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Author : Chris Kreie
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781434222909
Justin and Carlos have played baseball together since they started T-ball, but their friendship is torn apart when they are forced to play on rival teams.
Author : Chris Kreie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1282624504
Justin and Carlos have played on the same baseball team since their T-ball days. But this season, the friends are forced to play on rival teams. Carlos makes new friends on the field, and Justin is left in the dust. When their teams face each other in the final game of the season, Justin and Carlos aren't even speaking. The game comes down to one run, and Carlos rounds third. What will happen when the former best friends collide at home plate?
Author : Scott Ciencin
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781434234001
Jake is the Vikings' biggest star. But Jake's brother, Luke, is tired of standing in his shadow.
Author : Richard Woodman
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844689538
A study and reassessment of the major World War II battle in the South Atlantic between the British and German navies. The Battle of the River Plate was the first major naval confrontation of the Second World War, and it is one of the most famous. The dramatic sea fight between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles off the coast of South America caught the imagination in December 1939. Over the last sixty years the episode has come to be seen as one of the classics of naval warfare. Yet the accepted interpretation of events has perhaps been taken for granted and is ripe for reassessment, and that is one of the aims of Richard Woodman’s enthralling new study. Praise for The Battle of the River Plate: A Grand Delusion “This author has made it all so very riveting, it really is a book which is hard to put down until finished.” —Royal Geographical Society “Graphic, thought provoking—highly recommended.” —Britain at War
Author : Bob Fulton
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9798888126394
About the Book Burial at Home Plate offers a colorful look at the Pittsburgh Pirates, with an emphasis on offbeat moments in team history. Read about the doubleheader completed underwater; the Pittsburgh outfielders whose pursuit of a batted ball was halted by a gun-wielding Cincinnati fan; the pitcher who earned a victory while taking a nap; the dead man who tied a franchise record for games played; the sparrow that flew from beneath batter Casey Stengel’s cap; and the rookie who struck out while seated on the bench. Burial at Home Plate touches on the indoor game that was rained out; the throng of 50,000 that turned out in Pittsburgh for a game played more than 400 miles away; the tipsy pitcher who fell asleep inside the tarp during a game; the future MVPs who delivered their first major league hits while still in the minors; the FBI agent who “pinch hit” for Ralph Kiner; and the Pirates manager who disproved the notion that you can’t steal first base. Burial at Home Plate also shines the spotlight on the Green Weenie, the alabaster plaster, Aunt Minnie, the Rickey Dinks, Destiny’s Darlings, Dr. Strangeglove, eephus pitches and—the inspiration for the book’s title—a strange pre-game interment that took place at home plate. About the Author Bob Fulton has written extensively about the Pittsburgh Pirates for regional and national publications such as Sports History, Pittsburgh Magazine, The National Pastime, Pittsburgh Sports Now, Pennsylvania, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game program and On Deck, formerly the official magazine of the Pirates. His work has also appeared in American Heritage, Football Digest, The NCAA News, NFL Exclusive, Delta Sky, Marathon and Beyond, Basketball Weekly, Referee, The Elks Magazine, Collegiate Baseball and Sports Heritage, among others. Fulton is the author of The Summer Olympics: A Treasury of Legend and Lore; Never Lost a Game (Time Just Ran Out); Top Ten Baseball Stats: Interesting Rankings of Players, Managers, Umpires and Teams; and Pirates Treasures: Facts, Feats, Firsts in Pittsburgh Pirates History. In addition, his story on the major league debut of 15-year-old pitcher Joe Nuxhall was included in an anthology, The Ol’ Ball Game. Fulton, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, resides in Indiana, Pa.
