Authors
- Smokey Yunick
- Henry Yunick
Publication date: 2002-10-01
Dewey code: 796
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Review Sex, Lies & Superspeedways (Sex, Lies & Superspeedways, 1) (Sex, Lies & Superspeedways, 1) (Sex, Lies & Superspeedways, 1) (Sex, Lies & Superspeedways, 1) / Carbon Pr Llc:The stories in Sex, Lies & Superspeedways comprise about 20% of the stories in SmokeyÃs autobiography: Best Damn Garage in TownÃThe World According to Smokey. It was originally published as a 3 Volume boxed set with slipcase, with 1,100 pages, 409 photographs and illustrations, all black and white, weighs 11 pounds, indexed. Smokey got the idea for writing a history of stock car racing after giving a talk to explain racing to a group of kids at LoweÃs Motorspeedway, around 1995. He realized that all the people who were a part of the early days were dying and most of the ones who were still alive were too involved with racing to be able to tell the real stories. He started writing this book as a history of stock car racing and ended up with look at American history of the past 60 years through a very unique set of eyes. The first volume, Walkinà Under a SnakeÃs Belly, covers SmokeyÃs life outside racing, beginning with growing up in Neshaminy, Pennsylvania on a farm, dropping out of high school to take care of the family and going off to World War II as a B-17 pilot. The war stories are told through the eyes of a young man who believed all that the Army Air Corps taught him, but he had a mind of his own and was also hell-bent on having fun at all costs. (If that meant irritating a few generals, then that was just par for the course. ) After the racing years, Smokey ended spending most of his time working on his inventions and working in the oil and gold fields of Ecuador. Along the way, Smokey had a knack for finding fun and adventure everywhere he went. [+]Alcohol, women and speed were his main addictions - he eventually gave up alcohol, but never did give up the other two. The second volume, All Right You Sons-a-Bitches, LetÃs Have a Race, chronicles the stock car racing years in living color. The warning on these books, that they are not to be read by those under 18 unless they are with a grandparent who can translate the social and moral implications of the stories, is not to be taken lightly. (Smokey even includes his own dictionary to explain the terms that racers used in the early days to the uninformed. ) Smokey and his band of merry compatriots were racers and there were only two things on their mind when the sun went down à women and booze. Smokey had his share of both during 15 years of racing, when racers were looked down on as the dregs of society. Nothing could stop his dream of being the fastest at the sport he loved, no matter what happened along the way à the sign of a true racer. During his years in stock car racing, Smokey fell in love with a mistress that he would visit every May for over 20 years à The Indianapolis 500. The first half of the third volume, LiÃl Skinny Rule Book, covers his love of this famed event and the wonderful stories of the days before the big corporate sponsors; when it was just men and their machines, sleeping on the floor in the garage and most times coming home with nothing. As the title implies, Smokey loved Indy because the rules were so simple. His inventive mind and knack for thinking way outside the box were at their best when Indy was involved. The second half of the third volume, Eatinà an Elephant, covers his years of inventing inside and outside of racing. SmokeyÃs 10 patents donÃt begin to cover the breadth and depth of his inventing. His work with the car companies and on the racetrack led to a host of developments that have improved surface transportation for everyone. The value of some of his ideas and inventions, like his famous hot vapor engine, were never fully realized. Many books have been written about the last 50 years of American history, but few are this entertaining, revealing and introspective all at the same time. Real stories from World War II, stock cars, the automotive industry and the Mexican Road.
Publication date: 2003-09-09
Dewey code: 796.357092
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Review Pepper Martin: A Baseball Biography / McFarland & Company:Pepper Martin, the "Wild Horse of the Osage," is most famous for having dominated the October 1931 World Series - stealing bases, sliding on his chest, making diving catches, and driving in runs. He also captivated many Americans in the Depression Era with his homegrown honesty and love of pranks. To many, he epitomized the very spirit of baseball. This biography follows Martin's rise from Oklahoma farmboy, buying his first glove with money from a paper route, to being one of America's most successful and beloved professionals. It closes with an account of his coaching career in Florida and his death in 1965, a member of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and a loving grandfather. The work includes accounts of important games and intimate glimpses of his romance with his wife and the arrivals of his daughters. Information is drawn from research on the careers of key players and managers from the Cardinals, back issues of periodicals, and interviews with Don Gutterridge, Martin's teammate.
Publication date: 2005-05-01
Dewey code: 796.334092
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Review Colossus: The True Story of William Foulke / Tempus:This book is a biography of William Foulke, an English soccer player in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known for his great size (likely 6'7"), and affectionately called William "Fatty" Foulke, he was remembered primarily as a goalkeeper for Sheffield United and Chelsea.
