Bury My Heart At Wrigley Field: The History Of The Chicago Cubs: When The Cubs Were The White Stockings

History

NAMES, LARRY

Americas

Eagan Hill Publishers

Glengarry Plantation. A house divided by war. Clete Slater returns from war to find his home occupied by Federal soldiers and his sister engaged to a Yankee.    Disinherited and disowned he has no choice except to live by the words that have served his family generation after generation, Now he will make the family creed A TEXAS CREED.

A Texas Creed (A SLATE CREED FUGITIVE WESTERN)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

The Civil War was hell for Captain Clete Slater, a forgotten hero of the Confederacy, and the Texas Reconstruction's even worse. His Texas home-town is overrun with carpetbaggers and bluecoats. He's hunted by the law for a crime he didn't commit. He rides south to Mexico with a new name, Slate Creed, to hide his real identity. 
Riding across the Rio Grande, Creed expects to find frontier justice for the real culprits - a murderous gang of bandits who killed his brother. Instead he finds another country torn apart by its own civil war. And Creed must choose which battle he wants to fight: Mexico's or his own.

Texas Payback (A SLATE CREED FUGITIVE WESTERN)

TIDES OF WAR: IRONCLADS #1

Names, Larry D.

Product Description “The great silent movies revolve around the body and the personality of its owner; the great sound comedies revolve about structure and style--what happens, how it happens, and the way those happenings are depicted. Film comedy, as well as film art in general, was born from delight in physical movement. The essence of early filmmaking was to take some object (animate or inanimate) and simply watch it move....”-->Gerald Mast (b. 1940), U.S. film historian, & educator.A TWO REEL MURDERLarry Names, prolific author of Sports histories, novels of the American West, and a gem involving the JFK Assassination, brings a new dimension to historical mysteries involving women sleuths. Maisy Malone and her best friend, actress Mabel Normand take on murders in and around Los Angeles County starting in 1912. Historical documents, real places, and people of the time, as well as the backdrop of the Hollywood film industry in its infancy, he gives his stories authenticity and charm.Comedy Vaudevillian Maisy Malone went to Hollywood in 1912, at the behest of Mack Sennett of Keystone Studios, to become a star in motion pictures. By chance she stumbled into a murder. Los Angeles Police Detective Ed Browning intended to write off the death of actor Leslie Clover as an accident until an outraged Maisy said she could prove the man was slain. To top that off, she bet him she could solve the homicide before he could, so the contest was on to catch a killer. Browning had a bunch of inexperienced, clumsy, bungling cops to help him, while Maisy had the aid of silent screen actress and comedy queen Mabel Normand. The detective and the actress went to the wire nose-to-nose in their race to solve the crime and needed a photo finish to determine the winner in this cozy murder mystery.“I very much liked the historical flavor that was brought to the story, both the period and the place were well drawn. Of course, that is what we expect from a Larry Names book. I was impressed with the level of detection that Maisy brings to the story. Most current mysteries are about the characters, the setting, and the action. What gets left out of that equation is unraveling clues. I can show you a dozen very successful books where the detective goes from place to place collecting clues only to have the villain reveal himself unexpectedly in the last chapter. Not so with Maisy Malone in A Two Reel Murder.”- Tom Colgan, Executive Editor, Penguin Putnam Publishing Group Review "I very much liked the historical flavor brought to the story, both period and place were well drawn. I was impressed with the level of detection that Maisy brings to the story. Most current mysteries are about characters, setting and action. I can show you a dozen very successful books where the detective goes from place to place collecting clues only to have the villain reveal himself unexpectedly in the last chapter. Not so with Maisy Malone in A Two Reel Murder." - Tom Colgan, Executive Editor, Penguin Putnam Publishing Group From the Author Growing up, I would hear my mother and aunts talk about their Aunt Sudie, my grand-aunt. Nearly all the stories they told had Aunt Sudie doing something daring or something outrageous or something hilarious. Aunt Sudie was the first to dive off a big rock into a river. Aunt Sudie took her daddy's horse and buggy for a ride without asking. Aunt Sudie caught a rattlesnake and chased a neighbor boy with it. Then she became a teenager and really got out of control. She hopped a freight train and rode it clear across Arkansas before the law caught her and sent her packing back to the farm. That was just the one time. The next time she made it to St. Louis where she had a bad experience with a fellow who wanted to make a "working girl" out of her. She returned home on her own after that little adventure. Aunt Sudie could whup any boy in Bryan County. In short, Aunt Sudie was a handful as the old folks would say. Today we woul

A TWO REEL MURDER - A Maisy Malone Mystery: Starring Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Following the trail of his brother&rsquo;s killers, Slate Creed, wanted by the bluecoats for a crime he didn&rsquo;t commit, leaves his family, his girl and his ravaged 
 Texas town, Hallettsville behind. His quest takes him to the gambling dens of New Orleans and the into the arms of the devious Charlotte Beaujeu. Along the way, he meets young Scott Houchin who is returning to his Kentucky home after recovering his stolen Thoroughbred. Creed learns of a gambler&rsquo;s scheme to steal the colt and appoints himself guardian of Scott and the racehorse. Creed encounters danger from New Orleans to Mammoth Cave as he attempts to foil the plot to purloin the valuable steed. 
KENTUCKY PRIDE: Episode 4 in the continuing saga of the Texas fugitive slate creed. 
Based on actual records, this exciting epic series captures the postwar West as you&rsquo;ve never seen it before!

