Hardball Legends and Journeymen and Short-Timers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hardball Legends and Journeymen and Short-Timers write by Ronnie Joyner. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Hardball Legends and Journeymen and Short-Timers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of more than 300 graphic biographies of baseball players is a throwback to the illustrated biographies or cartoons seen regularly in newspaper sports sections of the '30s, '40s and '50s. All manner of ballplayers are included from the Hall of Famers (the Legends), to the everyday players (the Journeymen), to the cup-of-coffee guys (the Short-Timers). Almost all of the bio-illustrations are of major league players, but there are interesting exceptions--minor leaguers, female players, entertainers... These bio-illustrations regularly appeared in the pages of Sports Collectors Digest from 1997 through 2011.
Historical Dictionary of Baseball
Historical Dictionary of Baseball - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Dictionary of Baseball write by Lyle Spatz. This book was released on 2012-12-21. Historical Dictionary of Baseball available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as “our game, the American game,” and George Will compared calling baseball “just a game” to the Grand Canyon being “just a hole.” Countless others have called baseball “the most elegant game,” and to those who have played it, it’s life. The Historical Dictionary of Baseball is primarily devoted to the major leagues it also includes entries on the minor leagues, the Negro Leagues, women’s baseball, baseball in various other countries, and other non-major league related topics. It traces baseball, in general, and these topics individually, from their beginnings up to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on the roles of the players on the field—batters, pitchers, fielders—as well as non-playing personnel—general managers, managers, coaches, and umpires. There are also entries for individual teams and leagues, stadiums and ballparks, the role of the draft and reserve clause, and baseball’s rules, and statistical categories. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of baseball.
Baseball’S Brotherhood Team
Baseball’S Brotherhood Team - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Baseball’S Brotherhood Team write by Bryan Steverson. This book was released on 2018-02-22. Baseball’S Brotherhood Team available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Book of Genesis, when Cain is confronted by God regarding the death of his brother, he replies, Am I my brothers keeper? Within these pages, players respond affirmatively to this centurys age old question. They took stands against prejudice during times in our country when it was not the norm. Their courage serves as a model for all of us today. These players lived the biblical challenge of loving your neighbor. This is the third book by the author of inspirational stories about players from our national pastime. Fifteen members of our National Baseball Hall of Fame are here as well as others of lesser fame. The examples include 19th century baseball, Babe Ruth and Pete Rose. Each player was special. Each story inspirational.
Virgin Vampires
Virgin Vampires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virgin Vampires write by Douglas Brode. This book was released on 2013-04-22. Virgin Vampires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This blend of history and dark fantasy feasts upon vampire lore, reinventing the manner in which real-life monsters were transformed into pop culture icons by two of Ireland's great writers. Dubliners Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker travel to Transylvania where they race to save the women they love from the Countess Elizabeth Bathory. After the blood bath, Le Fanu and Stoker pose as doctors John Seward and Abraham Van Helsing to confront Vlad the Impaler and Count Dracula himself. Together for the first time, this immortal cast offers a highly erotic exploration of the vampire's eternal allure.
Bonnie and Clyde--The Beginning
Bonnie and Clyde--The Beginning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bonnie and Clyde--The Beginning write by Gary Jeffrey. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Bonnie and Clyde--The Beginning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This graphic novel tracks the first year of Bonnie and Clyde's extraordinary crime spree. Beginning in April 1932 in Texas, an accelerating path of robberies and shoot-outs made the duo infamous. These pages reveal what drove Clyde Barrow to become so hardened, unrepentant and relentlessly violent. And what drove Bonnie, repeatedly, in spite of her best interest, to Clyde's side. Culminating in April 1933 in Missouri, the scene fades with the shoot-out that left a detective and police chief dead and Bonnie and Clyde at the brink of national notoriety.
