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Cover of Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship
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Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship
Jack Kugelmass, ed.
Cover of Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman
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Branch Rick­ey: Base­bal­l’s Fero­cious Gentleman
Lee Lowenfish
Cover of You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!
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You Nev­er Heard of Sandy Koufax?!
Jonas Winter; Adré Carrilho, illus.
Cover of Time-out: Sports Stories as a Game Plan for Spiritual Success
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Time-out: Sports Sto­ries as a Game Plan for Spir­i­tu­al Success
Dov Moshe Lipman
Cover of Passing Game: Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football
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Pass­ing Game: Ben­ny Fried­man and the Trans­for­ma­tion of Football
Murray Greenberg
Cover of The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World
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The Echo­ing Green: The Untold Sto­ry of Bob­by Thom­son, Ralph Bran­ca and the Shot Heard Round the World
Joshua Prager
Cover of Abel Kiviat, National Champion: Twentieth-Century Track and Field and the Melting Pot
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Abel Kivi­at, Nation­al Cham­pi­on: Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Track and Field and the Melt­ing Pot
Alan S. Katchen
Cover of Jews and Baseball: Volume 1, Entering the American Mainstream, 1871-1948
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Jews and Base­ball: Vol­ume 1, Enter­ing the Amer­i­can Main­stream, 1871 – 1948
Burton A. Boxerman and Benita W. Boxerman; Martin Abramowitz, fwd.
Cover of Barney Ross
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Bar­ney Ross
Douglas Century
Cover of Sandy Koufax
Chil­dren’s
Sandy Koufax
Matt Doeden
Cover of Hammerin' Hank: The Life of Hank Greenberg
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Ham­merin’ Hank: The Life of Hank Greenberg
Yona Zeldis McDonough; Malcah Zeldis, illus.
Cover of Like a Maccabee
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Like a Maccabee
Barbara Bietz; Anita White, illus.
Cover of Across the Alley
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Across the Alley
Richard Michelson; E.B. Lewis, illus.
Cover of Emancipation Through Muscles: Jews and Sports in Europe
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Eman­ci­pa­tion Through Mus­cles: Jews and Sports in Europe
Michael Brenner; Gideon Reuveni, eds.
Cover of Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball
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Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball
Rebecca T. Alpert
Cover of Pitching in the Promised Land: A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League
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Pitch­ing in the Promised Land: A Sto­ry of the First and Only Sea­son in the Israel Base­ball League
Aaron Pribble
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