Author: Joel A. Rippel
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873514750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
An illustrated history of the most electrifying, influential, and noteworthy moments in the state's sports history
75 Memorable Moments in Minnesota Sports
Author: Joel A. Rippel
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873514750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
An illustrated history of the most electrifying, influential, and noteworthy moments in the state's sports history
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873514750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
An illustrated history of the most electrifying, influential, and noteworthy moments in the state's sports history
Minnesota Sports Almanac
Author: Joel A. Rippel
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
For athletes, fanatics, and trivia buffs alike, Minnesota's first and only comprehensive sports almanac features 125 glorious years of winning, losing, and playing the game.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
For athletes, fanatics, and trivia buffs alike, Minnesota's first and only comprehensive sports almanac features 125 glorious years of winning, losing, and playing the game.
Minnesota 150
Author: Kate Roberts
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515948
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A fabulous showcase of individuals, events, and inventions that have made Minnesota.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515948
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A fabulous showcase of individuals, events, and inventions that have made Minnesota.
Twin Cities Sports
Author: Sheldon Anderson
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610756789
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The histories in Twin Cities Sports are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The compilation includes a wide range of important studies on the hub of interwar speedskating, the success of Gopher football in the Jim Crow era, the integration of municipal golf courses, the building of a world-renowned park system, the Minneapolis Lakers’ basketball dynasty, the Minnesota Twins’ connections to Cuba, and more.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610756789
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The histories in Twin Cities Sports are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The compilation includes a wide range of important studies on the hub of interwar speedskating, the success of Gopher football in the Jim Crow era, the integration of municipal golf courses, the building of a world-renowned park system, the Minneapolis Lakers’ basketball dynasty, the Minnesota Twins’ connections to Cuba, and more.
Swinging for the Fences
Author: Steven R. Hoffbeck
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515177
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Swinging for the Fences tells the great stories of baseball's past, from establishment of the color line and the early formation of the barnstorming teams to dazzling hits by black heroes that led the Twins to victory over the Cardinals in 1987. Each chapter focuses on one key player and gives readers an intimate look at the national pastime as it has evolved over the last century. These are stories of the bonds that formed between players, of legendary moments in baseball's past, and of real people whose love of the game kept them playing against tough odds. Featured here are Hall of Famers like Willie Mays, Roy Campanella, and Kirby Puckett and great players like Walter Ball, John Wesley Donaldson, and Bud Fowler, who, because of their race, never made the stats books.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515177
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Swinging for the Fences tells the great stories of baseball's past, from establishment of the color line and the early formation of the barnstorming teams to dazzling hits by black heroes that led the Twins to victory over the Cardinals in 1987. Each chapter focuses on one key player and gives readers an intimate look at the national pastime as it has evolved over the last century. These are stories of the bonds that formed between players, of legendary moments in baseball's past, and of real people whose love of the game kept them playing against tough odds. Featured here are Hall of Famers like Willie Mays, Roy Campanella, and Kirby Puckett and great players like Walter Ball, John Wesley Donaldson, and Bud Fowler, who, because of their race, never made the stats books.
Land of 10,000 Aches
Author: Zeke Fuhrman
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 179607263X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Professional sports returned to Minnesota in 1961, a year after one of the most successful pro sports franchises left Minneapolis for Los Angeles in 1960. Since then, a history of last-second losses, historically bad teams, draft busts, missed calls, terrible trades, disappointing playoff runs, blown leads, under-qualified front office staff and coaches and untimely injuries. Yet, this fan base stays loyal. For some reason. 'Land of 10,000 Aches' goes deeper into the most heart-breaking, gut-wrenching, soul-crushing, even-I-could-make-that-field-goal moments in Minnesota sports history with first-hand accounts from players, coaches and fans. Everybody remembers where they were for the good things: the Minneapolis Miracle, Kirby Puckett's Game Six home run. But were you face down in disbelief when Garrett Hartley kicked the Saints to the Super Bowl? Or forced into an emotional fetal position watching the Eagles hang 38 unanswered points on the NFL's best defense? Until names like Sal Bando, Ron Schock, Claude Osteen, Ed Thorp, Gordie Peterkin and Sergei Krivokrasov make your stomach turn, you have a long drop into the doldrums of Minnesota melancholy. This book is your guide down.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 179607263X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Professional sports returned to Minnesota in 1961, a year after one of the most successful pro sports franchises left Minneapolis for Los Angeles in 1960. Since then, a history of last-second losses, historically bad teams, draft busts, missed calls, terrible trades, disappointing playoff runs, blown leads, under-qualified front office staff and coaches and untimely injuries. Yet, this fan base stays loyal. For some reason. 'Land of 10,000 Aches' goes deeper into the most heart-breaking, gut-wrenching, soul-crushing, even-I-could-make-that-field-goal moments in Minnesota sports history with first-hand accounts from players, coaches and fans. Everybody remembers where they were for the good things: the Minneapolis Miracle, Kirby Puckett's Game Six home run. But were you face down in disbelief when Garrett Hartley kicked the Saints to the Super Bowl? Or forced into an emotional fetal position watching the Eagles hang 38 unanswered points on the NFL's best defense? Until names like Sal Bando, Ron Schock, Claude Osteen, Ed Thorp, Gordie Peterkin and Sergei Krivokrasov make your stomach turn, you have a long drop into the doldrums of Minnesota melancholy. This book is your guide down.
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Minnesota Twins
Author: Steve Aschburner
Publisher: Triumph Books
ISBN: 161749142X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Minnesota Twins documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertaining—and unsparing—fashion, this book sparkles with Twins highlights and lowlights, from wonderful and wacky memories to the famous and infamous. Such moments include the World Championships of 1987 and 1991 and the miraculous years when Bud Selig almost contracted the franchise, as well as the outrageous number of losses by Terry Felton and when manager Billy Martin punched out his starting pitcher in 1969. Whether providing fond memories, goose bumps, or laughs, this portrait of the team is sure to appeal to the fan who has been through it all.
Publisher: Triumph Books
ISBN: 161749142X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Minnesota Twins documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertaining—and unsparing—fashion, this book sparkles with Twins highlights and lowlights, from wonderful and wacky memories to the famous and infamous. Such moments include the World Championships of 1987 and 1991 and the miraculous years when Bud Selig almost contracted the franchise, as well as the outrageous number of losses by Terry Felton and when manager Billy Martin punched out his starting pitcher in 1969. Whether providing fond memories, goose bumps, or laughs, this portrait of the team is sure to appeal to the fan who has been through it all.
The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed.
Author: Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476617449
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America's culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues' decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476617449
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America's culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues' decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.
Proceedings
Author: North American Society for Sport History
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physical education and training
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physical education and training
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Gophers Illustrated
Author: Al Pāpas
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081666756X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
"Earlier versions of some of the content of this book were published as Gopher Sketchbook by Nodin Press in 1990"--T.p. verso.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081666756X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
"Earlier versions of some of the content of this book were published as Gopher Sketchbook by Nodin Press in 1990"--T.p. verso.