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Book Synopsis Playing The Field by : Charles C. Euchner
Download or read book Playing The Field written by Charles C. Euchner and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Details how owners . . . have shamelessly played cities against one another to get sweetheart deals for their stadiums.” —Sports Illustrated Can a sports franchise “blackmail” a city into getting what it wants—a new stadium, say, or favorable leasing terms—by threatening to relocate? In 1982, the owners of the Chicago White Sox pledged to keep the team in Chicago if the city approved a $5-million tax-exempt bond to finance construction of luxury suites at Comiskey Park. The city council approved it. A few years later, when Comiskey Park was in need of renovation, the owners threatened to move the team to Florida unless a new stadium was built. A site was chosen near the old stadium, property condemned, residents evicted, and a new stadium built. “We had to make threats,” the owners said. “If we didn't have the threat of moving, we wouldn’t have gotten the deal.” Sports is not a dominant industry in any city, this book points out, yet it receives the kind of attention one might expect to be lavished on major producers and employers. In Playing the Field, Charles Euchner examines the relationships between Los Angeles and the Raiders, Baltimore and the Colts and the Orioles, and Chicago and the White Sox, arguing that, in the absence of public standards for equitable arbitration between cities and teams, the sports industry has the ability to steer negotiations in a way that leaves cities vulnerable. He reveals what lies behind this leverage—and what that says about the urban political process.
Download or read book Colt's Crisis written by Tom Carroll and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secretary of Defense is dead, and none is more shocked than defense policy wonk Colt Garrett when he's appointed by the President to the second-most powerful job in the world. While onboard USS Ronald Reagan in the Western Pacific, he must find and recover missing biological warheads hidden in South Korea before U.S. efforts to bring peace to the region are derailed. Colt's son is a Navy pilot onboard the Reagan, and they struggle to repair their severely strained relationship, while Russian agents conspire to assassinate the new SECDEF before he can influence policy against Russian interests. Espionage, politics, betrayal, romance and assassination all while embarked on one of the most powerful ships in the world combine in this military tech thriller.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :76 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (318 download)
Book Synopsis Communications in a Disaster by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Download or read book Communications in a Disaster written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The League That Didn't Exist by : Gary Webster
Download or read book The League That Didn't Exist written by Gary Webster and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The All-American Football Conference was the only challenger to the NFL (except for the American Football League of the 1960s) to survive more than two seasons in competition with the established league. It ultimately failed to achieve its goal of a peaceful coexistence with the NFL and folded in 1949. Its Cleveland Browns and San Francisco 49ers, which were absorbed by the NFL in 1950, are still in business. This book takes a brief look at all of the NFL's challengers (and would-be challengers) from 1926 to 1945. It looks particularly at the All-American Conference, which overcame obstacles that proved too difficult for others and opened the 1946 season with teams on the East Coast, in the Midwest, on the West Coast, and in the deep South, making it a truly "All-American" enterprise. Each season and off-season is examined in detail.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Special committee on investigation of the munitions industry Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :816 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis Munitions Industry... by : United States. Congress. Senate. Special committee on investigation of the munitions industry
Download or read book Munitions Industry... written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special committee on investigation of the munitions industry and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis League of Denial by : Mark Fainaru-Wada
Download or read book League of Denial written by Mark Fainaru-Wada and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The story of how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, denied and sought to cover up mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage “League of Denial may turn out to be the most influential sports-related book of our time.”—The Boston Globe “Professional football players do not sustain frequent repetitive blows to the brain on a regular basis.” So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America’s most popular sport. That judgment, implausible even to a casual fan, also contradicted the opinion of a growing cadre of neuroscientists who worked in vain to convince the NFL that it was facing a deadly new scourge: a chronic brain disease that was driving an alarming number of players—including some of the all-time greats—to madness. In League of Denial, award-winning ESPN investigative reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru tell the story of a public health crisis that emerged from the playing fields of our twenty-first-century pastime. Everyone knows that football is violent and dangerous. But what the players who built the NFL into a $10 billion industry didn’t know—and what the league sought to shield from them—is that no amount of padding could protect the human brain from the force generated by modern football, that the very essence of the game could be exposing these players to brain damage. In a fast-paced narrative that moves between the NFL trenches, America’s research labs, and the boardrooms where the NFL went to war against science, League of Denial examines how the league used its power and resources to attack independent scientists and elevate its own flawed research—a campaign with echoes of Big Tobacco’s fight to deny the connection between smoking and lung cancer. It chronicles the tragic fates of players like Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, who was so disturbed at the time of his death he fantasized about shooting NFL executives, and former San Diego Chargers great Junior Seau, whose diseased brain became the target of an unseemly scientific battle between researchers and the NFL. Based on exclusive interviews, previously undisclosed documents, and private emails, this is the story of what the NFL knew and when it knew it—questions at the heart of a crisis that threatens football, from the highest levels all the way down to Pop Warner.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate the Munitions Industry Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1516 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Munitions Industry by : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate the Munitions Industry
Download or read book Munitions Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate the Munitions Industry and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore by : William Gildea
Download or read book When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore written by William Gildea and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-10-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with feeling and insight, this is an affecting tribute to a team and a time etched in memory.
