The Crowley Millers and Minor League Baseball in the 1950s
This book tells the fun, quirky, story of a minor league baseball town in Louisiana that was the talk of the baseball world in the 1950s. Written by respected minor-league baseball historian Gaylon White, this book will be of interest to baseball and Louisiana historians alike.
The Reshaping of America's Game describes the major developments and challenges that took place in Major League Baseball during the 25-plus years following the players' strike, including cheating scandals, steroids, analytics, and changing demographics.
Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League
This book tells the story of the Eastern Professional Basketball League. Formed in the 1940s, it was a pro basketball institution for over 30 years, featuring top players who just couldn't make the NBA-because of scandals, because they weren't quite good enough, or because of unofficial quotas on black players.
This book examines the competitive landscape of Major League Baseball during the wild-card era, including the major storylines for all 30 teams, division races, and the state of dynasties in a new age of baseball.
Lights, Camera, Fastball is a fascinating look at the Hollywood Stars, a glamour-shrouded baseball team with a star-studded fan base during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Throughout their glorious twenty-year run in the Pacific Coast League, the Stars were an inventive team whose innovations are still seen in professional baseball today.
This book is a sociocultural and historical analysis of nineteenth-century African American cowboys. The author examines their role in rodeo and the development of the Texas cattle industry.
This book is the exciting story of how one of the most infamous scandals in American history-the Black Sox scandal-continued for over a year following the "fixed" World Series of 1919 until the truth began to emerge. It is a story of gamblers and crooks; a story of teammates betraying one another; a story of investigations and cover-ups.
This book is a fascinating history of mixed martial arts, from ancient fighting sports to the present day. It examines the growth and development of the different sports and features vignettes of famous moments in fighting history alongside stories of the fighters themselves.
A series of journalists, such as Scyld Berry, David Frith, Tanya Aldred, Eleanor Oldroyd, Geoff Lemon and Lawrence Booth write about their cricketing years of discovery, while players Mark Wood, Ted Dexter, Heather Knight, Derek Pringle and Vic Marks provide great insight into on-field performances.
