Baseballs Forgotten Heroes

Author : Tony Salin
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 : 9780809226030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Forgotten Heroes written by Tony Salin and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on such athletes as Art Pennington, Bruno Haas, and Bill Lange, Salin presents the stories of more than a dozen former players, many in his own words. 15 photos.

Author : Tony Salin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780809226542
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Forgotten Heroes written by Tony Salin and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Cieradkowski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476775230
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The League of Outsider Baseball written by Gary Cieradkowski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning graphic artist and baseball historian comes a strikingly original illustrated history of baseball’s forgotten heroes, including stars of the Negro Leagues, barnstorming teams, semi-pro leagues, foreign leagues, and famous players like Shoeless Joe Jackson, Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, and Joe DiMaggio before they achieved notoriety. From a young age, Gary Cieradkowski had a passion for baseball’s unheralded heroes. Inspired by his father and their shared love of the sport, Cieradkowski began creating “outsider” baseball cards, as a way to tell the little-known stories of baseball’s many unsung heroes—alongside some of baseball’s greatest players before they were famous. The League of Outsider Baseball is a tribute to all of those who’ve played the game, known and unknown. Shining a light into the dark corners of baseball history—from Mickey Mantle’s minor league days to Negro League greats like Josh Gibson and Leon Day; to people that most never knew played the game, such as Frank Sinatra, who had his own ball club in 1940s Hollywood; bank robber John Dillinger, who was a promising shortstop and took time out between robberies to attend Cubs games; and even a few US presidents—this book is a rich, visual tribute to America’s pastime. Meticulously researched, beautifully illustrated using a unique, vintage baseball-card-style, and filled with a colorful and rich cast of characters, this book is a prized collector’s item and will be cherished by fans of all ages.

Author : Cal Fussman
Publisher : ESPN
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Jackie written by Cal Fussman and published by ESPN. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the breaking of baseball's color barrier, an exploration of Jackie Robinson's impact and legacy by the people whose lives were transformed by his courage When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, he forever changed the game of baseball -- and America itself. In After Jackie, author Cal Fussman traces Robinson's enormous legacy in sports, politics, and the civil rights movement through the men (and women) who came after him. With moving and intimate interviews of more than one hundred former major league players of African-American descent, as well as such luminaries as Jimmy Carter, Muhammad Ali, and Walter Cronkite, among others, After Jackie recalls the day one man altered history for so many, and the history that followed.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781476775241
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The League of Outsider Baseball written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning graphic artist and baseball historian comes a strikingly original illustrated history of baseball's forgotten heroes, including stars of the Negro Leagues, barnstorming teams, semi-pro leagues, foreign leagues, and famous players like Shoeless Joe Jackson, Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, and Joe DiMaggio before they achieved notoriety.

Author : Matt Doeden
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
ISBN 13 : 1512438812
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Negro Leagues written by Matt Doeden and published by Millbrook Press ™. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When modern baseball fans think of African American players, they may think of Ken Griffey Jr. or Derek Jeter. But what about the black stars who didn't play Major League Baseball? In the early 1900s, black players were not allowed in the Major Leagues. The Negro Leagues provided an alternative for African American players. Discover the Negro Leagues in this book packed full of facts, photos, and stories. Learn about the biggest games and wildest moments of the Negro Leagues era, as well as some of the greatest (and least well-known) players. You'll also find out about the history of African American baseball and the people who worked to end the sport's decades of segregation.

Author : Ted Reinstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493051229
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before Brooklyn written by Ted Reinstein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston City Councilman Izzy Muchnick persuaded the Red Sox to try out three black players in return for a favorable vote to allow the team to play on Sundays. The Red Sox got the councilman’s much-needed vote, but the tryout was a sham; the three players would get no closer to the major leagues. It was a lost battle in a war that was ultimately won by Robinson in 1947. This book tells the story of the little-known heroes who fought segregation in baseball, from communist newspaper reporters to the Pullman car porters who saw to it that black newspapers espousing integration in professional sports reached the homes of blacks throughout the country. It also reminds us that the first black player in professional baseball was not Jackie Robinson but Moses Fleetwood Walker in 1884, and that for a time integrated teams were not that unusual. And then, as segregation throughout the country hardened, the exclusion of blacks in baseball quietly became the norm, and the battle for integration began anew.

Author : Michael Anthony Steele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780329077518
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Heroes written by Michael Anthony Steele and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wishbone, the television dog, helps Joe and his friends learn the truth about the Oakdale Oaks, a local championship baseball team whose victory seems to have been wiped from the town's record books.

Author : Bill Leibforth
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977205194
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball’s Forgotten Black Heroes written by Bill Leibforth and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1947, Jackie Robinson changed the game of baseball by becoming the first black player on a modern day major league team. Jackie made history with the Brooklyn Dodgers and this story is about Jackie and the seventeen players who followed him. These Black Heroes challenged the status quo and policies of team owners and were part of the first wave of black players who played on the sixteen major league teams that existed in 1947. It was not until 1959 (three years after Jackie retired) that the last of the sixteen teams added a black player to their roster.

Author : Michael Anthony Steele
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613115537
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Heroes written by Michael Anthony Steele and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joe Talbot learns about the champion local Negro League team, he and Wishbone and their friends search for details, only to find that the information has vanished