Maines Greatest Athletes

Author : Nancy Griffin
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1608937410
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maine's Greatest Athletes written by Nancy Griffin and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainers are known to be fiercely loyal, to their culture, history, and heritage, and to their favorite hometown sports heroes. Many of these heroes have gone on to have legendary careers on the national stage from Louis Sockalexis, the first Native American to play professional baseball, to Joan Benoit Samuelson, the first woman to win gold in an Olympic marathon. There’s Seth Wescott, Olympic gold medal snowboarder; Joey Gamache, junior lightweight world champion boxer, and "Fly Rod" Crosby, Maine's first Registered Maine Guide. For every household name, there are countless local legends that are just as revered. Journalist Nancy Griffin presents a surprising range of athletes in this collection of short profiles and achievements. You’ll find superstars in everything from baseball and hockey to golf, shooting, and harness racing.

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Gallopade International
ISBN 13 : 9780635093554
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maine People Projects written by Carole Marsh and published by Gallopade International. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book combines state-specific facts and 30 fun-to-do hands-on projects. The People Projects Book includes using sidewalk chalk to draw a life-sized state People on Parade, making a diversity flag, writing a poem about a state poet, designing a scrapbook of famous state women and more! Kids will have a blast and build essential knowledge skills including research, reading, writing, science and math. Great for students in K-8 grades and for displaying in the classroom, library or home.

Author : Ed Rice
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1684750113
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Trailblazer written by Ed Rice and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following an extraordinary debut—17th place in the 1911 Boston Marathon—Penobscot Indian Andrew Sockalexis returned to run a spectacular Boston Marathon on a muddy, rainy course on April 19, 1912. Only twenty years old, running just his third marathon ever, he came in second and narrowly missed breaking the record time for that course. The greatest number of Native Americans ever to represent the United States occurred when Andrew Sockalexis joined Louis Tewanima and the legendary Jim Thorpe at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. As the American favorite to win the marathon, Sockalexis finished a gallant fourth on a brutally hot day that saw half the participants drop out and one runner die of heat stroke. Ed Rice chronicles the tragically short life of Sockalexis—he died at the age of twenty-seven from tuberculosis—focusing on his running and the races that earned him recognition from the sports community and made him revered at home.

Author : Terry Allan Hicks
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1627120947
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maine written by Terry Allan Hicks and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides lists of key people, sites, cities, plants and animals, political figures, industries, and events in Maine. All books in the It's My State! � series are the definitive research tool for readers looking to know the ins and outs of a specific state, including comprehensive coverage of its history, people, culture, geography, economy and government.

Author : Jane Petrlik Smolik
Publisher : MidRun Press
ISBN 13 : 9780966409567
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great State of Maine Activity Book written by Jane Petrlik Smolik and published by MidRun Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crosswords, logic games, secret codes, mazes and word puzzles all about life in Maine from Kittery to Fort Kent.

Author : Ed Rice
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1608936740
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball's First Indian written by Ed Rice and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1871 on Maine's Penobscot Indian reservation and nephew of a chief, Louis Sockalexis became professional baseball's first American Indian player. Ultimately, his prowess on the diamond inspired the name Cleveland's baseball team carries today. Exploring the brilliant but too-brief major league career of the "Deerfoot of the Diamond," Baseball's First Indian follows Sockalexis's rise to the majors, his fall to the minor leagues of New England, and his final return to the reservation in Maine, where he continued to coach baseball and work as an umpire. This fascinating study of the life of Louis Sockalexis is filled with game action and leavened by the flamboyant and colorful stories of 19th century sportswriters who frequently invented what the truth would not supply. It's a treasure for every student of baseball history.

Author : Bill Wise
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louis Sockalexis written by Bill Wise and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A biography of Penobscot Indian Louis Sockalexis, who pursued his childhood love of baseball and eventually joined the Major Leagues, where he faced racism and discrimination with humility and courage as the first Native American to play professional baseball."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Nancy Griffin
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1608936325
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Maine Changed the World written by Nancy Griffin and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Down East Books celebrates 50 years of great book publishing, it seems appropriate to reflect upon the contributions Maine has made that have had significant cultural and historical impacts on both the United States and the World. Did you know that the caterpillar tread, common on bulldozers and tanks, originated from the design of Lombard’s steam log hauler; or that the dry plate photographic process was created by the Stanley brothers, who also invented a speed-record setting steam powered car and whose sister, Chansonetta, was a well-known photographer in her own right? Maxim’s machine gun forever changed the practice of warfare. The humble peavey is a simple tool well-known to any forester or lumberjack. The ubiquitous lobster boat, the microwave oven, earmuffs, and Monopoly—all came from the minds of Mainers. This book is a celebration of Maine’s creative ingenuity—from the very large, such as Portland Head Light and the Penobscot Narrows Bridge to the very small, such as the toothpick and the Bean boot.

Author : Stan Fischler
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781571672346
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Players and Moments of the Philadelphia Flyers written by Stan Fischler and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call 'em the Broad Street Bullies, the Ferocious Flyers, or Bobby Clarke's Bashers, Philadelphia's icemen have been among the most exciting athletes in sports. Bursting onto the big-league hockey scene in 1967-68, the Flyers became the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup. Combining guts, goals and glamour in equal proportions, the Flyers captured the imagination of a city as well as the National Hockey League.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual report of the State Department of Health of Maine. 1891 written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: