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      Umpires: Classic Baseball Stories from the Men Who Made the Calls

      John C. Skipper

      They are known by a variety of names, many of them unprintable. Like the big league players, they are the very best in their profession and spend years honing their…

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      Take Me Out to the Cubs Game: 35 Former Ballplayers Speak of Losing at Wrigley

      John C. Skipper

      In this book, John Skipper talks with 35 former Chicago Cubs who relive their ball-playing days and speculate on the eternally middling and undeniable popular Northsiders.

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      The Cubs Win the Pennant!: Charlie Grimm, the Billy Goat Curse, and the 1945 World Series Run

      John C. Skipper

      The Cubs’ journey to the National League pennant in 1945 is detailed here. The author interviewed nine surviving members of the 1945 Cubs, including pitchers Erickson, Hank Borowy, Hank Wyse…

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      Dazzy Vance: A Biography of the Brooklyn Dodger Hall of Fame

      John C. Skipper

      Charles Dazzy Vance became known as the strike out king after leading the National League in strikeouts seven years in a row. Although this famed baseball pitcher started with his…

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      The Iowa Caucuses: First Tests of Presidential Aspiration, 1964-2008

      John C. Skipper

      The state of Iowa has become an unexpected and unparalleled proving ground for would-be presidential candidates just starting out on the road to the White House. This book chronicles some…

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      A Biographical Dictionary of Major League Baseball Managers

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      A biographical dictionary that includes entries based on interviews, data and anecdotes from owners, coaches, and players on the more than 600 men who have managed major league teams over…

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      The 1964 Republican Convention: Barry Goldwater and the Beginning of the Conservative Movement

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      Barry Goldwater was a staunch conservative more interested in advancing the conservative cause than running for president. A Draft Goldwater campaign three years in the making catapulted him to the…

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      Frank Robinson: A Baseball Biography

      John C. Skipper

      Frank Robinson was one of the greatest baseball players of the 20th century. He was Rookie of the Year for the Cincinnati Reds, won the Triple Crown in 1966, led…

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      Roosevelt’s Revolt: The 1912 Republican Convention and the Launch of the Bull Moose Party

      John C. Skipper

      The 1912 presidential election is the only one in American history in which candidates included a president, a former president and a future president. This volume offers an analysis of…

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      Showdown at the 1964 Democratic Convention: Lyndon Johnson, Mississippi and Civil Rights

      John C. Skipper

      This volume explores how American politics and the civil rights movement faced head-to-head at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, how the federal government felt compelled…

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      Billy Southworth: A Biography of the Hall of Fame Manager and Ballplayer

      John C. Skipper

      Billy Southworth was the most successful major league baseball manager of the 1940s including the three straight years in which his St. Louis Cardinal teams won more than 100 games…

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      Wicked Curve: The Life and Troubled Times of Grover Cleveland Alexander

      John C. Skipper

      When in 1911 Phillies pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander set the National League record for wins by a rookie (28), it was a sign of things to come. This biography sheds…

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      Charlie Gehringer: A Biography of the Hall of Fame Tigers Second Baseman

      John C. Skipper

      Charlie Gehringer is regarded by many as the best two-strike hitter of all time. This work follows Gehringer’s career from the day a scout spotted him on the sandlots of…

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      Communities and Capital: Local Struggles against Corporate Power and Privatization

      Today there is a growing sense that something is wrong with a system that treats people as mere components of the production process, focusing on efficiency to such extremes that…

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