Books written by Saul Wisnia
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Thar's Joy in Braveland: The 1957 Milwaukee Braves
McCarthy's easy-going demeanor was sharply con- trasted with new manager Rogers Hornsby's authoritar- ian and tyrannical rule over players in his year and a half as skipper. Root rebounded in 1931 from a lackluster 1930 season to post ...
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Spinal Cord Injury and the Family: A New Guide
A major focus is education: teaching the person about his or her paralysis, as well as the techniques needed to get back to life and return home. If they are available, family members and significant others are encouraged to be an ...
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Baseball: More Than 150 Years
OF THE PLAYER YEAR 1 9 2 5 ROGERS HORNSBY Player - manager hits .403 , wins Triple Crown A BASEBALL Rogers Hornsby , Major League Batting Champ ion , and Manager of the St. Louis Cardinals , who was recently chosen as the most valuable ...
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100 Years of Major League Baseball: American and National Leagues, 1901-2000
OF THE PLAYER YEAR 1925 ROGERS HORNSBY Player - manager hits .403 , wins Triple Crown BASEBALL R ........ Hon slow moth Hand . kaps a Batting Champion Whs Not More Jewish Ball Players ' Making Cost Oft Pitchers hos Win Will Hr Prosea ...
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Best of Baseball
When you look at the Dodger Stadium infield , it's easy to blink your eyes and see the infield tandem of Steve Garvey , Davey Lopes , Bill Russell , and Ron Cey still stationed there . From 1974 through 1981 , that was the Dodger ...
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Wit & Wisdom of Baseball
A mixture of anecdotes, quotations, trivia, and original illustrations about baseball.
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Wit & Wisdom of Baseball
Wit & Wisdom of Baseball
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Miracle at Fenway: The Inside Story of the Boston Red Sox 2004 Championship Season
A 10th anniversary chronicle of the 2004 Rex Sox World Series championship is offered from the perspectives of its players and covers such topics as the key contributions of managers and the factors attributed to their "curse-breaking" win ...
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Spinal Cord Injury and the Family: A New Guide
Clinical experiences combine with patients' own stories in an informational guidebook that covers the causes of and prognosis for spinal cord injury through a series of real-life case studies, reviews common courses of treatment and ...
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Son of Havana: A Baseball Journey from Cuba to the Big Leagues and Back
Readers will share Tiant’s pride when appeals by a pair of US senators to baseball-fanatic Castro secure freedom for Luis’s parents to fly to Boston and witness the 1975 World Series glory of their child.
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Miracle at Fenway: The Inside Story of the Boston Red Sox 2004 Championship Season
In the winning tradition of baseball oral histories, Wisnia tells the story of 2004 as experienced by the people who lived it, in an engaging style filled with insight and excitement.
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The Wit & Wisdom of Baseball
A lively mix of trivia, anecdotes, observations, and quotations from and about baseball's most colorful characters. Shaped in the form of a baseball, this book also features original illustrations that help bring the stories to life.
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Fenway Park:The Centennial: 100 Years of Red Sox Baseball
Honoring the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park, this is a nostalgic and reverent look at America's # 1 baseball shrine--the national treasure that has been home to more than 600 straight sellouts and some of baseball's greatest games and ...
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The Love of Baseball
Baseball fans of all ages, all generations, all over the world will cheer for The Love of Baseball.
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100 Years of Major League Baseball: American and National Leagues, 1901-2000
100 Years of Major League Baseball: American and National Leagues, 1901-2000