Creator: Curt Gowdy
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2000-05-01
Dewey code: 796
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Review The Golden Boy: A Biography of Jackie Jensen / Peter E. Randall Publisher:A biography of a gentleman jock.
Publication date: 2003-11
Dewey code: 796.3570922
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Review Tinker, Evers, and Chance: A Triple Biography / McFarland & Company:This trio of Cubs formed one of the greatest, most colorful double-play combinations of all time. Each man's early years and experiences in baseball are covered, but special attention is paid to their relationship on and off the field, and to the factors that molded them and gave them their split-second timing.
Publication date: 2006-01-13
Dewey code: 796.357092
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Review Orator O'Rourke: The Life of a Baseball Radical / McFarland & Company:As a player, manager, team captain, umpire, owner and league president, Jim O’Rourke (1851–1918) spoke for the players in the emerging game of baseball. O’Rourke’s career paralleled the rise of the game from a regional sport with few strategies to the national pastime. Nicknamed “Orator” for his booming voice and his championing of the rights of professional athletes, he was a driving force in making the sport a profession, bringing respectability to the role of professional baseball player. From contemporary sources, O’Rourke’s own correspondence, and player files available through the National Baseball Library, a rounded portrait of Jim O’Rourke emerges. Quick to speak his mind, the outfielder played on nine pennant-winning teams, but his playing career was overshadowed by his work in organizing baseball's first union. After his playing days ended, O’Rourke attempted to establish the Connecticut League, becoming the circuit’s president, secretary, and treasury. Though the league failed to fully materialize, his Bridgeport Victors did play several games and were one of the few racially integrated teams—a fact emblematic of O’Rourke’s efforts to change the national pastime. In those efforts, he attempted to wrest control of the game from the owners and empower the players. This work provides a behind-the-scenes look at the growth of the national pastime from the Civil War through the deadball era.
Publication date: 2003-02-10
Dewey code: 796.357092
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Review Commy": The Life Story of Charles A. Comiskey (The Mcfarland Historical Baseball Library, 2) / McFarland & Company:This biography of Charles "Commy" Comiskey is one of the earliest and most important - and, up to now, one of the hardest for baseball researchers to get their hands on - in the baseball canon. Comiskey spent half a century in the big leagues as a successful player-manager and owner, his clubs winning nine pennants along the way. But the dark cloud that hangs over him is the 1919 Black Sox scandal, in which he is inextricably tangled, fair or not. Comiskey's tight-fistedness is often cited as a principal cause of the 1919 World Series scandal. Commy suspected that the fix was on after the White Sox lost the first two games, and even implored his old friend, American League president Ban Johnson, to suspend the Series, but the tide of history could not be dammed. Historians of the game will find much valuable insight here on the rise of baseball in the Windy City, Comiskey's playing career (as an innovative first baseman), his long stint as St. Louis Browns player-manager (which included four straight pennants from 1885 to 1888), his helping Johnson form the American League, and his keeping the White Sox a family-owned franchise for nearly 60 years. Surprisingly, this is the only biography of Comiskey ever published. Fortunately, Axelson allows "The Old Roman" to speak for himself briefly in the last seven pages of the book. Here Comiskey comes across as humble and earnest, concluding his message with, "What I have tried to do [in baseball] has been my level best. [+]".
Publication date: 2005-02-04
Dewey code: 796
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Review Connie Mack's '29 Triumph: The Rise and Fall of the Philadelphia Athletes Dynasty / McFarland & Company:It has been said that Connie Mack managed only two kinds of teams during his half-century in the City of Brother Love - unbeatable and lousy. His teams collected nine pennants and five World Series titles, balanced by 17 last place finishes. While Mack, an enterprising businessman, had a gift for discovering talented players and molding them into a team, by the time he was well into his sixties, Philadelphians suspected that the A's skipper had lost his ability. Mack went on to disprove all doubts, however, with a second championship dynasty in 1929 that vindicated the "Tall Tactician. " This work chronicles the rise and fall of the 1929 Philadelphia Athletics and their six-year rivalry with the New York Yankees, 1927 to 1932. Based primarily on newspaper accounts, the book tells the story of the "Grand Old Man of Baseball" - and the 1929 A's team that is unfairly overlooked in favor of the 1927 Yankees as baseball's greatest all-around team. This history is packed with photographs, notes and statistical appendices, and includes a foreword by The Sporting News writer Dave Kindred.
