The late 1940s and early 1950s was the Golden Age for minor league baseball. The National Pastime thrived in small town America with hundreds of professional teams in over 50 leagues playing at every level. The lowest rung of professional baseball―Class D, the “bush leagues”―was an exciting mix of returning soldiers and recent high school grads, all with dreams of climbing up the ladder to make it to the “big show.” For seven seasons (1946–1952) the Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League offered some of the most memorable bush league baseball of the era. Of the 1,588 young men who donned a KOM League uniform, in places like Independence, Kansas and Ponca City, Oklahoma, 30 made it to the majors and one made it to the Hall of Fame.

The KOM League Remembered (KS) (Images of Baseball)

Arts & Photography

Hall, John G.

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

Explores the history of the Palestinian people and the evolution of the current conflict over Palestine between the Palestinians and the Israelis.

Palestinian Authority (Creation of the Modern Middle East)

Teen & Young Adult

Chelsea House Pub

The late 1940s and early 1950s was the Golden Age for minor league baseball. The National Pastime thrived in small town America with hundreds of professional teams in over 50 leagues playing at every level. The lowest rung of professional baseball--Class D, the "bush leagues"--was an exciting mix of returning soldiers and recent high school grads, all with dreams of climbing up the ladder to make it to the "big show." For seven seasons (1946-1952) the Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri League offered some of the most memorable bush league baseball of the era. Of the 1,588 young men who donned a KOM League uniform, in places like Independence, Kansas and Ponca City, Oklahoma, 30 made it to the majors and one made it to the Hall of Fame.

Kom League Remembered

History

Americas

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

The most comprehensive account of Mickey Mantle's early years ever written. Never-before-seen glimpses into the life of a fun-loving Midwestern kid honing his skills on the way to the big show. Rare photos, family interviews, little-known facts and baseball statistics. Foreword by Mickey's widow, Merlyn Mantle.

Mickey Mantle: Before the Glory

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Leathers Pub

For over 50 years, the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis in their fight for land about the size of Vermont has demanded constant media attention. The PNA was created in the hopes of negotiating a permanent Palestinian government and peace between two groups that have historically been at odds.

The Palestinian National Authority (Creation of the Modern Middle East)

Woog, Adam

Children's Books

Majoring in the minors: A glimpse of baseball in a small town

Oklahoma Bylines

Hardcover book copyright 1996, second printing 2000History of the KOM minor league which included such great players as Mickey Mantle,centered around the town of Carthage Missouri, with rosters, history, pictures, etc...

Majoring in the Minors (A Glimpse of Baseball in a Small Town, Second Printing)

Oklahoma Bylines Inc.

This book features 60 pages of John G. Hall's best poems, illlustrated by Becky Mackay and published in the USA by Crisis Chronicles Press. Jack Hirschman says of Poems for Explosion, "These are 'letter rip' poems by a very conscious British poet who is forever breaking the chokehold that Willie Shakespeare has bent around the neck of that island. Hall really wants to include everything and everybody — he unloads personal and political contradictions with an organized spontaneity that is refreshing and millennial, and his urgencies are upbeat and rooted in a totalizing expressivity." Gerry Potter says, "Powerhouse tenderness and lyrical agility bind together John’s remarkable use of language to give work of lasting worth and historical accuracy. John G Hall is poet first and foremost and a 20th-21st century documenter second to none. In a world of increasing unfairness we need work of this richness and colour to keep us sane." Foreword by Sue Fox. Cover image by Charlotte Henson.

Poems for Explosion

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Crisis Chronicles Press

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