Larry W Lester

Our White Boy (Sport in the American West)

At the outset of summer break in 1959, Texas Tech senior Jerry Craft had no more enticing options than to stay home and help on the family ranchso the telephoned offer to play for a semipro baseball club he’d never heard of came as a welcome surprise. But Craft was in for an even bigger surprise whe...

The McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage

Those pesky dangling modifiers, split infinitives, and comma splicesthey infect our spoken and written language with such frequency that even native English speakers find it difficult to determine what's right and what's wrong!The McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage shows you how to fi...

By Larry Beason - Commonsense Guide to Grammar and Usage: 5th (fifth) Edition

Ruling Over Monarchs, Giants, and Stars: True Tales of Breaking Barriers, Umpiring Baseball Legends, and Wild Adventures in the Negro Leagues

The Kansas City Monarchs, the Chicago American Giants, the St. Louis Stars, the Birmingham Black Barons, the Homestead Grays, and the Indianapolis Clowns; for over fifty years, they were the Yankees, Cardinals, and Red Sox of black baseball in America. And for over a decade beginning in the late 194...

The Negro Leagues Book

Based on the field's most prolific, imaginative, and best-known scholars, this ultimate reference work on the Negro Leagues includes a complete register of all the players--3,400 names, with positions and teams from before the turn of the century into the 1950s--annual rosters, in-depth histories, a...

McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage, 2nd Edition: With 160 Exercises

Who or Whom? / Its or It’s / Lie or Lay? Can't remember those grueling grammar lessons from junior high? Troubled that your professional writing lacks polish? Stop worrying! You've just picked up the painless prescription for proper English! Acclaimed grammarians Mark Lester and Larry Beason know th...

Black Baseballs National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953

Black Baseball in Pittsburgh

Baseball's First Colored World Series: The 1924 Meeting of the Hilldale Giants And Kansas City Monarchs