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Book Synopsis Baseball in Blue and Gray by : George B. Kirsch
Download or read book Baseball in Blue and Gray written by George B. Kirsch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth and transformation of baseball during the Civil War. He shows that the game was a vital part of the lives of many a soldier and civilian--and that baseball's popularity had everything to do with surging American nationalism. By 1860, baseball was poised to emerge as the American sport. Clubs in northeastern and a few southern cities played various forms of the game. Newspapers published statistics, and governing bodies set rules. But the Civil War years proved crucial in securing the game's place in the American heart. Soldiers with bats in their rucksacks spread baseball to training camps, war prisons, and even front lines. As nationalist fervor heightened, baseball became patriotic. Fans honored it with the title of national pastime. War metaphors were commonplace in sports reporting, and charity games were scheduled. Decades later, Union general Abner Doubleday would be credited (wrongly) with baseball's invention. The Civil War period also saw key developments in the sport itself, including the spread of the New York-style of play, the advent of revised pitching rules, and the growth of commercialism. Kirsch recounts vivid stories of great players and describes soldiers playing ball to relieve boredom. He introduces entrepreneurs who preached the gospel of baseball, boosted female attendance, and found new ways to make money. We witness bitterly contested championships that enthralled whole cities. We watch African Americans embracing baseball despite official exclusion. And we see legends spring from the pens of early sportswriters. Rich with anecdotes and surprising facts, this narrative of baseball's coming-of-age reveals the remarkable extent to which America's national pastime is bound up with the country's defining event.
Book Synopsis Tasting Freedom by : Daniel R. Biddle
Download or read book Tasting Freedom written by Daniel R. Biddle and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of the extraordinary Octavius Catto, and the first civil rights movement in America.
Book Synopsis Baseball and Cricket by : George B. Kirsch
Download or read book Baseball and Cricket written by George B. Kirsch and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Baseball and Cricket' places the growing popularity of the two sports within the social context of mid 19th century American cities. The text follows baseball's transition from a leisure sport to a commercialised, professional enterprise and offers a discussion of the early American cricket clubs.
Book Synopsis The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories by : Zane Grey
Download or read book The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories written by Zane Grey and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-07 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book.
Book Synopsis Billy the Blue-Stitched Baseball by : John W. Scafetta
Download or read book Billy the Blue-Stitched Baseball written by John W. Scafetta and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy, a budding young baseball with unsuitable stitches of blue, is head over heels for America’s national pastime. The sights, the sounds, the smells—he loves it all. Billy has big dreams of playing in the big leagues, but without the proper red stitches, he’s left feeling lonely on the bench. With his wise grandfather to guide him, can Billy overcome his fears to learn one of life’s greatest lessons and make it to the show? Young children will love this timeless tale of dreaming big, rising above naysayers, and finding happiness and peace within a personal journey.
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Book Synopsis Base Ball in a River Town by : Justin Endres
Download or read book Base Ball in a River Town written by Justin Endres and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Base Ball in a River Town seeks to answer how our national pastime started in New Albany. Who were its founders? Who got the ball rolling across the New Albany fields? The answers to these questions open a window into the past-the lively and booming post-Civil War New Albany. From steamships to railroads, the first team experienced the end of one era and the start of another. The growth of baseball in New Albany also mirrors the rise of baseball across the country. From its infancy to national past time in no time. Learn about the first pitch thrown at the first official game on September 29, 1866, and join that unbroken line of young Southern Indiana men and women who have embraced our national past-time.
