Official Baseball Annual 1956
Author: National Baseball Congress of America
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Baseball Congress of America
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bill Leatherman
Publisher: Alabaster
Published: 2019-09-13
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780981576350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →BRAWLS, EJECTIONS, SPITBALLS, BEAN-BALLS, FIGHTS WITH FANS AND UMPIRES....
Author: Joel S. Franks
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2008-07-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0786432918
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the rise of stars such as Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki, and now Daisuke Matsuzaka, fans today can easily name players from the island country of Japan. Less widely known is that baseball has long been played on other Pacific islands, in pre-statehood Hawaii, for instance, and in Guam, Samoa and the Philippines. For the multiethnic peoples of these U.S. possessions, the learning of baseball was actively encouraged, some would argue as a means to an unabashedly colonialist end. As early as the deadball era, Pacific Islanders competed against each other and against mainlanders on the diamond, with teams like the Hawaiian Travelers barnstorming the States, winning more than they lost against college, semi-pro, and even professional nines. For those who moved to the mainland, baseball eased the transition, helping Asian Pacific Americans create a sense of community and purpose, cross cultural borders, and--for a few--achieve fame.
Author: National Baseball Congress of America
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 170
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joel S. Franks
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0761847448
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This updated edition explores the vibrant community of Asian Pacific Americans through sports. This book tells intriguing tales of athletes, such as aquatic legend Duke Kahanamoku and diving gold medalist Vicki Manalo, but has been expanded to include Tiger Woods, Tim Lincicum, Troy Polamalu and other current athletes.
Author: Joel Nathan Rosen
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2016-12-02
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1496809890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Given the presumed dominance of American sport, many fans throughout the hemisphere find it difficult to envision the role of sport beyond the confines of their own continent. And yet, world sport consists of so much more than the games Americans play and so much more than the stereotype of cricket for the elite and football for the working class. As worldwide sport continues to gain in popularity, we also see parallels to many aspects visible in North American sport, particularly celebrity and all its trappings and pitfalls. The success of athletes from other countries in basketball and ice hockey, and the proliferation of stars imported and now exported to and from North America, provides some better examples of sport's international power. It also creates a very new kind of sport celebrity, albeit one that often shows a rather limited reach beyond that star's own country or continent. Thus, rather than focusing on the Western Hemisphere, this collection of some of world sport's most heralded celebrities (including stars of Motocross, surfing, distance running, and more) serves as a sort of passport to many places that make up our global sporting environment.
Author: National Baseball Congress of America
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mickey Mantle
Publisher: Island Books
Published: 1992-03
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780440212034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mickey Mantle, the hayseed kid from Spavinaw, Oklahoma, was in his sixth year with the Yankees. He was already America's homerun king. He was about to become a national hero. 1956 would be a record-breaking season: the golden summer fans would remember forever. Now Mickey Mantle brings it all back just the way it happened--spectacular playing on field, crazy hijinks with Whitey Ford and Billy Martin off. There never was a time like it before in baseball. There never will be again. It was magic.