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  • Welcome to Detroitland

    Stories from the Motor City's Captivating Past

    by Richard Bak ...
    Series series Great Lakes Books
    Fascinating episodes from Detroit's colorful—and sometimes tarnished—history.This collection from award-winning journalist and storyteller Richard Bak shares fascinating and forgotten histories of Detroit. Each chapter takes readers on a journey through Detroit's surprising past, featuring figures like Hank Ballard, the suave originator of "The Twist"; parachute jumper and showman Clem Sohn, known ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • New York Giants

    A Baseball Album

    by Richard Bak ...
    Series series Images of Sports
    The New York Giants have sent more men to the Baseball Hall of Fame than any other team, a distinction that only begins to hint at the place this storied franchise holds in the long history of America�s national pastime. Between 1883 and 1957, a span of 75 summers, the Giants were one of professional sports� great dynasties. Aside from the17 National League pennants and 8 world pennants the team ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yankees Baseball

    The Golden Age

    by Richard Bak ...
    Series series Images of Sports
    Between 1920 and 1964, the Bronx Bombers dominated thegame of baseball. It was a time when baseball players enjoyed an elevated status as national icons, a time when men wearing baggy, flannel uniforms and sporting pancake gloves played for little more than �the love of the game.� In this striking and nostalgic volume featuring many rarely seen photographs, we meet the heroes that were the New ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Detroit

    1900-1930

    by Richard Bak ...
    Series series Images of America
    In this new addition to the Images of America series,Richard Bak takes us on a visual journey through Detroit�s golden era, encompassing the first three decades of the twentieth century. It was during this time that the City of Detroit experienced its most rapid physical growth and underwent an unprecedented pace of social and technological change. Detroit: 1900�1930 contains nearly 190 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Detroit

    A Postcard History

    by Richard Bak ...
    Series series Postcard History Series
    View evocative and historical images in postcards from the early days of Detroit. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of neighborhood children only too happy to pose for a picture. These images, printed as postcards and sold in general stores across the country, survive ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Lions Were Kings

    The Detroit Lions and the Fabulous Fifties

    by Richard Bak ...
    Series series Painted Turtle Press
    An in-depth look at one of the most storied dynasties in Detroit sports history.During the 1950s, the Detroit Lions were one of the most glamorous and successful teams in the National Football League, winning championships in 1952, 1953, and 1957, and regularly playing before packed houses at Briggs Stadium. In When Lions Were Kings: The Detroit Lions and the Fabulous Fifties, journalist and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Big Jump

    Lindbergh and the Great Atlantic Air Race

    by Richard Bak ...
    The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a heroThe race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the young and lesser known Charles Lindbergh who won the $25,000 Orteig Prize in 1927 for his history-making solo flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. Drawing on ... Read more

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  • The Wright Brothers

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    The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that ... Read more

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  • Big Hair and Plastic Grass

    A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s

    by Dan Epstein ...
    A wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade, the 70s: "A trove of nuggets many of us either never knew . . . or forgot." — The New York TimesThe Major Leagues witnessed more dramatic stories and changes in the 1970s than in any other era. The American popular culture and counterculture collided head-on with the national pastime, rocking the once-conservative ... Read more

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  • One Summer

    America, 1927

    by Bill Bryson ...
    **A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy BookA GoodReads Reader's ChoiceIn One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.**The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane ... Read more

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  • The Original Six

    How the Canadiens, Bruins, Rangers, Blackhawks, Maple Leafs, and Red Wings Laid the Groundwork for Today?s National Hockey League

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    Since the inception of the National Hockey League on November 26, 1917, the sport of hockey has been one of the most popular games across the globe.After the National Hockey Association (NHA), which had been founded in 1909, ceased operations, the NHL took over and became a mainstay for the sport. While there had been teams that dated back to the 1800s and many that came and went through the years ... Read more

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