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No Minor Accomplishment

Author : Bob Golon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813544696
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book No Minor Accomplishment written by Bob Golon and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's pastime has roots in New Jersey dating back to 1846 when the first baseball game using modern rules was played on Elysian Fields in Hoboken. The sport thrived throughout the state until the 1950s when fans began to turn away from local competition, preferring to watch games broadcast on television, to take a trip to see a major league team in New York, or to frequent newly air-conditioned movie theaters or bowling alleys. By the early 1990s, however, a growing disenchantment with the high ticket prices and corporate atmosphere of Major League Baseball led to the revival of a purer form of the sport in the Garden State. In No Minor Accomplishment, sports historian and New Jersey native Bob Golon tells the story of the state's baseball scene since the Trenton Thunder arrived in 1994. Drawing on interviews with team owners and employees, industry executives and fans, Golon goes behind the scenes to show how maintaining a minor league ball club can be a risky business venture. Stadiums cost millions to build, and a team full of talented players does not immediately guarantee success. Instead, each of the eight minor league and independent professional teams in the state must tailor themselves to the communities in which they are situated. Shrewd marketing is necessary to attract fans, but Golon also explains how, unlike Major League Baseball, the business aspect of the minor and independent leagues is not something the average spectator notices. For the fans, baseball in New Jersey is wholesome, exciting family entertainment.

National No-fault Motor Vehicle Insurance Act

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1886 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book National No-fault Motor Vehicle Insurance Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

National No-fault Motor Vehicle Insurance Act, Hearings..., 93-1, on S. 354...

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National No-fault Motor Vehicle Insurance Act, Hearings..., 93-1, on S. 354... written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gallup Poll

Author : George Gallup
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842050029
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Gallup Poll written by George Gallup and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a compilation of polls taken by the Gallup Organization. This title offers commentary and analysis, placing topics in a readable, historical context.

The Most Famous Woman in Baseball

Author : Bob Luke
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 159797546X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book The Most Famous Woman in Baseball written by Bob Luke and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never one to mince words, Effa Manley once wrote a letter to sportswriter Art Carter, saying that she hoped they could meet soon because “I would like to tell you a lot of things you should know about baseball.” From 1936 to 1948, Manley ran the Negro league Newark Eagles that her husband, Abe, owned for roughly a decade. Because of her business acumen, commitment to her players, and larger-than-life personality, she would leave an indelible mark not only on baseball but also on American history. Attending her first owners' meeting in 1937, Manley delivered an unflattering assessment of the league, prompting Pittsburgh Crawfords owner Gus Greenlee to tell Abe, “Keep your wife at home.” Abe, however, was not convinced, nor was Manley deterred. Like Greenlee, some players thought her too aggressive and inflexible. Others adored her. Regardless of their opinions, she dedicated herself to empowering them on and off the field. She meted out discipline, advice, and support in the form of raises, loans, job recommendations, and Christmas packages, and she even knocked heads with Branch Rickey, Bill Veeck, and Jackie Robinson. Not only a story of Manley's influence on the baseball world, The Most Famous Woman in Baseball vividly documents her social activism. Her life played out against the backdrop of the Jim Crow years, when discrimination forced most of Newark's blacks to live in the Third Ward, where prostitution flourished, housing was among the nation's worst, and only menial jobs were available. Manley and the Eagles gave African Americans a haven, Ruppert Stadium. She also proposed reforms at the Negro leagues' team owners' meetings, marched on picket lines, sponsored charity balls and benefit games, and collected money for the NAACP. With vision, beauty, intelligence, discipline, and an acerbic wit, Manley was a force of nature—and, as Bob Luke shows, one to be reckoned with.

Mike Torrez

Author : Jorge Iber
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476624453
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Mike Torrez written by Jorge Iber and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of baseball is filled with players whose careers were defined by one bad play. Mike Torrez is remembered as the pitcher who gave up the infamous three-run homer to Bucky "Bleeping" Dent in the 1978 playoffs tie-breaker between the Red Sox and Yankees. Yet Torrez's life added up to much more than his worst moment on the mound. Coming from a vibrant Mexican American community that settled in Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1900s, he made it to the Majors by his own talent and efforts, with the help of an athletic program for Mexican youth that spread through the Midwest, Texas and Mexico during the 20th century. He was in the middle of many transformative events of the 1970s--such as the rise of free agency--and was an ethnic role model in the years before the "Fernandomania" of 1981. This book covers Torrez's life and career as the winningest Mexican American pitcher in Major League history.

A Blues Bibliography

Author : Robert Ford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351398482
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book A Blues Bibliography written by Robert Ford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a sequel to Robert Ford's comprehensive reference work A Blues Bibliography, the second edition of which was published in 2007. Bringing Ford's bibliography of resources up to date, this volume covers works published since 2005, complementing the first volume by extending coverage through twelve years of new publications. As in the previous volume, this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations, and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. With extensive listings of print and online articles in scholarly and trade journals, books, and recordings, this bibliography offers the most thorough resource for all researchers studying the blues.

The Church and the Relentless Darkness

Author : Robert Thornton Henderson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621895238
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Church and the Relentless Darkness written by Robert Thornton Henderson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a period of tumultuous transition for the church as it moves out of the Christendom era and into the unknowns of the post-Christian era, it is strange that so little has been written about the church's calling out of the dominion of darkness (Satan) and into the kingdom of Light (or, God's dear Son). The very word ecclesia speaks of a people "called out." In the New Testament the theme of spiritual warfare is ubiquitous, and yet is relegated to the margins in our present cultural whitewater. In The Church and the Relentless Darkness, Robert Henderson approaches the topic of spiritual warfare directly, and focuses on its manifestation in local Christian communities. Using the Letter to the Ephesian Christians as his base, Henderson portrays the relentless darkness that comes with all satanic subtlety on unsuspecting communities, but he brings with this a message of hope and encouraging disciplines.

