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The Short Life of Hughie McLoon
"This could be a great work of fiction. The damndest thing is it's all fact.' - Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated It was a time of Prohibition, jazz, and gangland murder, and it was baseball's age of magic, when even Hall of Fame players believed that rubbing the hump of a hunchback guaranteed a hit. Broken and deformed by a childhood fall from a seesaw, Hughie McLoon never grew taller than forty-nine inches but he made himself one of the lucky ones. He was chosen as the batboy and mascot of the Philadelphia Athletics. Although the team finished last in each of the three seasons that the A's rubbed his hump and Hughie tended their bats, he became a local celebrity. He loved the crowds and t...
Wiley Expert Witness Update
The new 1998 edition of the Wiley Expert Witness Update is an essential tool to help personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers understand key issues relating to expert witness testimony that can make or break a case. The 1998 Wiley Expert Witness Update brings you the best thinking and research of top trial lawyers, trial consultants, and medical and insurance professionals including Jeffrey Boyd, Glenn Cahn, Laurence Miller, and Amy Singer. The book is comprised of eight chapters -- each examining in-depth legal, scientific, or other practical issues involving experts in personal injury litigation. Rather than limiting its focus on experts' roles as witnesses, this year's Update offers va...
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Boxing
Boxing is one of the oldest and most exciting of sports: its bruising and bloody confrontations have permeated Western culture since 3000 BC. During that period, there has hardly been a time in which young men, and sometimes women, did not raise their gloved or naked fists to one other. Throughout this history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers and film-makers have been there to record and make sense of it all. In her encyclopaedic investigation, Kasia Boddy sheds new light on an elemental sports and struggle for dominance whose weapons are nothing more than fists. Boddy examines the shifting social, political and cultural resonances of ...
