this historic club—the players, on the field and off, and the events surrounding their remarkable season. Along with player biographies, including those of future Hall of Famers DiMaggio, Bucky Harris, Yogi Berra, and Phil Rizzuto, the book features a seasonal timeline and covers pertinent topics such as the winning streak, the Yankees’ involvement in Leo Durocher’s suspension, and the thrilling World Series.
Автор: Kenny Название: American Golf In The Great Depression ISBN: 0786478128 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786478125 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3326.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This account of professional golf during the Great Depression begins with a look at the ""roaring 1920s"" and how golf developed during this exciting decade. What a contrast to the Depression era in which golf at all levels suffered but survived. The Depression years in general are covered and then the author looks in detail at the professional tour between 1931 and 1940 - from the administrators (those who sold the tour to sponsors, the media and the public) to the many wonderful golfers of this era. Much of this is set against the background of how difficult life was for most Americans at this time. The book then looks briefly at the post-Depression years (when the U.S. entered World War II) and how the top players fared. The author's overall conclusion is that despite the economic difficulties of the era, professional golf survived largely due to the efforts of many players and administrators, not all of whom have been sufficiently recognised by the game and its historians.
Описание: Provides a comprehensive history of Asian American basketball. It traces how Asian Americans have used basketball to provide them a sense of community, examines how through basketball Asian Americans have traversed racial and ethnic barriers, and demonstrates that perhaps a surprising number of Asian American have excelled at high school, college, and professional hoops.
Most fans don’t know how far the Jewish presence in baseball extends beyond a few famous players such as Greenberg, Rosen, Koufax, Holtzman, Green, Ausmus, Youkilis, Braun, and Kinsler. In fact, that presence extends to the baseball commissioner Bud Selig, labor leaders Marvin Miller and Don Fehr, owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Stuart Sternberg, officials Theo Epstein and Mark Shapiro, sportswriters Murray Chass, Ross Newhan, Ira Berkow, and Roger Kahn, and even famous Jewish baseball fans like Alan Dershowitz and Barney Frank.
The life stories of these and many others, on and off the field, have been compiled from nearly fifty in-depth interviews and arranged by decade in this edifying and entertaining work of oral and cultural history. In American Jews and America’s Game each person talks about growing up Jewish and dealing with Jewish identity, assimilation, intermarriage, future viability, religious observance, anti-Semitism, and Israel. Each tells about being in the midst of the colorful pantheon of players who, over the past seventy-five years or more, have made baseball what it is. Their stories tell, as no previous book has, the history of the larger-than-life role of Jews in America’s pastime.
Автор: Society for American Baseball Research ( Название: Drama and Pride in the Gateway City: The 1964 St. Louis Cardinals ISBN: 0803243723 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803243729 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4460.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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By 1964 the storied St. Louis Cardinals had gone seventeen years without so much as a pennant. Things began to turn around in 1953, when August A. Busch Jr. bought the team and famously asked where all the black players were. Under the leadership of men like Bing Devine and Johnny Keane, the Cardinals began signing talented players regardless of color, and slowly their star started to rise again.
Drama and Pride in the Gateway City commemorates the team that Bing Devine built, the 1964 team that prevailed in one of the tightest three-way pennant races of all time and then went on to win the World Series, beating the New York Yankees in the full seven games. All the men come alive in these pages—pitchers Ray Sadecki and Bob Gibson, players Lou Brock, Curt Flood, and Bobby Shantz, manager Johnny Keane, his coaches, the Cardinals’ broadcasters, and Bill White, who would one day run the entire National League—along with the dramatic events that made the 1964 Cardinals such a memorable club in a memorable year.
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