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  • The Black Fives

    The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era

    The Black Fives is a groundbreaking, timely history of the largely unknown early days of Black basketball, bringing to life the trailblazing players, teams, and impresarios who pioneered the sport.“For a game that has meant so much to the world, Claude Johnson somehow presents a definitive account for a part of basketball’s history that for so long was kept away from us. Claude is a superhero ... Leer más

    $258 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • BLACK FIVES: The Alpha Physical Culture Club's Pioneering African American Basketball Team, 1904-1923

    Formed in 1904, the Alpha Physical Culture Club of Harlem was America's first African American athletic club. Conrad Norman, its Jamaican-born founder, hoped to address rampant lung disease among blacks living in New York City's overcrowded tenements by providing proper exercise facilities they could use without bias. The club's basketball team, the Alpha Big Five, became nationally famous during ... Leer más

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    The Black Fives

    The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era

    Narrado por Claude Johnson ...

    Completo

    20 hora 46 minutos

    A groundbreaking history of Black basketballAfrican Americans were making moves in basketball generations before the rise of the NBA. Their pioneering efforts helped popularize the sport in big cities and small towns alike and shaped the game we know and love today. From theinvention of the game in 1891 to the racial integration of all-White professional leagues in the 1950s, dozens of teams—then ... Leer más

    $531 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    Upon Further Review

    The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History

    Completo

    9 hora 44 minutos

    From Mike Pesca, host of the popular Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's call had just gone the other way."Intriguing...thought provoking...delightful." --The Washington PostNo announcer ever proclaimed: "Up Rises Frazier!" "Havlicek commits the foul, trying to steal the ball!" or "The Giants Lose the ... Leer más

    $514 MXN

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    Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame

    de Zev Chafets ...
    If baseball is America's national religion, then the Hall of Fame is its High Church. Being named among its 286 inductees makes you the closest thing our country has to an undisputed hero - even a secular saint. But the men in the Hall of Fame are no angels. Among their number are gamblers, drunks, race-baiters, at least one murderer, and perhaps the greatest collection of bona fide characters ... Leer más

    $181 MXN

  • Ice Storm

    The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Vancouver Canucks Team Ever

    In 2008, the Vancouver Canucks were Team Modern, revolutionizing the NHL under their new GM, former player agent Mike Gillis. Cool, calculating, and unsparing with the media, the onetime number one draft pick of the old Colorado Rockies swept away the tangled psychological past of the Canucks with bold innovation, remodeling Vancouver as a destination city for NHL star players. To do so, he built ... Leer más

    $295 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Will Ferrell: An Unauthorized Biography

    John William Ferrell was born and raised in a sleepy suburb of Irvine, California. Although the eldest son of Roy Lee Farrell Jr., keyboardist for The Righteous Brothers, Ferrell describes his childhood as painfully normal.After graduating from the University of Southern California with a degree in Sports Information, Ferrell soon realized that his true calling was doing what he loved: making ... Leer más

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  • Forty Million Dollar Slaves

    The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports.”—EbonyFrom Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist ... Leer más

    $164 MXN

  • The Crossover: A Brief History of Basketball and Race, From James Naismith to LeBron James

    de Doug Merlino ...
    The history of basketball contains all the drama inherent in America's long struggle with racial intolerance and quest for equality. In ten focused chapters that highlight characters both famous (Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird) and more obscure (John McLendon, Earl Lloyd, Holcombe Rucker), this book explores how what's happened on the basketball court has mirrored race ... Leer más

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  • Soul Thieves

    The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture

    Series series History (R0)
    Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony. ... Leer más

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  • Dear Jay, Love Dad

    Bud Wilkinson's Letters to His Son

    de Jay Wilkinson ...
    College football fans need no introduction to Bud Wilkinson, but few of them know the great University of Oklahoma football coach as a devoted father. In Dear Jay, Love Bud, Jay Wilkinson, Bud’s younger son, shares forty-seven letters his father wrote to him while he was in college and graduate school. Spanning the early to mid-1960s, these letters reveal Bud’s deep love for his son, as well as ... Leer más

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  • 1933

    Football at the Depth of the Great Depression

    In 1933, America was in the midst of the Great Depression. The depth of despair created in the American people earned the panic a singular place in the history of the nations economic turmoil. Football, a uniquely American game, weathered these hard times, adapted, and made some of the pain a little easier to endure. In 1933, author Mark C. Bodanza examines the important role football played in ... Leer más

    $175 MXN