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Seeking the Perfect Game

Author : Cordelia Chávez Candelaria
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 9780313254659
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Seeking the Perfect Game written by Cordelia Chávez Candelaria and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1989-09-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive study of baseball in American literature, Candelaria looks primarily at novels to explore how writers have used this quintessential American symbol and to examine what the metaphors and images of the fictional universe of baseball have to tell us about ourselves. Her analysis includes both juvenile and adult sports fiction and other types of literary works that draw significantly on baseball imagery. Candelaria offers a probing analysis of the progression from allegory and romanticism in the earliest baseball fiction to the realism, irony, and solipsism of contemporary narrative. Candelaria examines the origins and folklore of baseball, the development of its mythic status as the national game or pastime, as well as early literary treatments. Baseball soon emerged as a romantic and heroic metaphor in juvenile and pulp fiction and as a vehicle for ironic comedy in the work of Ring Lardner and other writers of the early decades of the twentieth century. Allusions to baseball in works by such literary masters as Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, and Ernest Hemingway emphasize the symbolic dimensions of the game, and its mythic possibilities have been fully exploited by more recent writers, notably Bernard Malamud in The Natural and Philip Roth in The Great American Novel. Increasingly complex levels of abstraction are characteristic of the baseball fiction of Philip Roth, Mark Harris, Jay Neugeboren, John Graham Alexander, and Robert Coover. Candelaria offers a probing analysis of the progression from allegory and romanticism in the earliest baseball fiction to the realism, irony, and solipsism of contemporary narratives. A stimulating work of literary and cultural criticism, this book will appeal to students and scholars of American literature, popular culture, American studies, and physical education, as well as to baseball enthusiasts.

Perfect Game

Author : Jordana Ryan
Publisher : Siren-BookStrand
ISBN 13 : 1606011006
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Game written by Jordana Ryan and published by Siren-BookStrand. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [BookStrand Contemporary Romance] When her mother dies, Jessie decides to take a chance and get to know the father she had idolized from a distance, but never really had a relationship with. In Santa Fe, she's determined to make a new start no matter what it takes. Trevor Malone is the pitcher for the Santa Fe Devils, the team Jessie's father coaches. When a career threatening injury occurs, he is forced to get to know Jessie as the woman she is rather than the bratty child he remembers from a single visit years ago. As the two come together in their own individual times of tragedy, they find that they can take of their masks and just be who they really are. Despite the odds, Jessie and Trevor begin a journey that changes them and those around them. Could love really be better than chasing the high of pitching the Perfect Game? ** A BookStrand Mainstream Romance

O'Nelligan and the Perfect Game

Author : Michael Nethercott
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466843675
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book O'Nelligan and the Perfect Game written by Michael Nethercott and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Lee Plunkett and Mr. O'Nelligan, the unforgettable duo featured in Michael Nethercott's The Séance Society, in this excellent short story set in the fall of 1956. When young private eye Lee Plunkett is hired by a lovely Italian immigrant to investigate the death of her father, he quickly realizes he's in over his head. Luckily, Lee is more than ably assisted by the charming Mr. O'Nelligan, a scholarly, quick-witted Irishman with a knack for quoting Celtic bards, and, more importantly, solving crimes. In the course of their investigation--which involves prophetic dreams, stolen art, and the World Series--Plunkett and O'Nelligan must face off with a wealthy, debonair scoundrel who considers himself "the perfect man." Charming, unique, and wholly entertaining, "O'Nelligan and the Perfect Game" introduces readers to the unlikely pair of Plunkett and O'Nelligan, whose adventures continue in The Haunting Ballad.

The Perfect Game

Author : John Grissmer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452071934
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Game written by John Grissmer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-12-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perfect Game makes use of musical theater form to weave together two narratives. In the "historical" story, a young man out on his firs teaching job is given an assignment by his boss. Devise a new game for physical education students. That teacher, James Naismith, fulfills his assignment and invents what he hopes will prove to be a perfect game. His students like to play what they call: "Basket-Ball." In the other story, two of today's basketball coaches, Nancy and Frank, have their own issues to overcome. They wind up coaching together while falling in love. The two stories are woven together when the historic Jim Naismith becomes a mentor figure for today's coach Nancy. They have some intense discussions over the true nature of basketball. Both stories are resolved in the context of the final game, The Home Team against their Arch Rivals. Down by point, the Home Team's desperate last second shot, may or may not go in.

