Jim Sargent

The South Bend Blue Sox

A History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Team and Its Players, 1943-1954

Immortalized in the film A League of Their Own, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League debuted in 1943 as a way to fill ballpark seats sh...

We Were the All-American Girls

Interviews with Players of the AAGPBL, 1943-1954

Here are 42 interviews with women who competed in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Each interview features data about the player, ...

The Tigers and Yankees in '61

A Pennant Race for the Ages, the Babe's Record Broken and Stormin' Norman's Greatest Season

The Detroit Tigers gave a memorable performance in the pennant race against the New York Yankees in 1961, the American League's first expansion season...

Too Poor to Move

But Always Rich

Jim Sargent's book, Too Poor to Move, But Always Rich, offers the reader a chance to experience the unfolding of the twentieth century as lived by his...

Teen Spies

Wartime Charlottesville Sleuths: Wartime Charlottesville Sleuths: Wartime Charlottesville Sleuths: Wartime Charlottesville Sleuths

The summer of 1942, World War II rages in Europe and the Pacific. 15-year-old James and his sister Natalia accidentally overhear voices speaking in Ge...

Don't ACT Your Age: How Twenty Minutes a Day Will Restore Vitality and Add Years to Your Life [Revised Author's Edition]

Feeling good is not the result of tedious regimens. Vigor and longevity are not expensive luxuries. Overpriced and overly complicated systems are unne...

Too Poor to Move But Always Rich

A Century on Montana Land

"Experience the unfolding of the twentieth century as lived by Jim Sargent's parents, the Norwegian and the Honyocker, who struggle through decades of...

The Frightened Physicists

Mickey Mathews Mysteries

Mickey Mathews is at it again! The phone call came unexpectedly and the voice, desperate. His mission is no less alarming. In fact, it's downright dan...

Grandma Berta and a One-Room School

Influences of a Norwegian Immigrant in South Central Montana

Up the gangplank of a ship bound from Norway to America walked a teenage girl. The year was 1880. Berta crossed the rugged Atlantic, landed in New Yor...