Download or read book Circular of Information written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis National Football League Strategies by : Frank P. Jozsa Jr.
Download or read book National Football League Strategies written by Frank P. Jozsa Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of expansion franchises and any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another within the National Football League (NFL) during three distinct periods from 1920 to 2013. It discusses historical differences and similarities between the teams’ markets and performances before 1933 and then as members of the NFL’s divisions and conferences. It measures and compares the emergence, development and success of the teams by analyzing demographic, economic and sport-specific data. It also discusses the NFL’s mergers with the All American Football Conference (1950) and American Football League (1970), outlining the reasons for and consequences of these mergers as well as their significance for sports fans and markets. The book makes an important, relevant and useful contribution to the literature regarding professional sports operations and to the NFL’s short and long run business strategies in American culture. Besides numerous sports fans within metropolitan areas and extended markets of these NFL teams, the book’s audiences are sports historians and researchers, college and public libraries and current and potential NFL franchise owners and team executives. The book may also be used as a reference or supplemental text for college and university students enrolled in such applied undergraduate and graduate courses and seminars as sports administration, sports business and sports management.
Book Synopsis Colt Firearms, 1836-1954 by : James E. Serven
Download or read book Colt Firearms, 1836-1954 written by James E. Serven and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book that will have special appeal to collectors and sportsmen- but it tells an exciting story that will be enjoyed by a much larger audience. In fact, it will appeal to any reader who enjoys two-fisted Americana.
Book Synopsis Second Annual Report by : Adrian Daane
Download or read book Second Annual Report written by Adrian Daane and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Intelligence and the National Security Strategist by : Roger Z. George
Download or read book Intelligence and the National Security Strategist written by Roger Z. George and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents students with an anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as contributions to the study of intelligence. This collection includes perspectives from the history of warfare, views on the evolution of US intelligence, and studies on the balance between the need for information-gathering and the values of a democracy." - publisher.
Book Synopsis From Colts to Ravens by : John Steadman
Download or read book From Colts to Ravens written by John Steadman and published by Cornell Maritime Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the locker rooms, the playing fields, and the owners' offices with sportswriter John F. Steadman as he relates the fascinating tale of football in Baltimore. In scores of animated first-person accounts, the author tells it like it was: from the organization of the Colts in 1947, through the sale of the team to Bob Irsay in 1972, to the infamous trip out of the town under the cover of darkness in 1984, and finally the acquisition of a new Baltimore team, the Ravens, in 1996. Included in the telling are the player heroes--Unitas, Donovan, Moore, Berry, and others--as well as the coaches, general managers, and owners. Among the cast of characters were con men, real scoundrels, and not a few bizarre figures. Some had good intentions; others were inept; still others were devious. The story is spiced with pungent comments from a man who was there--first as a fan watching the inaugural game in 1947 and later as a professional reporting the championship moments, the demise in 1984, and the ensuing struggle to return to the league.
Book Synopsis Football in Baltimore by : Ted Patterson
Download or read book Football in Baltimore written by Ted Patterson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baltimore's remarkable football traditions—from the Colts to the Ravens—expressed in sports memorabilia. The second edition of Ted Patterson’s illustrated history of football in Baltimore continues the story of the Ravens' success—from their first Super Bowl victory in 2001 to the emotional parade through downtown Baltimore after winning Super Bowl XLVII. Patterson is joined by Baltimore poet and sports aficionado Dean Smith, whose new chapters capture the energy of Purple Fridays, the larger-than-life personalities of Ray Lewis, Hall of Famer Jonathan Ogden, Jamal Lewis, Matt Stover, Ed Reed, and Joe Flacco, and the city's embrace of the Ravens as a reflection of Baltimore itself. Football in Baltimore is a tour of one of the world's premier collections of Baltimore sports memorabilia—highlighting memorable games and players and exploring a pop culture that surrounded and has survived them. Patterson moved to Baltimore in what turned out to be the final decade of the Baltimore Colts and has amassed a remarkable collection of items that both collectors and sports fans will enjoy. Patterson introduces us to the teams and early stars of Johns Hopkins and Morgan State; Army-Navy games in old Municipal Stadium; high-school rivalries like City-Poly, Loyola–Calvert Hall, Gilman-McDonogh, and the great years of Patterson High; the original Colts (colors silver and green); and, at considerable length, the legendary Baltimore Colts of Johnny Unitas, Lenny Moore, Raymond Berry, Alan "the Horse" Ameche, Artie Donovan, Bert Jones, and Lydell Mitchell. He includes the next chapters in this eventful story: the fight to bring pro football back to the city, the dawn of the Ravens era, and the building of a new football stadium in downtown Baltimore.
