The Farewell Season

The Farewell Season

Author: Ann Herrick

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 9781771453202

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A story of how love heals and love endures. Eric and Glynnie go from butting heads to grudging friendship to something more.


The Final Season

The Final Season

Author: Tom Stanton

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-05-08

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780312291563

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The author chronicles his 1999 baseball adventure: attending all eighty-one home games at Tiger Stadium in its last season. In the process, he examines his relationships with his father and his young son.


Farewell to the Last Golden Era

Farewell to the Last Golden Era

Author: Bill Morales

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2011-08-10

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 078648568X

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In 1960, Major League Baseball reached a crossroads in its history. Facing a challenge from the Continental Baseball League, the owners of the original 16 major league teams elected to admit new clubs. This in-depth look at that pivotal season--the last played with only the original 16 teams--follows the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates on their march to the 1960 World Series. The trials and triumphs of these two teams reflect the changes, large and small, that came to define the sport in the following decades--surnames on the backs of the uniforms, exploding scoreboards, the increasing impact of international players, and foremost of all, expansion. Marking the end of the "Golden Age" of baseball and the beginning of the ascendancy of professional football as the national pastime, this historic season witnessed the intersection of the past and future of American professional sports.


The Last Pass

The Last Pass

Author: Gary M. Pomerantz

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0735223610

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"Out of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret"--


A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-07-08

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1476764522

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An unforgettable World War I story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for an English nurse.


The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture

Author: Randy Pausch

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780340978504

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.


Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century

Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Frederick Luis Aldama

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2022-04-19

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 081654526X

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Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary television by and about U.S. Latinx communities. This volume is comprehensive in its coverage while diving into detailed and specific examples as it navigates the complex and ever-changing world of Latinx representation and creation in television. In this volume, editor Frederick Luis Aldama brings together leading experts who show how Latinx TV is shaped by historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts. Contributors address head on harmful stereotypes in Latinx representation while giving key insights to a positive path forward. TV narratives by and about Latinx people exist across all genres. In this century, we see Latinx people in sitcoms, sci-fi, noir, soap operas, rom-coms, food shows, dramas, action-adventure, and more. Latinx people appear in television across all formats, from quick webisodes, to serialized big-arc narratives, to animation and everything in between. The diverse array of contributors to this volume delve into this rich landscape of Latinx TV from 2000 to today, spanning the ever-widening range of genres and platforms. Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century argues that Latinx TV is not just television—it’s an entire movement. Digital spaces and streaming platforms today have allowed for Latinx representation on TV that speaks to Latinx people and non-Latinx people alike, bringing rich and varied Latinx cultures into mainstream television and addressing urbanization, immigration, family life, language, politics, gender, sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity. Once heavily underrepresented and harmfully stereotypical, Latinx representation on TV is beginning to give careful nuance to regional, communal, and familial experiences among U.S. Latinx people. This volume unpacks the negative implications of older representation and celebrates the progress of new representation, recognizing that television has come a long way, but there is still a lot of important work to do for truly diverse and inclusive representation.