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Dandy Dons

Dandy Dons
Author: James W. Johnson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2009
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0803224443

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In the mid-1950s three unrecruited black basketball players, coached by a white former prison guard who had never before coached a college team, led a small Jesuit university in San Francisco to two national titles. The Dandy Dons describes for the first time how the unprecedented accomplishment of the Dons, led by coach Phil Woolpert and future hall-of-famers Bill Russell and K. C. Jones, paved the way for black talent in major college basketball and transformed the sport. James W. Johnson traces the backgrounds of the coach and players, chronicles the heart-stopping games on the road to the championships, and details the Dons’ novel techniques: a more vertical game, more central defense, and intimidation as part of game strategy. He also gives a textured picture of life on an integrated basketball team amid a culture of racism and Jim Crow in mid-twentieth-century America.


King of the Court

King of the Court
Author: Aram Goudsouzian
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2010-05-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 052094576X

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Bill Russell was not the first African American to play professional basketball, but he was its first black superstar. From the moment he stepped onto the court of the Boston Garden in 1956, Russell began to transform the sport in a fundamental way, making him, more than any of his contemporaries, the Jackie Robinson of basketball. In King of the Court, Aram Goudsouzian provides a vivid and engrossing chronicle of the life and career of this brilliant champion and courageous racial pioneer. Russell’s leaping, wide-ranging defense altered the game’s texture. His teams provided models of racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s, and, in 1966, he became the first black coach of any major professional team sport. Yet, like no athlete before him, Russell challenged the politics of sport. Instead of displaying appreciative deference, he decried racist institutions, embraced his African roots, and challenged the nonviolent tenets of the civil rights movement. This beautifully written book—sophisticated, nuanced, and insightful—reveals a singular individual who expressed the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. while echoing the warnings of Malcolm X.


Fluke Family Fortune

Fluke Family Fortune
Author: Robert Erickson
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2003-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595288278

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First in the Fluke Family series, Fluke Family Fortune sets the stage for the comical misadventures of Maynerd Fluke Dumsted. To afford the love of the beautiful but shrewish Sue Tue, Maynerd Dumsted sets out to follow the clues to the family fortune hidden somewhere in the cursed kingdom of Gnat. A sometimes well-intentioned ghost gnome tags along for laughs, but his selfish machinations often mean more trouble for Maynerd. Other friends join the fun, such as the lovable fire-year-old orphan, Dandy May, who cavorts with dandelion fairies; the head-bashing ogress, Grissel who hates songs sung about her; an ineffectual thousand-year-old madman; a retired clodhopper named Sam Simple and his fun loving mule, Jazibell. A family curse and the grandiose scheme of the brigand King Kryan Kruke to transform him into the new national hero, in order to reunite the four scattered kingdoms of the land of Gnaught, further complicates Maynerd's plans to find the family fortune.


Dandy Delivers

Dandy Delivers
Author: M. Louisa Locke
Publisher: M. Louisa Locke
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2018-04-30
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

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It’s January 1881, and while the grown-ups in Annie and Nate Dawson’s San Francisco O’Farrell Street boardinghouse are busy with their own affairs, two boys and a dog find their own adventure. Ian Hennessey, a poor boy from South of Market, who is trying to shoulder a man’s responsibilities, gets in trouble, and his best friend, Jamie Hewitt, does what he can to help. But it is Jamie’s young Boston Terrier, Dandy, who saves the day. This short novella comes right after the events in Pilfered Promises and Kathleen Catches a Killer, however, as a stand alone, it can act as an introduction to the Victorian San Francisco Mystery series by USA Today bestselling author, M. Louisa Locke.


American Hereford Journal

American Hereford Journal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1226
Release: 1925
Genre: Hereford cattle
ISBN:

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The Last Cowboy: A Life of Tom Landry

The Last Cowboy: A Life of Tom Landry
Author: Mark Ribowsky
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 621
Release: 2013-11-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0871407485

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“An eloquent, honest tribute to a sports genius.” —Publishers Weekly, Best 100 Books of 2013 As the coach during professional football’s most storied era, Tom Landry transformed the gridiron from a no-holds-barred battlefield to the highly-technical chess match it is today. With his trademark fedora and stoic facade, he was a man of faith and few words, for twenty-nine years guiding “America’s Team” from laughingstock to well-oiled machine, with an unprecedented twenty consecutive winning seasons and two Super Bowl titles. Now, more than a decade after Landry’s death, acclaimed biographer Mark Ribowsky takes a fresh look at this misunderstood legend, telling us as much about our country’s obsession with football as about Landry himself, the likes of whom we’ll never see again.


Off the Track

Off the Track
Author: Mary Andrews Denison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1873
Genre:
ISBN:

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DANDY

DANDY
Author: Jazan Wild
Publisher: Carnival Comics
Total Pages: 301
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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DANDY Created by Andreas Carlsson and Jazan Wild In a world of glitz and glamour, mansions and limousines, a boy is born into the lap of luxury. After a trip with his father to the FREAK SHOW where Esmeralda, the Fortune Teller foresees the lad has a great journey ahead of him - a Dandy one - he arrives home only to discover that in a mere tick of the clock, everything has been taken away. Young Dandy finds himself cast out from the lavish world he’s known, and thrust into a harsh new reality as a resident of a rundown corrupt orphanage. All alone, except for the rats that scurry amongst the shadows, Dandy sits at his bedroom window, when suddenly he is visited by a melody that sweeps him out into the cold night air. Racing down the alleyways, the young boy discovers a magical nightclub, which only he has a VIP ticket to. That is until now. You are all invited into this wonder filled extravaganza! Welcome, One and All... to a crazy world, where... If You Can Dream It, You Can Be It! "Dandy"™ "If You Can Dream It, You Can Be It" ™


Dandy's Daring Deeds

Dandy's Daring Deeds
Author: M. Louisa Locke
Publisher: M. Louisa Locke
Total Pages: 135
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Dandy’s Daring Deeds is a collection of already published stories featuring the Boston Terrier, Dandy, a recurring character in the Victorian San Francisco Mystery series. This collection consists of the short story, Dandy Detects, an excerpt from the novel, Uneasy Spirits, the novella, Dandy Delivers, and the short story, Dandy’s Discovery. Dandy Detects: In the fall of 1879, San Francisco swelters under a heat wave. Meanwhile, Barbara Hewitt, a reserved school-teacher who lives with her son Jamie in Annie Fuller’s O’Farrell Street boardinghouse, uncovers a mystery with the help of her son’s dog, the Boston Terrier, Dandy. Uneasy Spirits Excerpt: Annie Fuller takes a break from investigating a fraudulent trance medium in order to take a walk with two of her two boarders, Barbara and Jamie Hewitt, and their Boston Terrier, Dandy. Halloween is fast approaching and they have stopped to get some pumpkins when disaster strikes––an accident that, without Dandy’s intervention, could have been deadly. Dandy Delivers: It’s January 1881, and while the grown-ups in the O’Farrell Street boardinghouse are busy with their own affairs, two boys and a dog find their own adventure. Ian Hennessey, a poor boy from South of Market, who is trying to shoulder a man’s responsibilities, gets in trouble, and his best friend, Jamie Hewitt, does what he can to help. But it is Jamie’s young Boston Terrier, Dandy, who saves the day. Dandy’s Discovery: Something odd is happening at the O’Farrell Street boardinghouse, and Annie is worried that her new baby might be in danger. But never fear, Dandy, the Boston Terrier, will discover the culprit and all will be well.


Event Solutions

Event Solutions
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 890
Release: 2002
Genre: Congresses and conventions
ISBN:

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