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Author : Will Anderson
Release : 1992
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 656/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Was Baseball Really Invented in Maine? by : Will Anderson
Download or read book Was Baseball Really Invented in Maine? written by Will Anderson. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Gratwick
Release : 2012-08-28
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 346/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hidden History of Maine by : Harry Gratwick
Download or read book Hidden History of Maine written by Harry Gratwick. This book was released on 2012-08-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover 400 years of New England history you won’t find in guidebooks in this collection of true stories and colorful characters from The Pine Tree State. Maine wouldn’t be the magical place it is today without the contributions of little-known individuals whose inspiring and adventuresome lives make up the story of Maine's "hidden history." Journalist and Maine historian Harry Gratwick presents vividly detailed portraits of these Mainers, from the controversial missionary Sebastien Rale to Woolwich native William Phips, whose seafaring attacks against French Canada earned him the first governorship of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Gratwick also profiles inventors such as Robert Benjamin Lewis, an African American from Gardiner who patented a hair growth product in the 1830s, and Margaret Knight, a York native who defied nineteenth-century sexism to earn the nickname "the female Edison." From soprano Lillian Nordica, who left Farmington to become the most glamorous American opera singer of her day, to slugger George "Piano Legs" Gore, the only Mainer to ever win a Major League Baseball batting championship, Hidden History of Maine reveals the men and women who made history without making it into history books.
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Release : 1996
Genre : Maine
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Book Synopsis Maine History by :
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Author : Matthew Jude Barker
Release : 2014-01-21
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 12X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Irish of Portland, Maine: A History of Forest City Hibernians by : Matthew Jude Barker
Download or read book The Irish of Portland, Maine: A History of Forest City Hibernians written by Matthew Jude Barker. This book was released on 2014-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish have influenced the city of Portland since it was first established in the seventeenth century. Today's vibrant Catholic community owes its origins to Irish immigrants in Portland's earliest days, when beloved leaders like Father Ffrench provided solace to souls far from home. The church helped them adapt and adapted along with them, affecting the city in many ways. Portland's Irish faced discrimination, especially in the years before the Civil War, when anti-Irish sentiment surged and burnings and violence erupted, like the June 1855 Rum Riot. Despite this, many Portland Irish took up arms for the United States in the Civil War, and their participation in this conflict helped them become assimilated. Join local expert Matthew Jude Barker as he explores the triumphs and challenges of the Irish of Portland before the twentieth century..
Author : Ed Rice
Release : 2019-08-21
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 740/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Baseball's First Indian by : Ed Rice
Download or read book Baseball's First Indian written by Ed Rice. This book was released on 2019-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1871 on Maine's Penobscot Indian reservation and nephew of a chief, Louis Sockalexis became professional baseball's first American Indian player. Ultimately, his prowess on the diamond inspired the name Cleveland's baseball team carries today. Exploring the brilliant but too-brief major league career of the "Deerfoot of the Diamond," Baseball's First Indian follows Sockalexis's rise to the majors, his fall to the minor leagues of New England, and his final return to the reservation in Maine, where he continued to coach baseball and work as an umpire. This fascinating study of the life of Louis Sockalexis is filled with game action and leavened by the flamboyant and colorful stories of 19th century sportswriters who frequently invented what the truth would not supply. It's a treasure for every student of baseball history.
