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Author: Marvin Miller
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781566635998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarvin Miller became the first executive director of the newly formed Major League Baseball Players Association. He recounts his experience in dealing with club owners and his success in winning a new role for the players. He helped virtually end the system that bound an athlete to one team forever and thereby raised salaries enormously. formed
Author: Phil Bildner
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2015-08-18
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0374301301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA school, sports, and friendship story perfect for fans of Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids.
Author: Sue Macy
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1993-04-15
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0805019421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An interesting and informative look at the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that operated from 1945–1954.... A significant title." --School Library Journal, starred review
Author: Bob Thomson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012-04-11
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 1469188120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a story of a child molester who imposes his will with the “clout” of his friends in high places, who run the town and can cover up murder and is rewarded with his 13 year old sweetheart the day she reaches 18 years old. This was done by using her young mind influenced by her own hormones at that tender age.
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Published: 2013-06-03
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9781459666658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRon Atkinson is one of English football's most flamboyant characters. In his autobiography, he offers a candid account of a career which has taken him to West Bromwich Albion, Manchester United, Aston Villa and Atletico Madrid.
Author: Belle Payton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-05-20
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 1481406434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMiddle school gets multiplied in this new series about twins Alex and Ava, whose father is the coach of a small-town Texas football team! When twelve-year-old twins Alex and Ava Sackett move from the East Coast to Texas so their dad can coach an elite high school football team, they have to get used to not only a whole new school and town, but also the fame that comes with being football’s first family. They’ve got a plan to make it through: stick together! Because even though Alex and Ava are total opposites, they’ve always stuck together. But then Ava cuts her hair short, and Alex fears that Ava wants a new town to mean a new start—as an individual. At the same time, Alex’s concern has Ava wondering if she’s no longer cool enough for her twin. Are Alex and Ava still the same dynamic duo they’ve always been, or are they headed down different paths?
Author: Rebecca Sheir
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Published: 2022-11-08
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 1635866332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Great Ball Game, a classic folktale originating from the Cherokee, Creek, Ojibway and Menominee people of North America, is adapted for a contemporary audience by Rebecca Sheir, host of the award-winning Circle Round podcast, and accompanied by the vibrant illustrations of Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, an Ojibwe Woodland artist. A dispute between the animals and the birds over who is best leads to a ball game challenge. When the game is disrupted by the arrival of a tiny creature named Bat, who doesn't seem to fit on either team, all the participants learn the value of diversity and celebrating those who seem "different." The accompanying activities and prompts encourage children to develop their own storytelling skills.
Author: Vernon L. Scarborough
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780816513604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.
Author: Frank Deford
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2006-03-02
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780802142474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the unusual friendship between John McGraw and Christy Mathewson, "The Old Ball Game" is a masterful chronicle of the early days of baseball from America's most beloved sportswriter. Illustrations throughout.
Author: Dennis W. Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-01-31
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1135968128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSo much has changed during the past decade in political campaigning that we can almost say "it's a whole new ball game." This book analyzes the way campaigns were traditionally run and the extraordinary changes that have occurred in the last decade. Dennis W. Johnson looks at the most sophisticated techniques of modern campaigning—micro-targeting, online fundraising, digital communication, the new media—and examines what has changed, how those changes have dramatically transformed campaigning, and what has remained fundamentally the same despite new technologies and communications. Campaigns are becoming more open and free-wheeling, with greater involvement of activists and average voters alike. But they can also become more chaotic and difficult to control. Campaigning in the Twenty-First Century presents daunting challenges for candidates and professional consultants as they try to get their messages out to voters. Ironically, the more open and robust campaigns become, the greater is the need for seasoned, flexible and imaginative professional consultants.