The Perfect Game

Author : J. Sterling
Publisher : Inspire Magic
ISBN 13 : 147822553X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Game written by J. Sterling and published by Inspire Magic. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over half-a-million copies sold worldwide, come see why readers and authors alike all call this, "an unforgettable story that will stay with you for years," by New York Times Bestselling Author, J. Sterling. He's a game she never intended to play. And she's the game changer he never knew he needed. The Perfect Game tells the story of college juniors, Cassie Andrews & Jack Carter. When Cassie meets rising baseball hopeful Jack, she is determined to steer clear of him and his typical cocky attitude. But Jack has other things on his mind... like getting Cassie to give him the time of day. They're both damaged, filled with mistrust and guarded before they find one another (and themselves) in this emotional journey about love and forgiveness. Strap yourselves for a ride that will not only break your heart, but put it back together. Sometimes life gets ugly before it gets beautiful.

Making the Team

Author : Timothy Morris
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065972
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Making the Team written by Timothy Morris and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He concludes with a chapter that asks, "What does it mean to be 'literary'?" What distinguishes "high art" from a baseball novel, or a mystery, or a romance novel, or pornography? Making the Team suggests that drawing the line may be a more vital concern - not just for scholars, but for Americans at large - than anything critics have argued about for a very long time.

Imagining Baseball

Author : David McGimpsey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253336965
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Baseball written by David McGimpsey and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack (several of which are aimed at his beloved, and beleaguered, Montreal Expos). Literary baseball may be a drastically over-analyzed subject, but, like an overachieving rookie, McGrimpsey produces a far better book on it than one would have ever thought possible." --Louis Jacobson, Washington Post "This is the most important critical book on baseball literature in many years." --Murray Sperber, author of Onward to Victory From Field of Dreams to The Natural, from baseball cards to highbrow fiction, this book explores the place of baseball in American popular culture.

The Perfect Game

Author : Frank Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250022606
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Game written by Frank Fitzpatrick and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed veteran sportswriter Frank Fitzpatrick takes readers courtside for one of the greatest upsets in college basketball history, the 1985 Villanova/Georgetown national championship showdown. A veteran Philadelphia Inquirer sportswriter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Frank Fitzpatrick has long followed and covered Villanova basketball. In all that time, nothing compares with the Wildcats' legendary 1985 upset of Georgetown—a win so spectacular and unusually flawless that days after its conclusion, sports columnists were already calling it "The Perfect Game." The game, particularly its second half, was so different from what observers expected—so different, in fact, from what anyone had ever seen that a shroud of myth almost immediately began to envelop it. Over the years, the game took on mythological proportions with heroes and villains, but with a darker, more complex subtext. In the midst of the sunny Reagan Administration, the game had been played out amid darker themes—race, death, and, though no one knew it at the time, drugs. It was a night when the basketball world turned upside down. Villanova-Georgetown would be a perfect little microcosm of the 1980s. And it would be much more. Even now, a quarter-century later, the upset gives hope to sporting Davids everywhere. At the start of every NCAA Tournament, it is recalled as an exemplar of March's madness. Whenever sport's all-time upsets are ranked, it is high on those lists, along with hockey's Miracle on Ice. Now, through interviews with the players and coaches, through the work of sociologists and cultural critics, through the eyes of those who witnessed the game, Fitzpatrick brings to life the events of and surrounding that fateful night.

Breaking into Baseball

Author : Jean Hastings Ardell
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809388294
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Breaking into Baseball written by Jean Hastings Ardell and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2005-03-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While baseball is traditionally perceived as a game to be played, enjoyed, and reported from a masculine perspective, it has long been beloved among women—more so than any other spectator sport. Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime upends baseball’s accepted history to at last reveal just how involved women are, and have always been, in the American game. Through provocative interviews and deft research, Jean Hastings Ardell devotes a detailed chapter to each of the seven ways women participate in the game—from the stands as fans, on the field as professionals or as amateur players, behind the plate as umpires, in the front office as executives, in the press box as sportswriters and reporters, or in the shadows as Baseball Annies. From these revelatory vantage points, Ardell invites overdue appreciation for the affinity and talent women bring to baseball at all levels and shows us our national game anew. From its ancient origins in spring fertility rituals through contemporary marketing efforts geared toward an ever-increasing female fan base, baseball has always had a feminine side, and generations of women have sought—and been sought after—to participate in the sport, even when doing so meant challenging the cultural mores of their era. In that regard, women have been breaking into baseball from the very beginning. But recent decades have witnessed great strides in legitimizing women’s roles on the diamond as players and umpires as well as in vital management and media roles. In her thoughtfully organized and engagingly written survey, Ardell offers a chance for sports enthusiasts and historians of both genders to better appreciate the storied and complex relationship women have so long shared with the game and to glimpse the future of women in baseball. Breaking into Baseball is augmented by twenty-four illustrations and a foreword from Ila Borders, the first woman to play more than three seasons of men’s professional baseball.

