Baseball S Funnymen

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476624938

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Baseball's Funnymen by Lew Freedman Pdf

From Nick Altrock to Casey Stengel, Dizzy Dean to Satchel Paige, Bill Veeck to Bob Uecker, baseball has always admired the clever. This book tells the stories of some of the players, coaches, managers and broadcasters who had the most fun in the Major Leagues and made fans laugh out loud (or shake their heads in disbelief). The author recounts tales both famous and little known that capture the character of unusual and offbeat players, unique and engaging personalities and the succession of eccentrics who were officially dubbed "Clown Prince of Baseball."

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786483518

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Joe E. Brown by Wes D. Gehring Pdf

As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown had a job: making faces at the firemen on passing coal-burning trains so they would throw coal at him. As a child he also worked as a circus acrobat and newsboy. His inventiveness and spunk helped his family get through hard times but also fueled his fascination with entertainment, and he built up a repertoire of rubber-faced expressions and funny antics that would make his stage and screen work memorable. Baseball was a favorite pursuit in his life and thus a recurring theme in his films and skits. In this biography--the first on one of the top film comedians of the 1930s--the reader learns of Joe's challenging childhood and how it prepared him for later screen roles, and how his love of baseball translated into screen successes. His early career in vaudeville is discussed, his work as a Broadway comedian in the Roaring Twenties, his road to movie stardom, and how he parlayed his love of sports into big hits like 1930's Elmer the Great. The year 1935 gets its own chapter; its films are considered the pinnacle of Brown's career, including Alibi Ike, Bright Lights and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The final chapters reveal what happened after he left Warner Bros., including the bittersweet 1940s, when he entertained troops around the globe while mourning a son lost to the war. The book concludes with a comprehensive filmography of his features from 1928 to 1963.

Author : Joe Garagiola
Publisher : Bantam Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1983-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0553235664

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Baseball Is a Funny Game by Joe Garagiola Pdf

A former major-league catcher provides a view of the lighter side of baseball as he relates his professional experience

Author : Ted Heller
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743235002

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Funnymen by Ted Heller Pdf

Sigmund "Ziggy" Blissman isn't the best-looking, sanest boy in the world. Far from it. But this misfit child of a failed husband-and-wife vaudeville team has one thing going for him: He can crack people up just by batting his eyelashes. Vittorio "Vic" Fontana, the son of a fisherman, can barely carry a tune or even stay awake while attempting to, but he, too, has one thing going for him: Women love to look at him. On their own, these two men are failures. But one summer night in the Catskills, Ziggy and Vic step onstage and together become the funniest men -- and hottest act -- in America. Written as a fictional oral history and filled with more than seventy memorable characters, Funnymen is the wildly inventive story of "Fountain and Bliss," the comedy duo that delighted America in the 1940s and 1950s. The episodes recounted here by managers, wives, children, mistresses, friends, fans, and foes -- and the truths Heller reveals about human ambition, egotism, and friendship -- make Funnymen not only a masterpiece of storytelling, but also a thoroughly hilarious read.

Author : William M. Simons,Alvin L. Hall
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786413573

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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2001 by William M. Simons,Alvin L. Hall Pdf

This is an anthology of 23 papers that were presented at the Thirteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held June 6-8, 2001, and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Featuring keynote remarks from George Plimpton, author of Home Run: The Best Writing About Baseball's Most Exciting Moment, this Symposium examined such topics as baseball's myths, legends and tall tales. These essays, divided into sections titled "Mythic Heroes," "Media Mythology," "Myth and Mystery" and "Myths in Progress," go beyond the quick and easy judgments of the media and offer instead the longer, more informed views of scholars and researchers.

Author : Sara Nelson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0425198197

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So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson Pdf

“Will make many readers smile with recognition.”—The New Yorker “Readaholics, meet your new best friend.”—People “This book is bliss.”—The Boston Globe Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, the interplay between our lives and our books is the subject of this unique memoir by well-known publishing correspondent and self-described “readaholic” Sara Nelson. The project began as an experiment with a simple plan—fifty-two weeks, fifty-two books—that fell apart in the first week. It was then that Sara realized the books chose her as much as she chose them, and the rewards and frustrations they brought were nothing she could plan for. From Solzhenitsyn to Laura Zigman, Catherine M. to Captain Underpants, the result is a personal chronicle of insight, wit, and enough infectious enthusiasm to make a passionate reader out of anybody.

