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Ebbets to Veeck to Busch
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Burton A. Boxerman
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-25 - Publisher: McFarland

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Of baseball there have been countless books, but, surprisingly, relatively few about the owners, the men and women who invested their time--and, frequently, the
Jews and Baseball
Language: en
Pages: 644
Authors: Burton A. Boxerman
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-10 - Publisher: McFarland

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Long before Hank Greenberg earned recognition as baseball's greatest Jewish player, Jews had developed a unique, and very close, relationship with the American
Ebbets Field
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: John G. Zinn
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-10 - Publisher: McFarland

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The Ebbets Field volume is the second in McFarland's series on historic ballparks. The book combines articles about the park and the memories of those who went
Drama and Pride in the Gateway City
Language: en
Pages: 943
Authors: Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-17 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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By 1964 the storied St. Louis Cardinals had gone seventeen years without so much as a pennant. Things began to turn around in 1953, when August A. Busch Jr. bou
A Brand New Ballgame
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: G. Scott Thomas
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-25 - Publisher: McFarland

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America grew rapidly after World War II, and the national pastime followed suit. Baseball dramatically changed from a 19th century pastoral relic to a continent