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A significant contribution to our understanding of this period from the perspective of a family espousing a minority faith. Non-French-reading students of Canadian, Jewish, and North American social history will be rewarded in choosing this book.
Highly recommended for all libraries wishing to offer readers a few hours of fun and frivolity and to serious fans an explanation of the mania that last engulfed the National Pastime in a worthwhile way.
Every first novel has the potential to seize the interest of a wide readership when it combines these elements: a young baseball player seeking solace on the field for the loss of a father killed by police in a botched drug raid; a veteran Denver police officer (and baseball coach) scarred by a life-ending and life-changing split-second decision; and the women—mother/widow and the wife—who seek to move forward with their lives...
One of the oldest active MLB players, Boston pitcher Wakefield tells his life story (with sportswriter Massarotti, whose A Tale of Two Cities: The 2004 Yankee-Red Sox Rivalry and the War for the Pennant, with John Harper, is the best book on the Sox-Yanks rivalry)...
A welcome title for any youth baseball coach or player, this pitching how-to guide illustrates each important step or movement in the successful delivery of the horsehide and instructs ably on injury avoidance, preparation (both physical and mental), and health and medicine, with an especially useful concluding chapter on "Choosing Your Post High School Path...
On July 2, 1963, the Milwaukee Braves met the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park, with Warren Spahn, who dominated pitching in the 1950s, facing Juan Marichal, who would dominate in the 1960s (together with Bob Gibson)...