Stanley Cohen
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1977
Language
English
Description
One of Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time: The riveting story of the point-shaving scandal that shook college basketball to its core It was the ultimate Cinderella sports story. Unranked heading into the 1949–50 season, the City College basketball team delighted their hometown of New York City and shocked the rest of America by winning both the NCAA and NIT tournaments. An unprecedented feat that would never be duplicated, City...
2) Yankees 1936-39, baseball's greatest dynasty: Lou Gehrig, Joe Dimaggio, and the birth of a new era
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing/Herman Graf Book
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"New York, 1936. Red Ruffing, Lefty Gomez, Bill Dickey, Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, and rookie Joe DiMaggio--with these six future Hall of Fame players, the Yankees embarked on a four-year run that would go down in the history books as the greatest Yankees team, if not, the greatest baseball team, of all time. Over the next four years, the Yankees won four straight pennants, finishing an average of nearly fifteen games ahead of the second-place team....
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Every day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives--either by decades-long sentences or the death penalty itself. Injustice tarnishes our legal process from start to finish. From the racial discrimination and violence used by backwards law enforcement officers, to a prison culture that breeds inmate conflict, there is opportunity for error at every turn,"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Technical paper volume 337
Publisher
U. S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Pub. Date
September 1978.
Language
English