Cracking Baseball S Cold Cases

Author : Peter Morris
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786475452

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Cracking Baseball's Cold Cases by Peter Morris Pdf

This book is the result of one man's twenty-year quest to solve some of baseball's most enduring mysteries--the "cold cases" of major leaguers about whom virtually nothing is known. (In many instances, the various baseball encyclopedias list only their names and one other word: "deceased.") Some of these mysterious players had negligible professional careers and their time on a major league diamond was more the result of good fortune than anything else; others were stars in their day and then vanished. The Biographical Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research is committed to finding them and award-winning researcher Peter Morris tells the story of some of the most remarkable of the searches that resulted, many of which featured twists so surprising no mystery writer could have invented them.

Author : Peter Morris
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476603315

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Cracking Baseball's Cold Cases by Peter Morris Pdf

This book is the result of one man's twenty-year quest to solve some of baseball's most enduring mysteries--the "cold cases" of major leaguers about whom virtually nothing is known. (In many instances, the various baseball encyclopedias list only their names and one other word: "deceased.") Some of these mysterious players had negligible professional careers and their time on a major league diamond was more the result of good fortune than anything else; others were stars in their day and then vanished. The Biographical Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research is committed to finding them and award-winning researcher Peter Morris tells the story of some of the most remarkable of the searches that resulted, many of which featured twists so surprising no mystery writer could have invented them.

Author : Rochelle Llewelyn Nicholls
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476615318

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Joe Quinn Among the Rowdies by Rochelle Llewelyn Nicholls Pdf

"A gentleman when the game was hard-bitten, played by rough-and-ready lads out to win whatever the cost...." Australia had few sporting heroes in the years preceding its federation in 1901. But before its 20th-century Olympic trailblazers, and Depression-era icons such as Phar Lap and Don Bradman, came an Australian sporting pioneer who was celebrated on the most glamorous stage in the world--American major league baseball. Joe Quinn's story has long been lost in the land of his birth. This tale gallops from the deprivation of famine-ravaged Ireland through colonial Australia to the raucous ballfields of 19th-century America, with their unruly players and owners, brawls and adulation and backroom betrayals. Through 17 seasons in the major leagues, "Undertaker" Joe Quinn earned his place among the colorful characters who pioneered the modern game of baseball, as much for his ability to stand apart from their bad behavior as for his steadfastness on the field. Meet Australia's first professional baseball player and manager, whose willingness to "have a go" in the grand Australian tradition will live long in the minds of sports fans on both sides of the Pacific.

Author : Eddie Rollins
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493152452

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AN OLD COOT'S ESSAYS ABOUT AN EARLIER GEORGIA AND OTHER TOPICS by Eddie Rollins Pdf

Since the middle of the twentieth century, Atlanta has risen from a city of the Old South to a great international city with major league sports teams and one of the world's busiest airports. However, in the process, Atlanta has lost its quaint old Southern charm. The South had an opportunity to win its independence in the War between the States as late as 1864, but its Confederate leaders blew it. Abraham Lincoln was a great man and a great statesman but a poor commander in chief, as evidenced by the excessive length of time required to win the Civil War and the huge number of casualties. The lynching of Leo Frank was one of the terrible tragedies in Atlanta history, but he was not another innocent Alfred Dreyfus. The United States reached its peak of power and influence during World War II and the Cold War. Future historians will chart the beginning of the decline and fall of our country with the advent of the decadent baby boomer generation.

Author : New Mexico. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UCAL:B5030450

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Report of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of the State of New Mexico by New Mexico. Supreme Court Pdf

Author : Mark Bowden
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780802147318

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The Last Stone by Mark Bowden Pdf

The true story of a cold case, a compulsive liar, and five determined detectives, from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author and “master journalist” (The Wall Street Journal). On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, ages ten and twelve, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, DC As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and the mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective found something he and a generation of detectives had missed. It pointed them toward a man named Lloyd Welch, then serving time for child molestation in Delaware. The acclaimed author of Black Hawk Down and Hue 1968 had been a cub reporter for a Baltimore newspaper at the time of the original disappearance, and covered the frantic first weeks of the story. In The Last Stone, he returns to write its ending. Over months of intense questioning and extensive investigation of Welch’s sprawling, sinister Appalachian clan, five skilled detectives learned to sift truth from determined lies. How do you get a compulsive liar with every reason in the world to lie to tell the truth? The Last Stone recounts a masterpiece of criminal interrogation, and delivers a chilling and unprecedented look inside a disturbing criminal mind. “One of our best writers of muscular nonfiction.” —The Denver Post “Deeply unsettling . . . Bowden displays his tenacity as a reporter in his meticulous documentation of the case. But in the story of an unimaginably horrific crime, it’s the detectives’ unwavering determination to bring Welch to justice that offers a glimmer of hope on a long, dark journey.” —Time

Author : Shirlee McCoy
Publisher : Harlequin Treasury-Love Inspired 90s
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373443307

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Cold Case Murder by Shirlee McCoy Pdf

Novice FBI agent Jodie Gilmore reluctantly returns to her hometown to investigate a missing-persons case, only to uncover a decades-old double homicide. Forensic anthropologist Harrison Cahill thinks Jodie knows more than she's saying. But speaking freely could be deadly. Original.

Author : Briton Hadden,Henry R. Luce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Current events
ISBN : UOM:39015072682944

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Time by Briton Hadden,Henry R. Luce Pdf

Author : Philip Gourevitch
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-10
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781429981101

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A Cold Case by Philip Gourevitch Pdf

A tale of crime and punishment from a prizewinning writer. A few years ago, Andy Rosenzweig, an inspector for the Manhattan District Attorney's office, was abruptly reminded of an old, unsolved double homicide. It bothered him that Frankie Koehler, the notoriously dangerous suspect, had eluded capture and was still at large. Rosenzweig had known the victims of the crime, for they were childhood friends from the South Bronx: Richie Glennon, a Runyonesque ex-prizefighter at home with both cops and criminals, and Pete McGinn, a spirited restaurateur and father of four. Rosenzweig resolved to find the killer and close the case. In a surprising, intensely dramatic narrative, Philip Gourevitch brings together the story of Rosenzweig's pursuit with a mesmerizing account of Koehler's criminal personality and years on the lam. A Cold Case carries us deep into the lives and minds, the passions and perplexities, of an extraordinary cop and an extraordinary criminal whose lives were entwined over three decades. Set in a New York City that has all but disappeared, and written with a keen ear for the vibrant idiom of the colorful men and women who peopled its streets, this is nonetheless a book for our times. Gourevitch masterfully transforms a criminal investigation into a searching literary reckoning with the forces that drive one man to murder and another to hunt murderers."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2632380

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The Cornell Alumni News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1414 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Baking
ISBN : NYPL:33433008164877

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The Cracker Baker by Anonim Pdf

Author : Italo Ferrero,Giorgio Anglesio
Publisher : Ugo Mursia Editore
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015024784517

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American English by Italo Ferrero,Giorgio Anglesio Pdf

Author : Erich Goode
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991-12
Category : Alcohol
ISBN : CORNELL:31924052083759

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Annual Editions by Erich Goode Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : NYPL:33433014784411

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To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rudolph John Bodmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Civilization
ISBN : WISC:89094764826

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The Book of Wonders by Rudolph John Bodmer Pdf