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  • Whitey Herzog Builds a Winner
    Doug Feldmann
    As Lou Brock was chasing 3000 career hits late in the 1979 season--his last after 18 years in the majors--the St. Louis Cardinals were looking for a new identity. Brock’s departure represented the final link to the team’s glory years of the 1960s, and a parade of new players now came in from the minor leagues. With the Cardinals mired in last place by the following June, own...
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    42,70 €

  • The 1976 Cincinnati Reds
    Doug Feldmann
    The era of free agency in Major League Baseball ensured that it would be difficult to keep star teams together year after year. The 1976 Cincinnati Reds were one of the last to be considered a 'dynasty,' and this book documents the season of one of the greatest teams in baseball history. During the pursuit of a second-straight world championship in 1976, the 'Big Red Machine...
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    42,66 €

  • El Birdos
    Doug Feldmann
    In 1953, August A. Busch purchased the St. Louis Cardinals for nearly four million dollars. His dream included not only the best players money could buy but a brand new Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis. The early sixties found Busch working on both, and by May 1966, when the new Busch Stadium was opened, the St. Louis Cardinals were on the cusp of greatness. A world champ...
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    34,87 €

  • September Streak
    Doug Feldmann
    With the recent success of the Gas House Gang as backdrop, the National League prepared for the 1935 season. The United States was still in the Great Depression, but executives in baseball predicted a financial comeback during the year, and Chicago’s 'windy' politicians demanded a pennant-contending ballclub. Yes, there was a time when the Cubs were expected to win. This b...
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    42,79 €

  • Curriculum and the American Rural School
    Doug Feldmann
    Curriculum and the American Rural School traces the origins of American school curriculum, and subsequently contextualizes it within the history of rural school curriculum in the United States since the mid-1800s. Doug Feldmann examines modern issues pertinent to the rural school curriculum in light of this history, and actual solutions to these issues that rural schools have d...
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    94,56 €

  • Fleeter Than Birds
    Doug Feldmann
    For the St. Louis Cardinals and their fans, there was a great deal of uncertainty going into the 1985 season. Only three years before, the Cards had won the World Series, but were predicted to finish last in the National League East Division by every major publication. Manager Whitey Herzog was expected to rebuild his team, drug abuse had cast a lingering shadow over the gam...
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    35,68 €

  • Dizzy and the Gas House Gang
    Doug Feldmann
    Led by the colorful pitcher Dizzy Dean, the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals personified Depression-era America. The players were underpaid, wore uniforms that were almost always torn and dirty, and had wandered into professional baseball from small towns in the Midwest where other jobs were scarce. Despite their lack of resources, however, and despite coming off two mediocre season...
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    42,90 €