The Duke Of Flatbush
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Author |
: Duke Snider |
Publisher |
: Citadel Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2002-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0806523638 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806523637 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Duke of Flatbush by : Duke Snider
Author |
: Duke Snider |
Publisher |
: Zebra Books |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: 082172469X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780821724699 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Duke of Flatbush by : Duke Snider
One of the leading players from an earlier era of baseball recalls his celebrated career and the well-known team he played for--and came to epitomize
Author |
: Duke Snider |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1988-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 5552410246 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9785552410248 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Duke of Flatbush by : Duke Snider
From the sandlots of Compton, California, to the most exciting team professional baseball ever fielded, Duke Snider's 18 years in the major leagues encompass a glorious era of baseball that will never be seen again. His personal recollections provide the first book about the Brooklyn Dodgers ever written by a Dodger. 16 pages of team photos.
Author |
: Duke Snider |
Publisher |
: Random House Value Pub |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1995-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0517152630 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780517152638 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Duke of Flatbush by : Duke Snider
Author |
: Roger Kahn |
Publisher |
: Aurum |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 2013-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781781312070 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1781312079 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Boys of Summer by : Roger Kahn
This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the colour barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is a book fathers and sons and about the making of modern America. 'At a point in life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams.' Sentimental because it holds such promise, and bittersweet because that promise is past, the first sentence of this masterpiece of sporting literature, first published in the early '70s, sets its tone. The team is the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Robinson and Snyder and Hodges and Reese, a team of great triumph and historical import composed of men whose fragile lives were filled with dignity and pathos. Roger Kahn, who covered that team for the New York Herald Tribune, makes understandable humans of his heroes as he chronicles the dreams and exploits of their young lives, beautifully intertwining them with his own, then recounts how so many of those sweet dreams curdled as the body of these once shining stars grew rusty with age and battered by experience.
Author |
: Peter Golenbock |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 562 |
Release |
: 2010-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486477350 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486477355 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bums by : Peter Golenbock
It's been over 50 years since they moved to Los Angeles, but the Brooklyn Dodgers remain ingrained in the fabric of our national pastime. Golenbock's oral history of these "lovable losers" tells the team's tale through the words of Pee Wee Reese, Leo Durocher, Duke Snider, and other Brooklyn greats.
Author |
: Lou Gramm |
Publisher |
: Triumph Books |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2013-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781623682057 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1623682053 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Juke Box Hero by : Lou Gramm
Lou Gramm rose from humble, working-class roots in Rochester, New York, to become one of rock's most popular and distinctive voices in the 1970s and '80s, singing and cowriting more than a dozen hits with the band Foreigner. Songs such as "Cold As Ice," "I Want to Know What Love Is," "Waiting for a Girl Like You," "Double Vision," "Urgent," and "Midnight Blue" are among 20 Gramm songs that achieved Top 40 status on the Billboard charts and became rock classics still played often, nearly three decades after they first hit the airwaves and the record store shelves. "Juke Box Hero: The My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll" chronicles, with remarkable candor, the ups and downs of this popular rocker's amazing life--a life which saw him achieve worldwide fame and fortune, then succumb to its trappings before summoning the courage and faith to overcome his drug addiction and a life-threatening brain tumor. Gramm takes the reader behind the scenes--into the recording studio, back stage, on the bus trips and beyond--to give an insider's look into the life of the man "Rolling Stone" magazine referred to as "the Pavarotti of rock."
Author |
: Carl E. Prince |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195099270 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195099273 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brooklyn's Dodgers by : Carl E. Prince
Carl E. Prince captures the intensity and depth of the baseball team Brooklyn Dodger's relationship to the community and its people in the 1950's. Ethnic and racial tensions in Brooklyn were smoothed by the Dodgers' presence.
Author |
: Fay Vincent |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2009-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781416553434 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1416553436 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis We Would Have Played for Nothing by : Fay Vincent
Presents the events of baseball in the 1950s and 1960s from the perspectives of the players, covering such subjects as the careers of Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and Duke Snider.
Author |
: John Prendergast |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2011-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307464866 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307464865 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unlikely Brothers by : John Prendergast
“You don’t look like brothers . . .” Peace activist and cofounder of the Enough Project, John Prendergast is known as a champion of human rights in Africa. But the not-so-public face of J.P. is the life he’s led as a Big Brother to Michael Mattocks. As a curious, driven, and emotionally wounded twenty-year-old, J.P. made the life-changing decision to form a “Big Brother/Little Brother” relationship with then seven-year-old Michael, who was living out of plastic bags and drifting from one homeless shelter to the next with his mother and siblings. Lacking a connection with his own brother and distancing himself from a disastrous relationship with his father, J.P. formed a unique bond with Michael the moment they met. Michael and J.P. became like family, with Michael and some of his siblings even living with J.P. one summer. In the years that followed, J.P. took Michael and his brothers on outings, whether it was fishing, playing basketball, patronizing cheap restaurants, or going on road trips. This friendship would continue for over twenty-five years as the two coped with varying degrees of violence, instability, and trauma in their own lives. Told in duet, Unlikely Brothers follows Michael as he grows up on the tough streets of Washington, D.C., where as a young teenager he watched his best friend get shot, dropped out of school, and started dealing crack cocaine shortly thereafter. By sixteen, Michael had become the kingpin of his neighborhood, guns and drugs always close at hand. Meanwhile, J.P. was traveling to and from African war zones. J.P. offered Michael a refuge from the streets, never really confronting the gravity of what Michael was going through in his adolescence. In turn, Michael afforded J.P. an escape from his own turbulent personal and professional life. As the years go by, the two swoop in and out of each other’s lives, slowly disconnecting as they disappear into their respective worlds, but making their way back to each other at a critical moment for both of them. The effect the two have on each other is extremely significant to both of their paths to redemption. Inspirational and deeply moving, Unlikely Brothers beautifully showcases how life’s most random moments can often be the most profound.