Mount Vernon Ny Sports Champions Heroes Legends

Author : Bruce Fabricant
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781532977398
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mount Vernon, NY Sports Champions Heroes & Legends written by Bruce Fabricant and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mount Vernon, NY Sports Champions Heroes & Legends" represents the most comprehensive attempt ever to tell the story of the city's finest men and women athletes, coaches, sports authors, and lawyers. Author Bruce Fabricant's painstaking research, interviews and words will give you a closer inside look than you've ever had before at Mount Vernon's sports heroes. The 600-plus-page book is packed with nostalgia, action, revelations and the facts and figures of the extraordinary 100 year long history of Mount Vernon sports. Fabricant returned to the city of his childhood to capture the lives and exploits of 79 diverse individuals who achieved athletic success in college or in the pros. "Mount Vernon, NY Sports Champions Heroes & Legends" delivers a riveting and refreshing look at Mount Vernon's best. Many of the heroes such as Gus Williams, Ben Gordon, Rodney McCray, Ken Singleton and Ralph Branca are well known. Others are not. Find out: What was so cool about Vernon Hagenbuckle - beyond his name? How Bill Collins set track & field records in his sixties. How Johnny Farrell beat the legendary Bobby Jones for the 1928 U.S. Golf Championship. About Katryna Gaither whose many Notre Dame basketball records still stand. How Ed Williams' play in an historic Yankee Stadium football game was a turning point in the crusade for racial justice. Why Gus Williams sat out an entire NBA season early in his career. About author W.C. Heinz, pioneer of the long-form sports story, who created a style of writing that influenced generations of journalists. How coaching greats Bob Cimmino, Carol Schachner-Leib, Henry Littlefield, Dave Rider, Walter Hall, and Harry "Dad" White produced championship teams. BRUCE FABRICANT is the author of several books about Mount Vernon, including Remembering Mount Vernon, NY The Place We Called Home. He was an executive vice president at Grey Advertising's public relations firm before opening his own firm, Fabricant Public Relations, in 1991. He now lives in Somers, NY.

Author : Donald Earl Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989256131
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boy @ the Window written by Donald Earl Collins and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a preteen Black male growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, there were a series of moments, incidents and wounds that caused me to retreat inward in despair and escape into a world of imagination. For five years I protected my family secrets from authority figures, affluent Whites and middle class Blacks while attending an unforgiving gifted-track magnet school program that itself was embroiled in suburban drama. It was my imagination that shielded me from the slights of others, that enabled my survival and academic success. It took everything I had to get myself into college and out to Pittsburgh, but more was in store before I could finally begin to break from my past. "Boy @ The Window" is a coming-of-age story about the universal search for understanding on how any one of us becomes the person they are despite-or because of-the odds. It's a memoir intertwined with my own search for redemption, trust, love, success-for a life worth living. "Boy @ The Window" is about one of the most important lessons of all: what it takes to overcome inhumanity in order to become whole and human again.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Author : Denzel Washington
Publisher : Meredith Books
ISBN 13 : 9780696230493
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hand to Guide Me written by Denzel Washington and published by Meredith Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C.1 COUNTY FUNDS. B & T. 12-18-2006. $23.95.

Author : Francesco Totti
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ISBN 13 : 9781916278493
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Gladiator written by Francesco Totti and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 25 years Francesco Totti was the uncrowned king of Rome, donning the famous carmine red jersey of the Italian capital's eponymous football club more times than any other player and scoring more Serie A goals than any other player in history, bar one. Now he tells his story in full

Author : S. L. Price
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 080219009X
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing Through the Whistle written by S. L. Price and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Sports Illustrated senior writer, “a richly detailed history of Aliquippa football . . . A remarkable story of urban struggle and athletic prowess” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the early twentieth century, down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company built one of the largest mills in the world and a town to go with it. Aliquippa was a beacon and a melting pot, pulling in thousands of families from Europe and the Jim Crow South. The J&L mill, though dirty and dangerous, offered a chance at a better life. It produced the steel that built American cities and won World War II and even became something of a workers’ paradise. But then, in the 1980s, the steel industry cratered. The mill closed. Crime rose and crack hit big. But another industry grew in Aliquippa. The town didn’t just make steel; it made elite football players, from Mike Ditka to Ty Law to Darrelle Revis. Few places churned out talent like Aliquippa, a town not far from the birthplace of professional football in western Pennsylvania. Despite its troubles—maybe even because of them—Aliquippa became legendary for producing football greatness. A masterpiece of narrative journalism, Playing Through the Whistle tells the remarkable story of Aliquippa and through it, the larger history of American industry, sports, and life. Like football, it will make you marvel, wince, cry, and cheer. “Looks at the struggling steel town of Aliquippa, Pa., through the prism of its high school football team. The author understands the Rust Belt particulars of the region better than most political professionals.” —The Wall Street Journal

Author : Heinrich Ries
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
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Download or read book Clays of New York written by Heinrich Ries and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Author : Tom Nichols
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190469439
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Expertise written by Tom Nichols and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism. Tom Nichols' The Death of Expertise shows how this rejection of experts has occurred: the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine, among other reasons. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement. When ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy or, in the worst case, a combination of both. An update to the 2017breakout hit, the paperback edition of The Death of Expertise provides a new foreword to cover the alarming exacerbation of these trends in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election. Judging from events on the ground since it first published, The Death of Expertise issues a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age that is even more important today.

Author : Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Publisher : Aladdin
ISBN 13 : 1534416188
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge written by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A brilliant work of US history.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Gripping.” —BCCB (starred review) “Accessible…Necessary.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave, who risked everything for a better life—now available as a young reader’s edition! In this incredible narrative, Erica Armstrong Dunbar reveals a fascinating and heartbreaking behind-the-scenes look at the Washingtons when they were the First Family—and an in-depth look at their slave, Ona Judge, who dared to escape from one of the nation’s Founding Fathers. Born into a life of slavery, Ona Judge eventually grew up to be George and Martha Washington’s “favored” dower slave. When she was told that she was going to be given as a wedding gift to Martha Washington’s granddaughter, Ona made the bold and brave decision to flee to the north, where she would be a fugitive. From her childhood, to her time with the Washingtons and living in the slave quarters, to her escape to New Hampshire, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, along with Kathleen Van Cleve, shares an intimate glimpse into the life of a little-known, but powerful figure in history, and her brave journey as she fled the most powerful couple in the country.