history

Highlights the key personalities and memorable games in the history of the team that began playing in 1901 under the name Boston Pilgrims.

Highlights the key personalities and memorable games in the history of the team that changed its name to the Orioles when it came to Baltimore from St. Louis in 1954.

Presents a biography of the first black baseball player to play in the major leagues when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Also traces the history of all-black baseball teams.

A team history of the Giants, who arrived in San Francisco in 1958 from New York where they had played for seventy-five years, thrilling fans on both coasts.

A team history of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who have been playing baseball since the 1880s.

A team history of the Chicago Cubs, featuring outstanding players over the years.

Traces the history of the team from its beginnings through 1996.

A history of the Boston Post Road from its early days as a series of Indian trails to the present.

Captioned illustrations and diagrams describe knights and castles in Europe in the year 1240.

Provides information about money and finance in colonial America, tracing the development of a money system from the arrival of Europeans at the end of the fifteenth century, to the American Revolution, discussing Native American money, merchant bankers, colonial merchants, bartering, coins and currency, taxes, and early banks and bankers.