Outsiders
Minor League and Independent Football
1923-1950
by Bob Gill with Tod Maher
List Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-878282-45-3
Minor league and independent teams flourished during the first three decades of the NFL’s existence, some of their players capable of competing successfully with established major leaguers.
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Minor League and
Independent Football
1951-1985
by Bob Gill
with Tod Maher & Steve Brainerd
List Price: $47.50
ISBN: 978-1-878282-65-1
Minor league and independent teams flourished during the first three decades of the NFL’s existence, some of their players capable of competing successfully with established major leaguers. Teams such as the Salinas Packers, Wilmington Clippers, Milwaukee Chiefs, Paterson Panthers, Ironton Tanks, Los Angeles Wildcats, to list but a few.
read moreThe Brooklyn Football Dodgers
The Other “Bums”
by Roger A. Godin
List Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-878282-29-3
The Brooklyn football Dodgers have long been forgotten except by the most ardent fans. This volume brings to life the history of the teams that played in the National Football League and in the All-American Football Conference—the other “Bums.”
read moreRed, White and Blue on Ice
Minnesota’s Elite Teams and Players of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s
by Roger A. Godin
Foreword by Reed Larson
List Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-1-878282-62-0
Minnesota, the State of Hockey, leads the nation in its devotion to Canada’s national game. Over 6400 players have played in the National Hockey League (NHL) since its inception with the 1917-1918 season. Minnesota outpaces Massachusetts and Michigan as the top producer of American talent of the NHL.
read moreHockey’s Historic Highlights
by Glen Goodhand
List Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-1-878282-63-7
No one has written more about the on-ice and off-ice heroics of the sport of hockey, its players, management, or fans than Glen Goodhand.
read moreBasic Ball
New approaches for determining
the greatest baseball, football, and basketball players of all-time
by Dave Heeren & Pete Palmer
List Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-878282-76-7
Two of the best-known statisticians in American sports combine their efforts to explain the most effective statistical methods for analyzing and rating players and teams in baseball, football, and basketball. They introduce in this book new theories and formulas to analyze American’s favorite sports at the basic level.
read moreSo Many Seasons in the Sun
A Century and More of
Conversations with Baseball’s
Greatest Clubhouse Managers
by Lawrence D. Hogan
Foreword by Frank Deford
List Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-937943-02-8
So Many Seasons In the Sun is the untold history of baseball as seen in the story of the major leagues’ two most historically important teams told from the vantage point of the game’s ultimate insiders, Fred and Ed Logan, Pete Sheehy, and Mike Murphy. These four legendary clubhouse men are at the center of So Many Seasons In The Sun.
read moreNorth American Soccer League Encyclopedia
by Colin Jose
List Price: $29.95 (Paper), $39.95 (Hard Cover)
ISBN: 978-1-878282-25-5 (Paper),
ISBN: 978-1-878282-26-2 (Hard Cover)
It is hard to imagine that the United States could have become a major world power in soccer—in both men’s and women’s international competition—had it not been for the impact that the North American Soccer League had on the nation.
read moreShooting Threes and Shaking the Basketball Establishment
The Short, Chaotic Run
of the American Basketball League
by Bob Lieb
List Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-937943-16-5
It has been slightly more than 50 years since the inaugural season of the American Basketball League (ABL). The league was built by Abe Saperstein, the founder and owner of the Harlem Globetrotters, and it began its brief run during the 1961-1962 basketball season.
read moreWorld Football League Encyclopedia
by Tod Maher & Mark Speck
List Price: $29.95 (Paper), $39.95 (Hard Cover)
ISBN: 978-1-878282-40-8 (Paper),
ISBN: 978-1-878282-41-5 (Hard Cover)
Although it lasted less than two years (1974-1975), the World Football League left few records of the teams and player achievements.
read moreNegro Baseball…Before Integration
by Effa Manley & Leon Herbert Hardwick
List Price: $19.95 (Paper), $29.95 (Hard Cover)
ISBN: 978-1-878282-43-9 (Paper)
ISBN: 978-1-878282-44-6 (Hard Cover)
Since its publication in 1976, Negro Baseball has been an indispensable source of information for historians and fans interested in reconstructing black America’s baseball past. Effa Manley’s ability to set her story within a broader social and cultural context has made her work much more than a baseball book.
read moreBehind the Bench
A Biographical Directory of Professional
Hockey Coaches since 1904
by Jeff Marcus
List Price: Paper – $37.50
Hardcover – $47.50
Paper ISBN: 978-1-878282-59-0
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-878282-60-6 $47.50
Although hockey’s origins are still very much subject to debate, nearly every hockey historian agrees that the first professional hockey league was basically in the United States. The league (the International Hockey League), was organized in 1904 by Dr. J. L. (Doc) Gibson and had five teams, four in the United States and one in Canada on the border.
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