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The Patriot League Origins

Author : Herman R. Willett
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557563585
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book The Patriot League Origins written by Herman R. Willett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a Texas Park Ranger in the Big Bend National Forrest is attacked and shot by what appeared to be drug smugglers, and his young son is kidnapped and taken as a hostage in order to escape back across the border, an image is presented showing the young boy burned alive as a punishment for the actions of the authorities in America attempting to stop the illegal border crossings. The result is the grand father of the boy, a retired military officer, and helps to start a civilian border patrol group consisting of retired military and active and retired law enforcement officers that uses military experience and military style techniques to secure the border and bring the criminals to justice.

Assembly

Author : United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Assembly written by United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Amateurs

Author : John Feinstein
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316049220
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Last Amateurs written by John Feinstein and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's favorite sportswriter takes readers on a thrilling and unforgettable journey into the world of college basketball in this national bestseller. Like millions who love college basketball, John Feinstein was first drawn to the game because of its intensity, speed and intelligence. Like many others, he felt that the vast sums of money involved in NCAA basketball had turned the sport into a division of the NBA, rather than the beloved amateur sport it once was. He went in search of college basketball played with the passion and integrity it once inspired, and found the Patriot League. As one of the NCAA's smallest leagues, none of these teams leaves college early to join the NBA and none of these coaches gets national recognition or endorsement contracts. The young men on these teams are playing for the love of the sport, of competition and of their schools. John Feinstein spent a season with these players, uncovering the drama of their daily lives and the passions that drive them to commit hundreds of hours to basketball even when there is no chance of a professional future. He offers a look at American sport at its purest.

Practice Perfect Softball

Author : National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA)
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 1492513547
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Practice Perfect Softball written by National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Add Practice Perfect Softball to your dugout and begin your journey to a championship season. The National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) has put together an all-star lineup of coaches, including Connie Clark, Jo Evans, Rachel Lawson, Ken Eriksen, Donna Papa, Julie Lenhart, Lonni Alameda, Dot Richardson, and Beverly Smith.

A Patriot's History of the United States

Author : Larry Schweikart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101217782
Total Pages : 1350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book A Patriot's History of the United States written by Larry Schweikart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-12-29 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.

Carved from Granite

Author : Lance Betros
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603447873
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Carved from Granite written by Lance Betros and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Military Academy at West Point is one of America’s oldest and most revered institutions. Founded in 1802, its first and only mission is to prepare young men—and, since 1976, young women—to be leaders of character for service as commissioned officers in the United States Army. West Point’s success in accomplishing that mission has secured its reputation as the foremost leadership-development institution in the world. An Academy promotional poster says it this way: “At West Point, much of the history we teach was made by people we taught.” Carved from Granite is the story of how West Point goes about producing military leaders of character. An opening chapter on the Academy’s nineteenth-century history provides context for the topic of each subsequent chapter. As scholar and Academy graduate Lance Betros shows, West Point’s early history is interesting and colorful, but its history since then is far more relevant to the issues—and problems—that face the Academy today. Drawing from oral histories, archival sources, and his own experiences as a cadet and, later, a faculty member, Betros describes and assesses how well West Point has accomplished its mission. And, while West Point is an impressive institution in many ways, Betros does not hesitate to expose problems and challenge long-held assumptions. In a concluding chapter that is both subjective and interpretive, the author offers his prescriptions for improving the institution, focusing particularly on the areas of governance, admissions, and intercollegiate athletics. Photographs, tables, charts, and other graphics aid the clarity of the discussion and lend visual and historical interest. Carved from Granite: West Point since 1902 is the most authoritative history of the modern United States Military Academy written to date. There will be lively debate over some of the observations made in this book, but if they are followed, the author asserts that the Academy will emerge stronger and better able to accomplish its vital mission in the new century and beyond.

Baseball and Social Class

Author : Ronald E. Kates
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786472391
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Baseball and Social Class written by Ronald E. Kates and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fresh essays examines the intersection of baseball and social class, pointing to the conclusion that America's game, infused from its origins with a democratic mythos and founded on high-minded principles of meritocracy, is nonetheless fraught with problematic class contradictions. Each essayist has explored how class standing has influenced some aspect of the game as experienced by those who play it, those who watch it, those who write about it, and those who market it. The topic of class is an amorphous one and in tying it to baseball the contributors have considered matters of race, education, locality, integration, assimilation, and cultural standing. These elements are crucial to understanding how baseball creates, preserves, reinforces and occasionally assails class divisions among those who watch, play, and own the game.

