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Author: David Furgess
Publisher:
Published: 2016-01-07
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9781523299188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Connecticut Professional Baseball Archives (1966-2015) takes an in depth look at every professional baseball team to play in Connecticut from 1966 right through the 2015 season.
Author: David Furgess
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-04-26
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 9781511906135
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Connecticut Professional Baseball Archives (1966-2014) takes a look at every professional baseball team to play in the state of Connecticut from 1966-2014. It features team overviews, photos and statistics.
Author: David Furgess
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-01-09
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9781494956530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Connecticut Professional Baseball Archives (1966-2014) features a detailed overview of every professional baseball team to play in Connecticut from 1966 through the 2013 season.
Author: April Yoder
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2023-03-14
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1477326782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How Dominicans contribute to Major League Baseball and what they receive in return. From Juan Marichal and Pedro Martínez to Albert Pujols and Juan Soto, Dominicans have long been among Major League Baseball’s best. How did this small Caribbean nation become a hothouse of baseball talent? To many fans, the answer is both obvious and disconcerting: pro teams use their riches to develop talent abroad, creating opportunities for superhuman athletes and corrupt officials, while the rest of the population sees little benefit. Yet this interpretation of history is incomplete. April Yoder traces how baseball has empowered Dominicans in their struggles for democracy and social justice. While the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo saw the sport as a means of cementing its power at home and abroad, the Dominican people fashioned an emancipated civic sphere by seeing their potential for democratic success in their compatriots’ baseball success. Later, Dominicans articulated demands for democracy, economic opportunity, and civil rights through successful calls for public support of amateur and professional baseball. Today, Dominicans continue to demand that incentives for the baseball industry foster human as well as economic development. A revelatory and innovative history, Pitching Democracy restores agency to the Dominican people and honors their true love of the game.
Author: Brian Martin
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-09-15
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 078649977X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Despite his outstanding pitching record, James Francis "Pud" Galvin (1856-1902) was largely forgotten after his premature death. During his 18-year career with Pittsburgh, Buffalo and St. Louis, he was one of the best-paid players in the game--but died penniless. The diminutive hurler was the first to reach 300 wins (and only four pitchers have amassed more). A determined researcher documented Galvin's record decades after his death and he was enshrined in the Hall of Fame in 1965 with 365 wins. This book is the first comprehensive biography of Galvin and his use of a testosterone-based concoction--with eye-popping results--which earned him newfound attention as a pioneer of performance enhancing drugs.
Author: Linda Anderson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1474432468
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores critical and creative responses to the contemporary poetry archiveProvides an innovative new dialogue between critics and creative writers on the value and practice of the literary archiveExpandes the scope for understanding perspectives on, and the opposition between, creative and critical relations to archival materialsOpens up a new cross-disciplinary agenda for thinking the archive as both a source for scholarship and a source of inspiration for creative practiceThese 13 newly commissioned chapters examine the impact of archival poetry collections on both literary scholarship and poetic practice. They examine what we can learn from the drafts, notebooks and personal libraries left behind by poets and look at the ways in which the growth of poetry archives has changed the way poets think about their work. The contributing poets and scholars - including Susan Howe, Sean O'Brien and George Szirtes - present an in-depth account of the significance of poetry archives for contemporary literature. The collection provides a new cross-disciplinary agenda for thinking about the archive as both a source for scholarship and inspiration for creative practice.
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 1084
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John A. Simpson
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-03-10
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1476611084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1908 baseball was the only game that mattered in the South. With no major league team in the region, rivalries between Southern Association cities such as Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans were heated. This season, however, no city was as baseball-crazed as Nashville, whose Vols had been league doormat in 1907. After an unpromising start, the Nashville club clawed its way into contention during the month of July, rising into the upper division, then into a battle for first. Local interest intensified, as the competitive fire of Nashville fans was stoked by sharp-tongued columnist Grantland Rice and the city's three daily newspapers. By the time the Vols met the New Orleans Pelicans for a season-ending series, and the championship, the city was gripped by a pennant fever that shut down the commercial district. Nearly 13,000 people thronged the Nashville ballpark, Sulphur Dell, for the third and deciding contest. What they saw was described by Rice as "the greatest game ever played in Dixie."
Author: Robert M. Gorman
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-10-30
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1476622582
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark--rarely do thoughts of death come to mind. Yet during the game's history, hundreds of players, coaches and spectators have died while playing or watching the National Pastime. In its second edition, this ground-breaking study provides the known details for 150 years of game-related deaths, identifies contributing factors and discusses resulting changes to game rules, protective equipment, crowd control and stadium structures and grounds. Topics covered include pitched and batted-ball fatalities, weather and field condition accidents, structural failures, fatalities from violent or risky behavior and deaths from natural causes.
