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This is the story of one of the all-time great teams of major league baseball, the 1957 Milwaukee Braves. The Braves boasted a lineup packed with power and a pitching staff anchored by three aces. Four future Hall of Famers led the team to the National League pennant, and a fidgety right-hander pitched the Braves past the mighty Yankees in the World Series. Covering the Braves' magical season in remarkable detail, the author chronicles the winning streaks and the tough stretches, comments on the key transactions and costly injuries, and recalls the unforgettable players (such as Bob "Hurricane" Hazle) and the events (the Shoe Polish Incident) that have since become part of baseball lore.
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Expensive and a little dull!.......2007-10-05
Statistical lists, articles from newspapers and interviews with players would have spiced up this lifeless literary work. Players stats are thrown into the text haphazardly and at times the reader finds himself going into "flashback". There is an absence of "drama" in the writing also, even the chapter on the World Series' games is pretty bland, ("the Yankees went down one,two,three in the sixth", is a prime example. This book should've included separate stat pages so the reader could cast an eye on them at various stages through the book. It would have been better for one whole chapter to handle the players biographies rather than have them scattered throughout the book with only a few lines or paragraphs for each. Whole box scores of crucial or memorable games printed here and there would have been a nice touch as would actual action photographs taken by the Milwaukee papers of the time.
This is a competently written book and if you are after just the "nuts and bolts" of a teams glory season then you won't find a problem. However,i was expecting more for my money. The 1957 Milwaukee Braves were one of baseball's finest teams and their story should've been told with a little more insight and in a less confusing manner. It's the kind of writing you see in a baseball magazine rather than a well-intended baseball book. A shame because this could have been a terrific book!
Bland, lazily done, and disappointing.......2007-08-14
Counting shipping, this book set me back $41.82 ... and after reading it, I'd say its worth is best described by moving the decimal point one column to the left.
The author claims to have spent 30 years as a sportswriter, yet he did not do a single interview for this book - nor, it would seem, did he even bother to set foot in Milwaukee (where many people still remember the Braves bittersweetly). All the information in the book is culled from other books, from New York Times excerpts (not even a mention of the Milwaukee Journal or Sentinel) and various websites. Not one former Milwaukee Brave is quoted directly, and there is no mention whatsoever of the Milwaukee/County Stadium environment during those heady days. Nor is there any attempt to put the Milwaukee phenomenon - which, next to the Giants and Dodgers moving, was baseball's most important development during the 1950s - in perspective, or even try to create a tableau that can help people sense what it was like being there.
Most of this book is a very bland, matter-of-fact and often meaningless day-by-day narrative of the Braves' 1957 season, and by the third or fourth chapter I found myself skimming completely over this material. The only things that save this book from a 1-star rating are occasional detours into some of the players' talents and personalities, which provided some - but hardly enough - of the insights for which I paid $41 for this book in the first place. Alas, these were far too few and far between - and again, there is not a single in-person interview.
I finished this book knowing scarcely anything about the 1957 Milwaukee Braves, and their players, that I didn't know before. This book's only value is as reference material in case one is researching that season and wants to look up what happened on a specific date. Otherwise, it's a complete waste of money, and I'd like very much to get my $41 back.
Tim's Baseball Book Critic's Corner.......2007-05-14
This book was extremely well-written and very informative. I highly recommend thi sbook to any Braves fan or, for that matter, any baseball fan in general.
Indian Summer.......2007-04-27
An Indian Summer is a must read for baseball fans interested in the game during the 50's and early 60's. And especially if you are a Braves' fan. The Braves' 1957 season is portrayed in detail and a reader can basically re-live the pitch by pitch of the Braves-Yankees World Series. Mr. Mumau gives a bio on all the major players for the Braves that season to include Spahn, Burdett, Buhl, Aaron, Mathews, and Logan and describes the dynasty that the Braves had between 1956 and 1960. Unfortunately, like the modern day Braves, this team only had one World Series Championship to their credit. This reader highly recommends.
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The companion teacher’s guide to Native People of Wisconsin offers a variety of activities that help students gain skills in expository reading and writing as well as reinforce the content of the student text. All the activities are interactive and link to the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards for the Social Studies. The accompanying CD-ROM includes video clips from the Wisconsin Studies instructional television programs, including the entire "New Dawn of Tradition: A Wisconsin Powwow" video, narrated by Patty Loew.
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The stories of the twelve Native Nations in Wisconsin.......2004-03-04
The fifth title in the outstanding "New Badger History" series for students ages 8 to 14, and written as readable, informational, and enjoyable for all ages, Native People Of Wisconsin by Patty Loew presents the stories of the twelve Native Nations in Wisconsin. Surveying the unique culture, traditions, tribal history, and life today for each nation, and wonderfully enhanced with maps, illustrations, pronunciation guidelines, a simple glossary, and more, Native People Of Wisconsin is an ideal addition to Native American Studies and Wisconsin History library collections and as a supplemental resource for grade school, middle school, and home schooling educational curriculums.
