Shut Out : A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston [1 ed.] 9781135297763, 9780415927796

Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greate

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Shut Out : A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston [1 ed.]
9781135297763, 9780415927796

Over the years, Boston has been one of America's leading laboratories of urban culture, including restaurants, and

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'Steph takes you into her world with refreshing honesty. Her voice is that rare combination of conviction and vulne

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What can neighborhood baseball tell us about class and gender cultures, urban change, and the ways that communities valu

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This book is the story of the first part of my life and how I rediscovered myself. At the age of 38, a midlife crisis in

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Read the review at MLB.com The Green Monster. Pesky's Pole. The Lone Red Seat. Yawkey Way. To baseball fans this li

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METCO, America’s longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, has for 34 years bused black children from Bost

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Fires and firefighting in Boston from the seventeenth century to the present. Includes the Great Fire of 1872, the Cocoa

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The preeminent civil rights attorneys and scholars of the past quarter-century weigh in on some of the most controversia

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Donna M. Goldstein presents a hard-hitting critique of urban poverty and violence and challenges much of what we think w

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