Product Description: The Giants' accomplishments took place against an historical backdrop of a change in the African-American experience. The original players from Jacksonville, Florida, joined the northward black migration during World War I. The team was named after Harry Bacharach--an Atlantic City politician running for mayor--as a way to keep his name before the city's black community...read more

Product Description: This text gives readers the chance to experience the unique character and personalities of the African American game of baseball in the United States, starting from the time of slavery, through the Negro Leagues and integration period, and beyond...read more

'This book tells the story of the thousands of Black professional baseball players whose talents were played out in the undiscovered world of the Negro leagues during the twentieth century. Chapter One introduces the swamplands of Florida where two teamsof Negro athletes began to gain national attention for their performances in Palm Beach'--Provided by publisher.

An illustrated history honoring Negro League baseball and its remarkable players brings together historical anecdotes, biographical essays, archival photographs, and other artifacts that pay tribute to the players and teams that transformed American sports culture, from the nineteenth century to the integration of the Major Leagues in 1947. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Product Description: Monte Irvin, a New York Giants star player who got his start in the Negro Leagues, pays homage to baseball's unsung heroes and long-forgotten stars by selecting the top five players at each position and the top five managers, owners, pioneers, or organizers from the Negro Leagues...read more

To retain their usefulness, cultures that manufacture economically valuable products must be uncontaminated, viable, and genetically stable. Maintaining Cultures for Biotechnology and Industry gives practical advice necessary to preserve and maintain cells and microorganisms important to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries in ways that ensure they will continue to be able to synthesize those valuable metabolites. This book covers not just those strains currently being used but also those yet to be discovered and engineered.This text is essential for anyone working with cultures who wants to avoid the frustration of losing strains and needs to be able to devise and evaluate new strategies for preservation.Written by hands-on experts in their respective fieldsContains helpful tables and protocols for preserving or maintaining cells, cultures and virusesDiscusses means to preserve cells by freezing, lyophilization, drying, cyoprotection, spore storage, continuous propagation and subculturing when absolutely necessary, and othersGives information needed to test cultures for stable retention of important characteristicsGives principles needed to devise and evaluate preservation strategies for newly identified and newly engineered cells and organismsLists culture sources for each class of organismIncludes information for characterizing and monitoring recombinant organisms, especially important because of their propensity for genetic stabilityDiscusses the history of the continually evolving field of culture preservationExamines the importance of genetically stable cultures as it relates to maintaining patent positions

Product Description: The 1971 Pirates of Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Bill Mazeroski, Dock Ellis, and Steve Blass are among my all-time favorite teams, and their spectacular World Series win over the Orioles of Earl Weaver, Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson, Jim Palmer, and Dave McNally is one of the great baseball upsets of the postwar era...read more

'This book is a chronological history of the semi-professional ManDak organization, which was launched during the era called the Golden Age of Baseball. It began in January 1950 and the name Manitoba-Dakota Baseball League was soon shortened to the ManDak League. Stadiums, officials, lineups, managers, and other elements are detailed to set the stage. The book concludes with the debate over how the league would be classified by today's standards'--Provided by publisher.

Traces the history of segregation in major league baseball, looks at the Negro Leagues, and recounts how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1946

Product Description: To retain their usefulness, cultures that manufacture economically valuable products must be uncontaminated, viable, and genetically stable. Maintaining Cultures for Biotechnology and Industry gives practical advice necessary to preserve and maintain cells and microorganisms important to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries in ways that ensure they will continue to be able to synthesize those valuable metabolites...read more

Product Description: The story of the great Negro League baseball franchise, the Pittsburgh Crawfords.