David Fischer
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In 1966, as the champions of the AFL and NFL prepared to play each other for the first time, Kansas City Chiefs–owner Lamar Hunt wrote the following to Commissioner Pete Rozelle: I have kiddingly called [the championship game] the Super Bowl, which obviously can be improved upon."
How wrong Hunt was. After the AFL merged with the NFL, Super Bowl" became the official title of the NFL championship game in the years to come. In celebration...
How wrong Hunt was. After the AFL merged with the NFL, Super Bowl" became the official title of the NFL championship game in the years to come. In celebration...
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The all-time career leader in saves, with 652, Mariano Rivera is one of the greatest professional athletes in history. Since taking over the closer's role for the New York Yankees in 1997, until his retirement in 2013, Rivera saved 30 or more games in every season but one. In addition, he has an astonishing MLB record 42 postseason saves, with 11 of them coming in the World Series. After 19 seasons in the Major Leagues, his preeminence among relief...
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The 1950s marked a transformative period in postwar American history. In baseball, one dynasty was the story during the decade. The New York Yankees played in eight World Series from 1950 to 1959, winning six of them. Yankees icon Joe DiMaggio retired following the 1951 season, but a new super star, Mickey Mantle, took over in Yankee Stadium's center field in 1952. Mantle, the powerful switch-hitter who blasted tape-measure home runs, often tortured...
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Featuring every relevant team record, statistic, and award winner from the New York Yankees' incredible past, this book includes a comprehensive collection of all-time leaders in every conceivable category, from hits to strikeouts. From the team's 27 World Series titles and Roger Maris's 61 home runs to Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak and eyewitness accounts of when Babe Ruth famously called his shot, this reference captures the legends and...
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In only a few short years, Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols has joined the company of baseball's all-time greats. Take a trip with Albert from his island home in the Caribbean to the World Series and his MVP season. They are the heroes, the winners, the champions. They are the people whose exploits thrill and inspire us all. They are the World's Greatest Athletes, and this series celebrates their lives and accomplishments. Written by top national sportswriters,...
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This book commemorates "The Captain's" career in pinstripes through words and images. David Fischer traces Derek Jeter's legendary baseball career, from his early minor-league struggles, through his exhilarating days as a Yankees superstar, to his status as an enduring symbol of the steroid-free athlete. Indeed, Jeter's intangible ability to play at a high level in the postseason makes him the face of the modern Yankees dynasty-and of America's national...
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Most Yankees fans have taken in a game or two at Yankee Stadium, have seen highlights of stars like Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio, and can tell the story of Babe Ruth's called-shot home run in 1932. But only real fans know who designed the team's iconic "NY" logo, have spent time at the Babe Ruth Museum, or have visited the site of the Yankees' original home ballpark. 100 Things Yankees Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource...
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Perhaps baseball's most talented all-around player, Alex 'A-Rod' Rodriguez has been a star for almost a decade with several Major League teams. He set new standards for offensive success as a shortstop, then moved to third base in his quest for a World Series title. Find out whether his dream has come true! They are the heroes, the winners, the champions. They are the people whose exploits thrill and inspire us all. They are the World's Greatest Athletes,...
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Kids look up to their dads. Dads have to be able to break in a new baseball glove (and to know which glove is age-appropriate), to answer every question imaginable (why is a football called a pigskin?), to teach their child how to throw a knuckleball, skate backwards on hockey skates, or spin a basketball on one fingertip. When it comes to sports, dads are expected to know and do everything. Such an amazing dad is rare. For the rest of us, there's...
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Beginning with his triumph in the 1958 Masters, Arnold Palmer took the nation by storm with his small-town charm, "go for broke" style, and Sunday comebacks. "You finally had someone who had this charisma," said Tiger Woods. "Everyone got hooked to the game of golf via TV because of Arnold."
Palmer won 43 PGA Tour events in the 1960s, became the sports world's greatest pitchman, and hobnobbed with bigwigs like Bob Hope and multiple presidents. He...
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Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history-yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. In Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer fashions an exciting narrative that offers deep insight into the outbreak of revolution and the emergence of the American republic. Beginning in the years before the eruption of war, Fischer illuminates the figure of Paul Revere, a man...
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The Revealing (in Greek, the Apocalypse) is the telling of the history of the age of the Gentiles before it happens. The age of the Gentiles, sometimes called the time of the Gentiles or the church age, began with the final act of the Jewish age, the destruction of Herod's temple in AD 70. This is the third of the three and a half ages (or times) of man-a time, times, and half a time. Enoch was the prophet of the first age (the age of the patriarchs),...
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Only a handful of people in the history of the world have died twice… Lazarus was one of them.
Little is known about the life of Lazarus. The Bible only mentions him in two chapters of the Gospel of John. However, we can glean some basic information about him from those brief references. He lived in a small town called Bethany with two sisters named Mary and Martha. When Lazarus died of a sudden illness, Jesus raised him from the dead. That miracle...
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Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After the Turner thesis which celebrated the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly take a third approach to the subject. They share with Turner the idea of the westward movement as a creative...
15) Red Sox vs. Yankees: Hometown Experts Analyze, Debate, and Illuminate Baseball's Ultimate Rivalry
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Teddy Ballgame or the Great Bambino? Nomar or Jeter? Clemens or Clemens?
For more than 115 years, the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees have been battling it out on the diamond, playing each other over 2,000 times. This heated rivalry has stood the test of time, as one team's triumph usually means the other's dismay. While the teams battle on the field, the fans and cities take the rivalry just as seriously.
But who's the best? Which team's players...