Princeton Alumni Weekly

Author : Jesse Lynch Williams
Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Princeton Alumni Weekly written by Jesse Lynch Williams and published by princeton alumni weekly. This book was released on 1994 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anti-Sport Sentiments in Literature

Author : John Bale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134100485
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Sport Sentiments in Literature written by John Bale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-05 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on literature, specifically on the writings of selected novelists and poets to widen an existing anti-sport discourse to include hitherto excluded voices from the world of literature. The book commences with a review of exiting pro- and anti-sport discourses and then proceeds to examine, in turn, the written works of five eminent authors, excavating from their writings their anti-sports rhetorics. These writers are Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), Charles Hamilton Sorley, Jerome K. Jerome, John Betjeman and Alan Sillitoe. In its conclusion, the book draws together the broad themes discussed in the preceding chapters. Innovative in its approach to sport and literature and remarkable for its not having been previously explored in any depth, this book will be of interest to readers from both social sciences and humanities backgrounds.

Changing the Playbook

Author : Howard P Chudacoff
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097882
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Changing the Playbook written by Howard P Chudacoff and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Changing the Playbook , Howard P. Chudacoff delves into the background and what-ifs surrounding seven defining moments that transformed college sports. These changes involved fundamental issues--race and gender, profit and power--that reflected societal tensions and, in many cases, remain pertinent today: the failed 1950 effort to pass a Sanity Code regulating payments to football players; the thorny racial integration of university sports programs; the boom in television money; the 1984 Supreme Court decision that settled who could control skyrocketing media revenues; Title IX's transformation of women's athletics; the cheating, eligibility, and recruitment scandals that tarnished college sports in the 1980s and 1990s; the ongoing controversy over paying student athletes a share of the enormous moneys harvested by schools and athletic departments. A thought-provoking journey into the whos and whys of college sports history, Changing the Playbook reveals how the turning points of yesterday and today will impact tomorrow.

Conversations with Philip Roth

Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878055586
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Philip Roth written by Philip Roth and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index.

Reading Myself and Others

Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593685016
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Reading Myself and Others written by Philip Roth and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating interviews, essays, and articles spanning a quarter century on writing, baseball, American fiction, and American Jews—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. "An illuminating...glimpse of the theory and practice that have made Roth a major figure in American fiction." —Chicago Daily News Here is Philip Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it's engendered. Here too are Roth's writings on the Eastern European writers he has always championed, and so much more. The essential collection of nonfiction by a true American master, Reading Myself and Others features his famed long interview with the Paris Review.

Beyond Championships Teen Edition

Author : Dru Joyce II
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310746299
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Championships Teen Edition written by Dru Joyce II and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond Championships Teen Edition, Coach Dru Joyce lays out the steps teens can follow to become winners on and off the court. Much more than a sports book, Beyond Championships Teen Edition is a blueprint for anyone looking to make better choices and reach their full potential. The book speaks to athletes aspiring to emulate LeBron’s success, as well as anyone who feels either uninspired or unable to change the direction of their lives. In less than ten years, Coach Dru went from someone resigned to a dull-yet-stable existence to one of the highest profile basketball coaches in the country, despite having virtually no background in the sport. It was an incredible transformation, the type most people only dream of, but one Coach Dru proved can become a reality with the right combination of faith and hard work. Beyond Championships Teen Edition focuses on the nine principles Coach Dru promotes to his players and tries to live his own life. While these principles act as the foundation on which Coach Dru has built so many successful basketball teams, their universality ensures that they can be applied to any situation.

The Great American Novel

Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593685008
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Great American Novel written by Philip Roth and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—a richly imagined novel featuring America’s only homeless big-league baseball team in history delivers “shameless comic extravagance…. Roth gleefully exploits our readiness to let baseball stand for America itself" (The New York Times). Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober. If you've never heard of them—or of the homeless baseball team the Ruppert Mundys—it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. In this ribald, wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Out of Body Detective 2

Author : Herman Willett
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557660246
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Out of Body Detective 2 written by Herman Willett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of Body Detective II is based upon and a continuation of my novel, 'The Execution of Innocence' and 'Out of Body Detective 1'. The techniques that the hero of 'The Execution of Innocence' uses to free him self from death row and locate and bring to justice the true criminals are used in Out of Body Detective to help law enforcement officers locate and bring to justice more criminals as well as vindicate others that are wrongfully sentenced to via inaccurate or evidence or set free due to loopholes or legal tricks. The Out of Body Detective also goes after corrupt police and lawyers to help bring better justice to the legal system. All is done using ancient spiritual techniques or in some cases elements of Quantum Physics.

ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia

Author : Espn
Publisher : Espn Books
ISBN 13 : 0345513924
Total Pages : 1234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia written by Espn and published by Espn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference provides historical overviews of all 335 Division 1 teams, season-by-season summaries, ESPN/Sagarin rankings of top-selected college basketball programs, and more.

The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed.

Author : Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476617449
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed. written by Jonathan Fraser Light and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America’s culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues’ decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.