Author : Donald Gropman
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : 9780806521152
This immensely readable biography tells the story of Shoeless Joe Jackson, generally considered baseball's greatest natural hitter ever--but who was implicated in the most notorious sports scandal in American history. of photos.
Author : Daniel A. Nathan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0252091981
The story of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and his White Sox teammates purportedly conspiring with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds has lingered in our collective consciousness for a century. Daniel A. Nathan's wide-ranging history looks at how journalists, historians, novelists, filmmakers, and baseball fans have represented and remembered the scandal. Nathan's reflections on what these different cultural narratives reveal about their creators and eras shape a fascinating study of cultural values, memory, and the ways people make meaning.
Author : Murray Leinster
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 0743499107
Three complete novels, one of them a Hugo Award finalist, with a number of short stories.
Author : Thomas Louis Stix
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 26,62 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Sports stories
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 1979-10-08
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Author : Eilon Paz
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 1607748703
A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.
Author : Bud Abbott
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780573681042
Author : George Plimpton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780393030402
A collection of short stories and other writings centering around sports for each season.
Author : Terry Teachout
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822231573
THE STORY: SATCHMO AT THE WALDORF is a one-man, three-character play in which the same actor portrays Louis Armstrong, the greatest of all jazz trumpeters; Joe Glaser, his white manager; and Miles Davis, who admired Armstrong's playing but disliked his onstage manner. It takes place in 1971 in a dressing room backstage at the Empire Room of New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where Armstrong performed in public for the last time four months before his death. Reminiscing into a tape recorder about his life and work, Armstrong seeks to come to terms with his longstanding relationship with Glaser, whom he once loved like a father but now believes to have betrayed him. In alternating scenes, Glaser defends his controversial decision to promote Armstrong's career (with the help of the Chicago mob) by encouraging him to simplify his musical style, while Davis attacks Armstrong for pandering to white audiences.
Author : William N. Taylor, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2002-01-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786411283
The first edition of this work, published in 1982, concentrated on the athlete's use of and the physician's knowledge of, anabolic steroids. This fully updated second edition discusses the continuing controversy over their use in competitive sports. An introduction of the use and abuse of anabolic steroids is followed by chapters on such topics as anabolic steroid compounds, the anabolic-to-androgen ratio, basic principles of muscle building, current anabolic steroid preparations, anabolic steroid regimes used by athletes, the enhancement of athletic performance, adverse physical effects and mental health risks, the classification of anabolic steroids as controlled substances, growth hormones and other anabolic hormones, the limits of urine drug testing, medical applications of anabolic steroids, muscle building and ergogenic supplements, and addictions.
