An October to Remember 1968: The Tigers-Cardinals World Series as Told by the Men Who Played in It recalls one of baseball's most celebrated championship series from the voices of the players who still remain--a collected narrative from a bygone era of major-league baseball as they reflect fifty years later.
To baseball fans of today, the name Dodgers is synonymous with Hollywood, the warm California sun, and names like Tommy Lasorda, Kirk Gibson, Steve Garvey, and Orel Hershiser.
The rich tradition of the San Francisco Giants has provided indelible memories for their fans ever since they moved from New Yorks Polo Grounds to Seals Stadium in 1958.
The newly reissued Legends of the Philadelphia Phillies, originally published in 2005, takes an in-depth look at the legends that have shaped the Phillies identity over the last seventy years.
For the first decade of the 21st century, the Baltimore Orioles were perpetual cellar dwellers, with losing seasons from 19982011fourteen straight years.
During his twenty-four-year career, Ty Cobb was an MVP, Triple Crown-winner, twelve-time batting champion, and was elected in the inaugural ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame (along with Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson).
Phil Pepe spent years as the New York Daily News Yankee beat reporter, rubbing shoulders with countless Yankee greats, from Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra to Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera.
Hammerin Hank Greenberg was coming off a stellar season where hed hit 40 home runs and 184 RBIs, becoming only the thirteenth player to ever hit 40 or more homers (and one of only four players to have 40 or more home runs and 175 or more RBIs in a season).
More than a just a trivia book, So You Think Youre A Kentucky Basketball Fan challenges your knowledge of Wildcats basketball with stories behind each question and answer that brings the history of this legendary team to life.
One of the classic baseball stories, You Know Me Al, first published in 1914, tells the story of the fictional Jack Keefe, a bush league baseball player who earns a trip to the majors to pitch for the Chicago White Sox.
The hidden histories of empire, told through the haunted afterlives of colonial migrationsIndian migrants provided the labor that enabled the British Empire to gain control over a quarter of the world's population and territory.
An interconnected, nuanced, and nonlinear view of Chinese family life since 1949With Embedded Generations, Liu Jieyu offers a comprehensive examination of Chinese family life since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949.
An interconnected, nuanced, and nonlinear view of Chinese family life since 1949With Embedded Generations, Liu Jieyu offers a comprehensive examination of Chinese family life since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949.
The perfect whisky gift for the whisky lover in your life this Christmas - 52 of the world's best whisky distilleries explored from the comfort of your armchair, plus tasting notes and recommendations for all the bottles you should be drinking.
Philosophen und Dichter begründeten und prägten das politische Denken und damit die Besonderheit der griechischen Polis - der Mutter des europäischen Staatswesens.
Silvio Vietta stellt erstmals die europäische Literatur von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart in die Zusammenhänge einer Funktionsgeschichte, die quer zur Epochen- und Gattungsgeschichte sowie zu den Nationalphilologien liegt.
Das Buch untersucht die mythischen Traditionen von Troia und der Troas in der Antike, um zu zeigen, wie das kulturelle Gedächtnis der Griechen die Frühgeschichte dieser nord-ägäischen Region rekonstruiert hat.
Aufklärung – inzwischen postmodern überholt und damit Geschichte geworden oder womöglich sogar ein zivilisatorischer Irrweg, der zu kritischer Bestreitung und mehr oder weniger radikaler Umkehr Anlass gibt?
Aktuelle Entwicklungen haben mit groer Brisanz die Frage nach dem Verhaltnis von christlicher Religion und westlicher Kultur auf die Tagesordnung gebracht.
Mit Beiträgen von Peter Berz, Lars Denicke, Beatrice Gründler, Friedrich Kittler, Ludwig Morenz, Barry Powell, Oliver Primavesi, Joachim Schaper, Gerhard Scharbert, Joulia Strauss, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski.
50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - now a Virago Modern Classic with a new introduction by Alexandra Harris'Full of dignity, courage and humour, and as fresh and insightful as the day it was written, FENWOMEN is a vital portrait of rural women's lives - not only as they were lived in the 1970s in one Cambridgeshire village, but in the generations before it, all over the country, and reaching forward into today's world, too' MELISSA HARRISONMary Coe recalls summers spent gleaning in the fields, laudanum-soothed babies strapped to their mothers' backs.
Das Erzählen in frühen Hochkulturen führt in seinem zweiten Band "Eine Archäologie der narrativen Sinnbildung" die bereits im Vorgängerband "Der Fall Ägypten" gestellten Fragen zu den Bedingungen des Erzählens in einer frühen Hochkultur nun im interdisziplinären Kontext fort.
Marienerscheinung, Christus-Imitation, religiös motivierte Tötung: Zahlreiche Texte des medizinischen, religiösen und literarischen Diskurses widmen sich diesen Ausprägungen devianter Religiosität.
