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Radio Mystery And Adventure And Its Appearances In Film, Television And Other Media

by Jim Harmon

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 From the 1920s to the 1950s, radio was the entertainment source for millions. Two of the primary themes of radio serials were mysteries and adventure. This is a detailed analysis of the important programs in these genres - ""Jack Armstrong,"" ""The Green Hornet,"" ""Sergeant Preston,"" ""Tom Mix,"" and more.
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Addie Joss On Baseball - Collected Newspaper Columns And World Series Reports, 1907-1909

by Joss Addie Joss

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 Addie Joss (1880-1911) mowed down batters for the Cleveland Broncos/Naps from 1902 to 1910 before his career was cut short by his tragic death from tubercular meningitis in 1911. With a career ERA of 1.89 and two no-hitters, Joss earned Hall of Fame election despite a career that lasted less than ten years, the only player to do so. In the off-season, Joss also excelled as a sportswriter for the Toledo News-Bee and the Cleveland Press, filling the empty winter months penning stories about the game he knew firsthand. This collection of Joss''s newspaper columns and World Series reports is a treasury of the deadball era with intimate first-person observations of the game and its players from the first decade of the American League. Informative annotations, archival photographs, and a brief biography complete the work.
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Great Match And Our Base Ball Club - Two Novels From The Early Days Of Base Ball

by Anonymous Anonymous e Brooks Noah Brooks

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 Suitable for those with an interest in early baseball and its place in the nineteenth century popular imagination.
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Nebraska Indians And Fun And Frolic With An Indian Ball Team - Two Accounts Of Baseball Barnstorming At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century

by Green Guy W. Green

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 This is the first book that includes all of Guy W. Green's baseball writings: A Complete History of the Nebraska Indians Base Ball Team (1903), Fun and Frolic with an Indian Ball Team (1904), and "Experiences with an Indian Ball Team" (1908). The works detail the athletic success and humorous escapades of the most famous American Indian barnstorming baseball team. A substantial introduction provides historical background on the formation of the team; on Green's life, writings, and other ventures; and on the later history and owners of the Nebraska Indians after Green sold the team.
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Ballplayers In The Great War - Newspaper Accounts Of Major Leaguers In World War I Military Service

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 Presents carefully selected, and annotated, articles about major-leaguers serving at home and overseas in the US armed forces during World War I. Some continued to play ball in the military. Others fought the Germans in the trenches, in the air and at sea. Several lost their lives in combat or to disease. A few became heroes.
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Baseball Cyclopedia

by Lanigan Ernest J. Lanigan

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 Ernest J. Lanigan was the nephew of Sporting News founder Al Spink and one of three men in his immediate family to gain acclaim as a newspaperman. As sports editor for the New York Press and official scorer for a handful of World Series, he was the premier statistician of his day. Lanigan compiled the first baseball encyclopedia in 1922, and it is reprinted here with each of its twelve annual supplements. As the original publisher advertised on the book's title page, it &quote;[c]omprises a review of Professional Baseball, the history of all Major League Clubs, playing records and unique events, the batting, pitching and base running champions, World's Series' statistics and a carefully arranged alphabetical list of the records of more than 3500 Major League ball players, a feature never before attempted in print.&quote;
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&Quote;Commy&Quote; - The Life Story Of Charles A. Comiskey

by Axelson G.W. Axelson

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 This biography of Charles &quote;Commy&quote; Comiskey is one of the earliest and most important-and, up to now, one of the hardest for baseball researchers to get their hands on-in the baseball canon. Comiskey spent half a century in the big leagues as a successful player-manager and owner, his clubs winning nine pennants along the way. But the dark cloud that hangs over him is the 1919 Black Sox scandal, in which he is inextricably tangled, fair or not. Comiskey's tight-fistedness is often cited as a principal cause of the 1919 World Series scandal. Commy suspected that the fix was on after the White Sox lost the first two games, and even implored his old friend, American League president Ban Johnson, to suspend the Series, but the tide of history could not be dammed. Historians of the game will find much valuable insight here on the rise of baseball in the Windy City, Comiskey's playing career (as an innovative first baseman), his long stint as St. Louis Browns player-manager (which included four straight pennants from 1885 to 1888), his helping Johnson form the American League, and his keeping the White Sox a family-owned franchise for nearly 60 years. Surprisingly, this is the only biography of Comiskey ever published. Fortunately, Axelson allows &quote;The Old Roman&quote; to speak for himself briefly in the last seven pages of the book. Here Comiskey comes across as humble and earnest, concluding his message with, &quote;What I have tried to do [in baseball] has been my level best.&quote;
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Black Ball And The Boardwalk - The Bacharach Giants Of Atlantic City, 1916-1929

by James E. Overmyer

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 Chronicles the Giants' pivotal role in the development of black baseball in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, and the careers of the men who made it possible. The Giants' accomplishments took place against an historical backdrop of a change in the African-American experience. They entered the first Negro league on the East Coast in 1923, and won the league championship twice before the decade ended.
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The Naming Of Animals - An Appellative Reference To Domestic, Work And Show Animals Real And Fictional

