Download or read book Buffalo Home of the Braves written by Mike Erway and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the National Basketball Association franchise the Buffalo Braves, from 1970-78.
Download or read book Baseball in Buffalo written by Paul Langendorfer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the time of the Civil War, baseball has played an important role in Buffalo, New York. Though most of the area’s baseball pioneers, including Ollie Carnegie and Luke Easter, are gone, they live on in the memories of fans, and some of their names have even graced the facades of facilities, like Offermann Stadium. In this book, Paul Langendorfer and the Buffalo History Museum have included each inning of the Queen City’s rich baseball heritage, from the 19th-century Niagaras and the 1913–1915 Federal League to the Buffalo Bisons.
Download or read book The Buffalo Braves written by Budd Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Buffalo Braves of the NBA may be gone, but they aren’t forgotten. Authors Budd Bailey and Greg D. Tranter bring the team back to life, at least in literary form, with their book, “Buffalo Braves From A to Z.” It’s a thorough examination of the team’s history from 1970 to 1978, and contains biographies of all 71 players and 12 front office figures who were crucial parts of the team’s story. The publication, printed by St. Johann Press, offers the most thorough examination of this star-crossed franchise ever published. The book contains year-by-year descriptions of the team’s play, as well as descriptions of Buffalo’s basketball history and the team’s homes. The Braves played a style of basketball that would have fit in nicely with today’s game, with its emphasis on ball movement and offense. The team featured such familiar names as Bob McAdoo, Randy Smith, Ernie DiGregorio and Adrian Dantley. The book captures their era perfectly." -- Amazon.com.
Download or read book The Seasons of Buffalo Baseball 1857 2020 written by James Overfield and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seasons of Buffalo Baseball 1857-2020 is a collaborative efforts that draws from the 1985 book, The Seasons of Buffalo Baseball by Joseph M. Overfield. His son, Jim, updated and revised his dad's book into a richly illustrated, 400-page 8x10-inch book that updates the history of professional baseball in Buffalo through the 2020 season, which was cancelled for the Triple A Bisons because of the COVID-19 but includes a summary of the Toronto Blue Jays' home away from home in Buffalo during the summer because of the pandemic. That marked the return of major league baseball to Buffalo since the city had a franchise in the Federal League in 1905. Part One of the book is a year-by-year summary of each season from 1857 through 2020, complete with the team's manager, league, record, leading hitter, home run hitter and pitcher. Part Two is a collection of stories from Joe and Jim Overfield, Brian M. Frank and Michael J. Billoni, Assistant Editors of the book, along with Paul Langendorfer, Budd Bailey, Mike Harrington of the Buffalo News, Sal Maiorana of Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle and former WGRZ-TV sportscaster Jonah Javad, a sportscaster at WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas. There are also cartoons illustrated by Mike "Ricig" Ricigliano and more than 200 black and white and color photos. The book honors the memory of Joe Overfield, the former historian of the Buffalo Bisons and a member of the Greater Buffalo and Buffalo Baseball Halls of Fame. It is also a tribute to the resilience of the City of Buffalo and that game that has been part of the city's fabric for more than 160 years. Among those who have written testimonials are John Thorn, official historian of Major League Baseball; Chris Berman, ESPN Sports Broadcaster; Bob Costas, multiple Emmy award-winning sports broadcaster; Ken Rosenthal, baseball writer for The Athletic and Fox Sports and Pete Weber, the Voice of the Nashville Preditors of the NHL and the former Voice of the Bisons and Greg Brown, the Voice of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the former Bisons broadcaster.
Download or read book How Baseball Happened written by Thomas W. Gilbert and published by Godine+ORM. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of baseball’s nineteenth-century origins: “a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat” (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal). You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. They didn’t. Perhaps you’ve read that baseball’s color line was first crossed by Jackie Robinson in 1947. Nope. Baseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. They were hundreds of uncredited, ordinary people who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They worked, built businesses, and fought against the South in the Civil War. In this myth-busting history, Thomas W. Gilbert reveals the true beginnings of baseball. Through newspaper accounts, diaries, and other accounts, he explains how it evolved through the mid-nineteenth century into a modern sport of championships, media coverage, and famous stars—all before the first professional league was formed in 1871. Winner of the Casey Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year
Download or read book Buffalo s Got the Spirit written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about collecting sports memorabilia as a child of the 1960's and 1970's.
Download or read book The Year of the Buffalo written by Marshall Cook and published by Savage Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall J. Cook is one of the most beloved and prolific writers in Wisconsin. The Year of the Buffalo, a novel of love and minor league baseball, his second book for Savage Press, is a touching tale of love, baseball and transcendence. The baseball action is accurate, emotional and inspiring.Synopsis: The lowly Buffalo, a triple minor team from Beymer, Wisconsin, The Smallest Town in the USofA with it's own professional baseball team hires a washed out lefty who finds true love and leads the team to its first ever championship. Keen drama. Truely fine insights into the human condition. W.P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe which inspired Field of Dreams said of the book, Fine storytelling, genuinely touching moments.
