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Odyssey of Texas Ranger James Callahan, The
James Callahan entered Texas armed, a quixotic young man enlisted in the Georgia Battalion for the cause of independence. He barely survived the 1836 Battle of Refugio and the Goliad Massacre. Undaunted by the perils of his adopted home, he remained in the line of fire for the next twenty-one years, fighting to protect Texas settlers from Apaches, Comanches, Seminoles, Kickapoos, outlaws, mavericks and the Mexican army. As a Texas Ranger, he rode with the legendary men of Seguin and San Antonio. In 1855, he commanded the punitive expedition into Mexico that bears his name, a fiasco that has been shrouded by mystery and shadowed by controversy ever since. In this first-ever biography, Joseph Luther traces the tragic course of the wayfarer who crossed so much of the Texas frontier and created so much of its story.
Mask of Connor
Mask of Connor is an informative and exciting fictional tale of the 1930s in remote Appalachia. The pragmatism of the thrilling scenario has been well researched and documented. The long misunderstood main character, Connor, leads the reader and his family on an enchanting yet bewildering trail of contradictions. Today’s research might even diagnose him as psychopathic. Connor is never boring as he manipulates his kin in a fairly lawless society with his cunning, unpredictability, and lack of empathy. He provides love, confusion, and hatred from his long anticipated and laborious birth to illicit moon shining, daring robberies, multiple incarcerations, and exciting chases until an unexpected and final demise.
Mike Donlin
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Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol. 7
BACK ISSUE Base Ball is a peer-reviewed book series published annually. Offering the best in original research and analysis, it promotes study of baseball’s early history, from its protoball roots to 1920, and its rise to prominence within American popular culture. Prior to Volume 10, Base Ball was published as Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game. This is a back issue of that journal.
A Heated Touch of Action
Seriously, is it really so bad when a love expert doesn’t believe in love? Psychology professor Bel Cutler has never been lucky when it came to matters of the heart. Professionally, she’s determined to master it with her new project. Her first order of business: find a photographer to capture the magic. But the only one willing to work within her budget is the last man she’d ever stake her future on... let alone trust with her heart. Struggling photographer, Jimmy Callahan knows trouble when he sees it. Which is why, when he takes one look at Bel, he should run the other way. Only, she’s just the kind of laced up woman he likes to unravel. Old Jimmy would offer to teach the professor...
James T. Farrell and Baseball
James T. Farrell and Baseball is a social history of baseball on Chicago’s South Side, drawing on the writings of novelist James T. Farrell along with historical sources. Charles DeMotte shows how baseball in the early decades of the twentieth century developed on all levels and in all areas of Chicago, America’s second largest city at the time, and how that growth intertwined with Farrell’s development as a fan and a writer who used baseball as one of the major themes of his work. DeMotte goes beyond Farrell’s literary focus to tell a larger story about baseball on Chicago’s South Side during this time—when Charles Comiskey’s White Sox won two World Series and were part of a rich baseball culture that was widely played at the amateur, semipro, and black ball levels. DeMotte highlights the 1919–20 Black Sox fix and scandal, which traumatized not only Farrell and Chicago but also baseball and the broader culture. By tying Farrell’s fictional and nonfictional works to Chicago’s vibrant baseball history, this book fills an important gap in the history of baseball during the Deadball Era.
Unruly
He's the Schizophrenic sociopath you'd all hate to love. B The everyday world became a nuisance to him. He really wanted to be a happy man, but one thing after another, things were getting worse. Then the situation turned sour. B The world was out to get him, and he knew it, too. But that's okay. Ben McCool had his own way of dealing with things. Now he's going to blacken the eyes and break the bones of poseurs, scumbags, yuppies, loudmouths, and tough guys, just to name a few. He'll hunt down the wannabe street racers, and smash them into oblivion with his rusty Oldsmobile. He'll thrash petty criminals with any tool he could find. He'll chase away mouthy young women with his chainsaw, and he'll make a mess out of just plain ol' ignorant folks. He's going to get them all, one by one, until they decide to show a little respect for a working-class gentleman. Because for Ben, it was only playtime. As the alcohol flows, blood spills, bullets fly and tires burn, Ben's going to put a warmth in his heart and a smile on his face-- no matter how much he has to destroy to do so, in this twisted, violent, rude, sometimes funny, yet outright disturbing "cynical soap opera from hell."
The Days of Wee Willie, Old Cy and Baseball War
This account of the four baseball seasons of 1900 through 1903 seeks to capture the flavor of the period by providing yearly overviews from the standpoint of each team and by focusing more deeply on 30 or more players of the era—not only such legendary stars as Cy Young and Willie Keeler, but also relative unknowns such as Bill Keister and Kip Selbach. Each team section is supplemented by a table providing the significant batting and pitching statistics for each regular team member. The major theme of the period was the baseball war between the National and American leagues from 1900 to 1903. But the broad multi-season, multi-team view allows varying the focus. The pennant races receive due attention but there are other aspects of the baseball drama, such as: the aging star who finds a way to extend his period of dominance (Cy Young); the young, unpolished phenom whose raw talent enables him to excel (Christy Mathewson); and the fierce competitor who risks injury to help his team (Joe McGinnity or Deacon Phillippe).
