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  • Bill DeWitt, Sr.
    Benita W Boxerman / Benita W. Boxerman / Burton A Boxerman / Burton A. Boxerman
    In 1954, one year after Baltimore bought the St. Louis Browns, the New York Yankees hired former Browns executive and owner William O. DeWitt as assistant to general manager George Weiss. 'DeWitt,' the news announced, 'was considered an astute baseball man who would have a definite role to play with the Yankees.' Baseball fans had assumed that once the Browns were no longer ...
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    50,21 €

  • George Weiss
    Benita W. Boxerman / Burton A. Boxerman
    The New York Yankees were the strongest team in the majors from 1948 through 1960, capturing the American League Pennant 10 times and winning seven World Championships. The average fan, when asked who made the team so dominant, will mention Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford or Mickey Mantle. Some will insist manager Casey Stengel was the key. But pundits at the time, and...
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    51,36 €

  • Jews and Baseball
    Benita W. Boxerman / Burton A. Boxerman
    Long before Hank Greenberg earned recognition as baseball’s greatest Jewish player, Jews had developed a unique, and very close, relationship with the American pastime. In the late nineteenth century, as both the American Jewish population and baseball’s popularity grew rapidly, baseball became an avenue by which Jewish immigrants could assimilate into American culture. Beyo...
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    43,98 €

  • Jews and Baseball
    Benita W. Boxerman / Burton A. Boxerman
    This history follows up on the well-received first volume and traces the arc of Jews in baseball after Hank Greenberg retired in 1948. During this postwar period, Jews saw greater acceptance into the American mainstream as organized anti-Semitism was largely displaced by greater affluence, education, and a more geographically dispersed Jewish community. Jews continued to flo...
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    44,34 €

  • Ebbets to Veeck to Busch
    Benita W. Boxerman / Burton A. Boxerman
    Of baseball there have been countless books, but, surprisingly, relatively few about the owners, the men and women who invested their time--and, frequently, their fortunes--in baseball teams. What has been written tends to concentrate on the financial aspects of ownership or individual owners and their private lives, and pays less attention to the enduring contributions cert...
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    42,72 €