57 Results for : shoeless
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The Black Sox Scandal: The History and Legacy of America's Most Notorious Sports Controversy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 73min
The 1919 World Series was one that baseball fans would never forget, but the memories are hardly fond. The Chicago White Sox were favored 5:1 to beat the Cincinnati Reds, and for the first time since 1903, the Series would be a best-of-nine format. However, at a time when players were treated as second class, some sought a payday beyond what they made in the leagues, and the White Sox players were some of the most poorly paid in the league. The owner of the team, Charles A. Comiskey, was one of the cheapest owners in the game, too cheap to pay to have the team's uniforms laundered after games. Around two weeks before the World Series was set to begin, Chicago first baseman Chick Gandil met with a gambler in his Boston hotel room. During that meeting, Gandil told Joseph Sullivan that for $100,000, he and other members of the White Sox were willing to take a dive and make sure that the Reds won the World Series. Gandil was able to convince the team's top two pitchers to go along with the plan, as well as five other players, and gamblers came up with the money, including the famous New York City mobster Arnold Rothstein. With that, the plan to throw the World Series was put in motion, and rumors began to spread around the country prior to the start of the series as gamblers wagered large sums of money on the Reds. In the end, the press had a field day, calling for justice in a series that was clearly fixed, and eight players would be charged: Eddie Cicotte, Oscar "Happy" Felsch, Arnold "Chick" Gandil, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Fred McMullin, Charles "Swede" Risberg, George "Buck" Weaver, and Claude "Lefty" Williams. Though they were all acquitted in court, the players were banned from baseball for life, and the Black Sox Scandal has continued to be well-known nearly a century later, and it has given rise to all sorts of legends. Ironically, Shoeless Joe Jackson is the most famous Black Sox player even as historians continue to debate whether ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082240/bk_acx0_082240_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1055min
Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the 20th century's greatest photographers. We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos - the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl - but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking exploration of Lange's transformation into a documentarist. Using Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of 20th-century America, Gordon masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and the Japanese-American internment camps. Gordon has written a sparkling, fast-moving story that testifies to her status as one of the most gifted historians of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathleen Gati. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010634/bk_adbl_010634_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Baginsky
Baginsky ist tot, und niemand in Hamm ist wirklich traurig darüber. Wer sich so viele Feinde macht, muss sich nicht darüber wundern, wenn ihn irgendwann mal der Schlag trifft - und sei es in Form eines Hiebs mit einem 'Shoeless Joe Jackson Black Betsy Replica'-Baseballschläger. Was sich zunächst wie ein lösbarer Routinefall anlässt, wird durch eine äußerst peinliche Ermittlungspanne zu einem Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Nicht nur Felix Lenz sieht seine Rückkehr nach Düsseldorf gefährdet, für alle im merkwürdigen Team der 'Task Force Hamm' geht es bald ums nackte Überleben.- Shop: Audible
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Fall from Grace
Fall from Grace ab 10.3 € als epub eBook: The Truth and Tragedy of Shoeless Joe Jackson. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Sachthemen & Ratgeber, Sport & Entspannung,- Shop: hugendubel
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Last Minion Standing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 182min, (USK 18)
Do you have what it takes to win? All I said was I needed a minion. The next thing I know, I'm embroiled in the reality show from Hell with cameras following me everywhere. But who needs a contest when I'm ready to declare a winner - and get freaky - the moment I meet Drake? As soon as I meet him, shirtless and shoeless, in low-slung jeans, I fantasize about the many ways he can serve me - especially in bed. But Drake, the super-sexy dragon shifter, is after more than a chance to work alongside me in my battle to capture evil souls. He also wants to win my heart. But love is for weaklings, and no matter how much he teases me, I will not give in without a fight - good thing he brought some cuffs. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ava Erickson, Josh Goodman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031674/bk_adbl_031674_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Tales from the Deadball Era
Tales from the Deadball Era ab 31.49 € als epub eBook: Ty Cobb Home Run Baker Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Wildest Times in Baseball History. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Sonstiges,- Shop: hugendubel
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How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 242min
Over the course of history, famous people made mistakes that were so monumental they could never escape them, no matter how brilliant their successes! Ferdinand Magellan is credited as the first man to sail around the world...but he only actually made it halfway. His terrible treatment of everyone he met cut his life journey short. Queen Isabella of Spain is remembered for financing Columbus' expeditions - and for creating the Spanish Inquisition. J. Bruce Ismay commissioned the unsinkable marvel of the sea, the Titanic - and then jumped the line of women and children to escape death on a lifeboat. Listeners will be fascinated well past the final curtain and will empathize with the flawed humanity of these achievers. Famous successful "failures" include: Marco Polo Queen Isabella of Spain King Montezuma II Anne Boleyn Ferdinand Magellan Isaac Newton Benedict Arnold George Armstrong Custer Vincent van Gogh Susan B. Anthony Thomas Alva Edison J. Bruce Ismay Amelia M. Earhart Joseph Jefferson Jackson ("Shoeless Joe") ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L. J. Ganser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/007939/bk_reco_007939_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Barefoot Running Step by Step
Barefoot Running Step by Step ab 25.99 € als epub eBook: Barefoot Ken Bob The Guru of Shoeless Running Shares His Personal Technique For Running With More. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Sachthemen & Ratgeber, Sport & Entspannung,- Shop: hugendubel
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Shame on Me: Fool Me Once, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 263min
Ex-model Paige McCarty is fed up with being just a pretty face. After her ex-husband’s gambling problem left her royally screwed and tragically shoeless, she started Fool Me Once Investigations with her best friends, Lorlei and Kennedy, to prevent other women from being similarly played and dismayed. The job: Act as bait for a cheating husband. The target: Matt Russo. The case should be as easy as getting a man’s attention - and Paige has never had trouble with that. The problem is Matt - in all his nerdy-hot glory - turns out to be not such a scumbag after all. And when the case hits closer to home than Paige could ever have imagined - landing her in a face-off with the mob - she wonders if taking the job just to prove that she has a brain maybe wasn’t her best idea. This second outing for the Fool Me Once team follows in the same fun, feisty footsteps as best-selling author Tara Sivec’s Shame on You. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy McFadden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006028/bk_brll_006028_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Baseball Card Adventures: 4-Book Grand Slam Collection
Baseball Card Adventures: 4-Book Grand Slam Collection ab 4.99 € als epub eBook: Honus & Me Jackie & Me Babe & Me Shoeless Joe & Me. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Kinder & Jugendbuch,- Shop: hugendubel
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