Galveston Buccaneers The Shearn Moody And The 1934 Texas League Championship

Author : Kris Rutherford
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1626198373
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Galveston Buccaneers, The: Shearn Moody and the 1934 Texas League Championship written by Kris Rutherford and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galveston survived the Great Depression with a healthy dose of baseball, boll weevils and bootleg business. Farmers like future Galveston Buccaneers star Buck Fausett fled the insect infestation of North Texas for the city's sunny shores along with throngs of visitors eager to visit Sam Maceo's clubs and catch a ballgame. Galvestonians had a long love affair with America's favorite pastime, fielding the first game played in the state. Cotton heir Shearn Moody purchased the Buccaneers in 1931 and turned the languishing squad into a dominating force that won the 1934 Texas League Championship. Author Kris Rutherford weaves a captivating history of the Moody family, a team of talented players and the island that claimed them.

Author : Gary Cartwright
Publisher : TCU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875651903
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Galveston written by Gary Cartwright and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number eighteen: The TCU Press Chisholm Trail Series of significant books dealing with Texas, its life and history.

Author : John H. Rappole
Publisher : W. L. Moody JR. Natural Histor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of the Southwest written by John H. Rappole and published by W. L. Moody JR. Natural Histor. This book was released on 2000 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Southwest is famous for its dramatic vistas & the exotic animals & plants that inhabit the region.

Author : David King
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625845219
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Texas League Baseball Almanac written by David King and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since forming in 1888, the Texas League has produced some of the most beloved American baseball players and seen more than its fair share of colorful events. In 1931, Houston pitcher Dizzy Dean pitched and won both ends of a double-header in Fort Worth, throwing a three-hit shutout in the second game. In 1906, center fielder Tris Speaker pitched for Cleburne to beat Temple 10-3. In 1998, Arkansas' Tyrone Horne hit for the "homer cycle" in San Antonio, finishing to a standing ovation. "The Texas League Baseball Almanac" delivers day by day the record-breaking events, personal triumphs and memorable games that helped to shape baseball in the region. Join authors David King and Tom Kayser on a nine-inning trip down one of minor-league baseball's most historic institutions, both in season and off. .

Author : Donald Dilworth Brand
Publisher : Princeton, N. J., Van Nostrand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico, Land of Sunshine and Shadow written by Donald Dilworth Brand and published by Princeton, N. J., Van Nostrand. This book was released on 1966 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Black
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385535872
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drowning House written by Elizabeth Black and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping suspense story about a woman who returns to Galveston, Texas after a personal tragedy and is irresistibly drawn into the insular world she’s struggled to leave. Photographer Clare Porterfield's once-happy marriage is coming apart, unraveling under the strain of a family tragedy. When she receives an invitation to direct an exhibition in her hometown of Galveston, Texas, she jumps at the chance to escape her grief and reconnect with the island she hasn't seen for ten years. There Clare will have the time and space to search for answers about her troubled past and her family's complicated relationship with the wealthy and influential Carraday family. Soon she finds herself drawn into a century-old mystery involving Stella Carraday. Local legend has it that Stella drowned in her family's house during the Great Hurricane of 1900, hanged by her long hair from the drawing room chandelier. Could Stella have been saved? What is the true nature of Clare's family's involvement? The questions grow like the wildflower vines that climb up the walls and fences of the island. And the closer Clare gets to the answers, the darker and more disturbing the truth becomes. Steeped in the rich local history of Galveston, The Drowning House portrays two families, inextricably linked by tragedy and time. "The Drowning House marks the emergence of an impressive new literary voice. Elizabeth Black's suspenseful inquiry into dark family secrets is enriched by a remarkable succession of images, often minutely observed, that bring characters, setting, and story sharply into focus." —John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0718196252
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Bought a Little City written by Donald Barthelme and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I Bought a Little City [is] a take on the role that a writer has in writing a story - playing god, in a certain way." Donald Antrim, novelist. 'Got a little city, ain't it pretty'. Galveston, Texas, has been bought. It suits its new owner just fine. So he starts to change it. He creates a new residential area in the shape of a Mona Lisa jigsaw puzzle, shoots six thousand dogs, and reminds those who complain that he controls the jail, the police and the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. But, playing God has its limitations, which he soon discovers when he starts to covet Sam Hong's wife. With Donald Barthelme's unmistakeable ability to blend absurdity and the recognisable details of ordinary life, this is an uncanny tale about urban planning, capitalism and God.

Author : Donald Willett
Publisher : American Chronicles
ISBN 13 : 9781626191822
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Galveston Chronicles written by Donald Willett and published by American Chronicles. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of pieces on Galveston history"--

Author : Lari A. Bishop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environment, Health, and Safety written by Lari A. Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David G. McComb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292793219
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Galveston written by David G. McComb and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful history of the island city on Texas’s Gulf Coast and its survival through times of piracy, plague, civil war, and devastating natural disaster. On the Gulf edge of Texas between land and sea stands Galveston Island. Shaped continually by wind and water, it is one of earth’s ongoing creations, where time is forever new. Here, on the shoreline, embraced by the waves, a person can still feel the heartbeat of nature. And yet, for all the idyllic possibilities, Galveston’s history has been anything but tranquil. Across Galveston’s sands have walked Indians, pirates, revolutionaries, the richest men of nineteenth-century Texas, soldiers, sailors, bootleggers, gamblers, prostitutes, physicians, entertainers, engineers, and preservationists. Major events in the island’s past include hurricanes, yellow fever, smuggling, vice, the Civil War, the building of a medical school and port, raids by the Texas Rangers, and, always, the struggle to live in a precarious location. Galveston: A History is an engrossing account that also explores the role of technology and the often contradictory relationship between technology and the city, providing a guide to both Galveston history and the dynamics of urban development.