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For a variety of reasons, the 1908 American League pennant race has received much less attention from baseball historians than what happened in the National League that year. Yet the AL's race, involving the league's four westernmost teams, was equally dramatic. This book offers a study of the race for the title.

Ty Cobb was one of the most famous baseball players who ever lived. The author puts Cobb into the context of his times, describing the very different game on the field then, and successfully probes Cobb's complex personality.

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The story of the 1914 "Miracle” Boston Braves is one of the most memorable in baseball history, but less well known is what the club did after that spectacular season. This book is the first to look at the "Miracle” Braves in a larger context. The Braves of those years were a roistering, pugnacious crew that battled the opposition, the umpires and sometimes each other.

Especially significant here are the analysis of attitudes which led to this revival of the Klan and the close examination of its internal machinations.

Alexander sees the characteristic feature of the Eisenhower era as aneffort to "hold the line" -- against Communism, against big government, againstintellectual challenge, against disruptive social change. The period 1952-1961 isexamined in trenchant detail by the author, who focuses on domestic politics andforeign policy but also examines economic, social, intellectual, and culturalaspects of the period. He scrutinizes such features of the fi...

He ate gunpowder every morning, " complained one umpire, "and washed it down with warm blood." That described John McGraw, who in the 1890s was the rowdiest member of the ferocious Baltimore Orioles, the club that pioneered the hit-and-run, the cutoff, the squeeze play, and the "Baltimore chop." In 1902 he began his thirty-season reign as manager of the Giants, winning ten pennants--a record matched only by Casey Stengel. His career in basebal...