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Baby Boomer Baseball

Author : Robert Kravetz
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480874892
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Baby Boomer Baseball written by Robert Kravetz and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball has enchanted generations of players and fans with its charm and has been a constant in American life since the nineteenth century. Growing up as a boy in the 1950s and 1960s, Robert Kravetz learned the art of fending for himself on the baseball diamond. There, he and fellow players settled arguments and honed their baseball skills, learning the intricacies of a beautifully simplistic game. His baseball hero—and the hero for millions of other boys—was Mickey Mantle. At seven years old, he would rip open the morning newspaper to see if Mickey had beaten out Al Kaline for the runs batted in part of the Triple Crown and Ted Williams for the batting average honors. In Baby Boomer Baseball, Kravetz relives his youth, sharing fascinating tales from the golden era of baseball and observing the game’s changes through its steroid era and beyond. Whether Kravetz is drawing on his awe for the game as a boy or on personal discussions with Gary Carter, Hank Bauer, Tommy John, Bob Mathias, Clete Boyer, Tim McCarver, and the former director of research of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Tim Wiles, he shares stories that will rekindle your love for America’s pastime.

Baseball and the Baby Boomer

Author : Talmage Boston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933979267
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Baseball and the Baby Boomer written by Talmage Boston and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tapping into the nostalgic era of feel-good baseball in the late 1940s and moving up to the Mitchell report, this collection documents the story of baseball as seen through the eyes and experiences of the postwar generation. From daytime games heard on the radio to players testifying before Congress on steroid usage, baseball has undergone a major transformation over the past sixty years. This chronicling of such vast changes features stories involving famed players such as Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, Roger Maris, and Nolan Ryan.

Just a Little Rain.

Author : Bob Flournoy
Publisher : Publish America
ISBN 13 : 9781413753912
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Just a Little Rain. written by Bob Flournoy and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all the moms who washed our clothes and watched us play and wound up watching the mailbox and waiting for the phone to ring. A nostalgic pause in middle-aged baby boomeras lives, aJust a Little Raina]a is a collection of the reflections of several men and a one remarkable woman who played on the sandlots of the 1950s and early 1960s, traveled the world in the face of the Cold War, many as military brats, and got down to the grim task of the Vietnam War before they realized that their childhoods had ended. Chronicled by a first person narration that speaks for a generation, these old friends consider the quick ride that they were on and its impact on who they are now, both pragmatically and spiritually, and how different their childrenas lives are from their own. Regardless of your age or station in life, you will find a little bit of yourself in these pages, as these participants, older now, revisit their childhood dreams and a few nightmares with the magic of that big hit that they all got at least once in their lives, still sweet in their minds. Grandparents, hometowns, childhood and military friends, gone or gone their own way, but never forgotten, like the crack of a bat and the smack of a mitt which were the piperas call to a game for generations of boys who were caught up in the sirenas song of baseball. We have been trying to recapture the definitive moments of our past ever since it became the past and we began looking back wistfully, wondering where it went. Was it Fitzgerald who told us that we do not look back, searching for events, we merely search for our youth? If you didnat cry, or at least get choked up when a son and his dead father played catch in Field of Dreams, then you have lost the magic. But, I bet you had it once, just like all the rest of us did. We may have filed the unpleasant things in our lives off in some corner of our minds, but not baseball. We are still waiting for that perfect pitch. And just when the curtain is falling, weall be wanting one more at bat, one more race down the base path, one more real game.

Perfect I'm Not

Author : David Wells
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060748117
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Perfect I'm Not written by David Wells and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guy who ... Grew up among Hell's Angels, taking their Harleys for solo joyrides at age eleven ... Prepares for every outing by blasting Metallica, AC/DC, and Godsmack at eardrum-bursting levels in the Yankees' locker room ... Regularly tried to coerce attractive women in the stands into lifting up their shirts from the Toronto Blue Jays' bullpen ... Endured huge, cortisone-loaded hypodermic shots straight into the spine to avoid missing scheduled pitching starts ... Was the 1998 ALCS MVP and the 2002 ALDS goat ... Has become legendary for his brawling, beer-drenched, no-holds-barred or punches-pulled lifestyle off the mound ...

