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Mustaches and Mayhem: Charlie O's Three Time Champions
In modern baseball history, only one team not named the New York Yankees has ever won three consecutive World Series. That team was the Oakland Athletics, who captured major league baseball’s crown each year from 1972 through 1974. Led by such superstars as future Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter and Rollie Fingers, in the final years before free agency and the movement of playersfrom one team to another forever changed the game, the Athletics were a largely homegrown aggregate of players who joined the organization when the team called Kansas City its home, developed as teammates in the minor leagues, and came of age together in Oakland. But it was the way in which they did i...
Forty-Seven Straight
Football tradition at the University of Oklahoma still runs strong, as does the record of forty-seven consecutive victories that legendary coach Bud Wilkinson and his players set in the 1950s. Approached but never equaled by teams such as Washington, Miami, and Texas, the streak contributed to the acclaim Wilkinson garnered by amassing an impressive three national championships (1950, 1955, and 1956), twelve consecutive conference titles, twenty-three straight wins on opposing fields, Top Ten rankings for eleven successive years, and a thirty-one game winning streak before the unforgettable “forty-seven straight.” Forty-seven Straight details how the record grew, season by season, as told by sixty-one of Wilkinson’s players during interviews with Harold Keith, the university’s sports publicist who witnessed all 178 football games during the Wilkinson era at OU. The players recall Wilkinson’s and his staff’s style, methods, and strategies while vividly recalling their most dramatic games. The scholastic integrity of Wilkinson’s program, which included high academic standards and graduation rates, produced a successful group of career-minded players.
Power Pro Man
The book follows a young US Air Force enlisted Airman from 1965 to 1969 through basic training, technical school and to his assignments supplying electricity to remote radar and communications bases in SE Asia The Philippines, Viet Nam, Oregon and North Dakota with mobile and stationary electrical generators. In addition, personal stories including places visited, people met, and relationships developed are described; some humorous, some sad, some loving and some dangerous.
Falcon on the Tower
Based on real events! The year is 2008 - the wealthy live in the clouds of the "Skytropolis" Dubai, never imagining that far below the utopia, 1,000,000 laborers toil away in the repressive heat, constructing the tallest skyscrapers ever, & are being systematically brainwashed, turned into an army of fanatics. The goal is an Islamic empire and the ruin of the West. Falcon On The Tower delivers the genre of Geopolitical Thriller with a fast paced, page turning plot, and Navy Captain Bryan Craig is the hero. Bryan heads up Pegasus, a UK based counter-terrorism team financially tracking the Islamic fanatics. What are the ramifications as the new face of Islam is uncovered? Along the way, Bryan retraces footsteps of an old British Empire, discovering clues to what may be planned, before a climatic, plot twisting, and chilling ending. Falcon On The Tower is insightful and thought provoking; a fresh look at a conflict centuries old.
Year of the Tiger
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After Midnight
As a child, Jessica Blackwell and her mother were escorted out of Valpariso, Florida, by the sheriff. Jessica is confident the past is behind her, until Sheriff Steve draws her into his investigation of several mysterious deaths.
Equal Rights 1970
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Der Krieg in der amerikanischen Literatur
Hat Amerika eine andere Auffassung vom Krieg als Europa? Eine mögliche Antwort darauf ergibt sich aus der Analyse der nordamerikanischen Kriegsliteratur. Die gesellschaftliche Haltung zur Gewalt entwickelt sich parallel zu ihrer Darstellung in Büchern und Gedichten. Autoren und Leser beeinflussen sich wechselseitig und pflegen und bewahren das kulturelle Erbe Amerikas, das seit den Pilgervätern Gewaltakzeptanz beinhaltet. Die Arbeit untersucht alle Formen der nordamerikanischen Kriegsprosa und -lyrik, auch und gerade sogenannte Populärliteratur. Sie geht chronologisch von Krieg zu Krieg vor. Dabei wird neben den kontemporären Werken auch auf in späteren Epochen erschienene eingegangen. Extrakapitel werden Comic, Allotopie, Frauen- und Minoritätenliteratur gewidmet. Die Existenz amerikanischer Antikriegsliteratur wird hinterfragt, die Affinität der Amerikaner zu Heldentum wird beleuchtet. Am Schluss wird eine Aussage zur Unwahrscheinlichkeit der Abkehr der USA von der Neigung zu gewaltsamen Interventionen getroffen.
The Ballplayers
Contains over five thousand biographies of players, managers, and other baseball personalities and the histories of teams, leagues, and stadiums.
