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Author : Glenn Dickey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Champs & Chumps written by Glenn Dickey and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glenn Dickey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877010838
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Champs and Chumps written by Glenn Dickey and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Pennington
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328849856
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Chumps to Champs written by Bill Pennington and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the time when the New York Yankees were a laughingstock--and how out of that abyss emerged the modern Yankees dynasty, one of the greatest in all of sports The New York Yankees have won 27 world championships and 40 American League pennants, both world records. They have 26 members in the Hall of Fame. Their pinstripe swag is a symbol of "making it" worn across the globe. Yet some 25 years ago, from 1989 to 1992, the Yankees were a pitiful team at the bottom of the standings, sitting on a 14-year World Series drought and a 35 percent drop in attendance. To make the statistics worse, their mercurial, bombastic owner wasbanned from baseball. But out of these ashes emerged a modern Yankees dynasty, a juggernaut built on the sly, a brilliant mix of personalities, talent, and ambition. InChumps to Champs, Pennington reveals a grand tale of revival. Readers encounter larger than life characters like George Steinbrenner and unexplored figures like Buck Showalter, three-time manager of the year, Don Mattingly, and the crafty architect of it all--general manager, Gene Michael, who assembled the team's future stars--Rivera, Jeter, Williams, O'Neill, and Pettitte. Drawing on unique access, Pennington tells a wild and raucous tale.
Author : Bill Pennington
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1328849872
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Chumps To Champs written by Bill Pennington and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the years when the Yankees were a laughingstock—and how out of that abyss emerged the modern Yankees dynasty, one of the greatest in all of sports The New York Yankees have won 27 world championships and 40 American League pennants, both world records. They have 26 members in the Hall of Fame. Their pinstripe swag is a symbol of “making it” worn across the globe. Yet some 25 years ago, from 1989 to 1992, the Yankees were a pitiful team at the bottom of the standings, sitting on a 14-year World Series drought and a 35 percent drop in attendance. To make the statistics worse, their mercurial, bombastic owner was banned from baseball. But out of these ashes emerged a modern Yankees dynasty, a juggernaut built on the sly, a brilliant mix of personalities, talent, and ambition. In Chumps to Champs, Bill Pennington reveals a grand tale of revival. Readers encounter larger-than-life characters like George Steinbrenner and unexplored figures like Buck Showalter (three-time manager of the year), Don Mattingly, and the crafty architect of it all, general manager Gene Michael, who assembled the team’s future stars—Rivera, Jeter, Williams, O’Neill, and Pettitte. Drawing on unique access, Pennington tells a wild and raucous tale.
Author : Jim Mullins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892696397
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (963 download)
Download or read book Champs and Chumps written by Jim Mullins and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looking for the right way to improve your office atmosphere? Or, how about a way to support and mentor a new manager? This illustrated gem offers one pair of observations -- the Chump's way and the Champ's way -- for every week of the year. Use them for your weekly staff meeting, formal and informal presentations, and your own inspiration." -- Back cover.
Author : Neal Thompson
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0770436218
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book A Curious Man written by Neal Thompson and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Curious Man is the marvelously compelling biography of Robert “Believe It or Not” Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities, and whose outrageous showmanship taught us to believe in the unbelievable. As portrayed by acclaimed biographer Neal Thompson, Ripley’s life is the stuff of a classic American fairy tale. Buck-toothed and cursed by shyness, Ripley turned his sense of being an outsider into an appreciation for the strangeness of the world. After selling his first cartoon to Time magazine at age eighteen, more cartooning triumphs followed, but it was his “Believe It or Not” conceit and the wildly popular radio shows it birthed that would make him one of the most successful entertainment figures of his time and spur him to search the globe’s farthest corners for bizarre facts, exotic human curiosities, and shocking phenomena. Ripley delighted in making outrageous declarations that somehow always turned out to be true—such as that Charles Lindbergh was only the sixty-seventh man to fly across the Atlantic or that “The Star Spangled Banner” was not the national anthem. Assisted by an exotic harem of female admirers and by ex-banker Norbert Pearlroth, a devoted researcher who spoke eleven languages, Ripley simultaneously embodied the spirit of Peter Pan, the fearlessness of Marco Polo and the marketing savvy of P. T. Barnum. In a very real sense, Ripley sought to remake the world’s aesthetic. He demanded respect for those who were labeled “eccentrics” or “freaks”—whether it be E. L. Blystone, who wrote 1,615 alphabet letters on a grain of rice, or the man who could swallow his own nose. By the 1930s Ripley possessed a vast fortune, a private yacht, and a twenty-eight room mansion stocked with such “oddities” as shrunken heads and medieval torture devices, and his pioneering firsts in print, radio, and television were tapping into something deep in the American consciousness—a taste for the titillating and exotic, and a fascination with the fastest, biggest, dumbest and most weird. Today, that legacy continues and can be seen in reality TV, YouTube, America’s Funniest Home Videos, Jackass, MythBusters and a host of other pop-culture phenomena. In the end Robert L. Ripley changed everything. The supreme irony of his life, which was dedicated to exalting the strange and unusual, is that he may have been the most amazing oddity of all.
