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Burial at Home Plate

Author : Bob Fulton
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Burial at Home Plate written by Bob Fulton and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Burial at Home Plate offers a colorful look at the Pittsburgh Pirates, with an emphasis on offbeat moments in team history. Read about the doubleheader completed underwater; the Pittsburgh outfielders whose pursuit of a batted ball was halted by a gun-wielding Cincinnati fan; the pitcher who earned a victory while taking a nap; the dead man who tied a franchise record for games played; the sparrow that flew from beneath batter Casey Stengel’s cap; and the rookie who struck out while seated on the bench. Burial at Home Plate touches on the indoor game that was rained out; the throng of 50,000 that turned out in Pittsburgh for a game played more than 400 miles away; the tipsy pitcher who fell asleep inside the tarp during a game; the future MVPs who delivered their first major league hits while still in the minors; the FBI agent who “pinch hit” for Ralph Kiner; and the Pirates manager who disproved the notion that you can’t steal first base. Burial at Home Plate also shines the spotlight on the Green Weenie, the alabaster plaster, Aunt Minnie, the Rickey Dinks, Destiny’s Darlings, Dr. Strangeglove, eephus pitches and—the inspiration for the book’s title—a strange pre-game interment that took place at home plate. About the Author Bob Fulton has written extensively about the Pittsburgh Pirates for regional and national publications such as Sports History, Pittsburgh Magazine, The National Pastime, Pittsburgh Sports Now, Pennsylvania, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game program and On Deck, formerly the official magazine of the Pirates. His work has also appeared in American Heritage, Football Digest, The NCAA News, NFL Exclusive, Delta Sky, Marathon and Beyond, Basketball Weekly, Referee, The Elks Magazine, Collegiate Baseball and Sports Heritage, among others. Fulton is the author of The Summer Olympics: A Treasury of Legend and Lore; Never Lost a Game (Time Just Ran Out); Top Ten Baseball Stats: Interesting Rankings of Players, Managers, Umpires and Teams; and Pirates Treasures: Facts, Feats, Firsts in Pittsburgh Pirates History. In addition, his story on the major league debut of 15-year-old pitcher Joe Nuxhall was included in an anthology, The Ol’ Ball Game. Fulton, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, resides in Indiana, Pa.

Burial Rites

Author : Hannah Kent
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316243906
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Burial Rites written by Hannah Kent and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tv=ti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard. Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?

Proper Peasants

Author : E. Fel
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0202368297
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Proper Peasants written by E. Fel and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proper Peasants

Author : Tamas Hofer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351496298
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Proper Peasants written by Tamas Hofer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an intensive fourteen-year study of a Hungarian peasant village, Proper Peasants greatly expands our knowledge of Eastern European social organizations with its accurate portrayal of a rapidly vanishing peasant way of life. Centering on the village of Átány in central Hungary, the study presents a dramatic account of peasant life through the turbulent centuries. It is based largely upon evidence given by villagers themselves and is a moving human story of a community with a tragic historical background and a complex, demanding present.Edit Fél and Tamás Hofer begin by locating Átány within the historical, geographical, and cultural context of Hungary as a whole. The following chapters describe units of social organization and the human relationships within and among these units. There is a special analysis of stratification and mobility within the changing structural situations of the past hundred years. Objective information about all the dimensions of village life is obtained from a comparison of Átány with nearby villages and from the use of local records. The book portrays the attempts of the community to classify, organize, and understand the universe within which lives and to control the unexpected and varied demands that have been made upon it by changing circumstances.This work makes excellent use of the strong 150-year tradition of ethnographic research in Hungary. The discussion of the warm personal relationships among the Átány people is supplemented with extensive statistical material on demographic processes, economic structure, and stratification. The picture that results is rich and fruitful, particularly so in a post-communist nation.

The Hall Ball

Author : Ralph Carhart
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476637938
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Hall Ball written by Ralph Carhart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rescued in 2010 from the small creek that runs next to Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, New York, a simple baseball launched an epic quest that spanned the United States and beyond. For eight years, "The Hall Ball" went on a journey to have its picture taken with every member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, both living and deceased. The goal? To enshrine the first crowd-sourced artifact ever donated to the Hall. Part travelogue, part baseball history, part photo journal, this book tells the full story for the first time. The narratives that accompany the ball's odyssey are as funny and moving as any in the history of the game.

Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth's Northern Cemetery

Author : Kathleen Warner Slane
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ISBN 13 : 1621390225
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth's Northern Cemetery written by Kathleen Warner Slane and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rescue excavations were carried out along the terrace north of Ancient Corinth by Henry Robinson, the director of the Corinth Excavations, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens on behalf of the Greek Archaeological Service, in 1961 and 1962. They revealed 70 tile graves, limestone sarcophagi, and cremation burials (the last are rare in Corinth before the Julian colony), and seven chamber tombs (also rare before the Roman period). The burials ranged in date from the 5th century B.C. to the 6th century A.D., and about 240 skeletons were preserved for study. This volume publishes the results of these excavations and examines the evidence for changing burial practices in the Greek city, Roman colony, and Christian town. Documented are single graves and deposits, the Robinson "Painted Tomb," two more hypogea, and four built chamber tombs. Ethne Barnes describes the human skeletal remains, and David Reese discusses the animal bones found in the North Terrace tombs. The author further explores the architecture of the chamber tombs as well as cemeteries, burial practices, and funeral customs in ancient Corinth. One appendix addresses a Roman chamber tomb at nearby Hexamilia, excavated in 1937; the second, by David Jordan, the lead tablets from a chamber tomb and its well. Concordances, grave index numbers, Corinth inventory numbers, and indexes follow. This study will be of interest to classicists, historians of several periods, and scholars studying early Christianity.

