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The Miracle Braves 1914-1916

Product Description: The story of the "Miracle" Braves is one of the most memorable in baseball history, but less well known is what the club did after that spectacular season. In 1915, they were strong contenders for the National League pennant, and almost won it again in 1916...read more

By Charles C. Alexander

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9780786474240, titled "The Miracle Braves, 1914-1916" | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, February 11, 2015, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The story of the "Miracle" Braves is one of the most memorable in baseball history, but less well known is what the club did after that spectacular season.

The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest

Product Description: This is a study of a disturbing phenomenon in American societyâthe Ku Klux Klanâand that eruption of nativism, racism and moral authoritarianism during the 1920s in the four states of the SouthwestâTexas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansasâin which the Klan became especially powerful...read more

By Charles C. Alexander

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9780813151045 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, July 7, 2014), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This is a study of a disturbing phenomenon in American societyâthe Ku Klux Klanâand that eruption of nativism, racism and moral authoritarianism during the 1920s in the four states of the SouthwestâTexas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansasâin which the Klan became especially powerful.

9780806127767 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Alexander, Charles C.

9780835797894 | Umi Research Pr, June 1, 1965, cover price $94.30 | About this edition: This is a study of a disturbing phenomenon in American societyâthe Ku Klux Klanâand that eruption of nativism, racism and moral authoritarianism during the 1920s in the four states of the SouthwestâTexas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansasâin which the Klan became especially powerful.

The Chalmers Race: Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title That Became a National Obsession

By Charles C. Alexander (foreword by)

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Hardcover:

9780803271821 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, April 1, 2014, cover price $29.95

Our Game: An American Baseball History: Library Edition

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Grover Gardner] This entertaining history blends anecdote, incident, and analysis as it chronicles the story of our national pastime. Alexander covers the advent of the first professional baseball leagues, the game's surge in the early twentieth century, the Golden Twenties and the Gray Thirties, the breaking of the color line in the late forties, and the game's expansion to its current status as the premier team sport...read more

By Charles C. Alexander and Grover Gardner (narrator)

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CD/Spoken Word:

9781455136018 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 20, 2012), cover price $109.00 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.

9781455136124 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 20, 2012), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.

1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York

By Charles C. Alexander (foreword by)

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9780803220607 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, April 1, 2010, cover price $31.95

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9780803239999 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, March 1, 2012, cover price $24.95

Turbulent Seasons: Baseball in 1890-1891

Product Description: This is the first book to examine in close detail the 1890 and 1891 major-league seasons, recapturing a colorful era in early baseball history when club owners quarreled, players berated umpires, sportswriters criticized and ridiculed both owners and players, and the National Game, as it was universally called, made halting progress toward the sport and business it became in the twentieth century...read more

By Charles C. Alexander

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9780870745720 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 27, 2011, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This is the first book to examine in close detail the 1890 and 1891 major-league seasons, recapturing a colorful era in early baseball history when club owners quarreled, players berated umpires, sportswriters criticized and ridiculed both owners and players, and the National Game, as it was universally called, made halting progress toward the sport and business it became in the twentieth century.

This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury

By Charles C. Alexander, James M. Grimwood and Loyd S. Swenson, Jr.

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9781934941874 | Lightning Source Inc, April 30, 2010, cover price $18.99

Spoke: A Biography of Tris Speaker

Product Description: Charles C. Alexander's fact-filled biography of Tris Speaker chronicles the twenty-two-year career of arguably the greatest centerfielder ever to play the position. It follows the colorful ballplayer through his years with the Boston Red Sox, the Cleveland Indians, the Washington Senators, and the Philadelphia Athletics, and on into his later years as manager of a professional ball club and promoter of the national pastime...read more

By Charles C. Alexander

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9780870745171 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 30, 2007, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Charles C.

