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Cleveland Indians Legends

Russell Schneider | Filed under: Black Squirrel Books, New Releases, Regional Interest, Sports
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This beautiful coffee-table book features forty twentieth-century Indians legends, beginning with the era when they were the Cleveland Blues. Schneider has divided the Indians’ history into quartercentury periods, selecting ten players from each as stars of this historic franchise. Illustrator Tom Denny, known for his…

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The Browns Bible

Jonathan Knight | Filed under: Black Squirrel Books, Regional Interest, Sports
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The team has played nearly one thousand games over the past eight decades, and The Browns Bible tells the tale of each one. Through individual game stories and box scores, it encapsulates every victory, every defeat, every touchdown from 1946 to the present. The most…

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Classic Bucs

David Finoli | Filed under: Black Squirrel Books, Classic Sports, New Releases, Regional Interest, Sports
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Until the surprising 2012 campaign, a generation of Steel City baseball fans had hungered for the Pirates to be involved in an actual pennant race, a goal that even the most diehard could not have imagined. There was a time that it wasn’t a far-off…

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Speak English

Rafael Hermoso, and Rita Rivera | Filed under: Black Squirrel Books, New Releases, Photography, Sports
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Speak English! The Rise of Latinos in Baseball chronicles how much— and how little—has changed since the first Latino played in the big leagues in the nineteenth century. By the middle of the next century, the Alous, Vic Power, and Rico Carty worked to earn…

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Connie Mack

Frederick Lieb | Filed under: New Releases, Sports, Writing Sports
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Connie Mack: Grand Old Man of Baseball is filled with intimate glimpses of Mack and of the players he managed over the years. Mack and his teams always gave Athletics fans a great show—and readers can relive the excitement in this facsimile reprint of Frederick…

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The ’63 Steelers

Rudy Dicks | Filed under: New Releases, Sports, Writing Sports
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Author Rudy Dicks recreates the Steelers’ 1963 season game by game and profiles the ragtag squad of rejects, misfits, and scalawags that coach Buddy Parker jury-rigged into a contender. He shows how a group of unsung players banded together to overcome tough breaks, injuries, and…

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You Stink!

Eric J. Wittenberg, and Michael Aubrecht | Filed under: Black Squirrel Books, New Releases, Sports
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There are countless volumes celebrating the best teams in professional baseball. Unfortunately, winning represents only one side of the game. For every champion’s record-setting season, there has been an equally memorable story of defeat. These teams and their shameful contributions to America’s national pastime have…

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