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  • The Hunt for a Reds October
    Charles F. Faber / Zachariah Webb
    In 1869, the Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first all-professional baseball club. The history, geography, demography and economy of the area made Cincinnati a baseball town par excellence. During pro ball’s early years, the city was almost always represented by a club called the Reds. In 1903 Reds owner Garry Hermann helped broker peace between the National and American...
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    42,92 €

  • Baseball Prodigies
    Charles F. Faber
    This is a book about baseball players who performed in the major leagues before the age of 21. For years the dream of many boys has been to enter the world of professional sports. Out of millions of boys who have played baseball, more than 17,000 have appeared in major league contests. Among them were hundreds who made their debut before their 21st birthday. However, most of...
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    42,73 €

  • The American Presidents Ranked by Performance, 1789-2012, 2d ed.
    Charles F. Faber / Richard B. Faber
    This is a revision and an updating of the first edition, published in 2000. Presidents from Washington to Obama (not included are William Henry Harrison and James A. Garfield because of very short terms) are rated in five categories: Foreign Relations, Domestic Programs, Administration and Intergovernmental Relations, Leadership and Decision Making, and Presidential Comportm...
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    66,18 €

  • Major League Careers Cut Short
    Charles F. Faber
    Since 1876, approximately 16,000 young men have enjoyed at least a taste of glory by appearing in big league games, many of them only a few times. By the end of the 2009 season, out of the millions who have aspired, fewer than three thousand individuals had had the good fortune to be a major league regular for five or more seasons. The median age at which they hung up their ...
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    42,58 €

  • Baseball Ratings
    Charles F. Faber
    In this third edition of Baseball Ratings, author Charles Faber combines the second edition ('great fodder for arguments'--Booklist) with his book on 19th-century greats, Baseball Pioneers ('very impressive'--Reference and User Services Quarterly; 'a notable and ... worthwhile addition'--ARBA), updating the ratings and expanding the commentary in each. The result, Baseball ...
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    66,18 €

  • Spitballers
    Charles F. Faber / Richard B. Faber
    On September 10, 1934, grizzled reliever Burleigh Grimes helped the Pittsburgh Pirates to an inconsequential 9-7 win over the New York Giants in the Polo Grounds. For Grimes, the September contest marked his 270th and final win. For baseball, it marked the last time a legal spitballer would win a major league contest. Though the pitch had been banned in 1920, the American ...
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    43,91 €