by Adrian Room

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 Humankind have long viewed animals as if they shared human characteristics. Naturally this view is expressed in the naming of the beloved family pet, a farm animal, a race horse, an exotic bird, an insect, or any other animal.
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Zane Grey'S Wild West - A Study Of 31 Novels

by Victor Carl Friesen

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 This is a literary discussion of one-half of Zane Grey's Westerns, with a chapter for each selected book. The choices stem from wishing to best show the broad scope of this one-time best-selling author's interests in the West. The expository treatment explains how these novels ""work,"" while pointing out Grey's ecological concern for our natural world.
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Baseball In 1939 - The Watershed Season Of The National Pastime

by Lawrence S. Katz

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 Through extensive research, augmented by interviews with such Hall of Famers as Bob Feller, Ernie Harwell, Charlie Gehringer and Monte Irvin, this retells the story of the pivotal 1939 baseball season. The appendix provides a statistical summary of the year.
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Jimmy Collins - A Baseball Biography

by Charlie Bevis

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 This first book-length biography of Jimmy Collins examines the life of an intensely private, business-oriented ballplayer who was the first third baseman to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Collins' life is covered in depth from his early years growing up in Buffalo, through his 14-year major league baseball career 1895-1908, to his post-baseball life.
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The Vampire Goes To College - Essays On Teaching With The Undead

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 Presents pedagogical tools, methods, and approaches for incorporating the figure of the vampire into the learning environment of the college classroom, in the hopes of ushering the Undead out of the coffin and into the classroom. The essays foster collaboration and dialogue across different disciplines, and serve as a collective resource for those who would teach the vampire.
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Pervert In The Pulpit - Morality In The Works Of David Lynch

by Jeff Johnson

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 Filmmaker David Lynch's work is viewed here as patriotic and Puritanical. Also included is a history of moralistic criticism in American literature and a review of existing Lynch criticism within this context.
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A Book Of Emblems - The Emblematum Liber In Latin And English

by Andrea Alciati

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 Andrea Alciatis' Liber Emblemata (published in 1534) was an illustrated book of emblems, used by the well-educated of post-medieval Europe. This is the English translation, complete with the Latin texts and illustrations belonging to each of the 212 emblems, following the canonical order established by Johann Thuilius in 1612
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All At Sea - Twenty Years At The Helm Of Tall Ships

by Dominick Jones

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 "The true story of how a family brought a wooden cargo ship back into the age of sail. Cecilia bought the first ship, a Thames barge, for family vacations. Dominick bought a Baltic trader, and found this would be his career. Twenty years elapsed between the first days of the barge and the last day of the Baltic."--Provided by publisher."
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Leaving The House Of Ghosts - Cambodian Refugees In The American Midwest

by Sarah Streed

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 Survivors of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot's regime, now living in the American Midwest, tell their stories in this work. Many of them were children during that time, unable to comprehend exactly what was happening and why, but are able to reveal the trauma they experienced.
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Confederate Naval Cadet - The Diary And Letters Of Midshipman Hubbard T. Minor, With A History Of The Confederate Naval Academy

by Hubbard T. Minor

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 When the Civil War began, the southerners found themselves ill-prepared for the realities of waging war, especially on the naval front. Focusing on the latter part of the war, this work provides an in-depth look at the realities of life as a cadet at the Southern Naval Academy. It begins with an overview of the academy.
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The St. Louis Cardinals In The 1940s

by Mel R. Freese

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 Though very few teams can accurately be called dynasties, the 1940s Cardinals certainly made a strong case. This is the history of the Cardinals during the 1940s. Chapters follow the Cards year-by-year, covering each season with description, statistics and analysis.
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Branch Rickey - A Biography, Rev. Ed.

by Murray Polner

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 Possessed of one of the most creative minds in the game's long history, Rickey made early use of statistical analysis, pioneered the farm system, and pressed for the expansion of major league baseball. This biography is based on hundreds of interviews and research, including access to Rickey's own papers.
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Chess Results, 1921-1930 - A Comprehensive Record With 940 Tournament Crosstables And 210 Match Scores

by Gino Di Felice

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 Lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world. Compiled from contemporary sources such as newspapers, periodicals, tournament records and match books, this comprehensive chronological reference contains 940 tournament cross tables and 210 match scores. It is indexed by events and players.
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Governor Edward Coles And The Vote To Forbid Slavery In Illinois, 1823-1824

by David Ress

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 Edward Coles, the second governor of Illinois, chose to live where democracy would be free from the contradictions of slavery, and faced down a two-year effort to make Illinois a slave state.
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The International League - Year-By-Year Statistics, 1884-1953

by Marshall D. Wright

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 This is the complete, year-by-year, team-by-team statistical history of the first 70 years of the International League, from its beginnings with the Eastern League in 1854, to 1953 when longtime member Baltimore was forced to relocate its franchise to make way for a major league team.
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The Multicultural Dictionary Of Proverbs - Over 20,000 Adages From More Than 120 Languages, Nationalities And Ethnic Groups

by Harold V. Cordry

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 This work includes over 20,000 proverbs from more than 120 languages, nationalities and ethnic groups. The proverbs are arranged under 1,300 headings, and each includes the nationality, group or language in which it originated. Comprehensive keyword and subject indexes allow access to the material in multiple ways.
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