High Performance
High Performance

Author: Robert C. Post

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780801866647

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Providing a firsthand history of the sport, this book takes a detailed look at all aspects of drag racing: the sport, the business, and tracks the innovations that permitted racers to disprove the "laws of physics". 147 halftones.

Houston Blue
Houston Blue

Author: Mitchel P. Roth

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1574414720

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"Back in 2005, the board of the directors of the Houston Police Officers' Union commissioned Mitchel Roth, Ph.D., and Tom Kennedy to research and write a book that chronicled the history of the Houston Police Department and the Houston Police Officers' Union."--Foreword.

Once a Cigar Maker
Once a Cigar Maker

Author: Patricia Ann Cooper

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780252013331

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Patricia A. Cooper charts the course of competition, conflict, and camaraderie among American cigar makers during the two decades that preceded mechanization of their work. In the process, she reconstructs the work culture, traditions, and daily lives of the male cigar makers who were members of the Cigar Makers' International Union of America (CMIU) and of the nonunion women who made cigars under a division of labor called the "team system." But Cooper not only examines the work lives of these men and women, she also analyzes their relationship to each other and to their employers during these critical years of the industry's transition from hand craft to mass production."

The Summer Game
The Summer Game

Author: Roger Angell

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2013-02-05

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1453297820

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This New York Times bestseller “takes you into the heart of baseball as it was in the 1960s, conveyed with humor and insight” (Tim McCarver, The Wall Street Journal). Acclaimed New Yorker writer Roger Angell’s first book on baseball, The Summer Game, originally published in 1972, is a stunning collection of his essays on the major leagues, covering a span of ten seasons. Angell brilliantly captures the nation’s most beloved sport through the 1960s, spanning both the winning teams and the “horrendous losers,” and including famed players Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson, Willie Mays, and more. With the panache of a seasoned sportswriter and the energy of an avid baseball fan, Angell’s sports journalism is an insightful and compelling look at the great American pastime.