Baseball and the House of David

Baseball and the House of David

P J Dragseth / P.J. Dragseth

58,56 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
McFarland and Company, Inc.
Año de edición:
2021
Materia
Historia de la religión
ISBN:
9781476670119
58,56 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)

  House of David barnstorming baseball (1915-1957) was played without pre-determined schedules, leagues, player statistics or standings. The Davids quickly gained popularity for their hirsute appearance and flashy, fast-paced style of play. During their 200 seasons, they travelled as many as 30,000 miles, criss-crossing the United States, Canada and Mexico. The Benton Harbor teams invented the pepper game and were winners year after year, becoming legends in barnstorming baseball. Initially a loose affiliation of players, the Davids expanded to three teams--Western, Central and Eastern--as their reputation grew, and hired outsiders to fill the rosters. Prominent among them were pitchers Grover Cleveland Alexander and Charlie 'Chief' Bender, both player managers in the early 1930s. They resisted the color barrier, eagerly facing Negro League teams everywhere. In 1934, before their largest crowd to date, they defeated the first Negro team invited to the famed Denver Post Tournament, the great Kansas City Monarchs, for the championship.

Artículos relacionados

  • Parables of the Cross
    I. Lilias Trotter / ILilias Trotter
    Isabella Lilias Trotter was an artist and a Christian missionary for over 38 years to the Muslims of Algeria. After serving God in England for a time with the YWCA, she went with her own funding to Algeria to serve God there. In 1888 she founded the Algiers Mission Band. In 1964 the Algiers Mission Band became incorporated into Arab World Ministries. ...
  • Black Christians
    G Jeff Johnson
    This book is a historical study of Africian American Christians who choose to stay within white denominations. Four key objectives are covered, first to propose an alternative framework for the study of black Lutheranism, second this book will trace the development of black Lutheranism beginning with the middle of the 17th century, third it examine the development of black Luth...
    Disponible

    31,06 €

  • The Dilemma of the Adams
    Pastor Conrad de la Torres
    The true story of two men in love with two brides experiencing two dilemmas in two gardens and having to make two decisions that have had temporal and eternal ramifications on earth. ...
  • El Dilema de los Adanes
    Pastor Conrad de la Torres
    La historia real de dos hombres enamorados de dos novias que experimentan dos dilemas en dos jardines y tienen que tomar dos decisiones que han tenido ramifi caciones temporales y eternas en la tierra. ...
  • Scold’s Bridle
    Ronna Russell
    Women are given impossible choices every day. This is how we got here. Ronna Russell weaves a backward-in-time series of short stories depicting the violent oppression, complicity, and participation of white women, exposing individual choices that resulted in the abandonment of sisterhood for survival. The past is not what we have been told. Russell’s book shines a light into t...
    Disponible

    13,82 €

  • Mennonite German Soldiers
    Mark Jantzen
    Mark Jantzen describes the policies of the Prussian government toward the Mennonites and the legal, economic, and social pressures brought to bear on the Mennonites to conform. ...