Publication date: 2007-11-30
Dewey code: 796.3520922
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Review Women in Golf: The Players, the History, and the Future of the Sport / Praeger Publishers:Golf may well have replaced baseball as "America's pastime," and the sport enjoys incredible popularity across the globe. At the professional level, women's golf continues to escalate in popularity and media attention, particularly with the dominance of LPGA champion Annika Sorenstam and the interest surrounding teenage phenom Michelle Wie. Despite the thirst for more information about women's golf, very little exists about its history outside of books about the legendary Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Hudson's new book fills this void, focusing on the fascinating development of women's golf, the creation of the women's tour, star athletes of the past, and the astronomical rise of the present-day tour greats. In addition, Hudson examines women's golf in the context of the country's history of discrimination against women. Women's golf grew in popularity after the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, granting the right of suffrage. Unfortunately, gender discrimination remains a reality in the world of golf in certain locales of country club golf. Nonetheless, women's golf has never been more popular. For example, the Futures Tour, where girls and young women hone their skills on the way to the LPGA, has grown to more than 300 players from 27 countries, making it the largest international developmental tour in the world. And the 2006 LPGA Tour featured 34 events with prize money nearing $50 million, the highest ever in LPGA history. [+]In 1890, Hudson writes, the Washington Post reported that "some girls are anxious to learn golf, because they are really fond of sport and exercise; others, because it gives them a chance to show off a natty suit. " Those "girls" are now acknowledged as women-and this book shows how very far they, and their sport, have come.
Creator: Gary Mitchem
Publication date: 2006-03-07
Dewey code: 796.357092
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Review Play Ball: Stories of the Diamond Field (McFarland Historical Baseball Library) (Mcfarland Historical Baseball Library) / McFarland & Company:If Cap Anson was baseball's first star, King Kelly was the first player whose celebrity extended beyond the diamond. The dashing mustachioed Kelly was a favorite of newspapermen, who lionized him as "King of the Diamond" and "The $10,000 Beauty"; of fans, who celebrated his daring in song ("Slide, Kelly, Slide") and his grace in poetry ("Beautiful Mike"); and certainly of the baseball establishment, which was willing to pay outrageous sums for his services. Off the field, he pursued an interest in acting, and played parts in a number of theatrical productions. And in 1888, reacting to what he described as the bookishness of his new baseball home in Boston, Kelly even tried his hand at writing. "Play Ball: Stories from the Diamond Field" was the first-ever memoir by a player. One of the most popular baseball titles of all time, "Play Ball" is a casual, often humorous stroll through Kelly's ball-playing past, with chapters on the teams he played for, the men he played alongside, his relationships with baseball figures such as Anson and Albert Spalding, his early involvement with John Ward's Brotherhood, his legendary contract with the Beaneaters, and his barnstorming adventures in the South and West.
Publication date: 2008-06-11
Dewey code: 796.357640979494
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Review Miracle in Chavez Ravine: The Los Angeles Dodgers in 1988 / McFarland:After winning the 1981 World Series and raising the expectations of management and fans, the Los Angeles Dodgers followed up with six years of disappointing finishes. By the time they ended the 1987 season 17 games behind the hated Giants, general manager Fred Claire had seen enough. Over the winter Claire radically restructured the team, bringing in fiery players like outfielder Kirk Gibson, closer Jay Howell and shortstop Alfredo Griffin to spark the team out of complacency. Led by Gibson and pitcher Orel Hershiser, the upstart Dodgers outlasted Houston in a race for the NL West title and edged a star-studded Mets team in the league championship series. But their best, most dramatic moments came in the World Series, when the Dodgers shocked everyone by bashing the A's of McGwire and Canseco in five games. In the first book-length history of the 1988 Dodgers, author Bill McNeil covers the story from all angles.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2008-04-15
Dewey code: 796
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Review Sam Langford: Boxing's Greatest Uncrowned Champion / Bennett & Hastings:Standing no more than five-feet, seven-inches; tall, Sam Langford was one of the 20th century's greatest fighters. In this biography, his life story is told in great and entertaining detail. Over 100 photographs are included. Sam was a great black prizefighter in an era when the color line was easily cited by white opponents wanting to avoid meeting him in the ring. Ring magazine editor Nat Fleischer ranked Langford among his favorites, stating, 'Sam was endowed with everything. He possessed strength, agility, cleverness, hitting power, a good thinking cap and an abundance of courage. He feared no one. But he had the fatal gift of being too good, and that's why he often had to give away weight in early days and make agreements with opponents. Many of those who agreed to fight him, especially of his own race, wanted an assurance that he would be merciful or insisted on a bout of not more than six rounds. ' This biography brings to light Sam Langford's remarkable talents and life.