Pro Rules

Author : Andreea Ehritt-Vanc
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475963769
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Pro Rules written by Andreea Ehritt-Vanc and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last twelve years, Stephan Ehritt-Vanc and Andreea Ehritt-Vanc, founders of the Pro-M International Tennis Academy, have played in or coached several players in more than sixty Grand Slams. In their guidebook, Pro Rules, they offer proven principles and a set of values that can help tennis players of all ages improve their game, achieve goals, and ultimately maximize their potential. Presented through five main elementsexperience, acceptance-action response, respect, real self-confidence, and mastering the zonePro Rules guides tennis players to not only control their physical play, but also their mental play as well. You can learn how to act like a pro in any situation; deal with bad calls; focus despite distractions; analyze, predict, and respect an opponent; strike the balance between self-confidence and overconfidence; and live in the present tense. Pro Rules relies on the lessons of two experienced tennis professionals to share an innovative way of looking at lifeboth on and off the courtthat can guide tennis players to find their professional core, learn control, and master their game by following their instincts with mastery and precision.

The Perfect Game

Author : Craig Weincek
Publisher : Publish America
ISBN 13 : 9781591299042
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Game written by Craig Weincek and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2003-06-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a sports novel, The Perfect Game looks at America's love-hate fascination with celebrities through the eyes of Bob O'Toole, a sports writer who chronicles the career of a pitcher who has discovered a true miracle pitch. The pitcher, Lou Malinski, was an average 30-something guy until one day, quite by chance, he develops a knuckle-ball style that turns him into baseball's brightest star. Set in the near future, in Mt. Airy, Maryland, then in Washington, D.C. -- the city gets a team -- the story follows the remarkable rise and the inevitable fall of a sports legend.

Kate Kellner Throws a Perfect Game

Author : Mindy Killgrove
Publisher : Mindy Killgrove
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kate Kellner Throws a Perfect Game written by Mindy Killgrove and published by Mindy Killgrove. This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little competition never hurts anybody. Kate Kellner swears that she and Grady Hughes have what it takes to maintain a strong relationship. She can feel it in her bones. They’re meant to be together. But she knows keeping up with him and making time to see each other isn’t going to be a walk in the park. They’re both going to need to make sacrifices. She may have to dial back on some of her softball workouts, and he’ll have to leave campus every so often to drive back to Farrington. Letting go and stepping back is easier said than done when star athlete, Rosita Cruz Alvarez begins attending Farrington High School and she doesn’t try to hide the fact that she wants Kate’s starting spot in the lineup. Grady barely has a second to adjust to his new life at Felding University when an old friend from the past, Adrienne Gladwell, appears. She’s thrilled to see him and can’t wait to pick up right where they left off before he and his family moved away from San Antonio. Grady knows he should tell Kate about running into his ex-girlfriend, but he doesn’t want to worry her. She’s got enough on her mind as it is. He decides to keep this new information to himself. But, when Kate comes to visit Grady and realizes that things at Felding aren’t exactly what he made them out to be, there’s trouble. Will Kate forgive Grady for keeping secrets? Can Grady find a way to make his relationship with Kate flourish rather than fail when he’s juggling classes, working in a research lab, and making new friends at school? Or…is it time for Kate and Grady to finally admit defeat? Find out by reading the final book in this trilogy…KATE KELLNER THROWS A PERFECT GAME. #Youngadult #Sports #Softball #Romance #Comingofage #LoveTriangle #Oppositesattract

Secrets of Inspirational Captains Revealed

Author : David Becker
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1622122585
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Inspirational Captains Revealed written by David Becker and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the winning secrets to peak performance in the latest book in the Sports Wisdom Series, ?Secrets of Inspirational Captains Revealed?.Following on from National Bestseller, ?Secrets of Winning Coaches Revealed?, the latest offering imparts the collective wisdom of Australia?s finest sports captains using their personal stories and insights.Business leaders, coaches, teachers, parents and athletes can all learn motivational techniques, how to identify and nurture leadership potential and the art of managing team dynamics. These developmental insights are a fast track to excellence not only in sport, but in life. Some of the legendary Australian captains featured include: Shannon Eckstein (World ironman), Nick Farr-Jones (Rugby Union), Cameron Smith (rugby league), James Hird (AFL), Andrew Gaze (basketball), Nikki Hudson (hockey) and many more.Take yourself to the next level of success. Read the book, apply the wisdom by completing the free user guide included and take yourself and your team to new heights.