Islands Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islands Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Growth Mechanism of the Free-Enterprise Economies

Author : Eytan Sheshinski
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227640
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Growth Mechanism of the Free-Enterprise Economies written by Eytan Sheshinski and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much credit can be given to entrepreneurship for the unprecedented innovation and growth of free-enterprise economies? In this book, some of the world's leading economists tackle this difficult and understudied question, and their responses shed new light on how free-market economies work--and what policies most encourage their growth. The contributors take as their starting point William J. Baumol's 2002 book The Free-Market Innovation Machine (Princeton), which argued that independent entrepreneurs are far more important to growth than economists have traditionally thought, and that an implicit partnership between such entrepreneurs and large corporations is critical to the success of market economies. The contributors include the editors and Robert M. Solow, Kenneth J. Arrow, Michael M. Weinstein, Douglass C. North, Barry R. Weingast, Ying Lowrey, Nathan Rosenberg, Melissa A. Schilling, Corey Phelps, Sylvia Nasar, Boyan Jovanovic, Peter L. Rousseau, Edward N. Wolff, Deepak Somaya, David J. Teece, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Yochanan Shachmurove, Ralph E. Gomory, Jonathan Eaton, Samuel S. Kortum, Alan S. Blinder, Robert J. Shiller, Burton G. Malkiel, and Edmund S. Phelps.

On Different Planes

Author : David J. Walsh
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875463292
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book On Different Planes written by David J. Walsh and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that solidarity across organizational lines will increasingly become the union movement's response to the challenges and pressures it is facing, and that the airline unions are at the forefront of the approach. Draws on quantitative data, the historical background, and case studies, including the 1989 Eastern Airline strike. Paper edition (329-0), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Survival for a Small Planet

Author : Tom Bigg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136556222
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Survival for a Small Planet written by Tom Bigg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few scientific developments have given rise to as much controversy as biotechnology. Numerous groups are united in their opposition, expressing concern over environmental and health risks, impacts on rural livelihoods, the economic dominance of multinational companies and the ethical implications of crossing species boundaries. Among the supporters of the technology are those that believe in its potential to enhance food security, further economic development, increase productivity and reduce environmental pressures. As a result, countries - and sectors within countries - find themselves at odds with each other while potential opportunities for development offered by the use of biotechnology are seized or missed, and related risks go unmanaged. This book, a unique interdisciplinary collection of perspectives from the developing world, examines the ongoing debate. Writing for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, leading experts address issues such as diffusion of technology, intellectual property rights, the Cartagena Protocol, impacts of international trade, capacity building and biotechnology research and regulation. With the most recent and relevant examples from around the world, Trading in Genes offers the reader a single-volume overview of the connections between biotechnology, trade and sustainability that is both wide-ranging and thorough.

Seedtime on the Cumberland

Author : Harriette Simpson Arnow
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1609173678
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Seedtime on the Cumberland written by Harriette Simpson Arnow and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriette Arnow’s roots ran deep into the Cumberland River country of Kentucky and Tennessee, and out of her closeness to that land and its people comes this remarkable history. The first of two companion volumes, Seedtime on the Cumberland captures the triumphs and tragedies of everyday life on the frontier, a place where the land both promised and demanded much. In the years between 1780 and 1803, this part of the country presented tremendous opportunity to those who endeavored to make a new life there. Drawing on an extensive body of primary sources—including family journals, court records, and personal inventories—Arnow paints a stirring portrait of these intrepid people. Like the midden at some ancient archaeological site, these accumulated items become a treasure awaiting the insight and organization of an interpreter. Arnow also draws on a medium she believed in unerringly—oral history, the rich tradition that shaped so much of her own family and regional experience. A classic study of the Old Southwest, Seedtime on the Cumberland documents with stirring perceptiveness the opening of the Appalachian frontier, the intersection of settlers and Native Americans, and the harsh conditions of life in the borderlands.

The Art of Barter

Author : Karen Hoffman
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602399530
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Barter written by Karen Hoffman and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to barter today s best currency in this comprehensive, up-to-date...

The Gospel of Universalism

Author : Tom Owen-Towle
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN 13 : 9781558963153
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book The Gospel of Universalism written by Tom Owen-Towle and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 1993 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Voices in the Wilderness

Author : Walter Simmons
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810848848
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Voices in the Wilderness written by Walter Simmons and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the Modernist search for new and innovative aesthetics and rejection of traditional tonality, several twentieth century composers have found their own voice while steadfastly relying on the aesthetics and techniques of Romanticism and 19th century composition principles. Musicological and reference texts have regarded these composers as isolated exceptions to modern thoughts of composition_exceptions of little importance, treated simplistically and superficially. Music critic and scholar Walter Simmons, however, believes these composers and their works should be taken seriously. They are worthy of more scholarly consideration, and deserve proper analysis, assessment, and discussion in their own regard. In Voices in the Wilderness, the first in a series of books celebrating the 'Twentieth-Century Traditionalist, ' Simmons looks at six Neo-Romantic composers: Ernest Bloch Howard Hanson Vittorio Giannini Paul Creston Samuel Barber Nicolas Flagello Through biographical overviews and a comprehensive assessment of musical works, Simmons provides readers with a clear understanding of the significance of the composers, their bodies of work, and their placement in musicological history. The chapters delve deeply and objectively into each composer's oeuvre, addressing their origins, stylistic traits and consistencies, phases of development, strengths and weaknesses, and affinities with other composers. The composers' most representative works are identified, and each chapter concludes with a discography of essential recordings. Visit the author's website to read samples from the book and to listen to representative excerpts of each composer's work.

Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1993

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1502 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1993 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: