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    Branch Rickey in Pittsburgh: Baseball’s Trailblazing General Manager for the Pirates, 1950-1955

    Andrew O'Toole

    This work focuses on Rickey’s tenure as the general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, from 1950 through 1955. In addition to contemporary accounts, Rickey’s personal correspondence and interoffice memorandums are…

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    Sweet William: The Life of Billy Conn

    Andrew O'Toole

    A tribute to Billy Conn, one of the greatest light heavyweight boxing champions of all time

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    The Best Man Plays: Major League Baseball and the Black Athlete, 1901-2002

    Andrew O'Toole

    Few institutions have better embodied America’s ideals and prejudices than baseball. In this work, the experiences of six African American baseball players from the 1900s to the present day are…

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    Fight for Old DC: George Preston Marshall, the Integration of the Washington Redskins, and the Rise of a New NFL

    Andrew O'Toole

    Using the story of George Preston Marshall’s ownership of the Washington Redskins, and in particular his holdout against the integration of black players, Fight for Old DC chronicles the pivotal…

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    Strangers in the Bronx: DiMaggio, Mantle, and the Changing of the Yankee Guard

    Andrew O'Toole

    Rare is the athlete who captures the imagination of a generation. In Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, sports culture had two such figures. Undoubtedly, DiMaggio and Mantle are two of…

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    Crowd Management: Risk, security and health

    William O'Toole (Events Management Specialist, Events Management Specialist, Sydney, Australia)

    Presents a system for crowd management which integrates security with the other concerns for the health and safety for crowds, looking at the theories and practices of the management processes…

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    Religion and Public Life in New England: Steady Habits Changing Slowly

    Although stoical New Englanders may not be showy about it, religion plays a powerful role in their culture. Examining Catholics and Protestants, as well as Conservative Protestants, African Americans, and…

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    Comparative Public Management: Why National, Environmental, and Organizational Context Matters

    While the field of public management has become increasingly international, research and policy recommendations that work for one country often do not work for another. In this volume, the authors…

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    Comparative Public Management: Why National, Environmental, and Organizational Context Matters

    Shows that scholars must find a better way to account for political, environmental, and organizational contexts to build a more general model of public management. This volume propose a framework…

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