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  • Zany Games
    Howard Burman
    The 1900 Paris Olympic Games were zany in many ways:            No opening or closing ceremonies were held.            Some competitors had no idea they had actually participated in the Olympics.            Competitions included swimming obstacle races, underwater swimming, motorcycle             racing, live pigeon shooting, tug-of-war, ballooning and firefighting.            ...
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    19,31 €

  • The Secret Game
    Howard Burman
    For many years stories circulated about a secret baseball game.One bleak raw night in February 1911 Al Sangree, the well-known columnist for the New York Journal, and a few others were gathered around a table in the grill of the Keystone Hotel in York, Pennsylvania, talking baseball when Sangree explained the game.According to Sangree, in early October, 1909, immediately follow...
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    36,40 €

  • A Man Called Shoeless
    Howard Burman
     A Man Called Shoeless relates the life story of Joe Jackson, one of the most controversial, enigmatic and interesting characters in American popular culture. A story based on exhaustive research presented through the medium of fictionalized dialogue, the entire trajectory of his life is told through a broad tapestry of voices--family, friends, rivals, players, officials, fans,...
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    20,73 €

  • Duckrabbit
    Howard Burman
    After what appears to be a series of linked murders, suspicion is thrown on three film noir-loving brothers. When a strange film appears to shed light on the killings, a young detective becomes obsessed with unraveling the mystery only to be drawn into a world of ambiguity where perception and interpretation are challenged by illusion and reality. ...
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    9,20 €

  • Gentlemen at the Bat
    Howard Burman
    Beginning in 1845, the New York Knickerbockers were the first fully organized base ball club to play the game with written rules similar to those used today. While they did not invent the game, they had an unparalleled role in stabilizing the playing rules and maintaining standards of conduct in a way that fostered an astonishing proliferation of players and clubs. Based on yea...
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    27,75 €

  • Paradise by Paradise
    Howard Burman
    A novel about the disappearance of an enigmatic poet/prodigy, RolandParadise, as told through the words of Paradise and the testimony ofthose who knew him and those he knew.In a nonlinear structure, it unravels the story of Paradise from boygenius to watchmaker, to wartime codebreaker, to writer, to teacher, tohermetic genius. Roland Paradise the father, the son, the prodigy, t...
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    21,81 €

  • Paradise by Paradise
    Howard Burman
    A novel about the disappearance of an enigmatic poet/prodigy, RolandParadise, as told through the words of Paradise and the testimony ofthose who knew him and those he knew.In a nonlinear structure, it unravels the story of Paradise from boygenius to watchmaker, to wartime codebreaker, to writer, to teacher, tohermetic genius. Roland Paradise the father, the son, the prodigy, t...
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    33,05 €