Publication date: 2006-07-10
Dewey code: 796.357092
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Review Whitey Ford / McFarland & Company:Called the "Chairman of the Board" because of his remarkable control in big-money games, Eddie "Whitey" Ford still holds the record for World Series wins (10), and was Casey Stengel's ace during much of the Yankees' historic mid-century pennant streak. Off the mound, Whitey's carousing with Mickey Mantle was legendary, and he, in many ways, symbolizes the excesses and good fortunes of the Yankees during that era - living hard and winning often. This book delves into the life and baseball career of Whitey Ford, the Hall of Fame left-hander who helped the Yankees win 11 pennants and six world championships. After a childhood in the New York sandlots, he quickly worked his way through the Yankees farm system and, when called up in 1950, won nine straight in a pennant race and then won the final game of the World Series sweep of the Phillies. He would go on to pitch for 16 seasons - all of them with New York - and retire as the winningest pitcher in franchise history. His story is detailed here with a generous helping of play-by-play action and personal anecdotes. Seven appendices offer Ford's career statistics and compare him to other great pitchers, past and present.
Publication date: 2008-08-07
Dewey code: 796.3570922
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Review Heavenly Twins Of Boston Baseball: A Dual Biography of Hugh Duffy and Tommy Mccarthy / McFarland:Baseball was a rough sport in the nineteenth century and no one played the game with more vigor (and often violence) than Hall of Famers Hugh Duffy and Tommy McCarthy, dubbed "The Heavenly Twins. " This book details their professional history playing for Boston Beaneaters teams and personal experiences with baseball, faith, and legendary Boston baseball scribe Tim Murnane. The book also traces their minor league careers and post-professional baseball activities.
Publication date: 2005-02-03
Dewey code: 796.357640977136
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Review A Fine-Looking Lot of Ball-Tossers: The Remarkable Akrons of 1881 / McFarland:The Akron club's accumulation of talented ballplayers and its success against the best opposition of the time set it apart from the general development of 19th century baseball. Like many of the independent baseball teams that proliferated in the 1870s and 1880s, it was formed as a joint stock company by prominent citizens and businessmen. Its talent led it to be raided out of existence. Of the 20 men who played with the Akrons during 1881, 14 played major league ball in subsequent seasons. Most prominent were Hall of Famer Bid McPhee and Tony Mullane. This work traces the development and play of the team from its formation in 1879 through its great 1881 season and on. Biographical profiles of the players, with personal and professional details, are interspersed throughout. Appendices include the 1881 calendar of scores and 40 box scores (and compiled statistics) for the 1881 season, as well as the box score of the Akrons' victory over the Chicagos of Cap Anson in 1880.
Creator: Dave Kindred
Publication date: 2005-10-18
Dewey code: 613.7019
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Review Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators: The War-torn Career of an All-star Shortstop / McFarland & Company:A three time All-Star, Cecil Travis was coming into his prime and already well on his way to a Hall of Fame career when he was drafted for World War II in 1941. He would spend the next four years in the 76th infantry division. When he finally returned to the game, in 1945, Travis was no longer the dominant player he had been. In the three seasons that followed his return—the last three seasons of his career—only once did Travis play in more than 75 games, and his offensive numbers plummeted. Yet his pre-war accomplishments were such that he finished his 12-year career with a. 314 batting average and baseball maven Bill James put Travis atop his list of players most likely to have lost a Hall of Fame career to the war. This biography documents the dynamic career of a baseball player whose path to stardom was cut short by the onset of war. It begins with Travis’ childhood years, which he spent working on his family’s Riverdale farm in rural Georgia. It describes his demonstration of talent during high school, which earned him athletic scholarships at several universities. Next the author details the start of Travis’ professional career with the minor league Chattanooga Lookouts in 1931, his impressive rookie year with the Washington Senators, and his remaining prewar seasons in the major leagues. [+]Travis’s time as a soldier is then discussed, followed by chapters on postwar playing decline from 1945 to 1947 and his consequent retirement from major league baseball. An epilogue provides Cecil Travis’ personal commentary on his baseball career, its untimely dissolution, the effects of the war, and his present life in Riverdale, where he raises livestock on his childhood farm.
