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  • Dempsey and Tunney in the Roaring Twenties
    Lew Freedman
    Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney were among the most revered and popular heavyweight champions in the history of boxing. Rising to prominence during the 1920s, they became known as the most significant fighters of a rip-roaring, wide-open decade in American life. Twice they met in the ring in hugely anticipated and closely watched encounters. One bout included the so-called 'Lon...
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    42,80 €

  • Hoyt Wilhelm
    Lew Freedman
    Hoyt Wilhelm’s intriguing baseball career lasted two decades. A veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, the eight-time All-Star from Huntersville, North Carolina, was a standout for the New York Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox and Atlanta Braves, though he did not reach the majors until he was nearly 30. He pitched a no-hitter as a starter, won as many as 15 games...
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    50,26 €

  • Chuckin’ Charlie Conerly and the New York Football Giants
    Lew Freedman
    All-American quarterback Charlie Conerly’s college career was interrupted by World War II. He started at University of Mississippi in 1942, fought in the Battle of Guam in 1944, then led Ole Miss to their first conference championship in 1947. He went on to play for the New York Giants from 1948 to 1961, ultimately leading them to an NFL title. A College Football Hall of F...
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    50,21 €

  • Caught by Don Hutson!
    Lew Freedman
    Revered pass catcher Don Hutson played for three Green Bay Packers championship squads between 1935 and 1945 and was a charter-class member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963. An All-American wide receiver for the University of Alabama, the Pine Bluff, Arkansas, native was a pioneer of the position, mastering the passing game just as it was reaching maturation. Hutso...
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    42,82 €

  • Johnny Mize
    Lew Freedman
    During his 15-season Major League career, slugger Johnny Mize was among the preeminent power hitters in baseball, a star for the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Giants, and a clutch player for the New York Yankees when they won five straight World Series in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Raised in rural Georgia, Mize caught the tail end of the Cardinals’ Gas House Gang...
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    42,94 €

  • Lightning Strikes Twice
    Lew Freedman
    In June of 1938, southpaw Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds became the only pitcher in Major League history to hurl two consecutive no-hitters--an achievement that has stood unsurpassed for more than 80 years. Vander Meer was just 23 at the time and a glorious future was predicted. Despite injuries, he became a four-time All-Star yet ended up a .500 pitcher--not a su...
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    50,34 €

  • Buffalo Bill Cody
    Lew Freedman
    William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody (1846-1917) rose from humble origins in Iowa to become one of the most famous and most photographed people in the world. He became a leading scout during the American Indian Wars, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, and a renowned show business fixture whose traveling Wild West exhibitions played to millions of spectators the world over...
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    50,16 €

  • Cy Young
    Lew Freedman
    An early celebrity pitcher, Denton 'Cy' Young (1867-1955) established supreme standards on the mound. A small-town Ohio farmer made good, he set Major League pitching records in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that will likely last forever. The winner of 511 games--nearly one hundred more than the second-ranked hurler--Young pitched the first perfect game of the mod...
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    40,65 €

  • Ernie Banks
    Lew Freedman
    Ernie Banks is perhaps the most popular ballplayer in the history of the Chicago Cubs--a man as famous for his personality and trademark phrases as for his accomplishments on the field. Nicknamed 'Mr. Cub,' Banks won two National League Most Valuable Player awards and slugged 512 home runs, all while battling discrimination and poverty. His conduct away from the field was so...
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    42,95 €

  • Pro Wrestling
    Lew Freedman
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    135,67 €

  • Connie Mack’s First Dynasty
    Lew Freedman
    More than a century ago, the Philadelphia Athletics enjoyed a glorious five-season run under legendary manager Connie Mack, winning three World Series and four pennants from 1910 through 1914. A’s stars such as Hall of Famers Eddie Plank, Eddie Collins, Albert 'Chief' Bender and Frank 'Home Run' Baker are well known among baseball aficionados--and this book reveals more abou...
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    42,88 €

  • Denali Ranger
    Lew Freedman
    Roger Robinson has been Denali mountaineering for over forty years and has worked as a ranger for most of this time. Robinson has climbed Denali, at 20,310 feet, numerous times, leading patrols on the mountain, organizing clean climb efforts on the mountain, meeting the best climbers in the world, and leading rescues that saved lives. Year after year, Robinson has studied the m...
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    16,39 €

  • Baseball’s Funnymen
    Lew Freedman
    From Nick Altrock to Casey Stengel, Dizzy Dean to Satchel Paige, Bill Veeck to Bob Uecker, baseball has always admired the clever. This book tells the stories of some of the players, coaches, managers and broadcasters who had the most fun in the Major Leagues and made fans laugh out loud (or shake their heads in disbelief). The author recounts tales both famous and little kn...
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    42,88 €

  • The 100 Most Important Sporting Events in American History
    Lew Freedman
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    142,48 €

