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  • America and the Automobile
    William A Cook
    America and the Automobile: A Historical Entertainment of the Mechanics, Moguls, and Moments that Changed a Nation is a history of milestone events in the evolution of the American automobile manufacturing industry and the people that made it happen. It is a book that is pure historical entertainment. It makes no attempt to be an esoteric chronicle of the auto industry’s histor...
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    15,64 €

  • Collision Course
    William A Cook
    Following the 1956-57 NBA season the Fort Wayne Pistons relocated to Detroit and the Rochester Royals were moved to Cincinnati. The relocations of the Fort Wayne and Rochester franchises left Syracuse as the last small market team in the NBA.As the 1960s began the NBA entered the crossroads of its existence featuring such mega stars as Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor...
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    14,53 €

  • I’M Gaining on You
    William A. Cook / William ACook
    We have all heard the expression used about a cat having nine lives, but the individual in this book is beginning to gain on that cat. His life is a series of experiences that cover a broad range and leave you asking yourself, How can this possibly be? But believe me, it is all true. The Lord has indeed worked many miracles in this mans life that almost seem hard to imagine. ...
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    20,35 €

  • I’M Gaining on You
    William A. Cook / William ACook
    We have all heard the expression used about a cat having nine lives, but the individual in this book is beginning to gain on that cat. His life is a series of experiences that cover a broad range and leave you asking yourself, How can this possibly be? But believe me, it is all true. The Lord has indeed worked many miracles in this mans life that almost seem hard to imagine. ...
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    9,71 €

  • Touring America by Automobile in the 1920s
    William A Cook
    A true labor of love, author William Cook has reproduced his grandmother’s (Hepzy Moore Cook) narrative of the day-to-day rigors in early twentieth century vacation travel by automobile.  The journals describe in great detail, a more remote, less accessible nation that existed ninety years ago during the dawn of America’s love affair with the car.  The oldest of the two journal...
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    19,39 €

  • Johnny Temple
    William A. Cook
    Cincinnati Reds leadoff hitter Johnny Temple batted over .300 three times between 1954 and 1959. A tobacco chewing and tough-talking hustler, he had a fiery disposition on the field, which led many sportswriters, teammates and opposing players to refer to him as a throwback to baseball’s early days--an Eddie Stanky or Enos Slaughter type who would challenge anyone to a fight...
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    42,95 €

  • Bibb Falk
    William A. Cook
    Born in Austin, Texas, in 1899, Bibb August Falk was the classic stereotype of a Texan, standing six feet. He brimmed with confidence and played the game of baseball with swagger. He played three years of varsity football and baseball at the University of Texas before being signed by the Chicago White Sox following graduation in 1920. Falk reported to the Sox that summer wit...
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    42,78 €

  • Big Klu
    William A. Cook
    During the mid-1950s, an unlikely star stood alongside baseball standouts Mickey Mantle, Henry Aaron and Willie Mays--a slugger with a funny name and muscles so bulging that he had to cut the sleeves off his uniform to swing freely. Ted Kluszewski played little baseball in his youth, making a name for himself instead as a hard-hitting football player at Indiana University be...
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    42,98 €

  • Jim Thorpe
    William A Cook / William A. Cook
    Most biographies of Jim Thorpe (1888-1953) emphasize his Olympic glory and his remarkable abilities in track and football. Thorpe’s 1912 gold medals in the decathalon and pentathalon and his talent on the gridiron rank him high among outstanding athletes of the twentieth century. That Thorpe also played brilliantly on the baseball diamond is an often overlooked facet of his ...
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    42,84 €

  • The Plight of the Palestinians
    William A. Cook
    The Plight of the Palestinians: a Long History of Destruction is a collection of voices from around the world that establishes in both theoretical and graphic terms the slow, methodical genocide taking place in Palestine beginning in the 1940s, as revealed in the Introduction. From Dr. Francis A. Boyle’s detailed legal case against the state of Israel, to Uri Avnery’s 'Slow Mot...
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    64,90 €

  • Everyday Speller
    Florence Holbrook / Michael Vincent O'Shea / Michael Vincent O’Shea / William A. Cook / William ACook
    Everyday Speller: Third Book, Grades Five And Six is a book written by Michael Vincent O’Shea in 1917. The book is designed for students in grades five and six and is intended to help them improve their spelling skills. The book is divided into several sections, each of which focuses on a different aspect of spelling.The first section of the book covers the basic rules of spell...
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    27,96 €

  • King of the Bootleggers
    William A Cook / William A. Cook
    As a pharmacist turned lawyer turned master prohibition era bootlegger, George Remus is now remembered as one of the most notorious figures of the American prohibition. Even though he was a lifelong teetotaler, Remus built one of the nation’s largest illegal liquor empires with little regard to disguises or secrecy. This biography tells the complete story of Remus’ private...
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    35,64 €

  • August 'Garry' Herrmann
    William A. Cook
    August Garry Herrmann entered the murky waters of 19th century machine politics in Cincinnati, serving as a trusted lieutenant to one of the most powerful political bosses in the country, George B. Cox. Herrmann, a gifted man who introduced modern management principles to municipal government and oversaw the committee that built Cincinnati’s modern water works system, eventu...
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    58,81 €

  • The Louisville Grays Scandal of 1877
    William A. Cook
    By the mid-1870s, gambling in baseball threatened the public’s confidence in the sport and its very existence as a professional enterprise. Recognizing this, Chicago owner William A. Hulbert and seven of his colleagues formed the National League, dedicating it to such high-minded ideals as preventing contract jumping and, most importantly, eliminating gambling from the sport...
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    42,78 €

  • Waite Hoyt
    William A. Cook
    Waite Hoyt was much more than a baseball player. A multi-faceted, sometimes troubled man, Hoyt was a vaudevillian, a mortician, a writer, a painter, and (of course) a Hall of Fame pitcher. He was also an alcoholic who overcame his demons and became one of the first players to make the transition to the announcer’s booth. His teammates and managers were among the all-time gre...
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    35,52 €

  • Pete Rose
    William A. Cook
    On September 11, 1985, with a sell-out crowd of 52,000 fans on hand at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium and millions of others watching on television, Pete Rose collected hit number 4,192 of his career and passed Ty Cobb as the all-time career hits leader. As he reached first base, thousands of cameras flashed, his teammates mobbed him, fireworks exploded and the crowd overwh...
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    42,80 €

  • The Summer of ’64
    William A. Cook
    The 1964 season, highlighted by two significant trades, a game-winning home run, and three no-hitters, was a dramatic one for the National League. But even more thrilling was that season’s final week and the race for the pennant. All the drama of the 1964 National League season through the Cardinals’ league championship is in this book. It covers Johnny Callison’s All-Star...
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    42,58 €

  • The 1919 World Series
    William A. Cook
    One of baseball’s infamous events is the 1919 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. Overshadowed by the suspicion cast upon, and the subsequent indictment of, eight White Sox players for throwing the games, the 1919 World Series has often been simplistically and inaccurately portrayed by the popular media in the decades since. This book takes an...
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    43,00 €