The Duke of Flatbush
Author: Duke Snider
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 2002-05-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780806523637
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Author: Duke Snider
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 2002-05-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780806523637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Duke Snider
Publisher:
Published: 1988-07-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9785552410248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the sandlots of Compton, California, to the most exciting team professional baseball ever fielded, Duke Snider's 18 years in the major leagues encompass a glorious era of baseball that will never be seen again. His personal recollections provide the first book about the Brooklyn Dodgers ever written by a Dodger. 16 pages of team photos.
Author: Duke Snider
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780821724699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the leading players from an earlier era of baseball recalls his celebrated career and the well-known team he played for--and came to epitomize
Author: Duke Snider
Publisher: Random House Value Pub
Published: 1995-06-01
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ISBN-13: 9780517152638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roger Kahn
Publisher: Aurum
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 1781312079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the colour barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is a book fathers and sons and about the making of modern America. 'At a point in life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams.' Sentimental because it holds such promise, and bittersweet because that promise is past, the first sentence of this masterpiece of sporting literature, first published in the early '70s, sets its tone. The team is the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Robinson and Snyder and Hodges and Reese, a team of great triumph and historical import composed of men whose fragile lives were filled with dignity and pathos. Roger Kahn, who covered that team for the New York Herald Tribune, makes understandable humans of his heroes as he chronicles the dreams and exploits of their young lives, beautifully intertwining them with his own, then recounts how so many of those sweet dreams curdled as the body of these once shining stars grew rusty with age and battered by experience.
Author: Lou Gramm
Publisher: Triumph Books
Published: 2013-05
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1623682053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLou Gramm rose from humble, working-class roots in Rochester, New York, to become one of rock's most popular and distinctive voices in the 1970s and '80s, singing and cowriting more than a dozen hits with the band Foreigner. Songs such as "Cold As Ice," "I Want to Know What Love Is," "Waiting for a Girl Like You," "Double Vision," "Urgent," and "Midnight Blue" are among 20 Gramm songs that achieved Top 40 status on the Billboard charts and became rock classics still played often, nearly three decades after they first hit the airwaves and the record store shelves. "Juke Box Hero: The My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll" chronicles, with remarkable candor, the ups and downs of this popular rocker's amazing life--a life which saw him achieve worldwide fame and fortune, then succumb to its trappings before summoning the courage and faith to overcome his drug addiction and a life-threatening brain tumor. Gramm takes the reader behind the scenes--into the recording studio, back stage, on the bus trips and beyond--to give an insider's look into the life of the man "Rolling Stone" magazine referred to as "the Pavarotti of rock."
Author: Peter Golenbock
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 0486477355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's been over 50 years since they moved to Los Angeles, but the Brooklyn Dodgers remain ingrained in the fabric of our national pastime. Golenbock's oral history of these "lovable losers" tells the team's tale through the words of Pee Wee Reese, Leo Durocher, Duke Snider, and other Brooklyn greats.
Author: Duke Snider
Publisher:
Published: 1989-03-01
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ISBN-13: 9780821790618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Fay Vincent
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-04-07
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1416553436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the events of baseball in the 1950s and 1960s from the perspectives of the players, covering such subjects as the careers of Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and Duke Snider.
Author: Bob McGee
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0813536006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMcGee chronicles the Ebbets Field's vibrant history from the first pitch thrown in 1913, through the last out in 1957, until the wrecking ball's descent in 1960. During this period, Ebbets Field was hallowed ground to many Brooklynites.