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Author | : Bill Madden |
Publisher | : Triumph Books (IL) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781600787041 |
A firsthand, behind-the-scenes account of the turmoil that pervaded the New York Yankee franchise in the late 1970s, this book discusses George Steinbrenner's purchase and continual rebuilding of the team--alongside a colorful cast of players and businessmen. Not merely a look at the time spent in Yankee Stadium, this chronicle also describes the team's public arguments, practical jokes, drunken excess, self-aggrandizing publicity efforts, and the ups and downs that accompanied the Yankees and George Steinbrenner through the 1970s and beyond.
Author | : Christopher Phillips |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1996-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807121030 |
Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861) was the first Union general to die in the Civil War. Killed at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Missouri, he became the North’s first war hero, famed as the man who saved Missouri for the Union. In Damned Yankee, chosen by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book in 1991, Christopher Phillips portrays Lyon not as the savior of a border state threatened by secessionist extremists but as an unbalanced, monomaniacal Unionist zealot who purposely—and perhaps unnecessarily—brought war to a fragile state whose populace had voted overwhelmingly to stay out of the conflict. Phillips meticulously examines Lyon’s role in the Camp Jackson affair, his quest to oust the pro-southern governor of Missouri, and his campaign to eliminate the secessionist element in the state. He contends that Lyon’s actions in Missouri in 1861 were congruent with his dogmatic personality and troubled past. Damned Yankee is a complex, often shocking, portrait of one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War and a sobering study of how the faults of men may greatly affect history.
Author | : Joseph A. Citro |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2018-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493032216 |
New Englanders are always cursing. But a colorful profanity uttered by some stero-typically taciturn old Yankee is usually more humorous than menacing. Yet, true maledictions (the opposite of benedictions) have frequently been spoken on New England soil, curses intended to invoke evil, injury, or total destruction against other people. Stories about preternatural revenge are numerous in Yankee lore, with each New England state providing its favorites. You’ll read about curses that were followed by the strange disappearance of a father and daughter in Rhode Island, mysterious afflictions in Massachusetts, a river of death in Maine, an unaccountable blight in New Hampshire, unexplained madness in Connecticut, and other eerie happenings from New England’s colorful history. Some are well known, at least regionally. Others are nearly forgotten. Within these pages, storyteller Joseph A. Citro vividly brings these tales to life, letting us decide if these tales of woe were bad luck or . . . something else.
Author | : Bill Madden |
Publisher | : Triumph Books |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2012-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1617496480 |
A firsthand, behind-the-scenes account of the turmoil that pervaded the New York Yankee franchise in the late 1970s, this book discusses George Steinbrenner's purchase and continual rebuilding of the team--alongside a colorful cast of players and businessmen. Not merely a look at the time spent in Yankee Stadium, this chronicle also describes the team's public arguments, practical jokes, drunken excess, self-aggrandizing publicity efforts, and the ups and downs that accompanied the Yankees and George Steinbrenner through the 1970s and beyond.
Author | : Dean Chadwin |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2000-06-17 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781859842836 |
It was the perfect season. In 1998, baseball's fans thrilled to Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire's home run slugfest and the Yankees won more games in a season than any team in Major League history. Baseball boomed across the US but the biggest bang was in New York where millions celebrated at a victory motorcade along the Avenue of Heroes.
Author | : George Abbott |
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Release | : 1956 |
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Author | : Clarke Canfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780976323129 |
Countering the myth of New York Yankee infallibility, Those Damned Yankees relates the trials and tribulations of baseball's most hated team and serves as the definitive guide for those who hate them. Author Clarke Canfield, a longtime New England journalist, relates every rich and juicy detail-the disastrous seasons, the blowout losses, the infantile behavior of players, the horrible trades, and all the crushing playoff and World Series defeats. It is a book to warm the hearts of Yankee haters and true baseball fans everywhere. Canfield has enlisted the help of some well-known media personalities and sports reporters to help him relate the intense emotions that are stirred by those who wear pinstripes. The book features essays by former Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee, Dale Arnold of WEEI radio, Tom Caron of NESN, Kevin Thomas of the Portland Press-Herald, John Holyoke of the Bangor Daily News, and Kevin Witt of the Times-Herald Record of Middletown, New York.
