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Author: Yanina Neves
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2014-08-04
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 1499052154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChip is an imperfect diamond. He doesn’t appreciate anything he has. He lacks the four Cs of a quality diamond: confidence, courage, consideration, and commitment. Chip learns that in order to be a brilliant and sparkling diamond, he has to change. Will he become a true gem? Or will he remain an imperfect diamond?
Author: Davonte' J. Marshall
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Published: 2018-12-03
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781790679966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe imperfect diamond is an 83-day devotional that was composed to influence and motivate anyone in the faith that may be trying to find their true identity of life in spite of the imperfect road blocks along the journey. Davonte' has developed the necessary motivational awareness and voice to talk about his inconsistencies, failures, climatic moments and momentum behind trusting God and the plan he has. Nothing spectacular is going to happen over night and Davonte' religiously talks about the discipline and continuity of getting better, but he steadily talks about keeping the mental composure during life's most challenging periods. The best part of Davonte's spiritual philosophy is that he deeply talks about how important the love of God impacts every area in the lives we live and how that specific innovation determines how compassionately we look at the world around us.
Author: Yanina Neves
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2014-08-04
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9781499052145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lee Lowenfish
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2010-04
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the introduction of the reserve clause in 1879 to the lockout and new basic agreement of 1990, baseball players have been engaged in one of the longest and most colorful labor struggles in our nation’s history. The Imperfect Diamond tells the stories of the players and their opponents, the powerful owners: how John Montgomery Ward led the Players League Rebellion of 1890; the rise and fall of David Fultz and the Baseball Players Fraternity (1912–18); the iron-fisted regime of Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis; the case of Danny Gardella vs. Happy Chandler and the blacklisting of the players who jumped to the Mexican League; the founding of the Baseball Players Association in 1953 and the tempestuous but triumphant reign of Marvin Miller; the struggles of Curt Flood, Andy Messersmith, and Dave McNally, and how they brought about the demise of the reserve clause; the unprecedented midseason strike of 1981 and the collusion cases of the late 1980s. In the epilogue for this Bison Books edition, Lee Lowenfish guides the reader through the turbulent 1990s and first decade of the twenty-first century, covering expansion teams, the monumental 1994 strike, and performance-enhancing drugs. Listed by the Society of American Baseball Research as one of the fifty essential baseball books, The Imperfect Diamond will stand for years to come as the source for the real story behind America’s national pastime.
Author: Robert Fredrick Burk
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0807849081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of baseball since 1921 describes the "paternalistic era," when racial segregation was rigidly maintained, and the "inflationary era," when unions fought for increasingly higher pay and occupational mobility.
Author: Paul J. Zingg
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780252071706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Hooper's instinct for knowing where the ball was going to be hit was uncanny. I'm sure, too, that he made more diving catches than any other outfielder in history. With most outfielders the diving catch is half luck; with Hooper, it was a masterpiece of business."--Babe Ruth, on his selection of Harry Hooper for his all-time all-star team Through the figure of Harry Hooper (1887-1974), star of four World Series championship teams and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Paul Zingg describes baseball's transformation from an often rowdy spectacle to a respectable career choice and entertainment institution. Zingg chronicles Hooper's rise from a sharecropper background in California to college and then to the pinnacle of his sport. Boston's leadoff hitter and right fielder from 1909 to 1920, Hooper later played for the Chicago White Sox, managed in the Pacific Coast League, and coached Princeton's team. When he retired from playing in 1925, he held every major fielding record for an American League right fielder. Hooper's diaries, memoirs, and six decades of letters offer a rich and colorful commentary on the evolution of the game, as well as insight into the tensions between a player's public and private lives.
Author: Karen Smit
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-05-03
Total Pages: 898
ISBN-13: 150151704X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiamond is the record-setter in many mineralogical properties such as hardness, diffusivity, thermal conductivity, purity, and covalency of bonding. Similarly, diamond, as the premier gemstone of the mantle holds primacy for geological features such as age and depth of origin. Diamond was among the first crystalline structures to be solved by X-ray diffraction and the first materials measured for their Raman spectrum. At more than 80 billion USD in yearly commercial value, diamond sets the record for the most traded, valuable mineral on the planet. Despite its chemical simplicity, diamond has been the object of more research effort, and had more scientific and popular press pages written about it, than any other mineral.
Author: John Pinkerton
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Published: 1811
Total Pages: 824
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: S. W. Pope
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-12-17
Total Pages: 1010
ISBN-13: 1135978123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study. There is a great vitality in the field and it has matured dramatically over the past decade. Reflecting changes to traditional approaches, sport historians need now to engage with contemporary debates about history, to be encouraged to position themselves and their methodologies in relation to current epistemological issues, and to promote the importance of reflecting on the literary or poetic dimensions of producing history. These contemporary developments, along with a wealth of international research from a range of theoretical perspectives, provide the backdrop to the new Routledge Companion to Sports History. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the international field of sports history as it has developed as an academic area of study. Readers are guided through the development of the field across a range of thematic and geographical contexts and are introduced to the latest cutting edge approaches within the field. Including contributions from many of the world’s leading sports historians, the Routledge Companion to Sports History is the most important single volume for researchers and students in, and entering, the sports history field. It is an essential guide to contemporary research themes, to new ways of doing sports history, and to the theoretical and methodological foundations of this most fascinating of subjects.
