David Krell

Do You Believe in Magic?

Baseball and America in the Groundbreaking Year of 1966

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a unique look at a pivotal year in American history, tracing the significant events of 1966 by using the baseball season as its narrative arc, but also examining the Space Race, television, film, politics, music, and more.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 583g
• ISBN-13: 9781538159439
• ISBN-10: 1538159430
• Artikelnr.: 64364352

Autorenporträt

David Krell is a freelance journalist, author and attorney. He has written for Memories and Dreams--The Official Magazine of the Baseball Hall of Fame; Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal and New York State Bar Association's Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Journal. He is the chair of SABR's Elysian Fields Chapter (northern New Jersey) and Spring Training Research Committee.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: "Cannons at the Corners" (January)
Chapter 2: Hollywood's Other Dynamic Duo (February)
Chapter 3: "Back in the Fold" (March)
Chapter 4: Is this heaven? No, it's Anaheim. (April)
Chapter 5: Spies and Dolls (May)
Chapter 6: The Life and Times of Robert Simpson Petrie (June)
Chapter 7: A Great Speech in Cooperstown (July)
Chapter 8: Hail, Caesars Palace! (August)
Chapter 9: Impossible Missions, Daydream Believers, and the Final Frontier
(September)
Chapter 10: Ain't No Mountain High Enough (October)
Chapter 11: Splashdown (November)
Chapter 12: Joy to the World (December)
Bibliography
Index
About the Author