The Draper and Maynard Sporting Goods Company
The Draper and Maynard Sporting Goods Company

Author: Louise Samaha McCormack

Publisher:

Published: 2017-08-21

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781548434946

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The Draper & Maynard Sporting Goods Company: A Community Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow is the history of a company which was at the forefront of the manufacture of sporting goods. It all began when it produced a padded baseball glove per the suggestion of Arthur Irwin, the Providence Grays shortstop. Prior to this, players played bare handed. D&M is said to be the first company to design baseball gloves for specific, fielding positions. The history begins with the Draper family's early connection to the tanning and glove making industry and follows the growth of the company through the partnership of Jason F. Draper and his brother-in-law John F. Maynard and the transformation of the business into one of the pioneers of the new sporting goods industry. In its heyday D&M boasted endorsements by major league stars like Babe Ruth and Shoeless Joe Jackson while entertaining several visits from the world-champion Boston Red Sox. It led the way in both research, development and marketing and was renowned for the quality and craftsmanship of their products. D&M became a major supplier of sporting goods for professional, college and recreational use as well as for the troops during World War I. The company survived early financial problems, the death of a founder, devastation by fire, and the Great Depression, but later declined and closed its doors in 1937. The story is set against the backdrop of rural New Hampshire towns which provided the natural and human resources necessary for the company to thrive. These communities and the employees became a part of the D&M family and benefitted greatly from the civic mindedness of Draper and Maynard. The book concludes with the legacy of Draper and Maynard that lives on today-shared memories of local folk; a building and ball field still in use; the success of a hundred-year-old company in Japan; a proud local history still celebrated; and in avid collectors across the country.

No Game for Boys to Play
No Game for Boys to Play

Author: Kathleen Bachynski

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2019-11-25

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1469653710

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From the untimely deaths of young athletes to chronic disease among retired players, roiling debates over tackle football have profound implications for more than one million American boys—some as young as five years old—who play the sport every year. In this book, Kathleen Bachynski offers the first history of youth tackle football and debates over its safety. In the postwar United States, high school football was celebrated as a "moral" sport for young boys, one that promised and celebrated the creation of the honorable male citizen. Even so, Bachynski shows that throughout the twentieth century, coaches, sports equipment manufacturers, and even doctors were more concerned with "saving the game" than young boys' safety—even though injuries ranged from concussions and broken bones to paralysis and death. By exploring sport, masculinity, and citizenship, Bachynski uncovers the cultural priorities other than child health that made a collision sport the most popular high school game for American boys. These deep-rooted beliefs continue to shape the safety debate and the possible future of youth tackle football.

The Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network
The Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network

Author: Hsin-Hsi Chen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-11-02

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 3642347525

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2012, held in Taipei, China, in November 2012. The 27 revised full papers, 17 revised short papers, and 13 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cultural heritage preservation, retrieval and browsing in digital libraries, biliometrics, metadata and cataloguing, mobile and cloud computing, human factors in digital library, presevation systems and algorithms, social media, digital library algorithms and systems, recommendation applications and social networks.

The Baseball Glove
The Baseball Glove

Author: David Jenemann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-06-12

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1315526719

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The baseball glove is a ubiquitous item, a crucial piece of equipment in the game of baseball, and it offers the opportunity to examine the production of material culture and social practice at numerous levels. Where and how is a glove made, and how does its manufacture square with the narratives surrounding its place in American cultural life? What are the myths, superstitions, and beliefs surrounding its acquisition, care, use, and significance? How does a glove function as the center of a web of cultural practices that illustrate how individuals relate to a consumer good as a symbol of memory, personal narrative, and national identity? How do the manufacturers of baseball gloves draw upon, promote, and in some sense create these practices? How do these practices and meanings change in other national and cultural contexts? The Baseball Glove offers students the opportunity to examine these questions in an engagingly written and illustrated book that promotes hands-on interaction with a quintessential item of material culture. At the same time, the book gives students the space for critical self-reflection about the place of material goods like sporting equipment in their lives, and it provides the chance to learn different methodological approaches to studying everyday objects.

Plymouth
Plymouth

Author: Plymouth Historical Society

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 1998-09

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780738557762

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A town considered a gateway to the White Mountains, Plymouth, New Hampshire, also shares a colorful past with its waterways and a history as an important railroad center. Both the natural beauty and modern development of Plymouth are celebrated in this unique and unprecedented collection of images. Plymouth includes images from the archives of the Plymouth Historical Society as well as contributions from private collections. With coverage of the 1840s through the 1960s, this engaging pictorial history explores the people, places, and events that have shaped Plymouth. Old timers will recall the ski trains that welcomed thousands of weekend visitors and the serenity and beauty of life in the Lakes Region. They will remember a college that progressed from a State Normal School to a Teacher's College to its current presence as part of the New Hampshire University System. Combined with these images is a thoroughly researched and informative text, inviting the reader to become a part of Plymouth's history.