Look What Sports Did To This Little Kid!

Author : Chuck Spinner
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Look What Sports Did To This Little Kid! written by Chuck Spinner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baby Boom generation (those born between 1946-1965) are starting to reach three quarters of a century in age. Their youth came after the Great Depression and World War II; and Americans were longing for fun activities that sports provided. Baby Boomers grew up just as television was being welcomed into average households. The youth of this generation were the first to see sports events live on TV rather than listening to them on radio or reading about them in newspapers. This new visual medium enabled this generation to react together immediately to the same athletic competition. This autobiography presents a nostalgic look at the author’s reactions to the sports events that many of his readers also witnessed. This work is also a history book whose stories detail events in a personal, readable, enjoyable way. Baby boomers and sports fans in general will have fun exploring such enticing chapters such as: How the author’s uncle became a pro wrestler to pay his way through law school. Meeting a boyhood sports idol 40 years later. Two grandsons ride in a pace car with their Papa. Meeting the only major league ambidextrous pitcher. The first T-ball game played on “artificial turf”! Author plays international basketball game in Senegal. Author beats future Supreme Court justice in basketball! Larry Bird ruins local TV sports broadcast! Author participates in prison basketball game. Running with the “Vaulting Vicar”, Bob Richards! Author’s wife meets Michael Jordon....almost! The Detective Wrestling Dentist! Golfing on the Moon! Vietnam and a remembered fallen teammate. Patrice meets Kentucky Derby winner Go for Gin. The most comfortable pole vault landing pit ever! Author Spinner was prompted to write his book after reading this quote from Toni Morrison: “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

Recollections: A Baby Boomer's Memories of the Fabulous Fifties

Author : Jim Chambers
Publisher : Jim Chambers
ISBN 13 : 0557091004
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Recollections: A Baby Boomer's Memories of the Fabulous Fifties written by Jim Chambers and published by Jim Chambers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the first post-WWII Baby Boomers, Jim Chambers' childhood and early teenage years were in the 1950s, a remarkable decade for the United States that saw enormous political, technological, and cultural changes. Although many books have covered the headline-making events of the era in great detail, few of these books give the reader a real feel for what daily life was like for Americans living in that decade, especially for kids growing up then. The author remembers the little nuts and bolts things of daily life for families during the fascinating decade known as the Fabulous Fifties. "Recollections" perfectly blends paying homage to the little day-to-day rituals with a larger scale examination of social issues and mores of the times, and it's equally entertaining on either level. "Recollections" is a warm, lovingly honest, and fascinating portrait of America in the mid-20th Century.

A Baby Boomer's Guide to Collecting Comic Books and Baseball Cards

Author : Randy Louis Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974289908
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book A Baby Boomer's Guide to Collecting Comic Books and Baseball Cards written by Randy Louis Cox and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides an informative history of comic books and baseball cards, while furnishing a guide on what to collect and how much those collectibles are worth."

The Baby Boomer Encyclopedia

Author : Martin Gitlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313382190
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Baby Boomer Encyclopedia written by Martin Gitlin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia defines and contextualizes the Baby Boomer generation and the wide-reaching contributions of its members throughout modern American history. Comprising some 80 million Americans born between 1946 and 1965, the Baby Boomers have significantly changed every aspect of American history and culture. The members of this generation experienced some of the most tumultuous times in American history; indeed, the Boomers helped create these pivotal eras. From the advent of rock and roll to disco and rap, from the sexual revolution to the arrival of AIDS, and from race riots to the election of a black president, Baby Boomers have seen it all. Through nearly 100 alphabetically arranged entries, this encyclopedia gives later generations insight into the contributions of the Baby Boomers, and it helps members of that generation better contextualize their own experiences. Included entries are written in a clear and engaging manner, covering politics and activism, entertainment, the economy, gender roles, arts, pop culture, sports, religion, drug and alcohol use, and many other subject areas.

