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“paul hensler”

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  • Gathering Crowds

    Catching Baseball Fever in the New Era of Free Agency

    by Paul Hensler ...
    When baseball’s reserve clause was struck down in late 1975 and ushered in free agency, club owners feared it would ruin the game; instead, there seemed to be no end to the “baseball fever” that would grip America.In Gathering Crowds: Catching Baseball Fever in the New Era of Free Agency, Paul Hensler details how baseball grew and evolved from the late 1970s through the 1980s. Trepidation that ... Read more

    $37.29 USD

  • The New Boys of Summer

    Baseball's Radical Transformation in the Late Sixties

    by Paul Hensler ...
    The 1960s were among the most compelling years in the history of the United States, from the intensifying clamor for civil rights to the tragic incidents of assassination and war. Caught up in this sea of restlessness was major league baseball, and the manner in which baseball addressed the challenges of this decade would have a lasting impact on the game.In The New Boys of Summer: Baseball's ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The American League in Transition, 1965-1975

    How Competition Thrived When the Yankees Didn't

    by Paul Hensler ...
    In the years following the decline of the New York Yankees dynasty that ended in 1964, three American League teams endeavored to stake their claim to the Junior Circuit's crown. From 1965 to 1975, the Minnesota Twins, Baltimore Orioles, and Oakland Athletics emerged as the most significant AL clubs, but this trio achieved varying degrees of success. Through the prism of these three teams, this ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Bob Steele on the Radio

    The Life of Connecticut's Beloved Broadcaster

    by Paul Hensler ...
     For more than sixty years, Bob Steele was the radio voice of Southern New England, entertaining listeners of WTIC AM with his wit and humor and an inimitable style that kept listeners faithfully tuning in to his morning show. Capturing the nation's highest market share, the National Radio Hall of Fame inductee maintained an unparalleled popularity through the latter half of the twentieth century ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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  • Where Nobody Knows Your Name

    Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball

    by John Feinstein ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed bestselling author comes a riveting journey through the world of minor-league baseball“Terrific…Reading this book will make you fall in love with baseball all over again.”—The Denver PostMinor league baseball is quintessentially American: small towns, small stadiums, $5 tickets, $2 hot dogs, the never-ending possibility of making it big. But looming above ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Living on the Black

    Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember

    by John Feinstein ...
    Pitchers are the heart of baseball, and John Feinstein tells the story of the game today through one season and two great pitchers working in the crucible of the New York media market. Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all in the Major Leagues and both entered 2007 in search of individual milestones and one more shot at The World Series-Glavine with the Mets, Mussina five miles away with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Have Glove, Will Travel

    Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond

    by Bill Lee, Richard Lally ...
    It was 1982 when Bill Lee was famously booted from the Montreal Expos after he went AWOL in protest of another player’s mistreatment by management. His reputation for antics both on and off the field guaranteed that no other club would pick him up. The Ace from Space had landed on professional baseball’s blacklist, and so it was that one of the most popular major-league pitchers of our day was ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Hardcore History

    The Extremely Unauthorized Story of ECW

    by Scott E. Williams, George Tahinos ...
    Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) was one extreme contradiction piled on top of another. It was an incredibly influential company in the world of professional wrestling during the 1990s, yet it was never profitable. It portrayed itself as the ultimate in anti-authority rebellion, but its leadership was working covertly with the two wrestling giants, the WWF and WCW. Most of all, it blurred the ... Read more

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  • The '27 Yankees

    by Fred Glueckstein ...
    Their names conjure up the golden era of New York Yankees history and the sport of baseball itself; names like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, Earle Combs, Waite Hoyt, and Herb Pennock. Other baseball immortals playing against these Yankee greats in the roaring twenties were future Hall-of-Famers Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb, Lefty Grove, Eddie Collins, Jimmy Foxx, Tris Speaker, Mickey Cochrane, ... Read more

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  • America's Game

    by Michael MacCambridge ...
    It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Secret Traditions of the Shinobi

    Hattori Hanzo's Shinobi Hiden and Other Ninja Scrolls

    Edited by Antony Cummins, Yoshie Minami ...
    The shinobi, or ninja, is one of the most widely recognized figures in the world of espionage—and also one of the most misrepresented. What do we really know about the historical shinobi, his tactics, and his role in medieval Japanese society? In Secret Traditions of the Shinobi, these questions—and many more—are answered. Translated into English for the very first time, this widely sought-after ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Game

    Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers

    by Jon Pessah ...
    The incredible inside story of power, money, and some of the most important moments in the history of baseball.In the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their decades-long battle with the players has turned America against both sides, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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