Author : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691172699
-World War I and American Art provides an unprecedented look at the ways in which American artists reacted to the war. Artists took a leading role in chronicling the war, crafting images that influenced public opinion, supported mobilization efforts, and helped to shape how the war's appalling human toll was memorialized. The book brings together paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, posters, and ephemera, spanning the diverse visual culture of the period to tell the story of a crucial turning point in the history of American art---
Author : John Helyar
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780307801425
"The ultimate chronicle of the games behind the game."—The New York Times Book Review Baseball has always inspired rhapsodic elegies on the glory of man and golden memories of wonderful times. But what you see on the field is only half the game. In this fascinating, colorful chronicle—based on hundreds of interviews and years of research and digging—John Helyar brings to vivid life the extraordinary people and dramatic events that shaped America's favorite pastime, from the dead-ball days at the turn of the century through the great strike of 1994. Witness zealous Judge Landis banish eight players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, after the infamous "Black Sox" scandal; the flamboyant A's owner Charlie Finley wheel and deal his star players, Vida Blue and Rollie Fingers, like a deck of cards; the hysterical bidding war of coveted free agent Catfish Hunter; the chain-smoking romantic, A. Bartlett Giamatti, locking horns with Pete Rose during his gambling days of summer; and much more. Praise for The Lords of the Realm "A must-read for baseball fans . . . reads like a suspense novel."—Kirkus Reviews "Refreshingly hard-headed . . . the only book you'll need to read on the subject."—Newsday "Lots of stories . . . well told, amusing . . . edifying."—The Washington Post
Author : Eric Fein
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781434230737
Last year, Ryan Rogan injured Kyle Walker with his red-hot fastball. This year, they're on the same team - and neither teen is happy about it.
Author : Tracy Ledger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Food security
ISBN : 1431424234
"Why is it that food prices are so high that millions of South African families go hungry, while the prices paid to farmers for that same food are so low that many cannot stay in business? Why are the people that produce our food -- farmworkers -- among the most insecure of all? Why do high levels of rural poverty persist while corporate profits in the food sector keep rising? How did a country with a constitutional right to food become a place where one in four children is so malnourished that they are classified as stunted? An Empty Plate analyses the state of the South African agri-food system. Ledger demonstrates how this system is perpetuating poverty, threatening land reform; entrenching inequality and tearing apart our social fabric. The book asks two crucial questions: how did we get to this point and how might we go about solving the problem. This is a story of money, of power, of unanticipated consequences, and of personal and social tragedy. But it is also a story of what is possible if we reimagine our society and build a new system on the foundation of solidarity and ethical food citizenship."--Back cover.
Author : Sean Tulien
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781434227881
Chester Coyote, a talented paintball player for the Wolves, is in the state paintball finals, but Chester won't follow the team captain's orders.
Author : Philip V. Stephens
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453573099
In the future the outcome of baseball games means everything... Mysterious aliens have visited human worlds and now they too request to play. The rules have changed, the stakes have increased. Americans have but one last hope to save their country from falling.
Author : Edwin Forbes
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 1582187215
Edwin Forbes was born in New York City in 1839. He worked as a sketch artist for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper joining the staff at age 22. In 1861 he was attached to the Army of the Potomac, and was one of the youngest and one of the few artists who covered the entire war. Most of his illustrations were of the daily life of the soldiers, but he also depicted battle scenes including the Second Battle of Bull Run, and Hooker's Charge at Antietam. As a young man, Forbes was a student of Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, and from 1861 to 1882, exhibited at the National Academy of Design. Originally he started his career as an animal painter and then did some genre and landscape, but after the Civil War, drew primarily upon his sketches from that period for his paintings and etchings. Late in his career, his right side was paralyzed, and he learned to paint left handed. His drawings won a medal at the Centennial Exposition of 1876. Forbes died in 1895.
Author : Aaron Frisch
Publisher : Creative Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1568462107
There's no telling what a game of baseball might bring—but it's not every day that an afternoon at the ballyard includes ball-launching cannons and shovel-wielding base thieves! In Pirates at the Plate, a story conceived and illustrated by artist Mark Summers, with text by Aaron Frisch, a ballgame turns into a one-of-a-kind showdown between cowboys and pirates. With stars such as a slugging Blackbeard and a hard-throwing Wild Bill Hickok, the great summer pastime becomes a rowdy adventure.
Author : Chris Kreie
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781434227867
Graphic Novel. Stunning graphics and exciting adventure stories from the Sports Illustrated team.
Author : John Jordan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472830005
An annual publication featuring the latest research on the history, development and service of the world's warships. Warship 2018 is devoted to the design, development and service history of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, this latest volume combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery and much more to maintain the impressive standards of scholarship and research from the field of warship history. This 40th edition features the usual range of diverse articles spanning the subject by an international array of expert authors.