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"Inside MLB profiles each of the 30 franchises in Major League Baseball. Kansas City Royals is a beginner's history of the Royals, covering the beginnings of the franchise, the greatest and lowest moments of the team, and the best players and managers. Fun facts, anecdotes, and sidebars round out the story of each club, allowing your readers to get Inside MLB!"--Provided by the publisher.

"Inside MLB profiles each of the 30 franchises in Major League Baseball. Houston Astros is a beginner's history of the Astros, covering the beginnings of the franchise, the greatest and lowest moments of the team, and the best players and managers. Fun facts, anecdotes, and sidebars round out the story of each club, allowing your readers to get Inside MLB!"--Provided by the publisher.

"Inside MLB profiles each of the 30 franchises in Major League Baseball. Detroit Tigers is a beginner's history of the Tigers, covering the beginnings of the franchise, the greatest and lowest moments of the team, and the best players and managers. Fun facts, anecdotes, and sidebars round out the story of each club, allowing your readers to get Inside MLB!"--Provided by the publisher.

"Inside MLB profiles each of the 30 franchises in Major League Baseball. Colorado Rockies is a beginner's history of the Rockies, covering the beginnings of the franchise, the greatest and lowest moments of the team, and the best players and managers. Fun facts, anecdotes, and sidebars round out the story of each club, allowing your readers to get Inside MLB!"--Provided by the publisher.

"Inside MLB profiles each of the 30 franchises in Major League Baseball. Chicago White Sox is a beginner's history of the White Sox, covering the beginnings of the franchise, the greatest and lowest moments of the team, and the best players and managers. Fun facts, anecdotes, and sidebars round out the story of each club, allowing your readers to get Inside MLB!"--Provided by the publisher.

"Inside MLB profiles each of the 30 franchises in Major League Baseball. Baltimore Orioles is a beginner's history of the Orioles, covering the beginnings of the franchise, the greatest and lowest moments of the team, and the best players and managers. Fun facts, anecdotes, and sidebars round out the story of each club, allowing your readers to get Inside MLB!"--Provided by the publisher.

"Inside MLB profiles each of the 30 franchises in Major League Baseball. Arizona Diamondbacks is a beginner's history of the Diamondbacks, covering the beginnings of the franchise, the greatest and lowest moments of the team, and the best players and managers. Fun facts, anecdotes, and sidebars round out the story of each club, allowing your readers to get Inside MLB!"--Provided by the publisher.

In 1965 George Gmelch signed a contract to play professional baseball with the Detroit Tigers. He had grown up sheltered in an all-white affluent San Francisco suburb and knew little of the world outside. He came of age in baseball's minor leagues and became conscious of race and class for the first time as he traveled the United States against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, civil rights protests, and the emergence of the counterculture and he experienced the consequences of the times firsthand as he played out his career in the Jim Crow South. After his minor league experiences, George Gmelch became a well-known anthropologist.

Ty Cobb considered "Shoeless Joe" Jackson the "finest natural hitter in the history in the game." He is surely ranked with the greatest players to ever step onto a baseball diamond. His career batting average of .356 is still ranked the third best of all time (behind Ty Cobb .366 and Rogers Hornsby .358). Shoeless Joe was on his way to becoming one of the greatest players in the sport's history. And then came the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, where players participated in the throwing of the 1919 World Series by agreeing to not win. Jackson, who played for what is considered the greatest ballclub in major league history, the 1919 Chicago White Sox, was considered a participant in the scandal and banned from baseball. Many fans through the years have questioned the ban and feel that he should be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. This book relates Jackson's personal point of view on the scandal that led to his ouster.

The story of the slaves who lived in the White House, with their presidential owners, from the beginning through the Civil War years.