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This inspiring collection pays tribute to baseball legend and civil rights hero Jackie Robinson. His daughter Sharon acts as a personal tour guide through the values he instilled in her.
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Armando Marsans, who joined the Cincinnati Reds in 1911, was the first Cuban star of the major leagues. Events in baseball have often mirrored America's social development-Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier is one example-and the story of... [ More...]
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In the midst of the Great Depression, attendance was slipping at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair (then known as the Century of Progress Exposition). The Fair's sports chairman, Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward, had a solution - stage a one-time only... [ More...]
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"A funny thing happened to me on my way to Dodger Stadium. I stayed for 36 years. This is the story of those years, all the laughter, sorrow, anger, and love, as well as the destruction of the extended Dodger family. There is also love for the game of... [ More...]
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From 1949 until 1990, Dorothy Jane Mills quietly contributed her research and writing to the first baseball histories ever written by a historian. The wife of historian Harold Seymour, she found herself increasingly involved with his books, as the couple... [ More...]
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Ever since the ill-fated trade of Rocky Colavito to Detroit in 1960, Indians fans have watched their team stumble through an extraordinary array of misdeeds, misfortunes, and outright tragedies. This series of funny, fond, and irreverent vignettes captures... [ More...]
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This inspiring collection pays tribute to baseball legend and civil rights hero Jackie Robinson. His daughter Sharon acts as a personal tour guide through the values he instilled in her.
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Both an explosive biography of one of the world's most fascinating and enduring sports heroes and a telling look at the American society of his time, "Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son" is the product of six years of research by former "Sports... [ More...]
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