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A succinct history of baseball, newly revised and updated. A lively history of America's game, widely recognized as the best of its kind, Benjamin G. Rader expands his scope, covering record crowds and record income, construction of new ballparks, a change in the strike zone, a surge in recruiting Japanese players, and an emerging cadre of explosive long-ball hitters.
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Glories and fiascos, triumphs and tragedies, records and near misses--all are included in this vivid history of the modern Olympics. Using as a backdrop the athletic events that draw television audiences in the billions, Allen Guttmann has written an interpretive social history of the games. What did the founders of the Olympic Games intend them to mean? And what have they, in the course of a century of tumultuous change, become? Guttmann probes the...
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Mike "King" Kelly was the hard-living, hard-drinking son of a Civil War veteran whose skills at baseball and infectious charm turned him into the game's first hero, and a symbol of what it meant to be a celebrity in America in the 1880s and 1890s. Slide, Kelly, Slide reacquaints baseball fans and scholars with this little-known pioneer of the game. Marty Appel, the author of several baseball books, conducted a thorough search of local archives to...
17) Baseball
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Discusses the origins and evolution of the game of baseball, as well as memorable events and key personalities in the game's history.
19) The Daytona 500
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Looks at people, track, and machines of the Daytona 500, the unofficial opening event of North America's stock car racing season, from 1959's photo-finish to the early races of the twenty-first century.
20) The final Four
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Discusses the championship round of the NCAA basketball championships, including powerhouse teams, exciting games, and outstanding players from past years.
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