mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Howard Bryant

BY PURE HAPPENSTANCE, it was Jackie Robinson who indirectly wound up being responsible for Henry’s half century of loyalty to the Democratic party. For years, Henry had sought to pattern ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-09-14 | Author:David Pietrusza

ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN COULD EASILY HAVE walked away from gambling and loan-sharking and entered the world of legitimate business. In 1912 he was offered a $25,000-per year position as a stockbroker. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Francona, Terry & Shaughnessy, Dan [Francona, Terry]

CHAPTER 11 • 2008 • “This will not help us win” RED SOX NATION WAS GLOBAL. The Sox were the most popular sports team on the planet. The Sox were ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Joe Torre; Tom Verducci

9. Marching to Different Drumbeats Joe Torre called Bernie Williams and Kenny Lofton into his office one day in the Yankees’ 2004 spring training camp and closed the door. The ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Hayhurst, Dirk [Hayhurst, Dirk]

Bonnie got in on May 27th, the first game of an eight-game home stand against the Sacramento River Cats and the Las Vegas 51s. We’d planned this out so she ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-29 | Author:Dirk Hayhurst

The first case of today’s court, the first court of the season, was against Slappy. Go figure. The official court reader, Maddog, pulled the complaint from the box and spoke, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Bouton, Jim [Bouton, Jim]

JULY 12 Today Baney, who’s still here, asked me if I was throwing my knuckleball all the time now and I said that indeed I was. “Sal didn’t like that ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:John Grisham [Grisham, John]

THE HONORABLE KARL HUSKEY arrived at Keesler Air Force Base late in the afternoon, and slowly made his way through security to the hospital. He was in the middle of ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Bill Madden

Chapter 12 An Icon Scorned YOGI BERRA HAD EVERY reason to feel apprehensive about becoming George Steinbrenner’s latest manager. His ascension to the job, on December 16, 1983, marked the ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Stephen King [King, Stephen]

Benoit’s thrown okay as well, but in the fifth Johnny hooks one around the Pesky Pole, and while Benoit gets the next three guys, they all hit the ball hard. ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Jackie Robinson

XI Campaigning for Nixon I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finer ones. It was ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Jamie Moyer [Moyer, Jamie]

Unlike his relationship with, say, the curveball, Moyer’s courtship of the changeup was long and complicated, characterized by fits and starts and disappointments, before culminating in wedded bliss after Piniella’s ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:John Holway

Double Duty Radcliffe (left) with Chicago American Giants manager Candy Jim Taylor (right) in the Memphis Red Sox park, opening day 1939. (Photo courtesy of Phil Dixon). Bill Foster at ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Ben Bradlee Jr. [Bradlee, Ben Jr.]

Ted’s brilliance in 1957 reverberated well into 1958, producing a burst of glowing press and national recognition. The Associated Press named Ted its 1957 Male Athlete of the Year, and ...

mobi, azw3 |eng | 2003-05-06 | Author:Jackie Robinson & Alfred Duckett

XI Campaigning for Nixon I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finer ones. It was ...