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Pages: 372
Authors: Robert W. Creamer
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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"This is a baseball book, but whether Creamer intended it or not, it's much, much more."-Sports Illustrated. "[Creamer] recalls this momentous year in baseball
Kokomo Joe
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Pages: 221
Authors: John Christgau
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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The first Japanese American jockey, Kokomo Joe burst like a comet on the American horse-racing scene in the summer of 1941. As war with Japan loomed, Yoshio Kok
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Pages: 624
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A history of baseball as a sport and business during the middle of the twentieth century, examining the game on and off the field and tracing its development wi
Joe McCarthy
Language: en
Pages: 436
Authors: Alan H. Levy
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-04-12 - Publisher: McFarland

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Joe McCarthy was headed towards a career as a plumber--until the parish priest intervened, and convinced McCarthy's mother that he could make more of himself in
Baseball's Dead of World War II
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Gary Bedingfield
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-14 - Publisher: McFarland

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While most fans know that baseball stars Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, and Bob Feller served in the military during World War II, few can name the two major lea