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Author : Rick Vaughn
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439675809
Step onto the field and bear witness to baseball's outsized impact on Florida's Sunshine City.
Author : Charles Fountain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0199743703
There is nothing in all of American sport quite like baseball's spring training. This annual six-week ritual, whose origins date back nearly a century and a half, fires the hearts and imaginations of fans who flock by the hundreds of thousands to places like Dodgertown to glimpse superstars and living legends in a relaxed moment and watch the drama of journeyman veterans and starry-eyed kids in search of that last spot on the bench. In Under the March Sun, Charles Fountain recounts for the first time the full and fascinating history of spring training and its growth from a shoestring-budget roadtrip to burn off winter calories into a billion-dollar-a-year business. In the early days southern hotels only reluctantly admitted ballplayers--and only if they agreed not to mingle with other guests. Today cities fight for teams by spending millions in public money to build ever-more-elaborate spring-training stadiums. In the early years of the 20th century, the mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, Al Lang, first realized that coverage in northern newspapers every spring was publicity his growing city could never afford to buy. As the book demonstrates, cities have been following Lang's lead ever since, building identities and economies through the media exposure and visitors that spring training brings. An entertaining cultural history that taps into the romance of baseball even as it reveals its more hard-nosed commercial machinations, Under the March Sun shows why spring training draws so many fans southward every March. While the prices may be growing and the intimacy and accessibility shrinking, they come because the sunshine and sense of hope are timeless.
Author : R. Wayne Ayers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0738506915
In the early 1900s, St. Petersburg, located on Florida's sunny Gulf Coast, was a place where dreams came true, where fortunes were won, and where thousands came to bask in the city's golden glow. "The Sunshine City" became its nickname and the advertising mantra that helped catapult St. Petersburg from a sleepy backwater of Tampa and a struggling rail stop to one of the nation's most popular tourist destinations. By the 1920s--often referred to as Florida's boom era--St. Petersburg saw fast and furious growth as the city's most significant institutions, buildings, and attractions came into being. Developers and promoters lured countless settlers and tourists from across the country by touting the city's many virtues and its perpetual sunshine. Almost overnight, St. Petersburg was transformed into a popular tourist mecca with a bustling downtown and waterfront, picturesque residential neighborhoods, lush parks and gardens, and the all the attractions of the day. This fascinating time was documented in both word and image by visitors, new residents, and the energetic players that made St. Petersburg boom.
Author : Rick Vaughn
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1467156361
Since 1913, Tampa has provided the background for some of the Major League Baseball's most iconic spring moments led, of course, by the longest home run of Babe Ruth's career. Tampa was the scene of the Grapefruit League's first no-hitter and the only spring time All-star Game. It was the first gathering place of the Big Red Machine and the Core Four. Well over 125 Hall of Famers honed their craft among the city's three major league ballparks: Plant Field, Al Lopez Field and Steinbrenner Field. All of it resulted from a diverse city's love of the game that began with baseball-crazed cigar factory workers before the turn of the 20th century .
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : UOM:39015081896832
Author : Anonim
Publisher : ProStar Publications
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1577855124
2004 Gulf of Mexico Boating Almanac Volume 5 covers the Eastern United Stated coastline from the Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico to the Virgin Islands. Within this text is information covering U.S. coast piloting, tide and current tables, electronics, maps and charts, weather, navigation, and first aid.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : UCBK:C108583913
Author : McGovern, Bernie
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : 1455604410
Thousands of fascinating facts and figures on all aspects of life in the Sunshine State. This book, a combination atlas, directory, tourist guide, and reference manual, covers everything you want to know about the state of Florida. The current edition has updated statistics on all of the topics found in past annuals, a hurricane survival guide, and everything from basic history to residential requirements to live in the state of Florida. A very good resource for Florida natives as well as those planning to visit the state.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Florida
ISBN : UGA:32108024574900
Author : Raymond John Jeffreys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Old age
ISBN : UOM:39015072117511
Author : Jeff Klinkenberg
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813063416
As stories about "Florida Man" inspire wild headlines in the news, Florida's most beloved chronicler is here to show that the state is more than the stereotypes. Award-winning journalist Jeff Klinkenberg has explored what makes Florida unique for nearly half a century, and Son of Real Florida is a compelling retrospective of essays on the state he knows so well. Klinkenberg tells what it was like growing up in pre-air conditioning Florida and becoming a newspaper reporter in mid-century Miami. He introduces us to the stout-hearted folks who have learned to live and even prosper among the insects, sharp-toothed critters, and serious heat. We meet beekeeper Harold P. Curtis and his prized orange blossom honey; frog whisperer Avalon Theisen; Sheepshead George of St. Petersburg; and Miss Martha, the oyster-shucking queen of Apalachicola. This book also takes us to some of the most interesting, little-known places in the state. We travel to Solomon's Castle of reclaimed materials, the neighborhood of "Rattlesnake, Florida," and the smallest post office in the United States. Along the way, Klinkenberg stops to impart true Florida wisdom, from how to eat a Key lime pie to which writers and artists every Floridian should know. Above all, Klinkenberg portrays Florida's people, places, food, and culture with a deep understanding that does not relegate them to cliche. He writes with warmth and authenticity of a state he still sees as wondrous in its own ways. Though some may think the real Florida is a thing of the past, he says, "Do not tell me Florida is no longer a paradise."
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Boy Scouts
ISBN : UIUC:30112118723177
Author : Baseball Prospectus
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 1910 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781118197691
The bestselling annual baseball preview from the smartest analysts in the business The essential guide to the 2012 baseball season is on deck now, and whether you're a fan or fantasy player—or both—you won't be properly informed without it. Baseball Prospectus 2012 brings together an elite group of analysts to provide the definitive look at the upcoming season in critical essays and commentary on the thirty teams, their managers, and more than sixty players and prospects from each team. Contains critical essays on each of the thirty teams and player comments for some sixty players for each of those teams Projects each player's stats for the coming season using the groundbreaking PECOTA projection system, which has been called "perhaps the game's most accurate projection model" (Sports Illustrated) From Baseball Prospectus, America's leading provider of statistical analysis for baseball Now in its seventeenth edition, this New York Times bestselling insider's guide remains hands down the most authoritative and entertaining book of its kind.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1935-07
Category : Current events
ISBN : UCBK:B000247846
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : UFL:31262054227441
