The year of the pitcher : Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the end of baseball's golden age / by Pappu, Sridhar

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Hope -- Silent Film -- Lost Fathers -- Rising -- Testimony of Pilots -- The Break -- Into the City of Ashes -- A Black Man Wins in Boston -- Winter of Recriminations -- The Silent Spring -- 8:45 -- Out There -- Unclenched Fists -- President of the World -- A Lousy Pitcher -- Talk to Me -- Old Men -- Trouble -- Seventeen -- Mudders -- Anthems -- Slipping -- After the Fall -- Epilogue.…”

Double no-hit : Johnny Vander Meer's historic night under the lights / by Johnson, James W., 1938-

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Lefty and Tim : how Steve Carlton and Tim McCarver became baseball's best battery / by Kashatus, William C., 1959-

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The best team over there : the untold story of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Great War / by Leeke, Jim, 1949-

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Acts of mind : conversations with contemporary poets / by Jackson, Richard, 1946-

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Last seasons in Havana : the Castro Revolution and the end of professional baseball in Cuba / by Brioso, César, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The house that Bobby built -- Winds of change -- Golden age -- "This was a shipwreck" -- Year of the pitcher -- New Year's revolution -- Caribbean spice -- "Bullets were falling ... like hailstones" -- Title town -- Regarding Cienfuegos -- The last series -- International tensions -- The last season -- Casualty of the revolution.…”
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King of the mound : my summer with Satchel Paige / by Tooke, Wes

The novel and the American left : critical essays on Depression-era fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Campbell -- My little illegality / Joy Castro -- Shriveled breasts and dollar signs / Angela Marie Smith -- Monstrous modernism / Joseph Entin -- The objectivity of nature in Josephine Herbst's Rope of gold / Caren Irr -- Agrarian landscapes, the Depression, and women's prgressive fiction / Janet Galligani Casey -- The avengers of Christie Street / Lee Bernstein -- "Smashing cantatas" and "Looking glass pitchers" / Lawrence Hanley -- Marching! marching! …”

The novel and the American left : critical essays on Depression-era fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Campbell -- My little illegality / Joy Castro -- Shriveled breasts and dollar signs / Angela Marie Smith -- Monstrous modernism / Joseph Entin -- The objectivity of nature in Josephine Herbst's Rope of gold / Caren Irr -- Agrarian landscapes, the Depression, and women's progressive fiction / Janet Galligani Casey -- The avengers of Christie Street / Lee Bernstein -- "Smashing cantatas" and "Looking glass pitchers" / Lawrence Hanley -- Marching! marching! …”
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The messman chronicles : African Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1932-1943 / by Miller, Richard E., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…I: Units K-West and B-East: the black sailor returns, 1932-1941 -- Captain Claude's initiative -- Unit K-West -- Service in the fleet -- Shore duty: Annapolis and the lost battalion -- Unit B-East -- Seeing the world and dealing with race -- The Philadelphia fifteen -- II: The Messman branch goes to war, 1941-1943 -- Short of war -- The attack on Pearl Harbor -- Around the world and under the sea -- Coral Sea and midway -- Guadalcanal: green dragons, black stingers, and other South Pacific tales -- Guadalcanal: the pitcher's duel -- The end of the beginning -- III: The four freedoms, white supremacy, and Doris "Dorie" Miller -- The four freedoms, white supremacy, and Doris "Dorie" Miller -- Messman killed and missing at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.…”

A decisive decade : an insider's view of the Chicago civil rights movement during the 1960s / by McKersie, Robert B.