Author : Tom Andrae,Mel Gordon,Jerry Siegel,Joe Shuster
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781932595789

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Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman by Tom Andrae,Mel Gordon,Jerry Siegel,Joe Shuster Pdf

Documenting the amazing back story of the world's first Jewish superhero, Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman is an important document of comics and Jewish history. Funnyman, aka Larry Davis, is a red-haired television comedian whose agent talks him into performing a superhero-like stunt in order to obtain publicity. This stunt goes wrong when Larry finds himself in a real crime scene. Larry stops this criminal, not knowing what he is doing is real until after the fact. Discovering that he enjoys fighting crime, Larry begins a career as the costumed crime fighter Funnyman.

Author : Wilfrid Sheed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UCAL:B4384728

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Baseball and Lesser Sports by Wilfrid Sheed Pdf

Author : National Baseball Congress of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Baseball
ISBN : PSU:000022912022

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Official Baseball Annual by National Baseball Congress of America Pdf

Author : Jacob D. Myers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666702828

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Stand-Up Preaching by Jacob D. Myers Pdf

Few vocations share more in common with preaching than stand-up comedy. Each profession demands attention to the speaker's bodily and facial gestures, tone and inflection, timing, and thoughtful engagement with contemporary contexts. Furthermore, both preaching and stand-up arise out of creative tension with homiletic or comedic traditions, respectively. Every time the preacher steps into the pulpit or the comedian steps onto the stage, they must measure their words and gestures against their audience's expectations and assumptions. They participate in a kind of dance that is at once choreographed and open to improvisation. It is these and similar commonalities between preaching and stand-up comedy that this book engages. Stand-Up Preaching does not aim to help preachers tell better jokes. The focus of this book is far more expansive. Given the recent popularity of comedy specials, preachers have greater access to a broad array of emerging comics who showcase fresh comedic styles and variations on comedic traditions. Coupled with the perennial Def Comedy Jams on HBO, preachers also have ready access to the work of classic comics who have exhibited great storytelling and stage presence. This book will offer readers tools to discern what is homiletically significant in historical and contemporary stand-up routines, equipping them with fresh ways to riff off of their respective preaching traditions, and nuanced ways to engage issues of contemporary sociopolitical importance.

Author : Jeffrey M. Katz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786464067

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Plie Ball! by Jeffrey M. Katz Pdf

From the vaudeville gyrations of New York Giants star pitchers Rube Marquard and Christy Mathewson, to Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as hoofing infielders in Take Me Out to the Ball Game, to the stage and screen versions of Damn Yankees, the connection between baseball and dance is an intimate, perhaps surprising one. Covering more than a century of dancing ballplayers and baseball-inspired dance, this entertaining study examines the connection in film and television, in theatrical productions and in choreography created for some of the greatest dancers and dance companies in the world.

Author : Harry Allen Smith,Ira Lepouce Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1891369148

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Low and Inside by Harry Allen Smith,Ira Lepouce Smith Pdf

"Low and Inside" covers baseball's follies and freaks from the sports origins in the mists of the 19th century until about 1915. "A fascinating and hilarious collection. It is something that should be sandwiched between Marcel Proust and "forever Amber" on every bookshelf!"

Author : Chris Ivy
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1599673835

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Heritage Auctions Sports Collectibles Auction Catalog #716, Dallas, TX by Chris Ivy Pdf

Author : Michael Pellowski
Publisher : Sterling
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0806994428

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Baseball's Funniest People by Michael Pellowski Pdf

"Light, anecdotal accounts of pranks, witty quotes, and retellings of the foibles of such legendary figures as Yogi Berra, Joe Garagiola, and others round out this humorous compilation."--Library Journal. It's a home run of humor!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015004979400

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Sepia by Anonim Pdf