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No Girls in the Clubhouse: The Exclusion of Women from Baseball

Marilyn Cohen - 2009 - Sports & Recreation - Limited preview
Even though teenaged girl Jackie Mitchell once struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, women are still striking out on the hardball diamond. This book builds on recently published histories of women as amateur and professional players, umpires ...

Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost

Lew Freedman - 2009 - Sports & Recreation - Limited preview
He pitched a baseball game that was more than perfect, and yet he lost. Southpaw Harvey Haddix had logged a solid but unspectacular career by the time he took the mound on May 26, 1959. Facing the Milwaukee Braves, he set down the first 36 ...

Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball

Robert K. Fitts - 2008 - Sports & Recreation - Limited preview
Wally Yonamine was both the first Japanese American to play for an NFL franchise and the first American to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II. This is the unlikely story of how a shy young man from the sugar plantations of ...

Kayaking Alone: Nine Hundred Miles from Idaho's Mountains to the Pacific Ocean

Mike Barenti - 2008 - Nature - Limited preview
Kayaking Alone is a narrative of man and nature, one-on-one, but also of man and nature writ large. In the stories of the river guides and rangers, biologists and ranchers, American Indians and dam workers he meets along the way, the rich and ...

Tennis Beyond Big Shots

Greg Moran - 2006 - Sports & Recreation - Limited preview
Presents a bold back-to-the-future approach. A new game that moves away from power and big shots yet is more lethal to opponents than any booming serve. Greg Moran shows players of all ages and abilities that, with simple and small changes, you ...

The Prospect

Eliot Parker - 2009 - Fiction - Limited preview

Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches

Theodore Roosevelt - 2000 - No preview available
The unfortunate man, having finished his packing, had sat down on the spruce log with his face to the fire, and his back to the dense woods, to wait for his companion. While thus waiting, his monstrous assailant, which must have been lurking ...

Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball

Peter Morris - 2007 - Sports & Recreation - Limited preview
Ben-Zion Gold's memoir brings to life the world of a million Jews in pre-World War II Poland who were later destroyed by the Nazis. Warmly recalling the relationships, rituals, observances, and celebrations, Gold evokes the sense of family and ...

The Entitled: A Tale of Modern Baseball

Frank Deford - 2008 - Fiction - Limited preview
"The Entitled is a baseball masterpiece, like The Natural and Field of Dreams." —Mike Schmidt, Baseball Hall of Fame From legendary six-time National Sportswriter of the Year and NPR commentator Frank Deford comes a richly detailed, page-turning ...