Burial At Home Plate

Author : Bob Fulton
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9798888126394

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Burial at Home Plate by Bob Fulton Pdf

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 : Tamas Hofer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351496292

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Proper Peasants by Tamas Hofer Pdf

Based on an intensive fourteen-year study of a Hungarian peasant village, Proper Peasants greatly expands our knowledge of Eastern European social organizations with its accurate portrayal of a rapidly vanishing peasant way of life. Centering on the village of Átány in central Hungary, the study presents a dramatic account of peasant life through the turbulent centuries. It is based largely upon evidence given by villagers themselves and is a moving human story of a com­munity with a tragic historical background and a complex, demanding present.Edit Fél and Tamás Hofer begin by locating Átány within the historical, geographical, and cultural context of Hungary as a whole. The following chapters describe units of social organization and the human relationships within and among these units. There is a special analysis of stratification and mobility within the changing structural situations of the past hundred years. Objective information about all the dimensions of village life is obtained from a comparison of Átány with nearby villages and from the use of local records. The book portrays the attempts of the community to classify, organize, and understand the universe within which lives and to control the unexpected and varied demands that have been made upon it by changing circumstances.This work makes excellent use of the strong 150-year tradition of ethnographic research in Hungary. The discus­sion of the warm personal relationships among the Átány people is supplemented with extensive statistical material on demographic processes, economic structure, and stratification. The picture that results is rich and fruitful, particularly so in a post-communist nation.

Author : E. Fel
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780202368290

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Proper Peasants by E. Fel Pdf

Author : Miles Wolff
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476690179

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There's a Bulldozer on Home Plate by Miles Wolff Pdf

The "father of Independent Baseball," Miles Wolff recounts his 50-year career in the game and how his experiences lead to the founding of the modern independent game, with some opposition from the existing major and minor leagues. Along the way, he describes how the movie Bull Durham came to be made and covers the history of minor league ball's growth from mom-and-pop operations to major business endeavors.

Author : Kathleen Warner Slane
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781621390220

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Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth's Northern Cemetery by Kathleen Warner Slane Pdf

Rescue excavations were carried out along the terrace north of Ancient Corinth by Henry Robinson, the director of the Corinth Excavations, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens on behalf of the Greek Archaeological Service, in 1961 and 1962. They revealed 70 tile graves, limestone sarcophagi, and cremation burials (the last are rare in Corinth before the Julian colony), and seven chamber tombs (also rare before the Roman period). The burials ranged in date from the 5th century B.C. to the 6th century A.D., and about 240 skeletons were preserved for study. This volume publishes the results of these excavations and examines the evidence for changing burial practices in the Greek city, Roman colony, and Christian town. Documented are single graves and deposits, the Robinson "Painted Tomb," two more hypogea, and four built chamber tombs. Ethne Barnes describes the human skeletal remains, and David Reese discusses the animal bones found in the North Terrace tombs. The author further explores the architecture of the chamber tombs as well as cemeteries, burial practices, and funeral customs in ancient Corinth. One appendix addresses a Roman chamber tomb at nearby Hexamilia, excavated in 1937; the second, by David Jordan, the lead tablets from a chamber tomb and its well. Concordances, grave index numbers, Corinth inventory numbers, and indexes follow. This study will be of interest to classicists, historians of several periods, and scholars studying early Christianity.

Author : George Thornton Fleming
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9783849674366

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History of Pittsburgh Volume 1 by George Thornton Fleming Pdf

The selection of Mr. Fleming to prepare this history of Pittsburgh, and the region round about, was most fortunate for the city. He was not only a sturdy grubber after facts but had the ability to dress them up in pleasing style and set them in graceful order. This book is valuable not only as a narrative of historic events, but as a compendium of facts relating to men and matters, events and happenings pertaining to the triumphant growth of Pittsburgh, its institutions, and its fame. It is as encyclopedic as entertaining and facilitates the finding of whatsoever data that may be desired. It will be very hard to find another book on the history of Pittsburgh that is as detailed as Mr. Fleming’s. This is volume one out of two.

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313052132

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Science Fiction Television by M. Keith Booker Pdf

Science fiction series have remained a staple of American television from its inception: classic programs such as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek, along with recent and current series including Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1, have been some of the most enduring and influential of all television shows. In this chronological survey, author M. Keith Booker examines this phenomenon and provides in-depth studies of the most important of these series. Science Fiction Television traces the development of the genre as a distinct cultural phenomenon within the context of broader developments in American culture as a whole. In the process, it offers a unique and informative guide for television fans and science fiction fans alike, one whose coverage is unprecedented in its scope and breadth. A must-read for anyone interested in its subject or in American popular culture, Science Fiction Television is a perceptive and entertaining history of one of television's most lasting forms of entertainment.

Author : Samuel Lodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Coronations
ISBN : UCAL:B3326741

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Scrivelsby, the Home of the Champions by Samuel Lodge Pdf

Author : Jack Cuozzo
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780890512388

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Buried Alive by Jack Cuozzo Pdf

Argues that Neanderthal skeletons are the remains of post flood very old biblical patriarchs.

Author : William Henry Kearley Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
ISBN : PRNC:32101073857631

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The Western Antiquary by William Henry Kearley Wright Pdf

"Reprinted after revision and correction from the 'Weekly Mercury, '" Mar. 1881-May 1884.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
ISBN : UCAL:$B755908

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The Western Antiquary; Or, Devon and Cornwall Note-book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas G. Long,Thomas Lynch
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664238537

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The Good Funeral by Thomas G. Long,Thomas Lynch Pdf

"Before long I began to understand that showing up, being there, helping in an otherwise helpless situation was made heroic by the same gravity I had sensed when I first stood in that embalming room as a boy„the presence of the dead made the presence of the living more meaningful somehow, as if it involved a basic and intuitively human duty to witness." „from Chapter 1, "How We Come to Be the Ones We Are" Two of the most authoritative voices on the funeral industry come together here in one volume to discuss the current state of the funeral. Through their different lenses„one as a preacher and one as a funeral director„Thomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch alternately discuss several challenges facing "the good funeral," including the commercial aspects that have led many to be suspicious of funeral directors, the sometimes tense relationship between pastors and funeral directors, the tendency of modern funerals to exclude the body from the service, and the rapid growth in cremation. The book features forewords from Patrick Lynch, President of the National Funeral Directors Association, and Barbara Brown Taylor, highly praised author and preacher. It is an essential resource for funeral directors, morticians, and pastors, and anyone else with an interest in current funeral practices.

Author : Elizabeth Haven Appleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044013670096

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In Memory of Elizabeth Haven Appleton is Printed this Selection from Her Lectures by Elizabeth Haven Appleton Pdf

Author : Alexander Keller Hirsch,David W. McIvor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498567251

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The Democratic Arts of Mourning by Alexander Keller Hirsch,David W. McIvor Pdf

This book reflects on the variety of ways in which mourning affects political and social life. Through the narrative of the contributors, the book demonstrates how mourning is intertwined with politics and how politics involves a struggle over which losses and whose lives can, or should, be mourned.

Author : Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476617442

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The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed. by Jonathan Fraser Light Pdf

More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America’s culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues’ decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.