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Tales from the Deadball Era : Ty Cobb, Home Run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Wildest Times in Baseball History
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ISBN: 1612346499 Year: 2014 Publisher: Dulles, : Potomac Books Inc.,

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The Deadball Era (1901û1920) is a baseball fanÆs dream. Hope and despair, innocence and cynicism, and levity and hostility blended then to create an air of excitement, anticipation, and concern for all who entered the confines of a major league ballpark. Cheating for the sake of victory earned respect, corrupt ballplayers fixed games with impunity, and violence plagued the sport. Spectators stormed the field to attack players and umpires, ballplayers charged the stands to pummel hecklers, and physical battles between opposing clubs occurred regularly in a phenomenon known as ôrowdyism.ö. At th


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Home Run's Most WantedTM : The Top 10 Book of Monumental Dingers, Prodigious Swingers, and Everything Long-Ball
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ISBN: 1597976571 Year: 2009 Publisher: Dulles, : Potomac Books Inc.,

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All the Babe's Men : Baseball's Greatest Home Run Seasons and How They Changed America
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ISBN: 1597979392 9781597979399 9781597979382 1597979384 Year: 2013 Publisher: Dulles, : Potomac Books Inc.,

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Why are Americans obsessed with the home run in sports, business, and even life? What made the steroid era inevitable? Revisiting the great home run seasons of Babe Ruth through those of Barry Bonds, All the Babe's Men answers these and other provocative questions. Baseball, and particularly the long ball itself, evolved via accident, necessity, and occasional subterfuge. During the dead-ball era, pitching ruled the game, and home run totals hovered in the single digits. Then a ban on the spitball and the compression of stadium dimensions set the stage for new sluggers to emerge, culminating i


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A Tale of Three Cities : The 1962 Baseball Season in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco
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ISBN: 1597976172 9781597976176 9781597974318 1597974315 Year: 2009 Publisher: Dulles, : Potomac Books Inc.,


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The Most Famous Woman in Baseball : Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues
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ISBN: 1612341187 9781612341187 9781597975469 159797546X Year: 2011 Publisher: Dulles, : Potomac Books Inc.,

Playing America's game : baseball, Latinos, and the color line
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ISBN: 0520940776 1282772201 9786612772207 1435603850 1433708817 9780520940772 9781435603851 9781433708817 9780520236462 0520236467 9780520251434 0520251431 9781282772205 6612772204 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in organized baseball from the beginning. In this benchmark study on Latinos and professional baseball from the 1880's to the present, Adrian Burgos tells a compelling story of the men who negotiated the color line at every turn-passing as "Spanish" in the major leagues or seeking respect and acceptance in the Negro leagues. Burgos draws on archival materials from the U.S., Cuba, and Puerto Rico, as well as Spanish- and English-language publications and interviews with Negro league and major league players. He demonstrates how the manipulation of racial distinctions that allowed management to recruit and sign Latino players provided a template for Brooklyn Dodgers' general manager Branch Rickey when he initiated the dismantling of the color line by signing Jackie Robinson in 1947. Burgos's extensive examination of Latino participation before and after Robinson's debut documents the ways in which inclusion did not signify equality and shows how notions of racialized difference have persisted for darker-skinned Latinos like Orestes ("Minnie") Miñoso, Roberto Clemente, and Sammy Sosa.

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