Table of Contents: “…The First Unitarian Church of Chicago : my gateway to the civil rights movement and to Alex Poinsett -- Campaigns on the employment front -- The Motorola Campaign and Tim Black -- Campaigns on the education front -- The movement marks time, while the university plays catch-up -- Spring and summer 1965 : marches, more marches, and Al Pitcher -- A peaceful march in Kenwood and a not-so-peaceful march led by Dick Gregory -- Looking back on the tumultuous events of 1965 -- The campaign for open housing, summer 1966 -- Jesse Jackson, Operation Breadbasket, and minority enterprise -- The movement and the decade wind down -- Initiatives continue within the university and the unitarian church -- Race relations and the personal equation.…”
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The called shot : Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the unforgettable major league baseball season of 1932 / by Wolf, Thomas, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Prologue : a broken umbrella in a rainstorm -- Rogers Hornsby -- William Wrigley -- Spring training -- Opening day -- The math wizard -- The rivals -- Rookie pItchers -- Brawls -- Hornsby and Cuyler -- Brooklyn -- Road trips -- Chicago conventions -- Independence Day -- Double X -- Wicked Chicago -- Harry Hortman and Charlie Ireland -- Sbarbaro's courtroom -- Legs of glass -- The end of the Hornsby era -- The boys of summer -- Judge Landis intervenes -- Stretch run -- Yankees coast -- The World Series begins -- The crowd gathers -- The called shot -- The World Series ends -- Post bame -- Fans return home -- Ruth's legacy with the Cubs -- Epilogue : the Babe calls his last shot -- Extra innings.…”
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Every goodbye ain't gone : an anthology of innovative poetry by African Americans /

Table of Contents: “…Loftis; Clarence Major; Leroy McLucas; Oliver Pitcher; Tom Postell; Norman H. Pritchard; Helen Quigless; Ishmael Reed; Ed Roberson; A.B. …”
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The called shot : Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the unforgettable major league baseball season of 1932 / by Wolf, Thomas, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Prologue : a broken umbrella in a rainstorm -- Rogers Hornsby -- William Wrigley -- Spring training -- Opening day -- The math wizard -- The rivals -- Rookie pItchers -- Brawls -- Hornsby and Cuyler -- Brooklyn -- Road trips -- Chicago conventions -- Independence Day -- Double X -- Wicked Chicago -- Harry Hortman and Charlie Ireland -- Sbarbaro's courtroom -- Legs of glass -- The end of the Hornsby era -- The boys of summer -- Judge Landis intervenes -- Stretch run -- Yankees coast -- The World Series begins -- The crowd gathers -- The called shot -- The World Series ends -- Post bame -- Fans return home -- Ruth's legacy with the Cubs -- Epilogue : the Babe calls his last shot -- Extra innings.…”
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Tales from the deadball era : Ty Cobb, home run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the wildest times in baseball history / by Halfon, Mark S.

Table of Contents: “…Baseball at the Turn of the Century; 3. A Pitchers' Paradise; 4. Inside Baseball; 5. Rowdyism; PART 2: DEADBALL ERA STANDOUTS; 6. …”
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Babe Ruth and the creation of the celebrity athlete / by Barthel, Thomas, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Reformatory farewell -- A pitcher leads -- Stardom arrives -- Best at his craft -- Labor relations -- Home run king -- Magnates -- A new record -- New York City and fans -- New team, new city -- Train travel -- The Yankees, the judge and the agent -- Ruth's business partner, Christy Walsh -- Free to be a cartel -- Celebrity and hero -- Yankees win -- Advertising's muscles -- The usual greatness -- Barnstorming -- The worst -- Newspapers and magazines everywhere -- A sign of glory -- Johnny Sylvester: seizing an opportunity -- A prized year -- Radio and newsreels and play-o-graph -- Another sweep -- Male clubs and masculinity -- Many deaths, one marriage -- Ruth and children -- The $80,000 year -- Ruth's confederates, the sportswriters -- The last tour -- Last times (1932-1935) -- An entertainer (1936 and after) -- Collecting baseball objects.…”
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Victory on two fronts : the Cleveland Indians and baseball through the World War II era / by Longert, Scott

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Miracle collapse : the 1969 Chicago Cubs / by Feldmann, Doug, 1970-

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American Negro poetry.

Table of Contents: “…Oden -- Mari E. Evans -- Oliver Pitcher -- James P. Vaughn -- Russell Atkins -- Ted Joans -- William Browne -- James A. …”

Acts of mind : conversations with contemporary poets / by Jackson, Richard, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…On the Periphery of Time (Donald Hall)The Candle in the Pitcher (John Hollander); Selected Bibliography; Index.…”
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