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2022.
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English
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"Few names in the history of baseball evoke the excellence and dynamism that Rickey Henderson's does. He holds the record for the most stolen bases in a single game, and he's scored more runs than any player ever. "If you cut Rickey Henderson in half, you'd have two Hall of Famers," the baseball historian Bill James once said. But perhaps even more than his prowess on the field, Rickey Henderson's is a story of Oakland, California, the town that gave...
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English
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Drawing on 720 original interviews, a New York Times best-selling sportswriter captures as never before the elusive truth about the greatest athlete of all time who took the world by storm from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s--and then, almost overnight, disappeared.
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University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Dave Parker was one of the biggest and most badass baseball players of the late twentieth century. He stood at six foot five and weighed 235 pounds. He was a seven-time All-Star, a two-time batting champion, a frequent Gold Glove winner, the 1978 National League MVP, and a World Series champion with both the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Oakland A's. Here the great Dave Parker delivers his wild and long-awaited autobiography-an authoritative account...
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans.
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Presents an illustrated biography of the man who broke baseball's color barrier and changed the way Americans viewed equality in sports.
"Jackie Robinson always loved sports, especially baseball. He could run, leap, and throw better than any other kid around. But he lived at a time when the rules weren't fair to African Americans: Even though Jackie was a great athlete, he wasn't allowed on the best teams just because of the color of his skin. Jackie...
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Red Chair Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play baseball in the modern major leagues. Today there are many great Black players in the MLB, but in 1947 it was very big news when Jackie stepped up to the plate. He opened doors for young Black athletes even today.--Publisher.
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Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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After the 1969 season, the St. Louis Cardinals traded their star center fielder, Curt Flood, to the Philadelphia Phillies, setting off a chain of events that would change professional sports forever. At the time there were no free agents, no no-trade clauses. When a player was traded, he had to report to his new team or retire. Unwilling to leave St. Louis and influenced by the civil rights movement, Flood chose to sue Major League Baseball for his...
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Roc Lit 101
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"The memoir of the life of one of the most beloved baseball players of his generation, a raw, compelling story of baseball, family, fame, addiction, loss, and a champion's resilience"--
Baseball had been Sabathia's life since he was a kid in Vallejo, California. A star by the time he was a preteen and a professional athlete when he was still a teenager, everything he knew about how to be a person he learned in rhythm with the baseball season. He...
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Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Mamie "Peanut" Johnson had one dream: to play professional baseball. She was a talented player, but she wasn't welcome on the all-white Girls Pro Baseball League team due to the color of her skin. However, a greater opportunity came her way in 1953 when Johnson signed to play ball with the Negro Leagues' Indianoplis Clowns, becoming the only professional female pitcher to play on a men's team. During the three years she played with the team, her...
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ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Jackie Robinson: A Life in American History provides readers with an understanding of the scope of Robinson's life and explores why no Major League baseball player will ever again wear number 42 as his regular jersey number"--
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Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The...true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron--a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston--and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition and compensation that they deserved from Major League Baseball more than fifty years after their playing days were over"--
In 2007, at the age of twelve, Perron bought a set of Topps baseball cards featuring several players from the Negro...
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William. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A religious biography of Jackie Robinson that describes how his faith sustained him during his struggle to integrate Major League Baseball and later throughout his civil rights activism"--
"How faith sustained Jackie Robinson-both as an athlete and as an activist. The integration of Major League Baseball in 1947 was a triumph. But it was also a fight. As the first Black major leaguer since the 1880s, Jackie Robinson knew he was not going to be welcomed...
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