  • Racing Toward Recovery
    Lew Freedman / Mike Williams
    For the first time, Alaska musher and tribal leader Mike Williams shares his remarkable life story with veteran sports writer Lew Freedman. Williams is a man of many parts, a sports figure, a government figure, a leader of his people, a husband, a father, and a Native man with one foot firmly planted in the twenty-first century and another firmly planted in the roots of a cultu...
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    15,61 €

  • Iditarod Adventures
    Lew Freedman
    Features the fascinating careers of Iditarod icons as well as the administrators, volunteers, and classic characters that keep the race 'running.' ...
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    28,06 €

  • The Boyer Brothers of Baseball
    Lew Freedman
    This the story of the seven baseball-playing Boyer brothers from western Missouri who signed professional contracts in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Led by oldest brother Cloyd, a pitcher, third baseman Ken and third baseman Clete, three of the seven brothers reached the majors. This book recounts their hardscrabble upbringing and how they fought their way to success. Initia...
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    42,75 €

  • Lowell Thomas Jr.
    Lew Freedman / Lowell Thomas Jr.
    Lowell Thomas Jr. is a famed Alaskan who made his mark as a Bush pilot and by serving in state government, but who also has had a lifetime’s worth of adventures that have taken him around the world. Thomas, now eighty-nine, and living in Anchorage, is the son of one of the most widely known Americans of the twentieth century, and his connection to Lowell Thomas Sr. (1892-1981) ...
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    17,14 €

  • Iditarod Adventures
    Lew Freedman
    Features the fascinating careers of Iditarod icons as well as the administrators, volunteers, and classic characters that keep the race 'running.' ...
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    15,58 €

  • Jump Shot
    Lew Freedman
    Kenny Sailors was a basketball star, and the inventor of the jump shot. He attended the University of Wyoming and was MVP in 1943 in college AA basketball. After WWII, he spent five years as an early player in the new NBA. As a youngster, Kenny was five-foot-seven but his older brother was six-foot-two so when playing basketball, Kenny had to jump up over his brother to get of...
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    14,68 €

  • Pelé
    Lew Freedman
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    56,51 €

  • Bad Friday
    Lew Freedman
    On March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake lasting more than five minutes rocked south central Alaska, leveling waterfronts, collapsing bridges, and crumbling landscapes. The most powerful quake in North American history and ensuing tidal waves left homes broken, children orphaned, and infrastructure decimated. Yet, from within the tragedy also came stories of heroism, commu...
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    13,92 €

  • George Altman
    George Altman / Lew Freedman
    George Altman grew up in the segregated South but was able to participate in the sport at more levels of competition than perhaps anyone else who has ever played the game, from the 1940s to the 1970s.Altman played baseball at all the kids’ levels, played college baseball at Tennessee State, played for the Kansas City Monarchs during the waning days of the Negro Leagues, play...
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    42,90 €

  • My Season on the Kenai
    Lew Freedman
    The Kenai is a world-class salmon river that attracts fishermen from all over the world, but is also the “everyman” river of the great fishing paradise of Alaska because of its accessibility.The Kenai River is special not only because world-record salmon are caught in its stunning green waters, but because it is on the road system and thus can be accessed by the average fi...
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    29,92 €

  • Joe Louis
    Lew Freedman
    Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter and defended it a record 25 times. (In the 1930s and 1940s, the owner of the heavyweight title was the most prominent non-team sports competitor.) In addition, Louis helped bridge the gap of understanding between whites and blacks. During World War II he not only raised money for Army and Navy r...
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    42,75 €

  • DiMaggio’s Yankees
    Lew Freedman
    When Babe Ruth left the New York Yankees in 1935, some feared that the loss would cripple the club for years. However, the post-Ruth era Yankees continued to dominate until the start of World War II. Their forward-thinking administrative staff signed and developed top-flight talent like Joe DiMaggio and retained superstars like Lou Gehrig, who remained the greatest first bas...
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    35,64 €

  • Dynasty
    Lew Freedman
    Now in paperback!More than half a century after the Boston Celtics’ legendary first championship, here is a riveting inside account of one of sports’ greatest franchises-between 1957 and 1969, winners of eleven titles, including a record eight in a row starting in 1959. Lew Freedman, who grew up attending Celtics games and eventually befriended the players and team management, ...
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    12,66 €

  • Latino Baseball Legends
    Lew Freedman
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    135,86 €

  • The Day All the Stars Came Out
    Lew Freedman
    This is a history of major league baseball’s first All-Star game, originally conceived in 1933 as a one-time 'Game of the Century' (including greats such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Carl Hubbell and Lefty Grove) to lift the spirits of the nation and its people in the midst of the Great Depression. The game was so successful that it became a yearly event and an integral part of...
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    35,61 €

  • Yukon Quest
    Lew Freedman
    Over beer and hamburgers at the Two Rivers Lodge near Fairbanks, Alaska, a small group of mushers conceived a gutsy idea for a new sled dog race that would be more challenging than any other marathon race in the Far North. In 1984, mushers organized the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race between Fairbanks and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Soon, mushers adopted an unofficial...
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    14,72 €


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