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Book Synopsis 66: The Yasiel Puig Story by : Christine Dzidrums
Download or read book 66: The Yasiel Puig Story written by Christine Dzidrums and published by Creative Media Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puig-Mania has invaded Major League Baseball. In the summer of 2012, Yasiel Puig braved a dangerous mission to defect from Cuba for a better life in America. One year later his sizzling bat and amazing defensive skills helped reignite the slumping Los Angeles Dodgers. Soon Puig-Mania swept across the country! A children's biography, 66: The Yasiel Puig Story will help young readers learn about the man behind the legend.
Book Synopsis Missy Franklin: Swimming Sensation by : Christine Dzidrums
Download or read book Missy Franklin: Swimming Sensation written by Christine Dzidrums and published by Creative Media Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world fell in love with U.S. swimmer Missy Franklin at the 2012 London Olympics. Winning four gold medals and one bronze, the 17-year-old gained fans for her amazing athletic skills, remarkable sportsmanship and a genuinely warm personality. Referring to the water as her second home, the beloved athlete began swimming recreationally at just two months of age. By the age of seven, the youngster seemed destined for stardom, dominating local swim meets with her textbook stroke techniques and lightning-quick speed. By the time she reached high school, the teenager was a world and Olympic champion, all the while remaining a kid who simply loves to swim. A children’s biography, Missy Franklin: Swimming Sensation narrates the Colorado native’s transformation from a talented toddler to queen of the pool. Who says nice girls finish last? Missy is swimming's biggest female star!
Book Synopsis Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas by : Adriana Angel
Download or read book Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas written by Adriana Angel and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy is venerated in US political culture, in part because it is our democracy. As a result, we assume that the government and institutions of the United States represent the true and right form of democracy, needed by all. This volume challenges this commonplace belief by putting US politics in the context of the Americas more broadly. Seeking to cultivate conversations among and between the hemispheres, this collection examines local political rhetorics across the Americas. The contributors—scholars of communication from both North and South America—recognize democratic ideals as irreducible to a single national perspective and reflect on the ways social minorities in the Western Hemisphere engage in unique political discourses. The essays consider current rhetorics in the United States on American exceptionalism, immigration, citizenship, and land rights alongside current cultural and political events in Latin America, such as corruption in Guatemala, women’s activism in Ciudad Juárez, representation in Venezuela, and media bias in Brazil. Through a survey of these rhetorics, this volume provides a broad analysis of democracy. It highlights institutional and cultural differences in the Americas and presents a hemispheric democracy that is both more pluralistic and more agonistic than what is believed about the system in the United States. In addition to the editors, the contributors include José Cortez, Linsay M. Cramer, Pamela Flores, Alberto González, Amy N. Heuman, Christa J. Olson, Carlos Piovezani, Clara Eugenia Rojas Blanco, Abraham Romney, René Agustín de los Santos, and Alejandra Vitale.
Book Synopsis Fidel Castro and Baseball by : Peter C. Bjarkman
Download or read book Fidel Castro and Baseball written by Peter C. Bjarkman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few political figures of the modern age have been so vilified as Fidel Castro, and both the vilification and worship generated by the Cuban leader have combined to distort the true image of Castro. The baseball myths attached to Fidel have loomed every bit as large as the skewed political notions that surround him. Castro was never a major league pitching prospect, nor did he destroy the Cuban national pastime in 1962. In Fidel Castro and Baseball: The Untold Story, Peter C. Bjarkman dispels numerous myths about the Cuban leader and his association with baseball. In this groundbreaking study, Bjarkman establishes how Fidel constructed, rather than dismantled, Cuba’s true baseball Golden Age—one that followed rather than preceded the 1959 revolution. Bjarkman also demonstrates that Fidel was not at all unique in “politicizing” baseball as often maintained, since the island sport traces its roots to the 19th-century revolution. Fidel’s avowed devotion to a non-materialist society would ultimately sow the seeds of collapse for the baseball empire he built over more than a half-century, just as the same obsession would finally dismantle the larger social revolution he had painstakingly authored. A fascinating look at a controversial figure and his impact on a major sport, this volume reveals many intriguing insights about Castro and how his love of the game was tied to Cuba’s identity. Fidel Castro and Baseball will appeal to fans of the sport as well as to those interested in Cuba’s enduring association with baseball.
Book Synopsis The Best American Sports Writing 2015 by : Glenn Stout
Download or read book The Best American Sports Writing 2015 written by Glenn Stout and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest addition to the acclaimed series showcasing the best sports writing from the past year.
