Mid Atlantic Backlist 27

In Search of Maryland Ghosts: Montgomery Spooky Creepy Baltimore County. D. P. Rose- From Maryland to Cooperstown: Seven Mary- County. Karen Yaffe Lottes & Dorothy Pugh. Explore berry. Come closer to the flames as you read the land Natives in ’s Hall of Fame. Lois the haunted regions of Montgomery County, Mary- contemporary haunts of Baltimore County, Maryland. P. Nicholson. Chronicles the lives and careers of land, and its surrounding area. Learn about the Hear demons in an attic at a Harford Road residence, seven of baseball’s elite, beginning with Baltimore’s Headless Horseman that continues to terrorize visi- see shadow people in Perry Hall, and meet a murder- own ; Vic Willis; famed hitter “Home ” tors to the old railroad bridge; the poltergeist haunt- ous ghost in Middle River. These new and scary Baker; William Julius “Judy” Johnson; Robert Moses ing the Madison House; the Tommyknocker at the stories will have you reading into the night—or at “Lefty” Grove; ; and . Maryland Mine; and the farmer searching for his least until the fire dies! Grades 4 to 8 buried treasure. Are you brave enough to take this Size: 6” x 9” • 14 b/w photos • 160 pp. Size: 7” x 9” • 39 b/w photos • Index • 144 pp. haunted journey back into time? ISBN: 978-0-7643-3254-8 • soft cover • $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-87033-494-8 • hard cover • $19.95 Size: 6” x 9” • 58 photos & 8 maps • Index • 192 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-4010-9 • soft cover • $19.99 Fighting for Fairness: The Life Story of Hall The Patapsco: Baltimore’s River of History. of Fame Sportswriter Sam Lacy. Sam Lacy, with Ghosts and Haunted Houses of Maryland. Paul J. Travers. This book narrates the Patapsco’s Moses J. Newson. An outspoken advocate for equal Trish Gallagher. Illustrated by Howard Burns. A life story from the early Indian camps on its shores opportunity, Sam Lacy spearheaded integration in collection of twenty-five fascinating accounts of through the late twentieth-century revitalization of . He lived with sports heroes the supernatural from the flatlands of the Eastern its harbor, a story that contains some of the most and , in the segregated Shore to the mountains of western Maryland. Meet important and fascinating events of Maryland’s accommodations to which they were relegated for legends including the infamous slave kidnapper, past. It follows a chronological order of historical years, despite their outstanding performances on Patty Cannon, and the controversial Dr. Samuel highlights, allowing the reader to dip at will into the playing field. Mudd. This book will entertain, amuse, and (just the exciting blend of people, places, and events that Size: 6” x 9” • 35 b/w photos • Index • 272 pp. maybe) raise a few goose bumps. have had such great impact on the state and the ISBN: 978-0-87033-512-9 • hard cover • $29.95 Size: 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” • 8 b/w illustrations nation. 96 pp. • ISBN: 978-0-87033-382-8 Size: 6” x 9” • 9 b/w photos, 12 illustrations & 1 map soft cover • $8.95 Index • 238 pp. • ISBN: 978-0-87033-400-9 • hard cover • $22.95 Rex Barney's Thank Youuuu for 50 Years in Baseball from Brooklyn to Baltimore. Rex Barney, with Norman L. Macht. The man who threw Maryland Lost and Found...Again. Eugene L Maryland’s Eastern Shore: A Journey in Time faster than most and whose pitching career sped Meyer. This tour across the Free State makes comment and Place. John R. Wennersten. The region has by quicker than his fastball. Barney became a legend on the American landscape. Part love letter, part been geographically isolated and socially unique in as part of the most exciting era of the Brooklyn oral history, and part obituary, the book explores its language and customs in agriculture, seafaring, Dodgers, 1943 to 1951. Rex takes the reader into the people and places where life has made special and race. Before accelerating change affects its dugouts, clubhouses, and broadcast booths to meet contributions to America. From cities, waterways, transformation to modern standards, this book managers, stars, and scrubinis. farmland, and transportation routes come true reflects the Eastern Shore’s unusual socio-cultural Size: 6” x 9” • 50 b/w photos & 2 illustrations stories of the state’s unique development. history through absorbing narrative and examples Index • 280 pp. Size: 6” x 9” • 54 b/w photos • Index of its probable vanishing lifestyle. ISBN: 978-0-87033-443-6 • hard cover • $19.95 296 pp. • ISBN: 978-0-87033-548-8 Size: 6” x 9” • 21 b/w photos, 1 map soft cover • $15.95 Index • 310 pp. • ISBN: 978-0-87033-428-3 • hard cover • $23.95 From Colts to Ravens: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Baltimore Professional Football. John F. Steadman. The tale of football in Baltimore; from Lost Towns of Tidewater Maryland. Donald G. Down on the Shore. Adele V. Holden. A true the organization of the Colts in 1947, through the Shomette. Maryland’s pre-planned urbanization from story that reveals a lifestyle among local blacks who sale of the team to Bob Irsay in 1972, to the infamous 1668 to 1751 was doomed because it ignored natu- meted out life in a society rigidly enforced by Shore trip out of the town under the cover of darkness in ral realities. The true stories shared here relate not whites; a way of life both humane and cruel. It recalls 1984, and finally the acquisition of a new Baltimore simple tales of buildings and wharves, but a history battles to fulfill goals instilled by parents who saw team, the Ravens, in 1996. of people, both freemen and slaves, who lived, education as their children’s only chance in a seg- Size: 6” x 9” • 68 b/w photos & 3 illustrations worked, defended, and died with them. Of 130 sites, regated country. Conquering adversity, the poet/ Index • 256 pp. • ISBN: 978-0-87033-497-9 less than 20 exist today. author chose a life devoted to teaching and equal- hard cover • $24.95 Size: 7” x 10” ity. 4 illus., 29 b/w photos & 13 maps • Index • 384 pp. Size: 6” x 9” • 20 b/w photos • 248 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87033-527-3 • hard cover • $36.95 ISBN: 978-0-87033-547-1 • soft cover • $15.95 Maryland: Architecture

