In Dueling with Kings, Barbarisi uncovers the tumultuous inside story of DFS, all while capturing its peculiar cast of characters, from wide-eyed newly minted millionaires, to sun-starved math geeks, to bros living an endless frat party of ...
Life from the Press Box shares memories from the forty-year career of a former MLB.com beat reporter and long-time baseball writer who played a significant role during a bygone era.
This important book examines the interrelated histories of baseball and American Jews to 1948--the year Israel was established, the first full season that both major leagues were integrated, and the summer that Hank Greenberg retired.
George Howe Colt’s The Game is the story of that iconic American year, as seen through the young men who lived it and were changed by it. One player had recently returned from Vietnam. Two were members of the radical antiwar group SDS.
Koppett's Concise History of Major League Baseball. ... Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball. ... Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats: How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression.
In "No, I Can't Get You Free Tickets" Paul M. Banks has penned a book that's required reading for anyone interested in the past, present and future of the sports media industry.
The story behind the mainstream press’s efforts to preserve baseball’s color line and the efforts of Black and communist newspapers to end it.
"Describes New York's historic sports venues, memorable events, and famous players"--
He was not much of a player and not much more of a manager, but by the time Branch Rickey (1881-1965) finished with baseball, he had revolutionized the sport--not just once but three times.
“Jewish Athletes—Marty Glickman Sam Stoller,” www.ushmm.org/exhibition/olympics/?content=jewish_athletes_more 41. James L. Freedman, Glickman (New ... “This Day in NY Sports History: February 28,” Long Island Newsday, February 27, 2011, ...