LIBROS DEL AUTOR: chris holaday

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: chris holaday

  • We Would Have Played Forever
    Chris Holaday / Robert Gaunt
    Through conducting painstaking research and dozens of interviews, Robert Gaunt produced an exceptional book on minor league history. He captured the spirit of baseball in the towns of Eastern North Carolina and the important role played by the game in the lives of fans there. From its roots in the early 1930s, the Coastal Plain League quickly became one of the most respected ...
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    88,25 €

  • The Tobacco State League
    Chris Holaday
    The Tobacco State League played an important role in eastern North Carolina for five summers (1946-1950), giving small-town communities a chance to be a part of professional baseball and offering a return to normalcy after World War II. Years later, the players’ names were spoken with reverence, their exploits the subject of impassioned discussion. This book tells the stor...
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    42,35 €

  • Professional Baseball in North Carolina
    J. Chris Holaday
    Hundreds of major leaguers--including the Hall of Fame’s Hank Greenburg, Johnny Mize, Rod Carew, Carl Yastrzemski and Joe Morgan--got their starts in North Carolina, where baseball has been a fixture in the state for nearly 100 years--in Charlotte and Durham (whose Bulls were in the 1988 film Bull Durham) as well as Red Springs and Snow Hill. Following an historical statew...
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    44,06 €

  • The 25 Greatest Baseball Teams of the 20th Century Ranked
    Chris Holaday / Marshall Adesman
    The best baseball team of the 20th century? How about the 1906 Cubs? Or the 1998 Yankees? Don’t forget the 1929 A’s, or the 1976 Reds. Some say the Yanks had a pretty good squad in 1927. There were so many great teams in the last century, it would be hard to compile a list of the 25 best--much less rank those clubs--but that’s what the authors have done! This is an endlessly...
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    42,71 €