Kentucky Pride: Creed #4 (A SLATE CREED FUGITIVE WESTERN)

FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK!!! Packers. Green Bay. The Green Bay Packers. No matter how it’s said, one can’t say Green Bay without thinking of the Packers or say Packers without thinking about Green Bay, the greatest little city in all of professional sports. But when and how did this legend in pro sports begin? That question is answered in the first detailed history of the Green Bay Packers.Larry Names tells the myths that color Packer history. Then he strips away the legends and finds the truth behind the tales. Did Curly Lambeau really start the Packers? What was George Whitney Calhoun’s role in Packer history? How did George Halas help save the Packers from extinction? Were the early executives of the Packers anti-Semitic? How did Gerald Clifford create the most unique franchise in all of professional sports?Then there was the team, the players. How did the coach and general manager of a small town team in the frigid north entice so many stars to play professional football for him for less money than they could get in bigger cities? Jug Earpe, Charley Mathys, Cub Buck, Vern Lewellen, Red Dunn, Lavvie Dilweg, Johnny Blood, Cal Hubbard, Mike Michalske, and more. Hall-of-Famers all.The Green Bay Packers. The team and franchise too tough to die.

The History of the Green Bay Packers: The Lambeau Years - Part One

Sports & Outdoors

Football (American)

The winter of 1958-59 was the most pivotal period in the history of professional football.It started with the Baltimore Colts defeating the New York Giants for the National Football League Championship, 23-17, in the first ever overtime game in the history of football.Over the next three months, several events transpired that resulted in pro football being changed forever and for the good.None of those moments seemed to be all that important in the history of the game as they unfolded.The ramification of the first of these, the title game between Baltimore and New York, would not be realized for years to come. That contest was viewed by a national audience, sending ratings sky-rocketing and waking up officials in the NFL and in the board rooms of the three television networks at the time. They all saw the big dollar signs dancing before their eyes. The networks saw big bucks in advertising revenue, while football magnates saw a steady flow of income that put all of their franchises on solid financial footing forever.A couple of outsiders with foresight saw the same economic potential of pro football. Lamar Hunt and Bud Adams, two millionaires from Texas, wanted to join the NFL as owners of expansion teams to be located in Dallas and Houston. When they were snubbed by the existing league, they came together and decided to form their own league and call it the American Football League.The interaction by the big shots completely over shadowed one minor event that happened right under their noses.This book, the fifth in the series, The History of the Green Bay Packers, reveals how important that juncture in time was, not only in the history of a small-town football team, but in the overall history of professional football. Two men met in secret. One was Dominic Olejniczak, the president of the faltering Green Bay Packers. The other was Vincent Thomas Lombardi, the offensive coach of the New York Giants.Green Bay needed a King Arthur to lead their football knights. Olejniczak saw Lombardi as that man.No one at this time in the history of pro football knew how Vince Lombardi would perform as a head coach. Not even Lombardi. He only wanted a chance to prove himself in the big time. Olejniczak offered him that chance.Both men were taking huge risks. If Lombardi failed to resurrect the Packers after more than a decade of futility, Oleniczak would lose his job of directing the business end of the Packers. As for Lombardi, failure meant he might never get a second chance at being a head coach on any level. To both men, failure was not an option.Looking back over Lombardi's past, Fate seemed to be directing him to this job in little Green Bay. To those who knew him well, taking the job in Wisconsin was Lombardi's Destiny.

LOMBARDI'S DESTINY: PART ONE

Packers. Green Bay. The Green Bay Packers. No matter how it's said, one can't say Green Bay without thinking of the Packers or say Packers without thinking about Green Bay, the greatest little city in all of professional sports. But when and how did this legend in pro sports begin? That question is answered in the first detailed history of the Green Bay Packers.Larry Names tells the myths that color Packer history. Then he strips away the legends and finds the truth behind the tales. Did Curly Lambeau really start the Packers? What was George Whitney Calhoun's role in Packer history? How did George Halas help save the Packers from extinction? Were the early executives of the Packers anti-Semitic? How did Gerald Clifford create the most unique franchise in all of professional sports?Then there was the team, the players. How did the coach and general manager of a small town team in the frigid north entice so many stars to play professional football for him for less money than they could get in bigger cities? Jug Earpe, Charley Mathys, Cub Buck, Vern Lewellen, Red Dunn, Lavvie Dilweg, Johnny Blood, Cal Hubbard, Mike Michalske, and more. Hall-of-Famers all.The Green Bay Packers. The team and franchise too tough to die.

The Lambeau Years: Part One

The myth: the Depression forced the Packers into bankruptcy.The truth: a lawsuit by an injured fan forced the Packers management to seek protection from the corporation's creditors.THE HISTORY OF THE GREEN BAY PACKERS - THE LAMBEAU YEARS - Part Two - Revised Edition finally gets the story straight.In this controversial narrative of the Green Bay Packers, Larry D. Names has captured the essence of the team, the corporation that owns the Packers, and their riveting history. The numerous real life stories reveal how the Green Bay Packers managed to stay in the National Football League when the trend was to move to the big cities. Its detailed, documented style captivates the reader and involves him in the feelings of the times.Football grew through its players, its coaches, its owners; and the history of these men and their exploits has been clouded in more than a few memories. However; this history while intriguing does not compromise the facts with fancy. As in Part One, the reader will find the truth about some of the greatest names and the greatest team in football history.The author has finally done justice to the creation of the most unique sports franchise in American history. Through his exhaustive research, he has rediscovered football history.

THE LAMBEAU YEARS: PART TWO

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