A Baby Boomer’s Times, Travels, Thoughts, and Hopes

Author : Martin Feess
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532062745
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book A Baby Boomer’s Times, Travels, Thoughts, and Hopes written by Martin Feess and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1949, Martin Feess joined the American baby boomer generation—one of the most privileged group of people to ever walk the earth. While growing up in a small Wisconsin town on a picturesque lake, Feess learned about Dick and Jane, collected an abundance of toys, played baseball, and watched hours of television westerns, just like many other boys of his generation. In a fascinating story of a boomer’s time as seen through a boomer’s eyes, Feess leads others through his experiences as part of the disillusioned generation of the Vietnam War as he matured, served in the army, attended college, and moved west to begin a new chapter. While sharing personal anecdotes, observations, and lessons learned, Feess provides a look into how his journey eventually took him to the Middle East, Europe, and Asia where he learned to embrace the perspectives of others living around the world. Through his experiences and historical reflections, Feess offers an educational window into the making of a unique generation that today looks back in laughter and forward in hope while attempting to better understand who we all are as Americans. A Baby Boomer’s Times, Travels, Thoughts, and Hopes shares personal stories, observations, and historical facts that provide an entertaining and thought-provoking slice of Americana.

A Baby Boomer's Guide to Their Second Sixties

Author : Ryan Custer Amacher
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611390702
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book A Baby Boomer's Guide to Their Second Sixties written by Ryan Custer Amacher and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While this book was written for male Baby Boomers and their significant others, it also includes Boomer history and what lies ahead as we experience the decade of our own sixties. This story reviews our Boomer luck, recounts the great history of being a kid in the 1950s, and the great opportunities provided by improved education in the 1960s, not to ignore a seemingly mind expanding culture. Turning sixty is not for the faint hearted. There are issues ahead. The first thing we all face is taking care of aging parents or what the author refers to as helping your parents check out. Then there are our own Boomer health issues including cataracts and prostate cancer. You likely think there is nothing funny about these topics but the quirky economist author finds humor in all of our aging experiences. This book covers Boomer issues, all in the context of our Boomer culture. We Boomers thought we would be young forever. Maybe that is why it is so amusing. RYAN CUSTER AMACHER was born 52 days too early to be an “official” Baby Boomer, but he in no way ever considered himself a member of Tom Brokaw’s “Greatest Generation.” In this book, the author chronicles the good luck of the first sixty years of the Boomer experience and guides Boomers into the humorous, but sobering experience of their personal sixties. Amacher, an economist, has a BA degree from Ripon College and a PhD from the University of Virginia. He has been a professor at the University of Oklahoma, Economics Department Chair at Arizona State, Business Dean at Clemson University, and President of the University of Texas at Arlington where he is now a Professor of Economics. He has worked at the Pentagon, writing a market plan for the All-Volunteer Army, the Federal Trade Commission as a consultant, and the US Treasury, on the Law of The Sea negotiations.

Baby Boomer

Author : Anthony Martin
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 163814334X
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Baby Boomer written by Anthony Martin and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reflects upon his Fascination with growing up in post war America. Recalling Fond memories of the black and white cartoons of the day and then to marvel at the first new color television the family would own. Running outside after school to play until the sun went down. Having fun between the rows of the many new homes then under construction and watching communities grow amid the rise of the giant retail stores.

Balsamic Dreams

Author : Joe Queenan
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429936363
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Balsamic Dreams written by Joe Queenan and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the bestselling Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon takes aim at the boomer generation in a hilarious work of social commentary. It's become fashionable to vilify baby boomers. Professional iconoclast and baby boomer Joe Queenan, however, takes a somewhat more benign position: Yes, the baby boomers are venal, self-obsessed egomaniacs blighted by an insalubrious interest in things like the provenance of their neighbors' balsamic vinegar. But this does not make them the "worst generation" -- it just makes them the most annoying. In Balsamic Dreams, Queenan chronicles the evolution of his generation and critiques its current condition in chapters such as: --J'Accuse: a bold indictment of the boomers' greatest transgressions, past and present --Ten Days That Rocked the World: in which Queenan identifies the precise moments things went awry (#1: the release of Carole King's Tapestry) --Careful, the Staff Might Hear You: an examination of the unspoken, nefarious alliance between baby boomers and Generation X --American History: The B-Sides: an alternative version of the Republic as played out with baby boomers in the starring roles A measured (if a tad cranky) assessment of a generation whose greatest sin lies in confusing lifestyle for life and pop culture for culture, Balsamic Dreams is fresh, funny, and irresistible.

