An exploration of the history, development, marketing, and appeal of American stock car racing traces the sport's evolution from moonshine runners all the way to today's multimillion dollar racing circuit, profiling some of the sport's great personalities

American Zoom: Stock Car Racing - From the Dirt Tracks to Daytona

Sports & Outdoors

Golenbock, Peter

Miscellaneous

Macmillan General* Reference

A noted sportswriter takes a look at the homegrown American history of stock car racing, tracing the sport's evolution from moonshine runners to the multimillion-dollar Winston Cup circuit

American Zoom: Stock Car Racing-From the Dirt Tracks to Daytona

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Drawing on in-depth interviews with friends and family members, a personal look at NASCAR racing chronicles the story of the men who risked and lost their lives competing in the sport, including such legends as Curtis Truner and the Allison brothers.

The Last Lap : The Life and Times of NASCAR's Legendary Heroes

Biographies & Memoirs

A personal look at NASCAR racing chronicles the story of the men who risked and lost their lives competing in the sport, including such legends as Curtis Turner and the Allison brothers

The Last Lap: The Life and Times of Nascar's Legendary Heroes

7: The Mickey Mantle Novel

Globe Pequot Pr

One of every seven people in the United States can trace their family back to Brooklyn, New York—all seventy-one square miles of it; home to millions of people from every corner of the globe over the last 150 years. Now Peter Golenbock, the author of the acclaimed book Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers, returns to Kings County to collect the firsthand stories of the life and times of the people of Brooklyn—and how they changed the world.
The nostalgic myth that is Brooklyn is all about egg creams and stickball, and, of course, the Dodgers. The Dodgers left fifty years ago, but Brooklyn is still here—transformed by waves of suburban flight, new immigrants, urban homesteaders, and gentrification. Deep down, Brooklyn has always been about new ideas—freedom and tolerance paramount among them—that have changed the world, all the way back to Lady Deborah Moody, who escaped religious persecution in both Old and New England, and founded Coney Island and the town of Gravesend in the 1600s.
So why was Jackie Robinson embraced by Brooklynites of all colors, and so despised everywhere else? Why was Brooklyn one of the first urban areas to decay into slums—and one of the first to be reborn? And what was it that made Brooklynites fight for their rights, for their country, for their ideas—sometimes to the detriment of their own well-being? In the Country of Brooklyn, filled with rare photos, is history at its very best—engaging, personal, fascinating—a social history and a history of social justice; an oral history of a land and its people spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; a microcosm of how Americans there faced and defeated discrimination, oppression, and unjust laws, and fought for what was right. And the voices and stories are as amazing as they are varied.
Meet: Daily Worker sportswriter Lester Rodney • rock and roll DJ "Cousin Brucie" Morrow • labor leader Henry Foner • Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa • journalist and author Pete Hamill • Black Panther–turned-politician Charles Barron • Hall of Fame baseball player Monte Irvin • Spanish Civil War veteran Abe Smorodin • borough president Marty Markowitz • real estate developer Joseph Sitt • jujitsu world champion Robert Crosson • songwriter Neil Sedaka • NYPD officer John Mackie • ACLU president Ira Glasser • and many others!
It's Brooklyn as we've never seen it before, a place of social activism, political energy, and creative thinking—a place whose vitality has spread around the world for more than 350 years. And a place where you can still get a decent egg cream.

In the Country of Brooklyn: Inspiration to the World

Historical

William Morrow

A year-by-year account, with personal interviews and reminiscences, of the events and personalities of the Stengel-Houk-Berra years, which accounted for fourteen American League pennants and nine World Series championships in sixteen seasons

Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964

Prentice Hall Direct

The star Yankee pitcher recounts his determined fight to move from the minors to big-league play, his apparent failure, the strength he received from his family and his Cajun background, and his subsequent grand, record-breaking success

Guidry

Guidry, Ron

PRENTICE/HALL

This is the moving story of how Jackie Robinson became the first black player on a major league baseball team and how on a fateful day in Cincinnati, PeeWee Reese took a stand and declared Jackie his teammate.

Teammates

Children's Books

Biographies

HMH Books for Young Readers

Hank Aaron: Brave in Every Way

On April 8, 1974, America watched as Hank Aaron stepped up to the plate. The pitch was low and down the middle. Hank swung--and hit career home run number 715! With that hit, he surpassed Babe Ruth's legendary record and realized a lifelong dream. Before blacks were allowed to play in the major leagues, Hank was determined that that was where he was going to play. When his success in the field triggered a deluge of hate mail, he refused to back down. This is the moving story of Hank Aaron's strength and perseverance--of how he became a great ballplayer and an inspiration to us all.

Harcourt Childrens Books

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