Flip Flop Fly Ball

Author : Craig Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781608193486

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Flip Flop Fly Ball by Craig Robinson Pdf

How many miles does a baseball team travel in one season? How tall would A-Rod's annual salary be in pennies? What does Nolan Ryan have to do with the Supremes and Mariah Carey? You might never have asked yourself any of these questions, but Craig Robinson's Flip Flop Fly Ball will make you glad to know the answers. Baseball, almost from the first moment Robinson saw it, was more than a sport. It was history, a nearly infinite ocean of information that begged to be organized. He realized that understanding the game, which he fell in love with as an adult, would never be possible just through watching games and reading articles. He turned his obsession into a dizzyingly entertaining collection of graphics that turned into an Internet sensation. Out of Robinson's Web site, www.flipflopflyball.com, grew this book, full of all-new, never-before-seen graphics. Flip Flop Fly Ball dives into the game's history, its rivalries and absurdities, its cities and ballparks, and brings them to life through 120 full-color graphics. Statistics-the sport's lingua franca-have never been more fun. (By the way, the answers: about 26,000 miles, at least if the team in question is the 2008 Kansas City Royals; 3,178 miles; they were the artists atop the Billboard Hot 100 when Ryan first and last appeared in MLB games.)

Author : Ron Kaplan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781496209887

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501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die by Ron Kaplan Pdf

Propounding his "small ball theory" of sports literature, George Plimpton proposed that "the smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature." Of course he had the relatively small baseball in mind, because its literature is formidable--vast and varied, instructive, often wildly entertaining, and occasionally brilliant. From this bewildering array of baseball books, Ron Kaplan has chosen 501 of the best, making it easier for fans to find just the books to suit them (or to know what they're missing). From biography, history, fiction, and instruction to books about ballparks, business, and rules, anyone who loves to read about baseball will find in this book a companionable guide, far more fun than a reference work has any right to be.

Author : Pam Goble,Ryan R. Goble
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781631980633

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Making Curriculum Pop by Pam Goble,Ryan R. Goble Pdf

From body art to baseball cards, comics to cathedrals, pie charts to power ballads . . . students need help navigating today’s media-rich world. And educators need help teaching today’s new media literacy. To be literate now means being able to read, write, listen, speak, view, and represent across all media—including both print and nonprint texts, such as film, TV, podcasts, websites, visual art, fashion, architecture, landscape, and music. This book offers secondary teachers in all content areas a flexible, interdisciplinary approach to integrate these literacies into their curriculum. Students form cooperative learning groups to evaluate media texts from various perspectives (artist, producer, sociologist, sound mixer, economist, poet, set designer, and more) and show their thinking using unique graphic organizers aligned to the Common Core State Standards

Author : Gail K. Dickinson,Judi Repman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798216141983

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School Library Management by Gail K. Dickinson,Judi Repman Pdf

This book compiles selected articles from Library Media Connection to help school librarians and pre-service librarians learn about how to implement best practices for school library management. At a time when budget cuts threaten the role of the school librarian, dynamic learning experiences can resurrect the usefulness of the library and the role of its staff. The seventh edition of this popular book helps librarians develop engaging school library programs for greater student involvement. Comprised of important articles from Library Media Connection (LMC), School Library Management: Seventh Edition is a compilation of best practices in the field of school library management. An excellent textbook for professors teaching LIS courses, the book contains updates to standards and technologies, and features the latest initiatives guiding practices, including Standards for the 21st Century Learner and Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Programs. Each of the book's five sections features helpful tips from LMC and lists relevant resources for school library management. Selected articles address standards, inquiry, ethics, and information literacy. The book also includes a focus on the role of the school librarian in designing authentic assessments.

Author : Kristin Fontichiaro
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781624311925

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Understanding and Creating Infographics by Kristin Fontichiaro Pdf

Infographics can pack a lot of information into a small amount of space with clever use of text and images. Readers will find out how to unpack, draw evidence from, evaluate, and integrate content presented in this visual format. They will also learn how to make purposeful, informative, and visually appealing infographics of their own.

Author : David C. Ogden,Joel Nathan Rosen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781617030444

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Reconstructing Fame by David C. Ogden,Joel Nathan Rosen Pdf

With contributions by Prosper Godonoo, Urla Hill, C. Richard King, David J. Leonard, Jack Lule, Murry Nelson, David C. Ogden, Robert W. Reising, and Joel Nathan Rosen Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations includes essays on Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, Curt Flood, Paul Robeson, Jim Thorpe, Bill Russell, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos. The essayists in this volume write about twentieth-century athletes whose careers were affected by racism and whose post-career reputations have improved as society's understanding of race changed. Contributors attempt to clarify the stories of these sports stars and their places as twentieth-century icons by analyzing the various myths that surround them. When media, fans, sports leagues, and the athletes themselves commemorate sports legends, shifts in popular perceptions often serve to obscure an athlete's role in history. Such revisions can lack coherence and trivialize the efforts of some legendary competitors and those associated with them. Adding racial tensions to this process further complicates the task of preserving the valuable achievements of key players.

