The Detroit Tigers Encyclopedia - 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 The Detroit Tigers Encyclopedia write by Jim Hawkins. This book was released on 2003. The Detroit Tigers Encyclopedia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed.
The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed. - 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 The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed. write by Jonathan Fraser Light. This book was released on 2016-03-25. The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America's culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues' decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.
Discombobulation
Discombobulation - 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 Discombobulation write by Wayne Rudolph Davidson. This book was released on 2015-09-16. Discombobulation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wayne Rudolph Davidson delves deeper into his family history in this second book of his When Clans Collide trilogy. Exploring his own personal branch that stems from the genealogical trunk of the distinguished Davidson family tree, he writes from the perspective of an African-American male born in the post-World War II era caught in a firestorm of extraordinary social change, civil disturbance, and a burgeoning drug culture. His life runs in tandem with the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to urban centers in the North and historic events such as the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He seamlessly blends his family genealogy and his own mistakes and triumphs with American history. From being an unemployed autoworker living and working in a dark tunnel to positions of responsibility and authority as a member of the U.S. Army in strategic places around the world, in this book, the author gets a chance rarely given to African-American men: to tell his story before his peers instead of before a magistrate.
Big 50: Detroit Tigers
Big 50: Detroit Tigers - 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 Big 50: Detroit Tigers write by Tom Gage. This book was released on 2017-04-01. Big 50: Detroit Tigers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Big 50: Detroit Tigers: The Men and Moments that Made the Detroit Tigers is an amazing, full-color look at the 50 men and moments that made the Tigers the Tigers. Award-winning beat writer Tom Gage recounts the living history of the Tigers, counting down from No. 50 to No. 1. Big 50: Tigers brilliantly brings to life the Tigers' remarkable story, from Ty Cobb and Kirk Gibson to the rollercoaster that was the "Bless You Boys" era to Justin Verlander's no-hitters and up to today.
Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players
Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players - 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 Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players write by Pete Cava. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Indiana boasts a rich baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown. This biographical dictionary provides a close look at the lives of all 364 Hoosier big leaguers, who include New York City's first baseball superstar; the first rookie pitcher to win three games in a World Series; the man who caught most of Cy Young's record 511 career wins; one of the game's first star relievers; the player who held the record for consecutive games played before Lou Gehrig; an obscure infielder mentioned in Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip; baseball's only one-legged pitcher; Indiana's first Mr. Basketball, who became one of baseball's greatest pinch-hitters; the first African American to play for the Cincinnati Reds; the only pitcher to throw a perfect game in the World Series; the skipper of the 1969 "Miracle Mets"; the pitcher for whom a ground-breaking surgical procedure is named; and the only two men to have played in both the World Series and the Final Four of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
