Author: Julian DevriesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781494046835
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
The Strike Out King
Author: Julian DevriesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781494046835
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
Author: Michael K. HoneyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393078329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade. Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers were chewed up like garbage in the back of a faulty truck, igniting a public employee strike that brought to a boil long-simmering issues of racial injustice. With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, Michael Honey brings to life the magnetic characters who clashed on the Memphis battlefield: stalwart black workers; fiery black ministers; volatile, young, black-power advocates; idealistic organizers and tough-talking unionists; the first black members of the Memphis city council; the white upper crust who sought to prevent change or conflagration; and, finally, the magisterial Martin Luther King Jr., undertaking a Poor People's Campaign at the crossroads of his life, vilified as a subversive, hounded by the FBI, and seeing in the working poor of Memphis his hopes for a better America.
Batting
Author: F.C. Lane Publisher: SABR, Inc.
ISBN: 0910137862
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In 2012, SABR named F.C. Lane as an honoree of the Chadwick Award, given to baseball's greatest researchers. Lane (1896-1984) was the editor and a prolific writer for Baseball Magazine from 1912 through 1937, and then served as editor of the Little Red Book of Major League baseball through 1948. The author of hundreds of editorials, interviews and articles about how the game was or should be played, Lane wrote forward-thinking pieces about, for example, how batting average could be misleading, opining that different batting outcomes should have different weights. It would be a few more generations before his wisdom began to win the day. Lane authored several books in his day but Batting was the only one on baseball. First published in 1925, Batting collects the wisdom and insights of over 250 hitters and baseball figures. Lane interviewed extensively and compiled tips and advice on everything from batting stances to beanballs. Legendary baseball figures such as Ty Cobb, Casey Stengel, Cy Young, Walter Johnson, Rogers Hornsby, and Babe Ruth reveal the secrets of such integral and interesting parts of the game as how to choose a bat, the ways to beat a slump, common baseball player superstitions, how to outguess the pitcher, even the best way to deal with unhappy fans and the press. The ebook edition includes all the text of the original classic (along with accompanying advertisements), and the biographical introduction written by Frederick Ivor-Campbell for the 2001 paperback edition. The index of names by Leverett T. Smith Jr. is also included in the ebook edition, though sans page numbers of course (ebooks do not have fixed page lengths).
Journal
Author: Virginia. General Assembly. House of DelegatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
The American Reports
Author: Isaac Grant ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Territory of Washington, of The...session of the Legislative Assembly
Author: Washington (State). Legislative Assembly. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Baseball Cyclopedia
Author: Ernest J. LaniganPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786418680
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
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 "[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."
The New York Supplement
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
Book Description
"Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals, Supreme and lower courts of record of New York State, with key number annotations." (varies)
New Complete Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court and the District Courts of Appeal of the State of California, and of All Gederal Decisions Dealing with California Law
Author: James Manford KerrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Author: