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City Of Champions

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Author by : Stefan Szymanski
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2020-10-13
Publisher by : The New Press

ISBN : 9781620974438

The changing fortunes of Detroit, told through the lens of the city's major sporting events, by the bestselling author of Soccernomics, and a prizewinning cultural critic From Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to the Bad Boys, from Joe Louis and Gordie Howe to the Malice at the Palace, City of Champions explores the history of Detroit through the stories of its most gifted athletes and most celebrated teams, linking iconic events in the history of Motown sports to the city's shifting fortunes. In an era when many teams have left rustbelt cities to relocate elsewhere, Detroit has held on to its franchises, and there is currently great hope in the revival of the city focused on its downtown sports complexes—but to whose benefit? Szymanski and Weineck show how the fate of the teams in Detroit's stadiums, gyms, and fields is echoed in the rise and fall of the car industry, political upheavals ushered in by the depression, World War II, the 1967 uprising, and its recent bankruptcy and renewal. Driven by the conviction that sports not only mirror society but also have a special power to create both community and enduring narratives that help define a city's sense of self, City of Champions is a unique history of the most American of cities....

City Of Champions

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Author by : Hank Gola
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2018
Publisher by :

ISBN : 1732222711

On Christmas night, 1939, two vastly different teams from Garfield, New Jersey, and Miami, Florida collided in the historic Orange Bowl to decide the National Sports Foundation's national championship. Garfield's Boilermakers were children of immigrants drawn to the industrial city's churning factories. Miami's Stingarees were from families from all over the country settling in one of America's most promising and thriving cities. In City of Champions, Hank Gola, a veteran and award-winning football writer, unveils this long-forgotten game. Gola mines stories of the towns and the lives of the players and coaches--detailing the grit (and wild strokes of fortune) that led up to a Garfield victory, stunning the football world. Gola also describes how this game mirrored America, revealing some of the most pressing cultural, economic and socio-political issues of the day....

Terror In The City Of Champions

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Author by : Tom Stanton
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2016-06-01
Publisher by : Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN : 9781493018185

A New York Times Bestseller Detroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group was executing a wicked plan of terror, murdering enemies, flogging associates, and contemplating armed rebellion. The Legion boasted tens of thousands of members across the Midwest, among them politicians and prominent citizens—even, possibly, a beloved athlete. Terror in the City of Champions opens with the arrival of Mickey Cochrane, a fiery baseball star who roused the Great Depression’s hardest-hit city by leading the Tigers to the 1934 pennant. A year later he guided the team to its first championship. Within seven months the Lions and Red Wings follow in football and hockey—all while Joe Louis chased boxing’s heavyweight crown. Amidst such glory, the Legion’s dreadful toll grew unchecked: staged “suicides,” bodies dumped along roadsides, high-profile assassination plots. Talkative Dayton Dean’s involvement would deepen as heroic Mickey’s Cochrane’s reputation would rise. But the ballplayer had his own demons, including a close friendship with Harry Bennett, Henry Ford’s brutal union buster. Award-winning author Tom Stanton weaves a stunning tale of history, crime, and sports. Richly portraying 1930s America, Terror in the City of Champions features a pageant of colorful figures: iconic athletes, sanctimonious criminals, scheming industrial titans, a bigoted radio priest, a love-smitten celebrity couple, J. Edgar Hoover, and two future presidents, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. It is a rollicking true story set at the confluence of hard luck, hope, victory, and violence. ....

Detroit

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Author by : David Lee Poremba
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1999-02
Publisher by : Arcadia Publishing

ISBN : 0738562394

Professional sports have played an important part in the history of the people and the City of Detroit since the turn of the century. Detroit sports teams have given the city a unique identity and provided the means to gain both a sense of community pride and a unity of spirit. At no other time was this more evident than during the decades from the 1920s through the 1950s, when Detroit teams rose consistently to the top of their individual professions. In 1935, the three professional sports teams in Detroit accomplished a remarkable feat by each winning their respective league titles and going on to capture the World Championships of baseball, football, and hockey, earning for the City of Detroit the honored sobriquet of "City of Champions." Here began a close and lasting relationship between Detroit sports teams and their fans....

City Of Champions Online

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Author by : Stuart Grosse
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2019-03-11
Publisher by :

ISBN : 1090239874

Having found the tragic truth that an art degree is worth less than the paper it is printed on, Jacquelyn Jones is frustrated with her dead end work as a graphic designer for a marketing firm, finding new ways to try and convince people that this week's 50 cent off sale is actually worth driving to the store. She's tried other VRMMORPGs, but they've all been fantasy-based, with a couple sci-fi games thrown in. But she wants something more, something Super.Superhero VRMMOs have had a... subpar reception in the past, in part due to the fact that the nature of most MMOs makes for fairly unheroic tales. After the couple hundredth time blasting the same group of mooks from the same faction on the same street corner of the same city, using the same powerset as everyone else because you only have a few options, it is hard to think of yourself as a hero anymore.But then she heard about City of Champions Online. For the first time, a developer partnered with a tabletop RPG maker to use their system to create a VRMMORPG, and it was one of the systems designed to be used with superhero games! And despite the name, there was no getting stuck in the same city as all the other players. The game world was a detailed replica of the real world, down to having some of the same shops and restaurants in town. She could be whoever she wanted, whatever she wanted.Now, she just has to find a way to become the heroine she's always wanted to be.------------------------------------The world of CoC is not a happy one, but it is not grimdark, either. It is like the world we live in, but with superheroes and game-like elements, where the ones regarded as heroes aren't always the most heroic amongst us. While the main characters in CoC are not as... extreme as those in my other stories, and at least try to be heroes, there is material some will find disturbing.**This is a compilation of Issues 1-5 of City of Champions Online.**...

Detroit City Of Champions

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Author by :
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2013-11-01
Publisher by :

ISBN : 0981743412

Did you know? That the Detroit Tigers, Lions and Red Wings won their first championships in the same season? This simple trivia question began the study into the City of Champions sports season of 1935-36. Astonishing discoveries were made in Detroit City of Champions: The Story of the Greatest Season in Detroit Sports History. The incredible rise of Joe Louis, the staggering array of other champions, the massive celebration at the Masonic Temple and the proclamations issued by the Governor of Michigan and Common Council (City Council) of Detroit for Champions Day (April 18th). Continuing the research into one of the greatest sports stories to ever take place, Detroit City of Champions "The Players" asks the question: Who were the players from the season? This collection of talented athletes combined to create Detroit's identity as one of the premier sports towns in the country, yet virtually all have been forgotten. Volume I of the two-part series explores Joe Louis's stunning rise from an unknown fighter to an international superstar and seeks to make a case for why his 1935 season should be regarded as the "greatest individual season in the history of American sport." Also in Volume I, the Detroit Tigers of 1935 came to represent the dogged determination of Detroiters who were faced with the grim realities of living in the Great Depression. Who were they? Where did they come from? For a generation of people who desperately needed heroes this was an era that a farm boy could be "discovered" and rise to become an inspiration for millions. Features of Detroit City of Champions: "The Players" Volume I *Hundreds of photos including "Magic Eye" action photos of nearly every player *A case for 1935-36 as the "greatest season in the history of American sport" *Introduction of a new baseball statistic: Run Production Average (RPA) **Detroit City of Champions: "The Players" Volume II chronicles the player stories of the Lions, Red Wings, and the numerous other champions of 1935-36....

Avenue Of Champions

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Author by : Conor Kerr
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2021-10-23
Publisher by : Harbour Publishing

ISBN : 9780889714199

Daniel is a young Métis man searching for a way to exist in a world of lateral violence, intergenerational trauma and systemic racism. Facing obstacles of his own at every turn, he observes and learns from the lived realities of his family members, friends, teachers and lovers. He finds hope in the inherent connection of Indigenous Peopls to the land, and the permanence of culture, language and ceremony in the face of displacement. Set in Edmonton, this story considers Indigenous youth in relation to the urban constructs and colonial spaces in which they survive—from violence, whitewashing, trauma and racism to language revitalization, relationships with Elders, restaking land claims and ultimately, triumph. Based on Papaschase and Métis oral histories and lived experience, Conor Kerr’s debut novel will not soon be forgotten....

Where Champions Meet

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Author by : Michelle Skerry
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1981
Publisher by :

ISBN : LCCN:80085434

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Heart Of A Champion

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Author by : Carl Deuker
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2009-05-30
Publisher by : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

ISBN : 9780316073493

Jimmy Winter is a born star on the baseball field, and Seth Barnam can only dream of being as talented. Still, the two baseball fanatics have the kind of friendship that should last forever. But when Seth experiences an unthinkable loss, he's forced to find his own personal strength--on and off the field. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults An ALA Best Book for Reluctant Readers A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Book of the Year...

Tournament Of Champions

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Author by : Phil Bildner
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2017-06-06
Publisher by : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)

ISBN : 9780374305079

Rip, Red, and their friends on the Clifton United basketball team travel to a spring sleep-away tournament....