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Pages: 237
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This is the biography of Bud Fowler (ne John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, and the longest tenured at the time that the co
The Page Fence Giants
Language: en
Pages: 275
Authors: Mitch Lutzke
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-04 - Publisher: McFarland

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The Page Fence Giants, an all-star black baseball club sponsored by a woven-wire fence company in Adrian, Michigan, graced the diamond in the 1890s. Formed thro
Before Brooklyn
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Ted Reinstein
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-01 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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In the April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston City Councilman Izzy Muchnick pe
Loser Takes All
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Ed Fowler
Categories: Football team owners
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A highly entertaining expose of the Houston Oilers, "Loser Takes All" is a story of scheming, backstabbing, and abject failure--except that, because of the wack
Exposure
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Therese Fowler
Categories: Fiction
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In Exposure, Therese Fowler has written her most gripping novel to date—a ripped-from-the-headlines story of ardent young love and a nightmarish legal maelstr