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Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 ever to be dignified by an honor of any kind.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Tucked away in a small central New York village called Cooperstown, The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is far from any big league stadium, yet it's never far from the minds of baseball players and fans. No sports hall of fame has a membership so hallowed, qualifications so debated, or a voting process so dissected. Since its founding in 1936, the Hall of Fame has had nebulous standards for election, and arcane selection processes, resulting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees, Babe Ruth's epic rise to the Baseball Hall of Fame is one to remember. Learn more about Ruth in this epic biography"--
