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Author : Tim Wendel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803259573
When an old scrapbook stirs memories, Billy Bryan looks back to the year 1947 when he was playing winter ball in Cuba, enjoying Havana's decadent nightlife, and dreaming of a major-league career.
Author : Tim Wendel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496222923
Named a 2021 Top Thriller by Alta Journal 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Action/Adventure Fiction 2021 Professional Achievement Award, Johns Hopkins University faculty Finalist for the 2021 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year In this visionary sequel to Castro’s Curveball, the former Washington Senators Minor League catcher has returned to Havana with a small role in a movie being filmed on location. Billy Bryan soon realizes that this place and his past remain as star-crossed as when he played winter ball in the Cuban capital decades before. Against his better judgment, Billy becomes entangled in a scheme to spirit a top baseball prospect off the island. This pits him against his old friend Fidel Castro. Despite being in his final days, the dictator remains a dangerous adversary, as does the Cuban sports machine and the Mexican crime syndicates that now direct baseball talent toward the U.S. Major Leagues. In Escape from Castro’s Cuba, Billy must once again navigate the crosscurrents of the so-called City of Columns: a place where the sunsets from the Hotel Nacional along the Malecón breakwater are as beautiful as ever, but where the alleyways in Old Havana still fan out, crooked and broken, like an old catcher’s fingers.
Author : Trey Strecker,,Steven P. Gietschier,Mitchell Nathanson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786476312
The study of baseball history and culture shows the national pastime to be a forum of debate where issues of sport, labor, race, character and the ethics of work and play are decided. An understanding of baseball calls for consideration of different perspectives. This very readable textbook offers insights into baseball history as a subject worthy of scholarly attention. Each chapter introduces a specific disciplinary approach--history, economics, media, law and fiction--and poses representative questions scholars from these fields would consider. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Peter C. Bjarkman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781538110317
Baseball has been as much of a national pastime to Cuba as it has to the U.S., due in no small part to Fidel Castro’s love of the game. This book chronicles the central role Castro played in transforming the sport from professional to amateur status in the small island country, which has produced dozens, if not hundreds, of baseball stars.
Author : John Danakas
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459405950
On his old team, Tom Poulos was a star catcher. But his new team is different. For one thing, all the players are older and bigger than him. For another, no matter how hard he tries or how hard he practices, he can't catch the curve balls that the pitcher sends flying over the plate. Tom feels like he's letting the team down, a feeling that gets worse once a new catcher joins the team and Tom is benched. Can Tom find a way to regain his rightful place behind the plate?
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1804 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Audiobooks
ISBN : UOM:39015046800762
Author : Oscar Valdes Estevez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1410782972
Author : Thomas W. Gilbert
Publisher : Godine+ORM
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781567926880
The untold story of baseball’s nineteenth-century origins: “a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat” (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal). You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. They didn’t. Perhaps you’ve read that baseball’s color line was first crossed by Jackie Robinson in 1947. Nope. Baseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. They were hundreds of uncredited, ordinary people who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They worked, built businesses, and fought against the South in the Civil War. In this myth-busting history, Thomas W. Gilbert reveals the true beginnings of baseball. Through newspaper accounts, diaries, and other accounts, he explains how it evolved through the mid-nineteenth century into a modern sport of championships, media coverage, and famous stars—all before the first professional league was formed in 1871. Winner of the Casey Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year
Author : Paul Aron
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780470322123
Advance Praise for Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot? "Aron has found the Rosetta stone to all of baseball's enduring mysteries, and he skips it along the pond with utter disregard for the ducks. His fortunate readers will have so much fun they may not even notice that they are becoming, page by page, real experts. Here is surefire water-cooler ammo." --JOHN THORN, editor of Total Baseball "Paul Aron puts a distant replay on the most famous controversies in baseball history. This is more fun than if he'd been there with a camcorder." --ALLEN BARRA, author of Clearing the Bases and Brushbacks and Knockdowns "Paul Aron has hit a home run for baseball fans. He dissects the evidence on baseball's 28 most charming mysteries. The result is a well-written, enjoyable, enlightening tour of the last hundred years of baseball history." --ANDREW ZIMBALIST, author of Baseball and Billions "Paul Aron's book on elements of baseball is both wise and fun, illuminating and entertaining." --ROBERT ADAIR, author of The Physics of Baseball "The essential last word for every fan who loves to debate baseball fact and fiction." --MICHAEL SHAPIRO, author of The Last Good Season
Author : Andrea Jeftanovic
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781666942279
In nine personal essays that blur the line between fiction and non-fiction, Andrea Jeftanovic explores border regions with a luminous, perceptive voice, covering diverse sociohistorical contexts including the Balkan wars, the border between Chile and Peru, Clarice Lispector’s Brazil, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and 1970s California.
Author : Paul Spickard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135950484
Almost All Aliens offers a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Leaving behind the traditional melting-pot model of immigrant assimilation, Paul Spickard puts forward a fresh and provocative reconceptualization that embraces the multicultural reality of immigration that has always existed in the United States. His astute study illustrates the complex relationship between ethnic identity and race, slavery, and colonial expansion. Examining not only the lives of those who crossed the Atlantic, but also those who crossed the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the North American Borderlands, Almost All Aliens provides a distinct, inclusive analysis of immigration and identity in the United States from 1600 until the present. For additional information and classroom resources please visit the Almost All Aliens companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/almostallaliens.
Author : Tim Wendel
Publisher : Citylit Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1936328143
The distance between Cuba and the United States: tantalizingly close yet worlds apart. When a beautiful showgirl married to Cuba's most famous baseball player escapes to the sea, only a boy and a boat and a belief in the "American Dream" keep her afloat. Planning to rendezvous with her husband after an exhibition game in El Norte, the showgirl risks everything only to discover that crossing the straits might be easier than spanning allegiances. Set against the backdrop of actual games played between the Cuba National Team and the Baltimore Orioles, Habana Libre is the story of people caught between home and hope.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3214 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Audiobooks
ISBN : UOM:49015003120145
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1316 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-24
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175023687406
Author : Christopher Prendergast
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350090101
What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall over, but they do have tails and if they didn't they wouldn't be kangaroos (or would they?). This is the sort of thing that can give counterfactuals a bad name, as inhabitants of a La La Land of the mind. On the other hand, counterfactuals do useful service across a broad range of disciplines in both the sciences and the humanities, including philosophy, history, cosmology, biology, cognitive psychology, jurisprudence, economics, art history, literary theory. They are also richly, albeit sometimes treacherously, present in the everyday human realm of how our lives are both imagined and lived: in the 'crossroads' scenario of decision-making, the place of regret in retrospective assessments of paths taken and not taken, and, at the outer limit, as the wish not to have been born. Christopher Prendergast take us on a dizzying exploratory journey through some of these intellectual and human landscapes, mobilizing a wide range of reference from antiquity to the present, and sustained by the belief that, whether as help or hindrance, and with many variations across cultures, counterfactual thinking and imagining are fundamental to what it is to be human.