Book Synopsis Simone Biles: Superstar of Gymnastics by : Christine Dzidrums
Download or read book Simone Biles: Superstar of Gymnastics written by Christine Dzidrums and published by Creative Media Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixth installment of GymnStars, the award-winning children’s biography series chronicles the career and personal life of Simone Biles, the young gymnast who shattered numerous gymnastics’ records en route to becoming a three-time world champion and an Olympic favorite.
Book Synopsis Magical Reboots: Rapunzel by : Christine Dzidrums
Download or read book Magical Reboots: Rapunzel written by Christine Dzidrums and published by Creative Media Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the popular new series, Classical Reboots: Rapunzel updates the Brothers Grimm fairy tale with hilarious and heartbreaking results. Rapunzel has been locked in her adoptive mother's attic for years. Just as the despondent teenager abandons hope of escaping her private prison, a mysterious tablet computer appears. Before long, Rapunzel's quirky fairy godmother, Aiko, has the conflicted young girl questioning her place in the world.
Book Synopsis Kaylee: The 'What If?' Game by : Christine Dzidrums
Download or read book Kaylee: The 'What If?' Game written by Christine Dzidrums and published by Creative Media Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I play the 'What If?' Game all the time.It's a cruel, vicious cycle.” Meet free spirit Kaylee McMathews, the most popular girl in school. But when the teenager suffers a devastating loss, her sunny personality turns dark as she struggles with debilitating panic attacks and unresolved anger. Can Kaylee repair her broken spirit or will she forever remain a changed person?
Book Synopsis Clayton Kershaw: Pitching Ace by : Christine Dzidrums
Download or read book Clayton Kershaw: Pitching Ace written by Christine Dzidrums and published by Creative Media Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-12 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Baseball's Most Dominant Pitcher! Growing up in Dallas, Texas, Clayton Kershaw already had big-league dreams. From an early age, the talented phenom received much praise for his commanding pitching skills. By the time the hard-working athlete reached high school, the legendary Los Angeles Dodgers had already set their sights on signing him to a Major League Baseball contract! A children's biography, Clayton Kershaw: Pitching Ace narrates the life story of one of baseball's most celebrated players. Includes exciting photographs, career highlights and anecdotes from his charity work and personal life.
Book Synopsis Timmy and the Baseball Birthday Party by : Christine Dzidrums
Download or read book Timmy and the Baseball Birthday Party written by Christine Dzidrums and published by Creative Media Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet four-and-a-half-year-old Timmy Martin. He’s the biggest baseball fan in the world. Imagine Timmy’s excitement when he gets invited to his cousin’s birthday party. Only it’s not just any old birthday party... It’s a baseball birthday party! Timmy and the Baseball Birthday Party is the first book in a series of stories featuring the world’s most curious little boy!
Download or read book SH?#! Happens written by John Turzer and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both John and Leslie enjoy traveling. While raising their family, Hawaii was a popular getaway destination. They have traveled to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, all across the Untied States and Europe. For the past few trips, it seems like Sh?#! Happens wherever they travel. What started out as daily Facebook posts to family and friends is now documented in this exciting, make you laugh, I cannot believe that happened book.
Download or read book Ethnicities written by Chuka Onwumechili and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings ethnicities into focus by presenting contemporary ethnic discourses that capture and highlight disjuncture within the concept of the idealized “globalizing” world. In recent years and despite many writings about globalization and the melding of differences, there remain strong forces that continue to exacerbate ethnic differences in communication as well as other important areas. This volume addresses this phenomenon through research-based investigation of ethnic and racial issues and covers topics such as health issues, networks, media, and coping. It captures key ethnicities including a growing Hispanic population, native Americans, Middle Easterners, and Asian Americans. This book explores various topics including how ethnicity is defined in communication scholarship, how Twitter has facilitated MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) cyber activism by cultivating collective indigenous identity, and media framing of Latin American players in Major League Baseball in the United States and offers online experiment and content analysis using 185 participants of different races/ethnicities to examine bonding capital in coping and seeking support. Ethnicities: Media, Health, and Coping will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of communication studies, race and ethnic studies, media and cultural studies, and sociology, while also appealing to anyone interested in the research-based investigation of the communicative aspects of ethnic and racial issues. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Howard Journal of Communications.