Download or read book Los Angeles Clippers written by Bernie Wilson and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles Clippers is a beginner's history of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers. Beginning with the franchise's early years, readers will experience the team's highest and lowest moments, meet the team's best players and managers, and gain the inside track on information that completes the team's story. Mini-biographies, fun facts, anecdotes, fantastic quotes, and sidebars combine with full-color, action-packed photographs to round out the story of the Clippers, allowing your readers Inside the NBA! SportsZone is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Download or read book Baseball in Buffalo written by Paul Langendorfer and published by Arcadia Publishing Library Editions. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the time of the Civil War, baseball has played an important role in Buffalo, New York. Though most of the area s baseball pioneers, including Ollie Carnegie and Luke Easter, are gone, they live on in the memories of fans, and some of their names have even graced the facades of facilities, like Offermann Stadium. In this book, Paul Langendorfer and the Buffalo History Museum have included each inning of the Queen City s rich baseball heritage, from the 19th-century Niagaras and the 1913 1915 Federal League to the Buffalo Bisons."
Download or read book Buffalo Soldiers Braves and the Brass written by Frank N. Schubert and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although focusing on those men, women, and children stationed at the fort, the author also examines their impact on the neighboring town of Crawford. Those civilians depended on military spending in both traditional and novel ways. War Department expenditures stimulated business and brought some residents power and profit while the money the soldiers spent on whisky and sex helped support municipal government through saloon and prostitution taxes. Indeed, when the garrison was called away for the Spanish-American War in 1898, the town's revenues plummetted. Because Fort Robinson housed black troops for many years, race relations formed a significant part of the post's history. The black Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments, both of which earned reputations for skill and reliability in the Indian Wars before coming to the fort, spent several years on post.
Download or read book Braves and Buffalo written by Alfred Jacob Miller and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summer of 68 written by Tim Wendel and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a year shaped by national tragedy, baseball was shaped by amazing pitching--culminating in a victory by a Detroit Tigers team that faced off against Bob Gibson's St. Louis Cardinals, the 1967 World Series defending champions.
Download or read book When Buffalo Sat Atop the Sports World written by Sal Maiorana and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From generation to generation there are some things that never change in Buffalo, New York. Every winter is cold and miserable; there is no place on earth that has better chicken wings despite many pretenders to the throne; and the professional sports teams that are in many ways the lifeblood of Western New York break the hearts and crush the souls of a passionate fan base that, nonetheless, though all the disappointment remains loyal and supportive. Born in 1960, the NFL's Buffalo Bills have never won a Super Bowl. Born in 1970, the NHL's Buffalo Sabres have never won a Stanley Cup. And in their brief eight-year existence, the Buffalo Braves never won an NBA championship.But there was a time, fleeting as it was in the mid-1970's, when all three of Buffalo's teams were winning consistently, were in the championship conversation, and were led by nationally-recognized superstars and future Hall of Famers in their respective sport - O.J. Simpson of the Bills, Gilbert Perreault of the Sabres, and Bob McAdoo of the Braves.Buffalo was a city in decline in the mid-1970's with unemployment rising and the population falling in terrifying numbers. Neighborhoods were in disrepair, businesses were closing down, and the economy was on life support, but the one thing that helped the city cope were its sports teams.The Bills, Sabres and Braves provided an outlet as Rich Stadium and Memorial Auditorium were places where people could go to forget about it all and spend a few hours being entertained by exciting teams and players who made Buffalo proud in the face of all the struggles.This is a remembrance of what it was like for Buffalo fans between the fall of 1973 and the spring of 1976, which was truly the golden age of Buffalo sports.
Download or read book Societies of the Crow Hidatsa and Mandan Indians written by Alanson Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rayzor s Edge written by Budd Bailey and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rob Ray was known as one of the NHL's toughest players of the 1990s. During his thirteen seasons with the Buffalo Sabres he twice lead the league in time spent in the penalty box. Ray was known for his jersey-off fighting style, which eventually led to the "Rob Ray Rule" banning that practice. In Rayzor's Edge, Ray shares many humorous and insightful stories from his Sabres career. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports--books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book Home Team written by Michael N. Danielson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princeton's Michael N. Danielson studies the connections between professional team sports in North America and the places where teams play. Danielson is particularly interested in the political aspects between professional sports teams and city governments. Anyone who is interested in the present condition and future prospects of professional sports will be captivated by this informative and provocative book.
Download or read book Societies and Ceremonial Associations in the Oglala Division of the Teton Dakota written by Clark Wissler and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
