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Pages: 1001
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-13 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Language: en
Pages: 489
Pages: 489
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-27 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
On October 4, 1957, the day Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pounds with only a
Language: en
Pages: 242
Pages: 242
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-26 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Baseball is set apart from other sports by many things, but few are more distinctive than the intricate systems of coded language that govern action on the fiel
Language: en
Pages: 674
Pages: 674
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-19 - Publisher: Harper Collins
Baseball has always had its share of colorful characters, and over the years they have expressed themselves in eminently quotable ways. In this treasury of more
Language: en
Pages: 567
Pages: 567
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Propounding his "small ball theory" of sports literature, George Plimpton proposed that "the smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature." Of course he
