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Distinguished poet Eloise Greenfield and celebrated artist Jan Spivey Gilchrist honor the beauty of the human spirit and offer a timeless message that will resonate with readers young and old.
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From the 1860s until the closing years of the century , local representative sport was circumscribed by the amateur tenet that players who played for the love of the game rather than for pecuniary profit somehow more legitimately ...
A tribute to the baseball greats of the forties and fifties is told in the players' own voices and depicts an era of baseball before agents, owner "lockouts," and artificial turf. 25,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.
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