Maryland Loyalists in the American Revolution. Memory of a Murder. Earl Staggs. A killer is leav- Annapolis Vignettes. Ginger Doyel. Annapolis, M. Christopher New. Many Marylanders who would ing a trail of terror and death from Baltimore to Ocean capital of Maryland and home of the U.S. Naval not engage in the movement for independence lost City, and only one man can stop him. The man de- Academy, offers an architectural feast. Shows their homes and jobs, and some were banished to velops psychic powers that allow him to see things buildings representing every period in historical Nova Scotia. Some were ill-used by British command- most people can’t. Twelve years later, his special perspective and adds colorful facts to enhance ers to fight England’s enemy, Spain, in Florida. This sight opens the doorway to a man who begs for help, appreciation of them. tragic chapter of American history should not be “I think I killed someone.” Will the man’s visions lead Size: 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” forgotten. to the killer? 113 b/w photos, 28 illustrations • 316 pp. Size: 6” x 9” • 10 illus., 4 maps • Index Size: 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” • 272 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87033-571-6 210 pp. • ISBN: 978-0-87033-495-5 • hard cover ISBN: 978-0-87033-604-1 • soft cover • $13.95t soft cover • $24.95 $26.95

Maryland Folklore. George G. Carey. Tall tales, Briar Patch: The Murder that Would Not Die. A Guide to Baltimore Architecture. 3rd Edition. legends, folk heroes, and local characters relate Donald Grady Shomette. The murder of two teenage John Dorsey & James D. Dilts. Grouped by neighborhood, traditions and history that often are taken for girls remained unsolved with one false lead after more than two hundred notable Baltimore buildings are granted. another … until a surprising phone call was received pictured and described with commentary on their his- Size: 6” x 9” • 6 b/w photos, 1 map • 176 pp. more than 40 years later. Would it put an end to tory and style. Photographs, maps, and tours as well as ISBN: 978-0-7643-3594-5 • soft cover • $12.99 the crime dubbed “The Murder That Would Not biographies of Baltimore architects. Die”? Inspired by the 1955 Northwest Branch Park Size: 4 1/2” x 9” • 273 b/w photos & 30 maps murder case in a peaceful Maryland suburb of Glossary • 472 pp. • ISBN: 978-0-87033-477-1 Washington, D.C. soft cover • $24.95 Size: 6” x 9” • 288 pp. • ISBN: 978-0-7643-3782-6 hard cover • $24.99

Baltimore Harbor Haunts: True Ghost Stories. Baltimore’s Cast-Iron Buildings & Archi- Melissa Rowell and Amy Lynwander. Exposes 37 Cal Ripken, Jr., Quiet Hero. 2nd Edition. Lois tectural Ironwork. James D. Dilts & Catha- hauntings, from the ghost of a drowned boy in Nicholson. Baseball star Cal Ripken, Jr. is remembered rine F. Black, editors. This celebration of a Canton to famous ghosts of Fort McHenry. for his early years in a baseball family through the unique aspect of Baltimore’s architectural and Size: 6" x 9" • 68 b/w photos • Index minor leagues, two Most Valuable Player Awards, industrial history, examines cast-iron buildings, 160 pp. • ISBN: 0-7643-2304-0 and record-setting achievements as the Baltimore showing how the material was fabricated and soft cover • $14.95 Oriole’s superstar shortstop. Grades 4 to 8 the buildings erected. The heavily illustrated, Size: 6” x 9” • 50 b/w photos includes ironwork catalogs from the mid-1800s. Chronology/Index • 128 pp. Size: 8 1/2” x 11” • 4 color & 69 b/w ISBN: 978-0-87033-481-8 • hard cover • $13.95 photos/maps • Directory of Buildings • 116 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87033-427-6 • soft cover • $29.95