Books and Beyond [4 volumes]

Author : Kenneth Womack
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313071578
Total Pages : 1333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Books and Beyond [4 volumes] written by Kenneth Womack and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 1333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a strong interest in reading for pleasure or self-improvement in America, as shown by the popularity of Harry Potter, and book clubs, including Oprah Winfrey's. Although recent government reports show a decline in recreational reading, the same reports show a strong correlation between interest in reading and academic acheivement. This set provides a snapshot of the current state of popular American literature, including various types and genres. The volume presents alphabetically arranged entries on more than 70 diverse literary categories, such as cyberpunk, fantasy literature, flash fiction, GLBTQ literature, graphic novels, manga and anime, and zines. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a definition of the genre, an overview of its history, a look at trends and themes, a discussion of how the literary form engages contemporary issues, a review of the genre's reception, a discussion of authors and works, and suggestions for further reading. Sidebars provide fascinating details, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Reading in America for pleasure and knowledge continues to be popular, even while other media compete for attention. While students continue to read many of the standard classics, new genres have emerged. These have captured the attention of general readers and are also playing a critical role in the language arts classroom. This book maps the state of popular literature and reading in America today, including the growth of new genres, such as cyberpunk, zines, flash fiction, GLBTQ literature, and other topics. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a definition of the genre, an overview of its history, a look at trends and themes, a discussion of how the literary form engages contemporary issues, a review of the genre's critical reception, a discussion of authors and works, and suggestions for further reading. Sidebars provide fascinating details, and the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students will find this book a valuable guide to what they're reading today and will appreciate its illumination of popular culture and contemporary social issues.

Seasons of Change

Author : Richard L. Sartore
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781560724643
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Seasons of Change written by Richard L. Sartore and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sport and the Literary Imagination

Author : Jeffrey Hill
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039107094
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Sport and the Literary Imagination written by Jeffrey Hill and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of sport in the twentieth century has been examined from a variety of angles. Rarely, though, has the work of the creative writer been considered in detail. This book directs its attention to this neglected area, examining a selection of novels in which the subject of sport has featured prominently. It highlights the ways in which novelists in the second half of the twentieth century have approached sport, explained its place in society, and through the sporting subject constructed a critique of the historical circumstances in which their narrative is set. The study therefore seeks to complement the increasing body of work on the representation of sport through such media as film, television, and autobiography. It also brings a fresh dimension to the use made by historians of literary sources, suggesting that creative fiction can be far more valuable as historical evidence than has customarily been acknowledged.

Dead Balls and Double Curves

Author : Trey Strecker
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809325627
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Dead Balls and Double Curves written by Trey Strecker and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Balls and Double Curves: An Anthology of Early Baseball Fiction collects twenty-two classic stories from baseball’s youth, presented in chronological order to capture the development of this most American of sports. Many of these tales have never before been reprinted, adding historical value to the rich literary merits of this anthology. Editor Trey Strecker’s collection begins with an informal village match in an excerpt from James Fenimore Cooper’s Home as Found (1838), published the year prior to Abner Doubleday’s alleged invention of the game outside Cooperstown, New York, and concludes with the arrival of the superstar slugger that signaled the end of the dead-ball era in Heywood Broun’s The Sun Field (1923). The sampling of fiction from the eighty-five-year interim loads the bases with the humor, realism, and athletic gallantry of the sport’s earliest years. Not all grandstanding and heroism, these stories also explore cultural and class conflicts, racial strife, town rivalries, labor disputes, gambling scandals, and the striking personalities that decorated a simple game’s evolution into a national pastime. Dead Balls and Double Curves presents a lineup of first-division writers, including Mark Twain, Frank Norris, Christy Mathewson, Edna Ferber, and the game’s poet laureate, Ring Lardner, plus legendary characters such as Baseball Joe, South-Paw Skaggs, Tin Can Tommy, and the sole artiste of the mythic double curve, Frank Merriwell. Throughout the volume, each author’s abiding affection for the game and its characters shines through with diamond-like focus.