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Author : Ron Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780233994697
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (946 download)
Download or read book Different Ball Game written by Ron Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807842201
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (422 download)
Download or read book A Whole New Ball Game written by Allen Guttmann and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of modern collegiate and professional sports, explains how they reflect American culture, and looks at the role sports have played in Americanizing immigrants
Author : Russell A. Carleton
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1637272286
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (372 download)
Download or read book The New Ballgame written by Russell A. Carleton and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watching a game of baseball today means witnessing phenomena that would have been novel, if not completely unheard of, not so long ago. Starting pitchers sling 100 mile-per-hour heat for just four or five innings before departing; third basemen often station themselves much closer to second (to say nothing of the shortstop's whereabouts); home runs and strikeouts dominate at-bats; all while the length of contest tips toward the four-hour mark. There's no getting around it: the game looks different now. And as Major League Baseball scrambles with rule changes, equipment modifications, labor negotiations, and more, fans are left grasping for the true essence of this beloved pastime among the moving pieces. In The New Ballgame, Russell Carleton (The Shift) deftly indentifies and examines the many levers and inflection points that have shaped the game into what we see on the field today. Through a singular blend of statistical analysis, history, and cognitive science, readers will trace the rapid evolution of the modern game while contemplating the sport in an entirely new way. Blending incisive research with affable storytelling, Russell Carleton delivers a kaleidoscopic view on modern baseball in this welcome, revelatory work.
Author : Bob Thomson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781469188119
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (881 download)
Download or read book A Different Ball Game written by Bob Thomson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a child molester who imposes his will with the "clout" of his friends in high places, who run the town and can cover up murder and is rewarded with his 13 year old sweetheart the day she reaches 18 years old. This was done by using her young mind influenced by her own hormones at that tender age.
Author : Marvin Miller
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Whole Different Ball Game written by Marvin Miller and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1992 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whole different ball game: the sport and business of baseball.
Author : Bob Thomson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469188120
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)
Download or read book A Different Ball Game written by Bob Thomson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a child molester who imposes his will with the “clout” of his friends in high places, who run the town and can cover up murder and is rewarded with his 13 year old sweetheart the day she reaches 18 years old. This was done by using her young mind influenced by her own hormones at that tender age.
Author : G. Scott Thomas
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476644268
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book A Brand New Ballgame written by G. Scott Thomas and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America grew rapidly after World War II, and the national pastime followed suit. Baseball dramatically changed from a 19th century pastoral relic to a continental modern sport. Six Major League clubs relocated to new cities, capped by the coast-to-coast moves of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants. Four expansion teams were created from thin air. Dozens of black stars emerged after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. The players formed a union--higher salaries materialized. This book tells the story of baseball's metamorphosis 1945-1962, driven by larger-than-life personalities like the bombastic Larry MacPhail, the sage Branch Rickey, the kindly Connie Mack, the quick-witted Bill Veeck and the wily Walter O'Malley--Hall of Famers all. The upheaval they sparked--and sometimes failed to control--would broaden the sport's appeal, setting the stage for tremendous growth in the half-century to come.
Author : Robert F. Burk
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807875377
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (753 download)
Download or read book Much More Than a Game written by Robert F. Burk and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams--and those who play on them--our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball. During what Burk calls baseball's "paternalistic era," from 1921 to the early 1960s, the sport's management rigidly maintained a system of racial segregation, established a network of southern-based farm teams that served as a captive source of cheap replacement labor, and crushed any attempts by players to create collective bargaining institutions. In the 1960s, however, the paternal order crumbled, eroded in part by the civil rights movement and the competition of television. As a consequence, in the "inflationary era" that followed, both players and umpires established effective unions that successfully pressed for higher pay, pensions, and greater occupational mobility--and then fought increasingly bitter struggles to hold on to these hard-won gains.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Impact of the Equal Rights Amendment written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vernon L. Scarborough
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816513604
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (136 download)
Download or read book The Mesoamerican Ballgame written by Vernon L. Scarborough and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.
Author : David George Surdam
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786462272
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Ball Game Biz written by David George Surdam and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work uses economic theory, simple probability, statistical concepts and game theory to analyze the economics of professional sports. It treats sports leagues as cartels and uses historical examples to test theories regarding labor economics. Many key issues that have sparked raging arguments among fans and writers are addressed, including free agency's effect on competitive balance, how rising player salaries have/haven't affected ticket prices, and the effect of a new stadium on the local economy, among many others. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Robert F. Lewis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604732177
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Smart Ball written by Robert F. Lewis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart Ball follows Major League Baseball's history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB's challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing with other sports and diversions in a burgeoning global economy. Baseball researcher Robert F. Lewis II argues that MLB for years abused its legal insulation and monopoly status through arrogant treatment of its fans and players and static management of its business. As its privileged position eroded eroded in the face of increased competition from other sports and union resistance, it awakened to its perilous predicament and began aggressively courting athletes and fans at home and abroad. Using a detailed marketing analysis and applying the principles of a "smart power" model, the author assesses MLB's progression as a global business brand that continues to appeal to a consumer's sense of an idyllic past in the midst of a fast-paced, and often violent, present.
Author : Dr. Durgeshnandini R. Titarmare
Publisher : Ashok Yakkaldevi
ISBN 13 : 1716515327
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (165 download)
Download or read book DEPTH PERCEPTION WITH RELATION TO PERSONALITY & INTELLIGENCE OF PLAYERS written by Dr. Durgeshnandini R. Titarmare and published by Ashok Yakkaldevi. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depth perception refers to the ability to distinguish the distance of objects or to make judgments about relative distance. This capacity also called distance perception, adds the third dimension to height and width. Binocular vision (simultaneous vision with both eyes) is the primary basis for depth perception. The two eyes focus on an object from depth in one’s perception. Monocular vision (seeing with one eye) tends to flatten things in the distance. In motor activities, there are many opportunities for making judgments about the distance of people or objects. For example, the passer in football needs to determine with considerable accuracy the distance of his receivers and his opponents. Similarly the receiver must be able at all times to make an accurate judgment about the distance of the thrown ball. The golfer on the fairway must make an accurate estimate of the distance of the pin so that he can determine which club to select and how hard to swing. The high jumper, pole vaulter, or broad jumper in track needs to make an accurate estimation of the distance to the take-off point. Or he will be required to make a last second adjustment in stride. A misjudged fly ball in baseball results from a poor estimation of the distance and speed of the ball. The batter with poor depth perception is most susceptible to a change-up pitch. In most motor activities, and especially in ball games, the ability to distinguish distances is strategic to efficient performance.
Author : Robert C. Cottrell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476650233
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Year Without a World Series written by Robert C. Cottrell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1994 Major League Baseball season promised to be memorable. Long-standing batting and pitching standards were threatened, including the revered single-season home run record. The Montreal Expos and New York Yankees were delivering remarkable campaigns. In August, acting commissioner Bud Selig called a halt to the season amid the League's latest labor dispute. The shutdown led to a lockout as well as cancellation of more than 900 regular season games, the scheduled expanded rounds of playoffs, and that year's World Series. Like all labor struggles, it was fundamentally about control--of salaries, of players' ability to decide their own fates, and of the game itself. This book chronicles Major League Baseball's turbulent '94 season and its ripple effects. It highlights earlier labor struggles and the roles performed by individuals from John Montgomery Ward, David Fultz and Robert Murphy to Marvin Miller, Andy Messersmith, Jim "Catfish" Hunter and Donald Fehr. Also examined are the ballplayers' own organizations, from the Players League of the early 1890s to the still potent Major League Baseball Players Association doing battle with team owners and their representatives.
Author : Ed Edmonds
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629064
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Baseball Meets the Law written by Ed Edmonds and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball and law have intersected since the primordial days. In 1791, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance prohibited ball playing near the town’s meeting house. Ball games on Sundays were barred by a Pennsylvania statute in 1794. In 2015, a federal court held that baseball’s exemption from antitrust laws applied to franchise relocations. Another court overturned the conviction of Barry Bonds for obstruction of justice. A third denied a request by rooftop entrepreneurs to enjoin the construction of a massive video screen at Wrigley Field. This exhaustive chronology traces the effects the law has had on the national pastime, both pro and con, on and off the field, from the use of copyright to protect not only equipment but also “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” to frequent litigation between players and owners over contracts and the reserve clause. The stories of lawyers like Kenesaw Mountain Landis and Branch Rickey are entertainingly instructive.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Facilities and Mail
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Working Conditions and Postal Construction Program--U.S. Postal Service written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Facilities and Mail and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1784 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