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From origin stories to contemporary struggles over treaty rights and sovereignty issues, Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal explores Wisconsin’s rich Native tradition. Each chapter is a compact tribal history of one of the state’s Indian nations—Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Oneida, Menominee, Mohican and Brothertown, and Ho-Chunk—and the book relies on the historical perspectives of Native people. Author Patty Loew focuses on oral tradition—stories, songs, the recorded words of Indian treaty negotiators, and interviews—as well as other untapped Native sources, such as tribal newspapers, to present a distinctly different view of history.
Elders and tribal historians from each of the twelve Native communities represented in the book participated in the book’s development—making suggestions, recommending sources, and offering criticism. Indian Nations of Wisconsin is illustrated with more than seventy photographs.
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Refreshing look at Native American history!.......2001-11-21
Patty Loew takes a novel approach in this book and uses Native American sources to tell Native American history! Oral history, treaty minutes, recorded speeches by Native American leaders, and other Native sources are used over the traditional "white" sources that make up the majority of Native American history. The book reads extremely well and is intensely interesting. Each chapter tells the story of a Wisconsin Indian nation from the point of view of that nation. This is an enjoyable book to read for anyone interested in Native American history. Moreover, it is an invaluable addition to scholarship and a (hopefully) trend-setting example of using Native sources to tell Native history.
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This book presents a sociological study of how and why racial prejudice against members of a minority group comes to shape what happens to important political claims and aspirations of the group. Lawrence Bobo and Mia Tuan explore a lengthy controversy surrounding the fishing, hunting, and gathering rights of the Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin. The controversy started in 1974, when two Chippewa Indians were arrested for off-reservation fishing, and persisted into the 1990s. It involved the efforts of the Chippewa to assert their traditional spearfishing rights, which met with angry, racially charged responses from whites.
Bobo and Tuan develop a "group position" perspective on racial attitudes that takes account of the complex interplay of racial stereotypes and negative group feelings as well as the vested interests, collective privileges, and political threats that form the basis of racialized political disputes. They explore whether theories that explain race politics in the case of black-white relations are applicable to understanding Indian-white relations. The book uses a carefully designed survey of public opinion to explore the dynamics of prejudice and political contestation, and to further our understanding of how and why racial prejudice enters into politics in the United States.
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For generations, the Ojibwe bands of northern Wisconsin have spearfished spawning walleyed pike in the springtime. The bands reserved hunting, fishing, and gathering rights on the lands that would become the northern third of Wisconsin in treaties signed with the federal government in 1837, 1842, and 1854. Those rights, however, would be ignored by the state of Wisconsin for more than a century. When a federal appeals court in 1983 upheld the bands' off-reservation rights, a deep and far-reaching conflict erupted between the Ojibwe bands and some of their non-Native neighbors. Starting in the mid-1980s, protesters and supporters flocked to the boat landings of lakes being spearfished; Ojibwe spearfisher-men were threatened, stoned, and shot at. Peace and protest rallies, marches, and ceremonies galvanized and rocked the local communities and reservations, and individuals and organizations from across the country poured into northern Wisconsin to take sides in the spearfishing dispute. From the front lines on lakes to tense, behind-the-scenes maneuvering on and off reservations, The Walleye War tells the riveting story of the spearfishing conflict, drawing on the experiences and perspectives of the members of the Lac du Flambeau reservation and an anthropologist who accompanied them on spearfishing expeditions. We learn of the historical roots and cultural significance of spearfishing and off-reservation treaty rights and we see why many modern Ojibwes and non-Natives view them in profoundly different ways. We also come to understand why the Flambeau tribal council and some tribal members disagreed with the spearfishermen and pursued a policy of negotiation with the state to lease the off-reservation treaty rights for fifty million dollars. Fought with rocks and metaphors, The Walleye War is the story of a Native people's struggle for dignity, identity, and self-preservation in the modern world. Larry Nesper an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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I highly recommend this book.......2002-09-07
Dr. Larry Nesper's 13-year journey with the Lac du Flambeau Indians becomes a thoroughly enjoyable and scholarly example of modern ethnographic work. The book meticulously details all of the issues relevant to Ojibwe spear-fishing and treaty rights as 1) native tradition, 2) cultural conflict (conflict both within the native culture, and between the native population and the State of Wisconsin), 3) inter-cultural legal conflict and controversy, and 4) an example for current dialogues regarding ethnicity and ethnic conflict, ethnic prejudice, and racism. Nesper clearly outlines all pertinent issues of the 25-year "Walleye War" from every angle, and conscientiously works his way through them, all the while carefully explaining different cultural perspectives. Even though Nesper states that he has become friends with many of the native people about whom he writes, he does not let his own feelings of friendship taint the truth. I recommend the book for enthusiasts of native culture, academics (especially those teaching cultural anthropology), and anyone interested in the history of, and current issues regarding, treaty rights and the relationship between native cultures and state or federal government entities.