Author : Robert Peyton Wiggins
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786438358

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The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs by Robert Peyton Wiggins Pdf

The last independent major league ended its brief run in 1915, after only two seasons at the national pastime’s top level. But no competitor to establishment baseball ever exerted so much influence on its rival, with some of the most recognizable elements of the game today—including the commissioner system, competition for free agents, baseball’s antitrust exemption, and even the beloved Wrigley Field—traceable to the so-called outlaw organization known as the Federal League of Base Ball Clubs. This comprehensive history covers the league from its formation in 1913 through its buyout, dissolution, and legal battles with the National and American leagues. The day-to-day operation of the franchises, the pennant races and outstanding players, the two-year competitive battle for fans and players, and the short- and long-term impact on the game are covered in detail.

Author : Pete Dyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015001831521

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The Flip-flop Offense in High School Football by Pete Dyer Pdf

Author : Tim Leong
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452135274

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Super Graphic by Tim Leong Pdf

The comic book universe is adventurous, mystifying, and filled with heroes, villains, and cosplaying Comic-Con attendees. This book by one of Wired magazine's art directors traverses the graphic world through a collection of pie charts, bar graphs, timelines, scatter plots, and more. Super Graphic offers readers a unique look at the intricate and sometimes contradictory storylines that weave their way through comic books, and shares advice for navigating the pages of some of the most popular, longest-running, and best-loved comics and graphic novels out there. From a colorful breakdown of the DC Comics reader demographic to a witty Venn diagram of superhero comic tropes and a Chris Ware sadness scale, this book charts the most arbitrary and monumental characters, moments, and equipment of the wide world of comics. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which includes high-resolution images.

Author : Willard Mullin
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606996393

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Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball Drawings 1934–1972 by Willard Mullin Pdf

In Fantagraphics’ ceaseless effort to rediscover every world-class cartoonist in the history of the medium, we turn your attention to a neglected part of the art form—sports cartooning—and to its greatest practitioner—Willard Mullin. The years 1930-1970 were the Golden Age of both American sports and American comic strips, when giants strode their respective fields—Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Hank Aaron in one, George (Krazy Kat) Herriman, Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff, Walt (Pogo) Kelly in the other—and Mullin was there, straddling both fields, recording every major player and event in the mid-20th-century history of baseball. Mullin was to baseball players what Bill Mauldin was to soldiers: advocate and critic, investing them with personality, humanity, dignity, and poignancy; Mauldin had Willie & Joe and Mullin had the Brooklyn Bum, his affectionate 1939 character representing the bedraggled figure of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972 collects for the first time Mullin’s best drawings devoted to baseball—depictions of players like Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Yogi Berra, and Sandy Koufax, legendary managers like Casey Stengel and George Steinbrenner, and events like Lou Gehrig’s emotional retirement speech on July 4, 1939, for which Mullin not only drew a portrait but composed a poem (which he often incorporated into his cartoons). Mullin’s fluid line and delicate but vigorous brushwork are shown to beautiful effect, with many drawings reproduced from original art. See why millions of baseball fans from the ’30s to the ’70s looked forward to Mullin’s cartoons in their daily paper.

Author : Dominic Wilcox
Publisher : Random House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781473521261

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Variations on Normal by Dominic Wilcox Pdf

Ingenious and amusing illustrated inventions from the brilliant mind of Dominic Wilcox 'I love this book. Laugh-out-loud funny. I want a salty thumb lolly now!' Harry Hill As we go about our day-to-day business, we see the same stuff every day. The bath, the fridge, the lamp post, the bicycle, the tree... so far, so humdrum. But not if you are Dominic Wilcox. Dominic sees things a little differently. For him, inside each of these everyday things are hundreds of surprising ideas waiting to be discovered. The Portable Bottom Seat, the Sick Bag Beard, Wrist Nets for the Butterfingered – Dominic's unexpected inventions, conflations and modifications promise to make your life that little bit easier, or at least more amusing. Normal will never seem quite so normal again.

Author : Richard William Stark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015064792701

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Sport Thesaurus by Richard William Stark Pdf

Author : Caxton C. Foster
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39015000962731

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Real Time Programming by Caxton C. Foster Pdf

Introduces the computer programming concepts necessary to work with interrupts, ports, speed matching, sampling theorems, filters, feedback, multiplexing, and servomechanisms.

Author : E. C. Putnam
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781607999348

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The Final Season by E. C. Putnam Pdf

This is it-senior season and a good chance to compete for state! Player dad Steve Pelham isn't about to miss a second of the excitement he's sure will be provided by his son, Woody, and the other ten seniors of the high school team. Not even the specter of cancer's return is going to keep Steve from a minute of this, "The Final Season." Even non-baseball fans will delight in this front-row viewing of emotional wins and losses, pivotal personal choices, and trying tests of faith as the Sandy Pines Panthers claw their way toward the state championship series. The book culminates in a climactic surprise ending that will leave readers both stunned and impressed.

Author : North Callahan
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271038179

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Carl Sandburg by North Callahan Pdf