The Forgotten League
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The Forgotten League
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Author : Frank Foster
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012-09-08
The Forgotten League written by Frank Foster and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-08 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Rube Foster, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard...they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people heard of them? Because they never played in the MLB; they were the heroes of a baseball league often forgotten: The Negro League. This book traces the history of the league from the early days of Professional Black Baseball and the formation of leagues to Post-Integration decline. HistoryCaps is an imprint of BookCaps Study Guides. With each book, a brief period of history is recapped. We publish a wide array of topics (from baseball and music to science and philosophy), so check our growing catalogue regularly to see our newest books.
The Forgotten League
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Author : Frank Foster
language : en
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
Release Date : 2016-04-17
The Forgotten League written by Frank Foster and has been published by BookCaps Study Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book traces the history of the league from the early days of Professional Black Baseball and the formation of leagues to Post-Integration decline.
The National Forgotten League
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Author : Dan Daly
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2012-10-01
The National Forgotten League written by Dan Daly and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The first fifty years of America’s most popular spectator sport have been strangely neglected by historians claiming to tell the “complete story” of pro football. Well, here are the early stories that “complete story” has left out. What about the awful secret carried around by Sid Luckman, the Bears’ Hall of Fame quarterback whose father was a mobster and a murderer? Or Steve Hamas, who briefly played in the NFL then turned to boxing and beat Max Schmeling, conqueror of Joe Louis? Or the two one-armed players who suited up for NFL teams in 1945? Or Steelers owner Art Rooney postponing a game in 1938 because of injuries? These are just a few of the little-known facts Dan Daly unearths in recounting the untold history of pro football in its first half century. These decades were also full of ideas and experimentation, such as the invention of the modern T formation that revolutionized offense, unlimited player substitution, and soccer-style kicking, as well as the emergence of televised pro football as prime-time entertainment. Relying on obscure sources, original interviews, old game films and statistical databases, Daly’s extensive research and engaging stories bring the NFL’s formative years—and pro football’s folk roots—to life.
When The Forgotten Borough Reigned The 1964 Little League World Champions
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Author : Jeff Ingber
language : en
Publisher: Jeff Ingber
Release Date : 2021-06-16
When The Forgotten Borough Reigned The 1964 Little League World Champions written by Jeff Ingber and has been published by Jeff Ingber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-16 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The 1964 Little League World Series was unique and memorable. The final game was won on a no-hitter spun by a pitcher on an All-Star team from the middle of Staten Island, the "forgotten borough" that appeared to have more in common with the American heartland than the rest of New York City. Not only had a Big Apple team never before even qualified for the World Series, but it was the first time a U.S. team defeated an international one for the championship. The members of the victorious Mid-Island Little League team were treated to a ticker-tape parade in lower Manhattan and a reception by the mayor as well as meetings with celebrities and baseball icons. When the Forgotten Borough Reigned takes the reader back to 1964, a transformational year for America in which baseball still firmly held its position as the treasured national pastime. Months before the opening of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, which quickly led to a tidal wave of change throughout Staten Island, there was a magical summer during which fourteen boys, none older than twelve, experienced a degree of fame few adults ever do while uniting the borough and city in frenzied celebration.
The Forgotten Players
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Author : Robert Gardner
language : en
Publisher: Walker & Company
Release Date : 1993
The Forgotten Players written by Robert Gardner and has been published by Walker & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Traces the history of the Negro leagues that evolved due to segregation in professional baseball and the experiences of black players from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century.
Chinese In Napa Valley The Forgotten Community That Built Wine Country
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Author : John McCormick
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2023-01-02
Chinese In Napa Valley The Forgotten Community That Built Wine Country written by John McCormick and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-02 with History categories.
Unearth the origins of Napa Valley's prosperity. Chinese laborers were once the backbone of Napa Valley. Throughout the late 1800s, they toiled in the grape fields, mines, hop farms, leather tanneries and laundries, and carved out neighborhoods in towns throughout the Valley. These contributions did little to deter discrimination and Anti-Chinese Leagues sprang up to harass and intimidate immigrants like Chan Wah Jack, who ran the successful Sang Lung store in Napa's Chinatown. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act hastened the decline of local Chinatowns and these once vibrant communities disappeared while the industries they helped to foster flourished. Join author John McCormick as he uncovers the forgotten contributions of the Chinese people in California's most famous wine region.
The Forgotten History Of African American Baseball
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Author : Lawrence D. Hogan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-01-27
The Forgotten History Of African American Baseball written by Lawrence D. Hogan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This text gives readers the chance to experience the unique character and personalities of the African American game of baseball in the United States, starting from the time of slavery, through the Negro Leagues and integration period, and beyond. For 100 years, African Americans were barred from playing in the premier baseball leagues of the United States—where only Caucasians were allowed. Talented black athletes until the 1950s were largely limited to only playing in Negro leagues, or possibly playing against white teams in exhibition, post-season play, or barnstorming contests—if it was deemed profitable for the white hosts. Even so, the people and events of Jim Crow baseball had incredible beauty, richness, and quality of play and character. The deep significance of Negro baseball leagues in establishing the texture of American history is an experience that cannot be allowed to slip away and be forgotten. This book takes readers from the origins of African Americans playing the American game of baseball on southern plantations in the pre-Civil War era through Black baseball and America's long era of Jim Crow segregation to the significance of Black baseball within our modern-day, post-Civil Rights Movement perspective.
Gandhi The Forgotten Mahatma
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Author : Jagdish Chandra Jain
language : en
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Release Date : 1987-01-01
Gandhi The Forgotten Mahatma written by Jagdish Chandra Jain and has been published by Mittal Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with History categories.
Author's account, as a prosecution witness, of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, by Nathuram Vinayak Godse, 1912-1949, and the trial; includes his views on Gandhi's role in India's independence, and the relevance of his philosophy today.
The Forgotten Summit
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Author : Craig Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011
The Forgotten Summit written by Craig Wallace and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
The Forgotten Depression
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Author : James Grant
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014
The Forgotten Depression written by James Grant and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Business & Economics categories.
"By the publisher of the prestigious Grant's Interest Rate Observer, an account of the deep economic slump of 1920-21 that proposes, with respect to federal intervention, "less is more." This is a free-market rejoinder to the Keynesian stimulus applied by Bush and Obama to the 2007-09 recession, in whose aftereffects, Grant asserts, the nation still toils. James Grant tells the story of America's last governmentally-untreated depression; relatively brief and self-correcting, it gave way to the Roaring Twenties. His book appears in the fifth year of a lackluster recovery from the overmedicated downturn of 2007-2009. In 1920-21, Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding met a deep economic slump by seeming to ignore it, implementing policies that most twenty-first century economists would call backward. Confronted with plunging prices, wages, and employment, the government balanced the budget and, through the Federal Reserve, raised interest rates. No "stimulus" was administered, and a powerful, job-filled recovery was under way by late in 1921. In 1929, the economy once again slumped--and kept right on slumping as the Hoover administration adopted the very policies that Wilson and Harding had declined to put in place. Grant argues that well-intended federal intervention, notably the White House-led campaign to prop up industrial wages, helped to turn a bad recession into America's worst depression. He offers the experience of the earlier depression for lessons for today and the future. This is a powerful response to the prevailing notion of how to fight recession. The enterprise system is more resilient than even its friends give it credit for being, Grant demonstrates"--