Author: Mark Allen Baker
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614231354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Canastota, New York, at the epicenter of Upstate New York's rich boxing heritage, is home to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Having produced some of boxing's most prominent pugilists, including Carmen Basilio and Billy Backus, the area has also hosted many legendary fighters, including Jack Britton, Harry Greb, Sam Langford and Tommy Ryan. Many boxing dreams have come true here through title fights and epic ring rivalries. Author Mark Allen Baker tells the story of those "thunder gods of the ring" and the fights that made them famous, finally settling the score: Canastota is "Title Town, USA."
Title Town USA
Author: Mark Allen Baker
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614231354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Canastota, New York, at the epicenter of Upstate New York's rich boxing heritage, is home to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Having produced some of boxing's most prominent pugilists, including Carmen Basilio and Billy Backus, the area has also hosted many legendary fighters, including Jack Britton, Harry Greb, Sam Langford and Tommy Ryan. Many boxing dreams have come true here through title fights and epic ring rivalries. Author Mark Allen Baker tells the story of those "thunder gods of the ring" and the fights that made them famous, finally settling the score: Canastota is "Title Town, USA."
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614231354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Canastota, New York, at the epicenter of Upstate New York's rich boxing heritage, is home to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Having produced some of boxing's most prominent pugilists, including Carmen Basilio and Billy Backus, the area has also hosted many legendary fighters, including Jack Britton, Harry Greb, Sam Langford and Tommy Ryan. Many boxing dreams have come true here through title fights and epic ring rivalries. Author Mark Allen Baker tells the story of those "thunder gods of the ring" and the fights that made them famous, finally settling the score: Canastota is "Title Town, USA."
Must Win
Author: Drew Jubera
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250018579
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Must Win chronicles the country's most storied high school football team as it, like the town it represents, tries to regain past glory. Nestled amid cotton, pine, and swamps, the Deep South outpost of Valdosta, Georgia, has long drawn pilgrims from across the country to the home of the Wildcats, the winningest high school football team in America. Christened by national media as "Title Town, USA," Valdosta has thrived on the continuity of dominance: sons still play in front of fathers and grandfathers, creased men in pickups still offer steak dinners as a reward for gridiron glory, and Friday nights in the 11,000-seat stadium known as Death Valley still hold a central role in the town's social fabric. Now that place is in peril. As much as Valdosta is a romantic symbol of traditional American values, things are changing here just as they are in small towns everywhere. In Must Win, author Drew Jubera goes inside the country's most famous high school football team to chronicle its dramatic 2010 season, a quest by a program that's down but not out to regain past glory for both the team and the town it represents. This town, this school, and these people have been rocked by forces that have hit the entire country, but they're a long way from giving up. They still believe in the power of a game to overcome all. With a new coach, a new optimism, and a kaleidoscopic cast that includes an aspiring rapper, a beekeeper's son, the best athlete in the state, and the heir to a pro legacy cut short by a crack dealer's bullet, these Wildcats have been given one more chance. Must Win is the American story written across a bright green playing field.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250018579
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Must Win chronicles the country's most storied high school football team as it, like the town it represents, tries to regain past glory. Nestled amid cotton, pine, and swamps, the Deep South outpost of Valdosta, Georgia, has long drawn pilgrims from across the country to the home of the Wildcats, the winningest high school football team in America. Christened by national media as "Title Town, USA," Valdosta has thrived on the continuity of dominance: sons still play in front of fathers and grandfathers, creased men in pickups still offer steak dinners as a reward for gridiron glory, and Friday nights in the 11,000-seat stadium known as Death Valley still hold a central role in the town's social fabric. Now that place is in peril. As much as Valdosta is a romantic symbol of traditional American values, things are changing here just as they are in small towns everywhere. In Must Win, author Drew Jubera goes inside the country's most famous high school football team to chronicle its dramatic 2010 season, a quest by a program that's down but not out to regain past glory for both the team and the town it represents. This town, this school, and these people have been rocked by forces that have hit the entire country, but they're a long way from giving up. They still believe in the power of a game to overcome all. With a new coach, a new optimism, and a kaleidoscopic cast that includes an aspiring rapper, a beekeeper's son, the best athlete in the state, and the heir to a pro legacy cut short by a crack dealer's bullet, these Wildcats have been given one more chance. Must Win is the American story written across a bright green playing field.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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The United States of America
Author:
Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2631
Book Description
Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2631
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
A Baby Boomer's Guide to Their Second Sixties
Author: Ryan C. Amacher
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 0865348553
Category : Aging
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
While this book was written for male Baby Boomers and their significant others, it also includes Boomer history and what lies ahead as we experience the decade of our own sixties. This story reviews our Boomer luck, recounts the great history of being a kid in the 1950s, and the great opportunities provided by improved education in the 1960s, not to ignore a seemingly mind expanding culture. Turning sixty is not for the faint hearted. There are issues ahead. The first thing we all face is taking care of aging parents or what the author refers to as helping your parents check out. Then there are our own Boomer health issues including cataracts and prostate cancer. You likely think there is nothing funny about these topics but the quirky economist author finds humor in all of our aging experiences. This book covers Boomer issues, all in the context of our Boomer culture. We Boomers thought we would be young forever. Maybe that is why it is so amusing.
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 0865348553
Category : Aging
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
While this book was written for male Baby Boomers and their significant others, it also includes Boomer history and what lies ahead as we experience the decade of our own sixties. This story reviews our Boomer luck, recounts the great history of being a kid in the 1950s, and the great opportunities provided by improved education in the 1960s, not to ignore a seemingly mind expanding culture. Turning sixty is not for the faint hearted. There are issues ahead. The first thing we all face is taking care of aging parents or what the author refers to as helping your parents check out. Then there are our own Boomer health issues including cataracts and prostate cancer. You likely think there is nothing funny about these topics but the quirky economist author finds humor in all of our aging experiences. This book covers Boomer issues, all in the context of our Boomer culture. We Boomers thought we would be young forever. Maybe that is why it is so amusing.
Lion Eyes
Author: Casey Peeler
Publisher: Casey Peeler
ISBN: 1370024487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher: Casey Peeler
ISBN: 1370024487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Great Teams in Pro Football History
Author: Joe Giglio
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781410914903
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Discusses ten of the greatest pro football teams ever and explains what it was that made each one so great.
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781410914903
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Discusses ten of the greatest pro football teams ever and explains what it was that made each one so great.
The Yucks
Author: Jason Vuic
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476772266
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Chronicling the first two seasons of the worst team in NFL history, an entertaining sports story follows the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the 1976 and 1977 seasons in which they cemented their place in football history as having the longest losing streak in the history of the league,"--NoveList.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476772266
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Chronicling the first two seasons of the worst team in NFL history, an entertaining sports story follows the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the 1976 and 1977 seasons in which they cemented their place in football history as having the longest losing streak in the history of the league,"--NoveList.
The Glory of '86
Author: Tom Van Riper
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538175703
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The Glory of ’86 tells the remarkable story of one of the most memorable years ever for sports fans across New England, when the New England Patriots, Boston Celtics, and Boston Red Sox played in the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, and World Series.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538175703
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The Glory of ’86 tells the remarkable story of one of the most memorable years ever for sports fans across New England, when the New England Patriots, Boston Celtics, and Boston Red Sox played in the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, and World Series.