Author | : Cherie Claire |
Publisher | : Happy Gris Gris Publishing |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2016-07-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Sometimes life hands you just what you need, when you need it the most. Magnolia “Maggie” Delta Mallory has two major problems in her life: setting a world record in job layoffs and her disastrous luck with men. Broke and discouraged, Maggie attends a journalism conference in Vegas in the hopes of landing another magazine job. Instead, she lands a husband. A Yankee one, no less. Colin Parnell doesn’t trust the Southern belle who’s landed on his doorstep, inheriting part of his Yankee Living magazine through his irresponsible cousin Jake. But he’s inexplicably drawn to Maggie’s lilting Southern accent, homemade gumbo and her adorable smile. Can Colin and Maggie discover love despite the obstacles, breaking down the Mason-Dixon Line between them? The Cajun Embassy series follows three Columbia journalism coeds homesick for Louisiana who find comfort in a bowl of Cajun gumbo. Each book — Ticket to Paradise, Damn Yankees and Gone Pecan — follows these dedicated friends as they make their way into the world. Because love — and a good gumbo — cures everything. The Cajun Embassy series follows three Columbia journalism coeds homesick for Louisiana who find comfort in a bowl of Cajun gumbo. Each book — Ticket to Paradise, Damn Yankees and Gone Pecan — follows these dedicated friends as they make their way into the world. Because love — and a good gumbo — cures everything. BOOK DETAILS • Contemporary romance • Book Two of Cherie’s The Cajun Embassy series • A full-length novel of approximately 90,000 words (about 365 printed book pages) • R-rated content: Steamy love scenes! Books by Cherie Claire The Cajun Embassy Ticket to Paradise Damn Yankees Gone Pecan The Cajuns historical saga Emilie Rose Gabrielle Delphine A Cajun Dream The Letter (novella) Carnival Confessions: A Mardi Gras Novella The Viola Valentine Mystery Series A Ghost of a Chance Ghost Town Trace of a Ghost Ghost Trippin’ Give Up the Ghost The Ghost is Clear (novella) Ghost Fever Ghost Lights Non-fiction titles by Cheré Coen: Magic’s in the Bag: Creating Spellbinding Gris Gris Bags and Sachets with Jude Bradley Exploring Cajun Country: A Tour of Historic Acadiana Haunted Lafayette, Louisiana Forest Hill, Louisiana: A Bloom Town History
Author | : William Garrett Piston |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2002-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807874787 |
In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to the Union. This question was most fractious in the border states of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. In Missouri, it was largely settled at Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861, in a contest that is rightly considered the second major battle of the Civil War. In providing the first in-depth narrative and analysis of this important but largely overlooked battle, William Piston and Richard Hatcher combine a traditional military study of the fighting at Wilson's Creek with an innovative social analysis of the soldiers who participated and the communities that supported them. In particular, they highlight the importance of the soldiers' sense of corporate honor--the desire to uphold the reputation of their hometowns--as a powerful motivator for enlistment, a source of sustenance during the campaign, and a lens through which soldiers evaluated their performance in battle.
Author | : Toni L. P. Kelner |
Publisher | : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1625670451 |
A Boston woman visiting her Southern hometown must smoke out a fire-starting killer in this cozy mystery by a New York Times–bestselling author. Laura Fleming is always happy to visit her ever-extending family in Byerly, North Carolina. This time, though, it’s not kin calling her back home, but businessman Burt Walters. Burt’s hoping Laura can dig up dirt on Marshall and Grace Saunders, proposed buyers of Walters Mill. Laura knows Burt has good reasons for opposing the deal, and not just because the Saunderses are Yankees. But the mill has long been Byerly’s bread-and-butter, and stakes are high. Half her family is pro-buyout and half against—Laura’s Shakespeare-quoting husband, Richard, likens it to the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets, only nastier. Soon it’s more than tempers flaring, for a spate of suspicious fires culminates in Marshall’s death. With her cousin Linwood a prime suspect, Laura is called to uncover the truth. Amid a mess of double-crossing, blackmail and fraud, she sets a trap to catch a killer—but may catch more than she bargained for...