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Hawaii Early Sports History
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Price: |
29.99 |
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Title: |
Honolulu Stadium, Where Hawaii Played |
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Author: |
Arthur Suehiro - George Engebretson |
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ISBN: |
0-9631154-2-1 |
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Description: |
SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH INSCRIPTION TO FORMER OWNER Oversize hardcover (11 1/4 x 11 1/4), Watermark, 1995. 164 pages. Color and b/w photos. Illustrated endpapers |
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Condition: |
Clean and tight with mild edge and corner wear, minor rubbing, dustjacket moderate edge wear/curl, moderate scratch, dent and scuff, flaps intact. |
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Summary: |
"This book is a product of two years of research by Arthur Suehiro, including countless hours spent
combing archives, photo libraries and private collections, and more than 100 interviews with those
who lived the Stadium story: players and coaches, fans and cheerleaders, historians, sportscasters
and many others." "For anyone born before the 1970's in Hawai'i, the glory days of Honolulu Stadium bring back
wonderful memories of a time gone by: the wooden bleachers, the grassy field,
the crack of the bat, the raucous cheers of football fans. All this and more has been captured
by Arthur Suehiro in his beautiful Honolulu Stadium. The book is a coffee table pictorial that traces
the history of the stadium from its conception by J. Ashman Beaven and construction in 1926
through its heyday to its demolition in 1976 and consequent reincarnation as Old Stadium Park."
"The colorful story of Honolulu Stadium recalls a golden era when Honolulu was
young and sport was king. During the historic half-century from 1927 to 1976, this landmark arena
hosted high school football, the Triple-A Hawaii Islanders, the Hula Bowl, stock car racing,
boxing matches, ethnic baseball leagues, sports heroes from Babe Ruth to Joe Louis,
and big name entertainers from Irving Berlin to Elvis Presley. Includes hundreds of historic photos
and rare memorabilia, as well as the priceless memories of athletes, coaches,
fans and many others. With a foreword by sportscaster Al Michaels, this is the complete story
of Honolulu Stadium--a classic American ballpark and the heart and soul of a community.
Winner of the Hawaii Book Publishers Association award for excellence in non-fiction writing." CLICK THE "MORE IMAGES" LINK ABOVE TO SEE MORE OF THIS TITLE |
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