What Kind of a Boston is St. Louis?
Author : French Strother
Publisher :
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
Author : French Strother
Publisher :
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Donald Hubbard
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 2008-08-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786434554
Baseball was a rough sport in the nineteenth century and no one played the game with more vigor (and often violence) than Hall of Famers Hugh Duffy and Tommy McCarthy, dubbed "The Heavenly Twins." This book details their professional history playing for Boston Beaneaters teams and personal experiences with baseball, faith, and legendary Boston baseball scribe Tim Murnane. The book also traces their minor league careers and post-professional baseball activities.
Author : Aram Goudsouzian
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 052094576X
Bill Russell was not the first African American to play professional basketball, but he was its first black superstar. From the moment he stepped onto the court of the Boston Garden in 1956, Russell began to transform the sport in a fundamental way, making him, more than any of his contemporaries, the Jackie Robinson of basketball. In King of the Court, Aram Goudsouzian provides a vivid and engrossing chronicle of the life and career of this brilliant champion and courageous racial pioneer. Russell’s leaping, wide-ranging defense altered the game’s texture. His teams provided models of racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s, and, in 1966, he became the first black coach of any major professional team sport. Yet, like no athlete before him, Russell challenged the politics of sport. Instead of displaying appreciative deference, he decried racist institutions, embraced his African roots, and challenged the nonviolent tenets of the civil rights movement. This beautifully written book—sophisticated, nuanced, and insightful—reveals a singular individual who expressed the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. while echoing the warnings of Malcolm X.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Feed industry
ISBN :
Author : National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting
Publisher :
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN :
Author : Harvard University
Publisher :
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 25,31 MB
Release : 1898
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Corporation law
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Medicine
ISBN :