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- The War Against First Nations Continues
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Walleye Warriors: An Effective Alliance Against Racism and for the Earth
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The War Against First Nations Continues.......2007-10-13
"The following is a sign found posted in northern Wisconsin in the late 1980s: " First Annual Indian Shoot: Plain Indian...5 Points; Indian with Walleyes...10 Points; Indian With Boat Newer Than Yours...20 Points."
" Each Spring when the ice clears, the Anishinaabe ( Chippewa) harvest fish from the lakes of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Their ancient subsistence fishing and hunting tradition is protected by treaties and reinforced by Federal Court rulings, but for years they were met by stones, racial epithets, and death threats hurled by local sports fisherman, resort and cottage owners, and other white neighbors.
Walleye Warriors tells the exciting and empowering story of how a multi-race and class alliance of Anishinaabe (Chippewa), local residents, and activists defused these dramatic and tense confrontations by witnessing and documenting them. The walleye warriors and their supporters were successful at protecting Chippewa sovereignty despite the attempted use of racism, economic threats, and local government manipulations. "
Being a "Plain Indian" in northern Wisconsin, who lived here during the times described, I say this is a good read. Ho wa.
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- The heritage of Native American mounds and mound groups
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Increase Allen Lapham
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Indian Mounds of Wisconsin
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First published in 1855 and long out of print, The Antiquities of Wisconsin remains invaluable as a detailed record of Wisconsin's rich archaeological heritage of mounds and mound groups, many of which were later destroyed by farming and urban growth. Lapham was among the first scientists to produce evidence that the earthworks had been built by the ancestors of modern Native Americans, not some mythical "lost race," as was believed by many white authorities of the time. Modern researchers still use Lapham's maps and descriptions to locate vestiges of sites that once existed, or to help reconstruct Wisconsin's ancient cultural landscape. This edition includes an introduction by Wisconsin state archaeologist Robert A. Birmingham.
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The heritage of Native American mounds and mound groups.......2001-05-17
Originally published in 1855, I. A. Lapham's The Antiquities Of Wisconsin has been out of print for decades. An invaluable compendium of Wisconsin's diverse and impressive archaeological heritage of Native American mounds and mound groups (a very large number of which have since been destroyed by farming and urban development), contemporary archaeologists and researchers continue to rely upon Lapham's maps and descriptions to locate vestiges of sites and help reconstruct the antiquarian cultural landscape of Wisconsin. This new and much appreciated edition from the University of Wisconsin Press is enhanced with a foreword by state archaeologist Robert A. Birmingham, as well as an informative introduction by leading Lapham scholar Robert P. Nurre. The Antiquities Of Wisconsin is an absolutely essential, core addition to personal, academic, and community library Wisconsin archaeology and Native American studies collections.
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Aztalan has remained a mystery since the early nineteenth century when it was discovered by settlers who came to the Crawfish River, fifty miles west of Milwaukee. Who were the early indigenous people who inhabited this place? When did they live here? Why did they disappear?
Birmingham and Goldstein attempt to unlock some of the mysteries, providing insights and information about the group of people who first settled here in 1100 AD. Filled with maps, drawings, and photographs of artifacts, this small volume examines a time before modern Native American people settled in this area.
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A quest to untangle ancient mysteries surrounding Aztalan.......2006-06-04
Aztalan: Mysteries Of An Ancient Indian Town is a quest to untangle ancient mysteries surrounding Aztalan, a place 50 miles west of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Who were the early indigenous people who once lived in Aztalan between AD 1050 and AD 1100, and why did they disappear? Written by expert archaeologist Robert Birmingham and anthropology professor Lynne Goldstein, and filled with black-and-white maps, drawings, and photographs of artifacts on almost every other page, Aztalan: Mysteries Of An Ancient Indian Town discusses the cultural landscape, the influence of the Mississippi River, and deductions concerning daily life in this ancient settlement. The text is documented and studious, without being stuffy or confusing. Enthusiastically recommended for students, professionals, lay readers curious about the field of Native American archaeology.
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An Excellent Resource.......2000-12-22
I used this book in a mythology class project and it was a great help. The book reveals a great deal of the Winnebago tradition through the history detailed in the stories. This book is well worth the money and is a necessary piece to any Native American collection.
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