The Baseball Hall of Shame's Warped Record Book

Author : Bruce Nash
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780020294856
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book The Baseball Hall of Shame's Warped Record Book written by Bruce Nash and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1991-11-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares humorous anecdotes about zany achievements in baseball history.

Baby Boomers and Popular Culture

Author : Brian Cogan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313398879
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Baby Boomers and Popular Culture written by Brian Cogan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boomers are the generation that changed everything, from economics to politics to popular culture. This book examines the myriad ways and long-reaching consequences of the now fully "grown up" Baby Boomer generation on America. Once upon a time, the members of the Baby Boomer generation were young, idealistic, and hungry to change the world. And they did create sweeping, irreversible changes throughout American society—but probably not in the ways their younger selves imagined they would. Now that the Boomers are in their late-adult or retirement years, their tremendous legacy can clearly be perceived. In retrospect, the paths the members of this generation took to come to power—and how they came to terms with that power—are also apparent. This single-volume work supplies a broad yet detailed critical guide to the Boomer Generation, containing essays on key people, moments, and phenomena not only during the Boomers' 1960s heyday but also their extensive influences on American culture decades afterward. The contributors address key topics such as the rise of feminism; Civil Rights; the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement; the Beatles, the Grateful Dead, and rock 'n roll; gay rights; idealism, narcissism, and materialism; the influence of television on America, and vice versa; and the transition of Boomers from being "Yippies" to "Yuppies." This work is an ideal text for students in undergraduate or graduate courses in television studies, media studies, cultural studies, and American studies; and is highly appropriate as a supplemental text in literature, history, and philosophy surveys.

The Baby Boomer's Name Game

Author : Christopher P. Andersen
Publisher : Perigee Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Baby Boomer's Name Game written by Christopher P. Andersen and published by Perigee Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling Name Game is back, completely revised and updated for parents of the 80s as it reveals the impact of names on behavior and helps parents choose names that will ensure their child's emotional well-being.

The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading, and Bubble Gum Book

Author : Brendan C. Boyd
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780316104296
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading, and Bubble Gum Book written by Brendan C. Boyd and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 1973 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on collecting baseball cards in childhood accompany remarks on the skills and achievements of players whose pictures were found in bubble gum packages

A Baby Boomer's Decision Making

Author : Francis J. Kostel
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608446476
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book A Baby Boomer's Decision Making written by Francis J. Kostel and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Baby Boomer's Decision Making drives the nation's 75 million baby boomers to examine life through the decisions they make, whether they are considering finances, changing national priorities or the needs of aging parents. Boomers will explore decisions of love, school, career, family and fun. From 1956 Chevrolets to Martin Luther King Jr., Vietnam and the 21st century, memoir snippets expose the author's best and worst decision making. From these engaging stories, a model of decision making emerges driven by individual experience in a distinctive combination of understanding, relationships and God. A Baby Boomer's Decision Making creates a bridge from abstract theoretical manuscripts to the daily reality, dreams and apprehensions of baby boomers. Mathematics unlocks the tools of decision making, and prejudice is an omnipresent force. The peaks and valleys of love, family and career highlight the ingredients of decision making. Guidelines and principles of decision making solidify and further assist readers in reviewing the past, assessing the present and preparing for their future. A series of activities and questions at the end of the book encourage individual reflection or small group discussion. Francis J. Kostel earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. As superintendent of schools in suburban Chicago's St. Charles, he led the district of more than 13,000 students, 1,600 staff members and 17 schools. He also served as principal of St. Charles High School, a nationally recognized Blue Ribbon high school, as a leadership consultant and as a mathematics teacher. From the working-class neighborhoods of Chicago to the White House Rose Garden, Kostel has experience with organizational success and conflict resolution. Through August One Consulting, Kostel serves as an executive coach and mentor. Kostel has given presentations throughout the country on leadership, strategic planning, personnel evaluation, change and policy decisions. He has written several articles and served on statewide and regional boards. Kostel is a choir member and ballroom dancer. He and his wife, the love of his life for more than 38 years, have two adult sons. Comments and inquiries regarding A Baby Boomer's Decision Making and August One Consulting are welcome at [email protected].