There's a Bulldozer on Home Plate

Author : Miles Wolff
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476690170
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book There's a Bulldozer on Home Plate written by Miles Wolff and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "father of Independent Baseball," Miles Wolff recounts his 50-year career in the game and how his experiences lead to the founding of the modern independent game, with some opposition from the existing major and minor leagues. Along the way, he describes how the movie Bull Durham came to be made and covers the history of minor league ball's growth from mom-and-pop operations to major business endeavors.

Graveyards of Chicago

Author : Matt Hucke
Publisher : Lake Claremont Press
ISBN 13 : 9780964242647
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Graveyards of Chicago written by Matt Hucke and published by Lake Claremont Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cemeteries are in the metropolitan Chicago area.

History of Pittsburgh Volume 1

Author : George Thornton Fleming
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849674363
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book History of Pittsburgh Volume 1 written by George Thornton Fleming and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The selection of Mr. Fleming to prepare this history of Pittsburgh, and the region round about, was most fortunate for the city. He was not only a sturdy grubber after facts but had the ability to dress them up in pleasing style and set them in graceful order. This book is valuable not only as a narrative of historic events, but as a compendium of facts relating to men and matters, events and happenings pertaining to the triumphant growth of Pittsburgh, its institutions, and its fame. It is as encyclopedic as entertaining and facilitates the finding of whatsoever data that may be desired. It will be very hard to find another book on the history of Pittsburgh that is as detailed as Mr. Fleming’s. This is volume one out of two.

Butterfly Winter

Author : W.P. Kinsella
Publisher : Steerforth
ISBN 13 : 1586422065
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Butterfly Winter written by W.P. Kinsella and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butterfly Winter, W.P. Kinsella's first novel in 15 years, is the story of Julio and Esteban Pimental, twins born in the Caribbean country of Courteguay, a lush and enchanted but impoverished enclave on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic where time moves at its own pace and reality is open to question. The brothers are destined to play ball in America, and to shape the history of their baseball-crazed homeland. They mature quickly and by the age of ten they leave home for the Major Leagues. Julio is a winning pitcher who, much to the chagrin of any team that signs him, will only throw to his catcher brother, who is a very weak hitter. As they pursue their baseball dreams, events in their homeland, including political brutalities and the outlawing of baseball, continue to shape their lives. They are monitored by the Wizard, a mysterious figure who controls events behind the scenes. In his last years, the Wizard tells the story of the twins, their family and their lovers to a skeptical gringo journalist. Butterfly Winter is a magical literary romp that includes a diabolical chiropractor, a romance blessed by butterflies and a deep political undercurrent that unites the wealthy north with the baseball-loving, talent-laden but oppressed and deprived south.

Burial to Follow

Author : Scott Nicholson
Publisher : Scott Nicholson
ISBN 13 : 1907190953
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Burial to Follow written by Scott Nicholson and published by Scott Nicholson. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jacob Ridgehorn dies, it's up to Roby Snow to help Ridgehorn's soul move on to its eternal rest. Roby can only accomplish this by serving the grieving family a special pie. And if he fails, then his own soul will be roasting..."Keep both hands on your pants, because Nicholson is about to scare them off."--JA Konrath, author of OriginIncludes bonus excerpts and essay

Scrivelsby, the Home of the Champions

Author : Samuel Lodge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Scrivelsby, the Home of the Champions written by Samuel Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Science Fiction Television

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313052131
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction Television written by M. Keith Booker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction series have remained a staple of American television from its inception: classic programs such as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek, along with recent and current series including Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1, have been some of the most enduring and influential of all television shows. In this chronological survey, author M. Keith Booker examines this phenomenon and provides in-depth studies of the most important of these series. Science Fiction Television traces the development of the genre as a distinct cultural phenomenon within the context of broader developments in American culture as a whole. In the process, it offers a unique and informative guide for television fans and science fiction fans alike, one whose coverage is unprecedented in its scope and breadth. A must-read for anyone interested in its subject or in American popular culture, Science Fiction Television is a perceptive and entertaining history of one of television's most lasting forms of entertainment.

The Rock Tombs of El-A̕marna

Author : Norman de Garis Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Rock Tombs of El-A̕marna written by Norman de Garis Davies and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rock Tombs of El Amarna

Author : Norman de Garis Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rock Tombs of El Amarna written by Norman de Garis Davies and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rock Tombs of El Amarna: The tombs of Huya and Ahmes ; Tombs of Penthu, Mahu, and others

Author : Norman de Garis Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Rock Tombs of El Amarna: The tombs of Huya and Ahmes ; Tombs of Penthu, Mahu, and others written by Norman de Garis Davies and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the rock tombs of the mysterious and short-lived city of Akhetaten."

The Rock Tombs of El-A̕marna: The tombs of Huya and Ahmes... With an appendix on the Greek graffiti by Seymour de Ricci

Author : Norman de Garis Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Rock Tombs of El-A̕marna: The tombs of Huya and Ahmes... With an appendix on the Greek graffiti by Seymour de Ricci written by Norman de Garis Davies and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: