The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba and the Search for the American Dream. New York: Villard Books, ... Opening Day: All Major League Baseball Season Opening Games, By Teams, 1976–1998. ... Secrets of Baseball Told by Big League Players.
Author: Lou Hernández
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786479757
Category: Sports & Recreation
Page: 317
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Baseball has had many outstanding Latin American pitchers since the early 20th century. This book profiles the greatest Hispanic hurlers to toe the rubber from the mounds of the major leagues, winter leagues and Negro leagues. The careers of the top major league pitchers to come from Central and South America and the Caribbean are examined in decade-by-decade portrayals, culminating with an all-time ranking by the author. The grand exploits of these athletes backdrop the evolving pitching eras of the game, from the macho, complete-game period that existed for the majority of the last century to the financially-driven, pitch-count sensitive culture that dominates baseball thinking today.
MICHAEL J. McGRATH The May 2002 edition of Sports Illustrated revealed one of sports' most poorly kept secrets: baseball players use performance enhancing drugs. The cover of SI prominently featured a quote from former MVP Ken Caminiti, ...
Author: Eric Bronson
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
ISBN: 9780812695564
Category: Philosophy
Page: 366
View: 757
Eighteen philosophers opine on their favorite pastime, asking important questions such as why Zen Buddhism can help batters improve their swing, is winning more important than following the rules, and what can the Supreme Court learn from umpires. Original. 50,000 first printing.
The secret to helping your child develop “ soft ” hands , which do catch balls , is to have him practice catching barehanded . If a baseball's too hard for him to catch bare - handed at first , he can begin with a light plastic ball .
Author: Walter Browder
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 9781418567613
Category: Family & Relationships
Page: 240
View: 494
Dads have a special way of relating to children. They tend to rough-house and tease children more than moms do. It is usually a father who teaches a child how to shoot a free throw, catch a frog, or fix a broken bicycle chain. Knowing how to do these things raises a child's self-esteem, increases self-confidence, and fosters self-reliance because they expand a child's ability to cope with and understand the world. Each of the 101 secrets in this wonderful gift book is explained in short descriptions accompanied by a drawing and a fact or tip. Many of these skills involve a simple secret to do them successfully. Knowing these secrets will enable any dad to look like a hero to his children. Included are instructions for... How to fly a kite How to find the north star How to skip a rock How to make a paper airplane How to tie a necktie How to change a spark plug How to carve a whistle How to bait a hook How to pitch a tent How to identify five icky things under a rock Which properties to buy in Monopoly How to tell how tall a tree is How to whistle with a blade of grass How to photograph lightning "The perfect gift for any father, grandfather, or mother who wants to teach children skills that will increase self confidence, raise self-esteem, and foster self-reliance." - Nashville Lifestyles
Author: Show What You Know PublishingPublish On: 2013-03-01
Reading Assessment Two I. 1 Why does Kylie have a hard time hitting the baseball? A She is afraid of the ball. ... B hung around the batting cages C practiced hitting with Scott D learned the secrets of baseball Choice B is correct.
Author: Show What You Know Publishing
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN: 9780787707071
Category:
Page: 136
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Correlates with the Student Workbook; Reviews the assessed Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Reading and Writing; Provides correct answers and analyses for the Assessments; Correlation charts and skills charts help educators track students’ strengths and weaknesses with STAAR. Includes Practice Tutorial CD for use on screen or IWB.
Secrets of Baseball Told by Big League Players. Bedford, Mass.: Applewood Books, 1996. Seib, Phillip. The Player: Christy Mathewson, Baseball, and the American Century. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003. Seymour, Harold.
Author: Rick Huhn
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826215550
Category: Sports & Recreation
Page: 338
View: 627
Annotation "Gorgeous George" Sisler, a left-handed first baseman, has faded from baseball's collective consciousness. Rick Huhn presents the story of one of baseball's least appreciated players and studies why his status became so diminished.
... associated moral values.18 In the late nineteenth century the old boys of Japanese elite schools enthusiastically translated and published Art of Base-ball Playing (1896), New Art of Baseball (1989), The Secrets of Baseball (1901), ...
Author: Peter Horton
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN: 9783832545352
Category: Sports & Recreation
Page: 529
View: 210
This tribute to Professor J. A. (Tony) Mangan is well-deserved. Professor Mangan is a path-breaking scholar. Mangan's impact is measurable in the rarest of ways: institution-building. Under his leadership, a globally situated team has opened a new relationship between sport and the academy and I recommend Manufacturing Masculinity: The Mangan Oeuvre -- Global Reflections on J.A. Mangan's Studies of Masculinity, Imperialism and Militarism as, yet again, it offers a unique consideration of the relationship between sport and academy. Professor John D. Kelly - University of Chicago Professor Mangan has since the early 1980s been one of the foremost international scholars within his chosen field of cultural history. Over this period he has possibly more convincingly than any other international academic shown in his research how much sport and associated forms of competitive performance have not only reflected and reproduced but indeed sometimes also reformed and redirected fundamental political, cultural and social structures and ideological transformative forces in modern civilisation. Professor Henrik Meinander - University of Helsinki Professor Mangan is widely and greatly respected in China as a scholar of international distinction... he has made both direct and indirect contributions to Chinese scholarship especially regarding Chinese women and their long struggle for emancipation... Finally, and I cannot stress this point too strongly, a most important contribution ... has been his crystal clear and nuanced writing style much appreciated by... Chinese who wish to write for the international scholastic world. Professor Dong Jinxia - Peking University No one has had a more influential role in, or made a greater contribution to the cultural history of modern sport than Professor J.A. Mangan. With his visionary, pioneering monographs and many seminal edited collections and as founding editor of the series Sport in the Global Society with its numerous volumes and most especially as founding editor and editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport for some thirty years -- which he took from the original three numbers a year to eighteen numbers a year, his contribution has been unparalleled. Professor Roberta J. Park - University of California, Berkeley
41 But for many males baseball remained one of the few bastions of privilege left relatively unscathed by the women's ... to one fortunate player on the Durham Bulls who would be initiated into both the secrets of baseball and sex.
Author: Ron Briley
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9781476629759
Category: Sports & Recreation
Page: 335
View: 562
Nineteen essays by Briley focus on major league baseball as it reflected the changing American culture from about 1945 to about 1980. He examines the era through the lens of race, gender and class—categories which have increasingly become essential analytical tools for scholars. The accounts of Roman Mejias and Cesar Cedeno offer some disturbing insights regarding the acceptance of Latinos in baseball and American society. In one essay, Briley refers to baseball as the heart of the nation's democratic spirit, noting that the son of a rural farmer could play alongside a governor’s son and both would receive only the praise that their playing merited. However, in writing about the Milwaukee Braves’move to Atlanta, the lamentations of fans—that baseball had succumbed to the age of affluence—are compared to the changing patterns of demographics and economic power in American society. Even with the increased participation of women on the field with teams like the Silver Bullets, the final essay comments on organized baseball’s perception of them as primarily spectators. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on CommercePublish On: 1953
And , as you know very well , Senator , there are no real secrets in baseball . Some of the managers even complain that the signals are not secret on the field . That is one of the reckless charges that Mr. Burrow made yesterday , which ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign CommercePublish On: 1954
And , as you know very well , Senator , there are no real secrets in baseball . Some of the managers even complain that the signals are not secret on the field . That is one of the reckless charges that Mr. Burrow made yesterday , which ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce