Book Description
An 8-volume reference set containing over 4,000 entries written by distinguished scholars, 'The African American National Biography' is the most significant and expansive compilation of black lives in print today.
Author : Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 2008
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
An 8-volume reference set containing over 4,000 entries written by distinguished scholars, 'The African American National Biography' is the most significant and expansive compilation of black lives in print today.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Academic libraries
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Author : The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1642507709
The Ultimate Baseball Trivia Book In this third title published by National Baseball Hall of Fame Books, test your knowledge of baseball trivia against the experts–the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The history of baseball is etched in its trivia. No American sport is chronicled through its trivia and statistics more than baseball. Now, the National Baseball Hall of Fame presents the ultimate baseball trivia book, So You Think You Know Baseball. Hit it out of the park at your MLB trivia night or in an after-dinner baseball quiz with your family. Selected by the historians and curators at the Baseball Hall of Fame, over 100 years of rich baseball history is packed into this virtual reference guide of facts, figures, and fascinating tidbits about our national pastime. In So You Think You Know Baseball, find 450 challenging baseball trivia questions organized into nine themed chapters covering a wide range of baseball history: • Baseball Firsts – famous firsts for almost every aspect of baseball history • First Year Phenoms – rookie sensations and first year wonders • Legendary Sluggers – Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Babe Ruth & more • Historic Hurlers – celebrated pitchers and their remarkable accomplishments on the mound • Record Breakers – notable players and teams who left their mark in the record books • Hall of Famers – baseball’s all-time greats enshrined in Cooperstown • Baseball in Pop Culture – discover the many ways baseball has influenced American culture • The Postseason – highlighting the celebrated moments in World Series history • Baseball Potpourri – unique facts about America’s Pastime Also don’t miss two other titles published by National Baseball Hall of Fame Books, Picturing America’s Pastime and Memories from the Microphone.
Author : Jonathan Eig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439126445
The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig’s life was more complicated—and, perhaps, even more heroic—than anyone really knew. Drawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, Luckiest Man gives us an intimate portrait of the man who became an American hero: his life as a shy and awkward youth growing up in New York City, his unlikely friendship with Babe Ruth (a friendship that allegedly ended over rumors that Ruth had had an affair with Gehrig’s wife), and his stellar career with the Yankees, where his consecutive-games streak stood for more than half a century. What was not previously known, however, is that symptoms of Gehrig’s affliction began appearing in 1938, earlier than is commonly acknowledged. Later, aware that he was dying, Gehrig exhibited a perseverance that was truly inspiring; he lived the last two years of his short life with the same grace and dignity with which he gave his now-famous “luckiest man” speech. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Jonathan Eig’s Luckiest Man shows us one of the greatest baseball players of all time as we’ve never seen him before.
Author : Lou Boudreau
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Baseball players
ISBN :
Author : Steve Leder
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0593187555
The national bestseller From the author of the bestselling More Beautiful Than Before comes an inspiring book about loss based on his most popular sermon. As the senior rabbi of one of the largest synagogues in the world, Steve Leder has learned over and over again the many ways death teaches us how to live and love more deeply by showing us not only what is gone but also the beauty of what remains. This inspiring and comforting book takes us on a journey through the experience of loss that is fundamental to everyone. Yet even after having sat beside thousands of deathbeds, Steve Leder the rabbi was not fully prepared for the loss of his own father. It was only then that Steve Leder the son truly learned how loss makes life beautiful by giving it meaning and touching us with love that we had not felt before. Enriched by Rabbi Leder's irreverence, vulnerability, and wicked sense of humor, this heartfelt narrative is filled with laughter and tears, the wisdom of millennia and modernity, and, most of all, an unfolding of the profound and simple truth that in loss we gain more than we ever imagined.
Author : Brad M. Epstein
Publisher : Michaelson Entertainment
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 2021-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781607303701
Good Night, Dodgers follows in the long tradition of `good night¿ stories loved by children everywhere. The bedtime story takes children through the day of the big game ¿ good morning Los Angeles as everyone wakes up in anticipation, good afternoon Dodgers fans as everyone heads to the ballpark, good evening Dodgers as the teams take the field and game begins, and of course good night everyone as we say good night to the stadium, the players and young fans `dreaming of their major league debut.¿ Adorable illustrations and accurate drawings of the ballpark and the Dodgers only found in Good Night, Dodgers. A home run for every young Dodgers fan. Officially licensed by Major League Baseball.
Author : Rock G. Positano
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501156845
"Revealing and little-known stories of the great Yankees Hall of Famer from the man who knew him best in the last ten years of his life"--
Author : Addie Waite Hunton
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781258396275
Author : Ty Cobb
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 38,60 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0486471837
Cobb personally wrote the story of his life for a newspaper syndicate after his 20 record-setting years in baseball. This illustrated edition is the first commercial publication of his words in book form.