Rowman Littlefield Publishers imprint: 5577 books
Willie Keeler
From the Playgrounds of Brooklyn to the Hall of Fame
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Playing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Willie Keeler is still considered one of baseball’s most accomplished batters in the history of the game. Wee Willie’s popular “Hit ‘em where they ain’t” explanation for his batting success has become part of baseball lore....
Baseball's Roaring Twenties
A Decade of Legends, Characters, and Diamond Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Following the 1919 Black Sox scandal, baseball needed men willing and able to pump life back into the game during tough times. Numerous ballplayers stepped forward and left their mark on the national pastime as it continued to thrive and grow during a decade that became known as the Roaring Twenties,...
Characters from the Diamond
Wild Events, Crazy Antics, and Unique Tales from Early Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Baseball during the late 1800s and the Deadball Era was filled with aggressive, hard-nosed players who had no qualms about exhibiting belligerent behavior while tenaciously achieving victory on the diamond. These unique and eccentric individuals helped the game grow in popularity through their brilliance...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2002
In this sequel to the highly respected and practical 1993 book on fund raising, Worth and his group of authoritative contributors cover areas that did not even exist in this field in 1993, including the concepts of "principal gifts" and "benchmarking." They adapt strategies from...
From Boxing Ring to Battlefield
The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
World champion boxer Lew Jenkins fought his whole life. As a child, he fought extreme poverty during the Great Depression; in his twenties, he fought as a professional boxer and became a world champion; and at the pinnacle of his boxing career, Jenkins fought in World War II and the Korean War.
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A History of NFL Preseason and Exhibition Games
1986 to 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
For fans of professional football who thought they had read everything about the history of the game, Mark L. Ford breaks new ground with this account of the NFL preseason. Described as “test labs” by Ford, preseason games are a time for trying out new strategies, considering future rule changes,...
The Greatest College Football Rivalries of All Time
The Civil War, the Iron Bowl, and Other Memorable Matchups
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
College football is one of the most popular sports in the United States. Fans follow their favorite team with unfailing loyalty, and nowhere do the colors come out more fervently than when rivals face off. These games bring out the passion, the rituals, and even the rage of football fans across the...
Munich 1972
Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling book provides the first comprehensive history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the abduction of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists and the hostages’ tragic deaths after a botched rescue...
Soccer under the Swastika
Stories of Survival and Resistance during the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
In the heart of the twentieth century, the game of soccer was becoming firmly established as the sport of the masses across Europe, even as war was engulfing the continent. Intimately woven into the war was the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, genocide on a scale never seen...
Television Series of the 1970s
Essential Facts and Quirky Details
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Television of the 1970s reflected the shifting attitudes of the nation, as more shows attempted to represent social changes across the country. Edgier programs like All in the Family and M*A*S*H pushed the boundaries of popular programming to become standards of quality viewing. At the same time,...
Walter Lingo, Jim Thorpe, and the Oorang Indians
How a Dog Kennel Owner Created the NFL's Most Famous Traveling Team
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
At the beginning of the Roaring Twenties the NFL was just a footnote within the landscape of American sports. The early pro game was played on dirt fields by vagabond athletes who would beat up or punch out their opponent for fifty dollars a game. But one team was different than the rest: the Oorang...
American Dream Dying
The Changing Economic Lot of the Least Advantaged
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Using recent polling results, this book identifies the core economic components of the American Dream: standard of living, financial security, and upward mobility. The authors document the trend in each of these components over the last thirty years, using figures (trend lines and bar charts) based...
The Retirement Maze
What You Should Know Before and After You Retire
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Millions of baby boomers are just beginning to retire, and in doing so many are likely to run into adjustment problems, such as loss of identity, deterioration of marriage and social life, and feelings of disconnectedness to the world. Studies have found that as many as 40% of retirees have difficulty...
Unchecked and Unbalanced
How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
In Unchecked and Unbalanced, Arnold Kling provides a blueprint for those who are skeptical of political and financial elitism. At the heart of Kling's argument is the growing discrepancy between two phenomena: knowledge is becoming more diffuse, while political power is becoming more concentrated....