Product Description: The rowdy adolescence of baseball, told by the game’s first autobiographical umpire.Harry "Steamboat" Johnson brought to early baseball great integrity and a pugnacious stlye. Toughness--being able to "stand the gaff"--was essential during his long career as an umpire...read more

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Product Description: The philosopher Jacques Barzun thought that "whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." And whoever wants to know baseball had better learn about umpires. As Larry Gerlach points out in The Men in Blue, these arbiters transform competitive chaos into organized sport...read more

Product Description: Primarily an examination of the Klan in the 1920's, the book also treats the resurgent contemporary Klan of the seventies and eighties. A fine hardcover copy with bright gilt lettering to spine and cover. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages...read more

An analysis of New Jersey's role in the events leading up to the American Revolution emphasizes the colony's reaction to imperial laws and acts of violence, involvement with neighboring colonies, and position within the imperial administrative scheme