Book Synopsis The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories by : Zane Grey
Download or read book The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories written by Zane Grey and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book.In addition to the commercial success of his printed works, his books have had second lives and continuing influence when adapted as films and television productions. His novels and short stories have been adapted into 112 films, two television episodes, and a television series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
Book Synopsis Sports in America by : James A. Michener
Download or read book Sports in America written by James A. Michener and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1976, James A. Michener’s explosive, spectacular Sports in America is a prescient examination of the crisis in American sports that is still unfolding to this day. Pro basketball players are banned for narcotics use, while a Major League pitcher is arrested for smuggling drugs across the Mexican border. The NFL’s “injury report” grows longer every Sunday. Corruption and recruiting violations plague collegiate sports as the “winning is everything” mentality trickles down to the Little League level. With his lifelong enthusiasm for sports in evidence, the incomparable Michener tackles this subject thoroughly and leaves us amazed and appalled by what we’ve learned, yet still loving the games we grew up on. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Sports in America “A comprehensive, controversial examination of sports as a major force in American life.”—Los Angeles Times “Michener’s life was saved by sports twice. In return, he has issued a long, lovingly critical, prodigiously researched account of the passions and politics of America at organized play. Rich in anecdote, source material and his own shrewd commentary.”—The New York Times Book Review “Like just about everything James Michener has produced, Sports in America is a thoughtful, well-written document that’s thoroughly researched. . . . For anyone interested in how the ball bounces in the U.S. of A., the answers are all here.”—The Wall Street Journal “Encyclopedic . . . amusing and sometimes alarming.”—The Washington Post
Book Synopsis The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories by : Zane Grey
Download or read book The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories written by Zane Grey and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories by Zane Grey
Book Synopsis Why is the Foul Pole Fair? Or, Answers to the Baseball Questions Your Dad Hoped You'd Never Ask by : Vince Staten
Download or read book Why is the Foul Pole Fair? Or, Answers to the Baseball Questions Your Dad Hoped You'd Never Ask written by Vince Staten and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The All-American game is highlighted in a collection of offbeat baseball lore, from player's tales and statistical delights to crazy groundskeepers and famous onlookers, humorously recounted by author during a day at the ballpark with his son.
Book Synopsis The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories by : Zane Grey
Download or read book The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories written by Zane Grey and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories by Zane Grey
Download or read book Cramton Bowl written by Tim Gayle and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cramton Bowl was completed in 1922, no one had any idea of the unique place it would occupy in sports history. It was originally conceived as a multi-purpose facility that would focus on baseball and served as the spring training home for the Philadelphia A's for two seasons, with many professional teams stopping in for exhibition games, including a rematch of the 1926 World Series between the Yankees and the Cardinals in 1927. As the largest established stadium in the state during those early years, Alabama and Auburn played more than 70 football games in the facility, treating fans to the likes of Paul "Bear" Bryant and Don Hudson. It was home to the first HBCU Classic, the Turkey Day Classic between Alabama State and Tuskegee, and the site of the first night football game in the South (as well as the first night college football game and the second pro baseball game under the lights in the South). For more than 60 years it was home to the Blue-Gray All Star Football Classic where stars such as Y.A. Tittle, Len Dawson, Fran Tarkenton, Howie Long and Jerry Rice roamed the sidelines of Cramton Bowl, but there were plenty of other activities in the stadium during that time, including 'Lucky' Teter's traveling daredevil show in 1934, the Negro League World Series, games involving the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and Billy Graham's Greater Montgomery Crusade in 1965.
Book Synopsis The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories by : Zane Grey
Download or read book The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories written by Zane Grey and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories by Zane Grey
Download or read book Blowback '63 written by Brian Meehl and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The battle between teenage twins, Arky and Iris, is about to explode into war--the Civil War. Arky is ready to give up on rescuing their mother, Dr. Octavia Jongler, who is lost in the past. Iris refuses to give up hope, and playing the Jongler cor anglais to reawaken its powers of time travel. When Arky's buddy, Danny, a pitching ace, throws his baseball future away, Iris and the cor anglais perform a shocking double blowback. Danny and Arky are blown to a time and place, 1863, where a boy's game was being played in the middle of a man's war. (True story!) While Danny is thrust into a world of baseball he never imagined, Arky discovers tantalizing clues that put him on the trail of his missing mom. In the present, Iris's quest to bring everyone home from 1863 leads to a risky game of cat-and-mouse with Matt Grinnell, her first victim and beneficiary of time travel. The war that spans centuries--between brother and sister, pitcher and batter, blue and gray, love and loss--is fought to the last page"--Publisher description.
Book Synopsis United States Economist, and Dry Goods Reporter by :
Download or read book United States Economist, and Dry Goods Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by : United States. Internal Revenue Service
Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