Ty Cobb

Portrays the life and personality of Ty Cobb and describes the development of his career as a baseball player

By Charles C. Alexander

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9780195034141 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 5, 1984, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Portrays the life and personality of Ty Cobb and describes the development of his career as a baseball player

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9780870745096 | Southern Methodist Univ Pr, June 15, 2006, cover price $17.95

9780195035988 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 16, 1985), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Portrays the life and personality of Ty Cobb and describes the development of his career as a baseball player

Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era

Product Description: Baseball, Sports, American Studies

By Charles C. Alexander

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9780231113427 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $75.50 | About this edition: In the 1930s, despite the ravages of the Great Depression, professional baseball remained the king of American sports in terms of both spectators and participants.

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9780231113434 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Baseball, Sports, American Studies

Our Game: An American Baseball History, Library Edition

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Grover Gardner] This entertaining history blends anecdote, incident, and analysis as it chronicles the story of our national pastime. Alexander covers the advent of the first professional baseball leagues, the game's surge in the early twentieth century, the Golden Twenties and the Gray Thirties, the breaking of the color line in the late forties, and the game's expansion to its current status as the premier team sport...read more

By Charles C. Alexander and Tom Parker (narrator)

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786113668 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2000), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.

Rogers Hornsby

By Charles C. Alexander and Ian Esmo (narrator)

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9780786113798 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1998), cover price $62.95

Our Game: An American Baseball History

By Charles C. Alexander

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Hardcover:

9781567311303 | Fine Communications, February 1, 1997, cover price $9.98 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.

9780805015942 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1991, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Surveys the history of baseball, describes its evolution as a game, a sport, and a business, and looks at what it reveals about American culture

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9780805020946 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1992), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Surveys the history of baseball, describes its evolution as a game, a sport, and a business, and looks at what it reveals about American culture

Rogers Hornsby: A Biography

Product Description: A relentless competitor, Roger Hornsby--arguably the finest right-handed hitter in baseball's history--was supremely successful on the baseball field but, in many ways, a failure off it. Alexander turns his skilled eye to this complex individual, weaving the stories of his personal and professional life with a lively history of the sport...read more

By Charles C. Alexander

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9780805020021 | Henry Holt & Co, July 1, 1995, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A profile of the legendary baseball player, manager, and instructor contrasts his extraordinarily successful sports career with his complex, sometimes turbulent personal life and analyzes Hornsby's seminal role in the history of professional baseball

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9780805046977 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A relentless competitor, Roger Hornsby--arguably the finest right-handed hitter in baseball's history--was supremely successful on the baseball field but, in many ways, a failure off it.

John McGraw

Traces the life and career of the McGraw, who, for thirty years, managed the New York Giants and discusses his influence on professional baseball

By Charles C. Alexander

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9780670807307 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Traces the life and career of the McGraw, who, for thirty years, managed the New York Giants and discusses his influence on professional baseball

Paperback:

9780803259256 | Reprint edition (Univ of Nebraska Pr, March 1, 1995), cover price $29.95

9780140096002 | Penguin USA, March 1, 1989, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Traces the life and career of the McGraw, who, for thirty years, managed the New York Giants and discusses his influence on professional baseball

Here the Country Lies Nationalism and the Arts

Product Description: American Studies, Arts

By Charles C. Alexander

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9780253155443 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 1980, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: American Studies, Arts

Holding the Line: The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1961

Product Description: Alexander sees the characteristic feature of the Eisenhower era as an effort to "hold the line"âagainst Communism, against big government, against intellectual challenge, against disruptive social change. The period 1952-1961 is examined in trenchant detail by the author, who focuses on domestic politics and foreign policy but also examines economic, social, intellectual, and cultural aspects of the period...read more

By Charles C. Alexander

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9780253328403 | Indiana Univ Pr, April 1, 1975, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Summarizes and interprets the administration of foreign and domestic affairs giving equal attention to positive and negative aspects of the period

Paperback:

9780253201935 | 5th edition (Indiana Univ Pr, January 1, 1976), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Alexander sees the characteristic feature of the Eisenhower era as an effort to "hold the line"âagainst Communism, against big government, against intellectual challenge, against disruptive social change.

9789990248067 | Indiana Univ Pr, January 1, 1976, cover price $5.39

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