Book Synopsis Focus On: 100 Most Popular American League All-Stars by : Wikipedia contributors
Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular American League All-Stars written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Baseball Prospectus 2014 by : Baseball Prospectus
Download or read book Baseball Prospectus 2014 written by Baseball Prospectus and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 1810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling annual baseball preview from the smartest analysts in the business Now in its 19th edition, the Baseball Prospectus annual shows once again how it became the industry leader: The 2014 edition includes key stat categories, more controversial player predictions, and the kind of wise, witty baseball commentary that makes this phone-book-thick tome worth reading cover to cover. Baseball Prospectus 2014 provides fantasy players and insiders alike with prescient PECOTA projections, which Sports Illustrated has called "perhaps the game's most accurate projection model." Still, stats are just numbers if you don't see the larger context, and Baseball Prospectus brings together an elite team of analysts to provide the definitive look at all thirty teams—their players, their prospects, and their managers—to explain away flukes, hot streaks, injury-tainted numbers, and park effects. Victory, after all, could come down to choosing between the supposed sleeper and the overrated prospects who won't be able to fool people in the Show like they have down on the farm. Nearly every major-league team has sought the advice of current or former Prospectus writers, and readers of Baseball Prospectus 2014 will understand what all those fans have been raving about. "If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it."—Keith Olbermann "The first time I saw the PECOTA projections, I realized that someone out there understood." —Jeff Luhnow, General Manager, Houston Astros "For me, every year baseball begins with the big, brilliant, beautiful book you are holding in your hands right now."—Joe Posnanski Baseball Prospectus 2013 correctly predicted: *Disappointing performances by Albert Pujols, Dan Haren, Michael Bourn, Justin Upton, and Tommy Hanson. *Breakouts by Paul Goldschmidt, Freddie Freeman, Kyle Seager, Matt Moore, Shelby Miller, and Jason Kipnis, as well as bounceback seasons from Jayson Werth and Shin-Soo Choo. *That Max Scherzer would be a Cy Young contender and Michael Wacha ace-in-waiting for the Cardinals. *That Wil Myers would be a middle-of-the-order bat for Tampa Bay and Josh Donaldson would finally win the Rich Harden trade for the A's. *That CC Sabathia's velocity drop could be a problem, but Felix Hernandez's would not be. *That Joaquin Benoit, Kenley Jansen, and Koji Uehara were better bullpen bets than pre-season closer picks Bruce Rondon, Brandon League, and Joel Hanrahan.
Book Synopsis The Baseball Codes by : Jason Turbow
Download or read book The Baseball Codes written by Jason Turbow and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s look at baseball’s unwritten rules, explained with examples from the game’s most fascinating characters and wildest historical moments. Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. All aspects of baseball—hitting, pitching, and baserunning—are affected by the Code, a set of unwritten rules that governs the Major League game. Some of these rules are openly discussed (don’t steal a base with a big lead late in the game), while others are known only to a minority of players (don’t cross between the catcher and the pitcher on the way to the batter’s box). In The Baseball Codes, old-timers and all-time greats share their insights into the game’s most hallowed—and least known—traditions. For the learned and the casual baseball fan alike, the result is illuminating and thoroughly entertaining. At the heart of this book are incredible and often hilarious stories involving national heroes (like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays) and notorious headhunters (like Bob Gibson and Don Drysdale) in a century-long series of confrontations over respect, honor, and the soul of the game. With The Baseball Codes, we see for the first time the game as it’s actually played, through the eyes of the players on the field. With rollicking stories from the past and new perspectives on baseball’s informal rulebook, The Baseball Codes is a must for every fan.
Book Synopsis Jennie Finch: Softball Superstar by : Christine Dzidrums
Download or read book Jennie Finch: Softball Superstar written by Christine Dzidrums and published by Creative Media Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennie Finch fell in love with baseball as a four-year-old when her mother took her to Dodger games. A year later, her parents signed her up for softball lessons and the young girl was instantly smitten. As a youngster, Jennie dominated travel softball and later became a star player at La Mirada High School in Southern California. During her time at University of Arizona, she set an NCAA record with 60 consecutive wins. Blessed with remarkable pitching ability, good looks and role-model sportsmanship, Jennie became a breakout celebrity at the 2004 Athens Olympics, where she captured gold with Team USA. A children’s biography, Jennie Finch: Softball Superstar details the California native’s journey as she transitioned from a shy youngster playing in a t-ball league to become softball’s most famous face, a devoted mother of three and a legend in women’s sports.
Book Synopsis Mike Trout: Baseball Sensation: Sportstars by : Christine Dzidrums
Download or read book Mike Trout: Baseball Sensation: Sportstars written by Christine Dzidrums and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of a former professional ball player, Mike Trout was running around a baseball diamond at the age of two. From Little League to high school, the amazing athlete constantly turned heads during his playing days in New Jersey. He then took baseball by storm in 2012 when he posted incredible stats during his first full season in the big leagues with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. A children's biography filled with over 25 thrilling photos, Mike Trout: Baseball Sensation chronicles the New Jersey native's rise from a toddler running the base paths to winning the 2012 American League Rookie of the Year Award. Young readers will read about Trout's childhood days when he played baseball in his family's backyard, his high school basketball career and highlights from his Major League Baseball years.