Overview :As America's pasttime was still reeling from the Black Sox scandal of 1919, Red Sox player Babe Ruth was traded to the New York Yankees for ... Read More
Overview :The story of the fourteen men largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book who created the American Olympic movement by win... Read More
Overview :The deaf world is a complex one, divided by the allegiance of some to Deaf Culture, which emphasizes communication by sign-language, and by ... Read More
Overview :On his seventieth birthday in 1909, a slim man with a shock of white hair, a walrus mustache, and a spring in his step faced west from Park ... Read More
Overview :October 13, 1960: the hardscrabble Pirates were a colorful bunch of overachievers led by Roberto Clemente and Bill Mazeroski, making the fra... Read More
Overview :This revised edition is an anthology of 10 African American sportswriters who covered baseball's Negro Leagues in the first part of the 20th... Read More
Overview :Billy Hoy and Luther Taylor endure as two of the most fascinating--and unknown--players in 150-plus years of major-league baseball. At the t... Read More
Overview :Many histories of the New York Yankees only skim the early years in their rush to pick up with the 1919 season when Babe Ruth joined the tea... Read More
Overview :C.C."Cash and Carry" Pyle made several fortunes representing professional football and tennis players--before losing everything and disappea... Read More