Publication date: 2004-06
Dewey code: 798.400929
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Review Smarty Jones: America's Horse / Sports Publishing LLC:Smarty Jones: America's Horse is in the tradition of similar instant books celebrating the achievements of championship teams and individuals, including Top Dogs: UConn’s 2003-04 Men’s Championship Season with the Hartford Courant and 2004 NFL Champions: New England Patriots with the Boston Herald. Sports Publishing presents the first title to be available on the market to salute the tremendous racing season of the horse that captured America's imagination, Smarty Jones. The book promises to tell the complete story of Smarty’s amazing season through action-packed articles, columns, and photos from the Associated Press.
Publication date: 2007-12-04
Dewey code: 796.357092
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Review Big Ed Walsh: The Life and Times of a Spitballing Hall of Famer / McFarland:As a young man living in the Anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, it seemed Ed Walsh's course in life was set. But he emerged from the hardscrabble life of the mines to become one of the Deadball Era's greatest pitchers, winning fame, world championships, and eventually induction to the Hall of Fame. This biography closely describes Walsh's life and 14-year playing career, with special discussion of the spitball, a pitch that profoundly affected his fortunes-and ultimately his arm. The years 1905-1911 are explored in depth, especially his contributions to the 1906 world champion White Sox and his prominent role in the now-famous 1908 pennant race. Chapters are also devoted to his holdout in 1909, the athletic careers of his sons Bob and Ed, and his repeated attempts at comebacks after his arm injury.
Publication date: 2003-01-23
Dewey code: 629
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Review Graham Hill: A Master of Motor Sport / Breedon Books:Graham Hill's career was one of the most remarkable in modern motor racing. It spanned 20 turbulent years in the history of the sport. His first racing cars were the conventional front-engined cars of the 1950s, which were painted in national colors. In his final races, in the 1970s, he drove sophisticated, bewinged rear-engined cars that carried the colors of their commercial sponsors. At his peak in the mid-1960s he was at the forefront of grand prix and sports car racing, competing against the very best drivers of the era - Clark, Surtees, Gurney, Rindt, Stewart. Today his name, along with theirs, evokes one of the classic ages of motor racing. John Tipler's new biography of this determined and popular man recalls the great victories in his long versatile career - his two Formula 1 world championships and 14 grand prix wins and triumph at the Indianapolis 500 and the Le Mans 24 Hours. But he also explores Hill's background and character and shows how his courage and persistence earned him a pre-eminent position as one of the best all-around drivers and outstanding competitors of his day. He also considers Hill's later move from driving to team ownership, a new stage in a tireless career which was so cruelly cut short when he and the principal members of his team were killed in a plane crash in 1975.
Publication date: 2006-09-08
Dewey code: 796
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Review Dialed In - The Jan Opperman Story / Veloce Enterprises, Inc.:We are pleased to announce the VelocePress edition of a book that is acknowledged by many as being a classic auto-racing story. It is filled with passion and pathos, sometimes humorous, sometimes sad. The Jan Opperman Story is one of never giving up and having faith in a divine being. It provides the reader the rare opportunity to peer behind the glamorous facade of auto racing and meet the inner man. The friendship between narrator and author is evident and while much of the book is Jan's own words, John Sawyer has carefully authored them. There is something very special about this book, it almost demands the readers attention and then refuses to let go! From a teenage street fighter, motorcycle flat track racer and California hippie to respected Sprint car driver and Indy 500 racer - Jan Opperman's story is remarkable, entertaining and difficult to put down. Unfortunately, I never got to meet Jan Opperman - I wish I had.
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Comiskey (The Mcfarland Historical Baseball Library, 2), Connie Mack's '29 Triumph: The Rise and Fall of the Philadelphia Athletes Dynasty, Women in Golf: The Players, the History, and the Future of the Sport, Play Ball: Stories of the Diamond Field (McFarland Historical Baseball Library) (Mcfarland Historical Baseball Library), Miracle in Chavez Ravine: The Los Angeles Dodgers in 1988, Sam Langford: Boxing's Greatest Uncrowned Champion, Whitey Ford, Heavenly Twins Of Boston Baseball: A Dual Biography of Hugh Duffy and Tommy Mccarthy, A Fine-Looking Lot of Ball-Tossers: The Remarkable Akrons of 1881, Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators: The War-torn Career of an All-star Shortstop, Smarty Jones: America's Horse, Big Ed Walsh: The Life and Times of a Spitballing Hall of Famer, Graham Hill: A Master of Motor Sport, Dialed In - The Jan Opperman StoryTop headlines: Wholl dress Michelle Obama for inauguration?: Fashion legend Diane von Furstenberg is in the running to make Michelle Obama's Inauguration Day dress. 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