The Men Who Made the Yankees - Nikola-Lisa, W.
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W. Nikola-Lisa explores a fascinating corner of baseball history in The Men Who Made the Yankees, which traces the rise of the New York Yankees from the origin of the American League to the Yankees' first world championship title in 1923. Less a history of players, The Men Who Made the Yankees focuses on a handful of powerful club owners and the political and financial pressures that dramatically shaped the arrival of an American League team in New York City. A baseball enthusiast from a young age, Mr. Nikola-Lisa is also the author of Dear Frank: Babe Ruth, the Red Sox, and the Great War, a…mehr

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W. Nikola-Lisa explores a fascinating corner of baseball history in The Men Who Made the Yankees, which traces the rise of the New York Yankees from the origin of the American League to the Yankees' first world championship title in 1923. Less a history of players, The Men Who Made the Yankees focuses on a handful of powerful club owners and the political and financial pressures that dramatically shaped the arrival of an American League team in New York City. A baseball enthusiast from a young age, Mr. Nikola-Lisa is also the author of Dear Frank: Babe Ruth, the Red Sox, and the Great War, a work of historical fiction set in Boston during the waning days of the first world war.
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Professor Emeritus at National-Louis University in Chicago, and a popular children's book author and storyteller in his own right, W. Nikola-Lisa is the author of 35 books, including Ichiro and the Great Mountain, Circles, Lines, and Squiggles: Astrology for the Curious-Minded, and the Christopher award-winning How We Are Smart: A Multicultural Approach to the Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Along with his creative writing, Mr. Nikola-Lisa has published numerous articles on various facets of children's literature for the professional literature. A past recipient of an Ezra Jack Keats/Janina Domanska Research Fellowship at the University of Southern Mississippi's de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, Mr. Nikola-Lisa explores the centrality of play in the work of acclaimed author/illustrator Ezra Jack Keats, drawing upon the author's past research at the de Grummond Collection and recent reflections on the nature of play, creativity, and the literary imagination.