Author : Burton A. Boxerman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786480272
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Ebbets to Veeck to Busch written by Burton A. Boxerman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of baseball there have been countless books, but, surprisingly, relatively few about the owners, the men and women who invested their time--and, frequently, their fortunes--in baseball teams. What has been written tends to concentrate on the financial aspects of ownership or individual owners and their private lives, and pays less attention to the enduring contributions certain owners have made. Eight owners and their lasting influences on the game are the focus of this book. Charles Ebbets, Barney Dreyfuss, Helene Britton, Clark Griffith, Walter O'Malley, Bill Veeck, Charles Finley and August Busch were chosen for inclusion not only because of their larger contributions but also because they were hands-on owners who ran their teams decisively. For instance, Helene Britton proved that a knowledgable woman could successfully run a ball club, even if she couldn't vote; Bill Veeck hired the first black player in the American League, introduced exploding scoreboards and was the first owner to put his players' names on the backs of their uniforms; Walter O'Malley relocated his Dodgers to the West Coast and convinced Giants owner Horace Stoneham to bring his team out too.
Author : Kirsten Anderson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698198875
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Who Was Robert Ripley? written by Kirsten Anderson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter a world of shrunken heads, mystic holy men, shriveled aliens, and bizarre relics in the delightfully odd tale of Robert Ripley. Born in California, Ripley began his career as a sports cartoonist. He went on to chronicle global records and oddities in his weekly column, Believe It Or Not! After publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst took an interest in the column, it became a syndicated global success. Ripley spent his life traveling to more than 200 countries in search of strange objects and interesting facts. His penchant for the peculiar launched an entertainment empire, and his collection of artifacts can be seen worldwide at his famous Odditoriums. Believe It Or Not!
Author : Franqua Bedell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722918941
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (189 download)
Download or read book From Chumps to Champs written by Franqua Bedell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Chumps to Champs is the inspiring story of a first black male coach to lead Tallahassee Community College to an NJCAA National Championship. Franqua "Q" Bedell takes you on this amazing journey from year one through year five and tells his story of building a women's basketball program that had not had much success in the last ten years. Franqua shares his viewpoint of how black men are viewed in today's game and how he has overcome numerous obstacles of being a black male in this business.
Author : Nat Fleischer
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787204766
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book 50 Years At Ringside written by Nat Fleischer and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1958, this is the autobiography of renowned U.S. boxing writer and collector, Nat Fleischer. It not only tells the fascinating story of the author himself, but crucially allows the reader a firsthand glimpse into the ring scene of the first half of the 20th century. “This is a story which nobody has produced in the past, and certainly is not going to duplicate in the future. “It is the life story of a man who lived through increasingly exciting eras of the nation’s history, and the nation’s sports annals. The conditions which obtained through those eventful decades will not come again. The man who banged his typewriter through these crowding years will not come again upon a similar sequence in the sports kaleidoscope. “Here are behind-the-scenes pictures, the inside stories of so many developments which have waited, until now, for my lifetime friend Nat Fleischer to reveal them. “Here are pathos, comedy, and intrigue; the seamy, sombre stories, and the funny ones as well. Ring heroes of the past come to life in these pages to reveal themselves in the full panoply of their championship stature, or in the meaner habiliments of the character on the fringe. “It is a fine book, and I thank Nat for having written it.” —Dan Daniel, Foreword
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
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Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780304366361
Total Pages : 1600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (663 download)
Download or read book Cassell's Dictionary of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Author : Dick Grigg
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465382887
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Family History and Temples Including Grigg and Related Family Genealogies written by Dick Grigg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compilation of references to Family History and temple work from the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, and Modern Church Leaders. Also there is a chapter on faith promoting stories from family history experiences and a chapter on family stories and descendant charts of the Grigg family. There is information on how modern research techniques using computers, digitizing of records and the internet facilitates the researching and finding of your ancestors. The last chapter is an update and republishing of the the book titled Parley M. Grigg, Jr. and Thankful Halsey Gardners Descendants and History published in 1992. This correlated publication shows that in all ages of the world since the creation of Adam, God has desired His Holy Ordinances to be done in a House built to His name, namely a Temple of God. This compilation is also designed to show that Jesus plan of redemption for all mankind includes vicarious ordinance work for the dead to be done in Gods Holy Temples by those living in the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times. This was all in Gods plan for the redemption of all mankind before the foundation of this world.
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Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
ISBN 13 : 158049319X
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
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Publisher : Fielding Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 171 pages
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Author : Wynford Hicks
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415184452
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Writing for Journalists written by Wynford Hicks and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains chapters on writing news; writing features; writing reviews; style and a glossary of terms used by journalists.
Author : Douglas A. Noverr
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780882298191
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Games They Played written by Douglas A. Noverr and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
