She had invited three other widows from her temple— Mrs. Stein and Mrs. Melman and Mrs. Kushner. They all stood around the dining room table, waiting. Grammalitacandle, and they said Hebrew prayers and drank wine so sweet they even let ...
Out of Left Field: Willie Stargell and the Pittsburgh Pirates
Out of Left Field: Willie Stargell and the Pittsburgh Pirates
A story about the fight for equal rights in America's favorite arena: the baseball field!
Presents a history of the Seattle Mariners, from their first season in 1977, through a decade of losing seasons, until their resurgance in the 1990s with star players and winning teams.
With an introduction by Bob Costas of NBC Sports, Out of Left Field is the perfect book for the baseball fan who has read it all. Jeffrey and Douglas Lyons's...
Through in-depth research, Alpert tells the stories of the Jewish businessmen who owned and promoted teams as they both acted out and fell victim to pervasive stereotypes of Jews as greedy middlemen and hucksters.
High school junior Marlee McAllister lives and breathes softball.
Using high-performance sport as its focus, this study explores the nature of historical and contemporary social inequality in sports on both a local and global level.
In this semi-autobiographical story told in comic book format, Jonah Newman comes of age as a queer person in a small-town high school and tries to fit in--especially on the baseball field.
He has a job, a spot on the varsity swim team, loving parents, and loyal friends. Brandon and his dad, ardent Red Sox fans, wonder: could this be the year the Sox finally win the World Series? Then Brandon's father dies suddenly.
Based on debut author-illustrator Jonah Newman's coming-of-age experiences, Out of Left Field is a big-hearted and funny YA graphic novel about learning to be yourself.
How the Mariners went from the bottom to the top of MLB, & how Seattle became a city with a passion for the game.
Here is an eye-opening look at one of baseball's most intriguing and little known stories: the many-faceted relationship between Jews and black baseball in Jim Crow America.
Out of Left Field