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  • Walter Alston
    Alan H. Levy
    Walter 'Smokey' Alston is best known for his long and successful tenure as manager of the Dodgers--first in Brooklyn, then in Los Angeles. Yet few fans are aware of his years in the minors, where he honed the skills that would make him famous. Raised in rural Ohio, Alston graduated from Miami University, where he was noticed by scouts for the St. Louis Cardinals. Signed in 1...
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    42,90 €

  • Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1920-1976
    Alan H Levy / Alan H. Levy / Alan HLevy
    The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1920–1976, explores the political life of one of the most compelling figures in American politics of the 70s. Passionate and intelligent, Abzug was one of the most potent forces for political change in the country. Both loved and loathed for her forceful personality, she gained her greatest fame in the battle for women’s rights. Her career hit...
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    69,39 €

  • Floyd Patterson
    Alan H. Levy
    Floyd Patterson delivered a number of knockout punches during his Hall of Fame career, but it might have been the fights he won outside the ring that made him great. Born in 1935, he overcame poverty and prejudice to become the youngest world heavyweight champion in history--and he would later become the first man to regain the crown after losing it. Muhammad Ali called Patt...
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    42,58 €

  • Reorganizing Our Universities
    Alan H. Levy / Alan HLevy
    Many books have been written outlining problems with higher education in America. Many have been written in broad strokes. Where specific, many others have tended to focus on some of the nation’s most famous schools. The average American family sends their children not to the Ivy League but to less noteworthy state schools, where quality could prevail but is often compromised....
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    18,42 €

  • Joe McCarthy
    Alan H. Levy
    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. She relented, and Joseph Vincent McCarthy embarked on a career that ranks him among the greatest managers ever. In 24 years his teams took nine pennants, seven World Series titles, and never finished lower ...
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    59,26 €

  • Tackling Jim Crow
    Alan H. Levy
    Many are familiar with Jackie Robinson and the integration of Major League Baseball after all the years of separate black and white leagues, but fewer people know of the segregation and then integration of the National Football League. The timing and sequence of events were different, but football followed a pattern similar to that of baseball in regard to the beginning and ...
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    43,04 €

  • Rube Waddell
    Alan H. Levy
    George Edward 'Rube' Waddell was one of the zaniest characters ever to play baseball. The legendary Connie Mack, who saw quite a few cards during his nearly seven decade stint in the majors, once observed that no other screwball he ever saw could hold a candle to Rube. Mack also said that Rube’s curveball was the best he’d ever seen. Indeed, Waddell was one of the greatest p...
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    42,45 €