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  • The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960

    by Leslie A. Heaphy ...
    At his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, former Negro League player Buck Leonard said, "Now, we in the Negro Leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing.... We loved the game.... But we thought that we should have and could have made the major leagues." The Negro Leagues had some of the best talent in baseball but from their earliest days the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Boston’s Black Athletes

    Identity, Performance, and Activism

    by Steven Apostolov, Lane Demas, Lorenz J. Finison, Donna L. Halper, Leslie Heaphy, Edward H. Jones, Stephanie Liscio, Susan A. Michalczyk, Eileen Narcotta-Welp, Tracey Owens Patton, Andrew Smith, Lynne Tolman, Robert E. Weir ...
    Series series Sport, Identity, and Culture
    Sport has long been a stage where identity is contested, visibility is earned, and social change takes root.In Boston, the Black athletic body has historically challenged the city's self image as a beacon of liberalism. Boston's Black Athletes: Identity, Performance, and Activism interprets this contested history through the lives and experiences of African American athletes who used their talent ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Black Ball 10

    New Research in African American Baseball History

    Edited by Leslie A. Heaphy ...
    Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business of black ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 6

    Edited by Leslie A. Heaphy ...
    BACK ISSUEUnder the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 7

    Edited by Leslie A. Heaphy ...
    BACK ISSUEUnder the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 8

    Edited by Leslie A. Heaphy ...
    BACK ISSUEUnder the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Black Ball 9

    New Research in African American Baseball History

    Edited by Leslie A. Heaphy ...
    Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business of black ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • The Forgotten League: A History of Negro League Baseball

    by Frank Foster ...
    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 ... Read more

    $8.44 CAD

  • The Sports Revolution

    How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics

    by Frank Andre Guridy ...
    Series series The Texas Bookshelf
    The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole.In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were built, football and basketball grew in ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • War As They Knew It

    Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, and America in a Time of Unrest

    by Michael Rosenberg ...
    **Award-winning sports columnist Michael Rosenberg chronicles the extraordinary days of campus unrest and civil turmoil during the Vietnam War years as seen through the prism of two legendary college football coaches."Superb ... the best sports book I've read in years." —Cleveland Plain Dealer**The Vietnam War. Nixon. Kent State.The late 1960s and early 1970s were a time of total turmoil in ... Read more

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  • A Fire to Win

    The Life and Times of Woody Hayes

    by John Lombardo ...
    A Fire to Win is an honest and revealing biography of Woody Hayes, a man who ranks in the pantheon of football coaches.Woody Hayes is one of the greatest football coaches in history—and one of the most fascinating. More than a brilliant coach, he was a complicated, contradictory man. The former history teacher would tout the ideals of democracy yet run his football empire as an absolute monarchy. ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Ahead of the Curve

    Inside the Baseball Revolution

    by Brian Kenny ...
    “A delight for baseball lovers” (Kirkus Reviews) and “one of the most significant baseball books of the year” (Bob Costas) Ahead of the Curve uses stories from baseball’s present and past to examine why we sometimes choose ignorance over information, and how tradition can trump logic.Forget batting average. Kill the “Win.” Say goodbye to starting pitchers. And please, please stop bunting. MLB ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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