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The Texas League 1888 1987
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Author : Bill O'Neal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The Texas League 1888 1987 written by Bill O'Neal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Galveston Buccaneers The Shearn Moody And The 1934 Texas League Championship
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Author : Kris Rutherford
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2015
Galveston Buccaneers The Shearn Moody And The 1934 Texas League Championship written by Kris Rutherford and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
Galveston survived the Great Depression with a healthy dose of baseball, boll weevils and bootleg business. Farmers like future Galveston Buccaneers star Buck Fausett fled the insect infestation of North Texas for the city's sunny shores along with throngs of visitors eager to visit Sam Maceo's clubs and catch a ballgame. Galvestonians had a long love affair with America's favorite pastime, fielding the first game played in the state. Cotton heir Shearn Moody purchased the Buccaneers in 1931 and turned the languishing squad into a dominating force that won the 1934 Texas League Championship. Author Kris Rutherford weaves a captivating history of the Moody family, a team of talented players and the island that claimed them.
San Antonio At Bat
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Author : David King
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2004
San Antonio At Bat written by David King and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Traces the history of professional baseball in San Antonio from 1888 to the present, highlighting key players, coaches, teams, and events that have defined the sport.
The Texas League In Baseball 1888 1958
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Author : Marshall D. Wright
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2004-07-20
The Texas League In Baseball 1888 1958 written by Marshall D. Wright and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-20 with Reference categories.
For over 100 years, the Texas League has been one of the top minor leagues in the Southwest. This work is a statistical history of the Texas League from its inception in 1888 through 1958, when Houston, Fort Worth and Dallas left for higher aspirations in Triple A and major league baseball. The book is arranged by year, and each chapter begins with a short introduction that also highlights a player, team, or aspect of the game that season. The teams are then presented in standings order, and the author provides statistics for each player (games, at bats, runs, hits, runs batted in, doubles, triples, home runs, walks, strikeouts, stolen bases, and batting average) and each team (wins, loses, winning percentage, and games behind first place). For pitchers, the statistics provided here include wins and losses, winning percentage, games, games started, complete games, shutouts, innings pitched, hits allowed, walks, strikeouts, and earned run averages.
Spare Time In Texas
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Author : David G. McComb
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2008-09-01
Spare Time In Texas written by David G. McComb and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-01 with History categories.
The author traces the history of various types of recreation in Texas and shows how Texans' leisure pastimes reveal their characters, in a richly illustrated study that ranges from the frontier period to the present day.
Baseball Team Names
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Author : Richard Worth
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-02-21
Baseball Team Names written by Richard Worth and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-21 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Professional baseball is full of arcane team names. The Los Angeles Dodgers, for instance, owe their nickname to the trolley tracks that honeycombed Brooklyn in the early 1880s. (Residents were "trolley dodgers.") From the Negro Leagues, there were the Pittsburgh Crawfords (sponsored early by the Crawford Bath House and Recreation Center); from the minors, the Tucson Waddies (slang for cowboy) and, later, the Montgomery Biscuits (for the would-be concessions staple); from overseas, the Adelaide, Australia, Bite (a shark reference but also a pun for bight) and the Bussum, Netherlands, Mr. Cocker HCAW (the sponsoring restaurant chain, followed by the acronym for the official team name, Honkbalclub Allan Weerbaar). This comprehensive reference book explains the nicknames of thousands of major and minor league franchises, Negro League and early independent black clubs, and international teams--from 1869 through 2011.
Baseball On The Prairie
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Author : Kris Rutherford
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2021-05-03
Baseball On The Prairie written by Kris Rutherford and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-03 with History categories.
At the close of the nineteenth century, railroad expansion in Texas at once shrank the state and expanded opportunities, including that of Texas League Baseball. Previously, the major cities monopolized Texas minor-league ball, but with the rails came small-town teams without which the league may have floundered. Sherman, Denison, Paris, Corsicana, Cleburne, Greenville and Temple teams produced some of the Texas League's greatest players and provided unprecedented statewide interest. The 1902 Corsicana Oil Citys was one of the most successful teams of the time, claiming the second-best winning percentage and baseball's most lopsided victory, 51-3 over Texarkana's Casketmakers. In its only year in the league, Cleburne won the league championship and team owner Doak Roberts discovered the great Tris Speaker. Kris Rutherford pieces together the Texas League's early days and the people and towns that made this centuries-old institution possible.
The Midnight Assassin
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Author : Skip Hollandsworth
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2016-04-05
The Midnight Assassin written by Skip Hollandsworth and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-05 with History categories.
A New York Times bestseller, The Midnight Assassin is a sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885. In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class. At the time the concept of a serial killer was unthinkable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. Before it was all over, at least a dozen men would be arrested in connection with the murders, and the crimes would expose what a newspaper described as "the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin." And yes, when Jack the Ripper began his attacks in 1888, London police investigators did wonder if the killer from Austin had crossed the ocean to terrorize their own city. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life.
The African American Experience In Texas
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Author : Bruce A. Glasrud
language : en
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Release Date : 2007
The African American Experience In Texas written by Bruce A. Glasrud and has been published by Texas Tech University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
The African American Experience in Texas collects for the first time the finest historical research and writing on African Americans in Texas. Covering the time period between 1820 and the late 1970s, the selections highlight the significant role that black Texans played in the development of the state. Topics include politics, slavery, religion, military experience, segregation and discrimination, civil rights, women, education, and recreation. This anthology provides new insights into a previously neglected part of American history and is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of black Texans.
Class At Bat Gender On Deck And Race In The Hole
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Author : Ron Briley
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2003-06-04
Class At Bat Gender On Deck And Race In The Hole written by Ron Briley and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-04 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Nineteen essays by Briley focus on major league baseball as it reflected the changing American culture from about 1945 to about 1980. He examines the era through the lens of race, gender and class--categories which have increasingly become essential analytical tools for scholars. The accounts of Roman Mejias and Cesar Cedeno offer some disturbing insights regarding the acceptance of Latinos in baseball and American society. In one essay, Briley refers to baseball as the heart of the nation's democratic spirit, noting that the son of a rural farmer could play alongside a governor's son and both would receive only the praise that their playing merited. However, in writing about the Milwaukee Braves'move to Atlanta, the lamentations of fans--that baseball had succumbed to the age of affluence--are compared to the changing patterns of demographics and economic power in American society. Even with the increased participation of women on the field with teams like the Silver Bullets, the final essay comments on organized baseball's perception of them as primarily spectators. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.