Nine Innings For The King

Author : Jim Leeke
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476620176

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Nine Innings for the King by Jim Leeke Pdf

On a sunny Fourth of July during World War I, King George V went out to a ball game. Along with Queen Mary and other royalty, Winston Churchill, dozens of VIPs, thousands of troops and ordinary Londoners, the monarch cheered an extraordinary "baseball match" between American soldiers and sailors. This historic event helped solidify the transatlantic alliance that was vital to winning the war. The game itself was a thriller, reported throughout the English-speaking world. The players ranged from kids fresh off the sandlots to a handful of major and minor leaguers and a future Hall of Famer. The two veteran pitchers went the distance, the outcome in doubt until the last batter. Drawing on American and British sources and game-day coverage, this first-ever full account of the "King's game" records every play and explores the lives of several players. The author provides a brief history of the Anglo-American Baseball League and armed forces baseball played in England, France and the United States during the Great War.

Author : Jim Leeke
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786478705

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Nine Innings for the King by Jim Leeke Pdf

On a sunny Fourth of July during World War I, King George V went out to a ball game. Along with Queen Mary and other royalty, Winston Churchill, dozens of VIPs, thousands of troops and ordinary Londoners, the monarch cheered an extraordinary "baseball match" between American soldiers and sailors. This historic event helped solidify the transatlantic alliance that was vital to winning the war. The game itself was a thriller, reported throughout the English-speaking world. The players ranged from kids fresh off the sandlots to a handful of major and minor leaguers and a future Hall of Famer. The two veteran pitchers went the distance, the outcome in doubt until the last batter. Drawing on American and British sources and game-day coverage, this first-ever full account of the "King's game" records every play and explores the lives of several players. The author provides a brief history of the Anglo-American Baseball League and armed forces baseball played in England, France and the United States during the Great War.

Author : Matthew Glencross,Judith Rowbotham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319895154

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Monarchies and the Great War by Matthew Glencross,Judith Rowbotham Pdf

This volume challenges the traditional view that the First World War represents a pivotal turning point in the long history of monarchy, suggesting the picture is significantly more complex. Using a comparative approach, it explores the diverse roles played by monarchs during the Great War, and how these met the expectations of the monarchic institution in different states at a time of such crisis. Its contributors not only explore less familiar narratives, including the experiences of monarchs in Belgium and Italy, as well as the Austro-Hungarian, Japanese and Ottoman Empires, but also cast fresh light on more familiar accounts. In doing so, this book moves away from the conventional view that monarchy showed itself irrelevant in the Great War, by drawing on new approaches to diplomatic and international history - ones informed by cultural contextualization for instance - while grounding the research behind each chapter in a wide range of contemporary sources The chapters provide an innovative revisiting of the actual role of monarchy at this crucial period in European (indeed, global) history, and are framed by a substantial introductory chapter where the key factors explaining the survival or collapse of dynasties, and of the individuals occupying these thrones, are considered in a wide-ranging set of reflections that highlight the extent of common experiences as well as the differences.

Author : Patrick McAleer,Michael A. Perry
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786494002

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Stephen King's Modern Macabre by Patrick McAleer,Michael A. Perry Pdf

As Stephen King has continued to publish numerous works beyond one of the many high points of his career, in the 1980s, scholarship has not always kept up with his output. This volume presents 13 essays (12 brand new) on many of King's recent writings that have not received the critical attention of his earlier works. This collection is grouped into three categories--"King in the World Around Us," "Spotlight on The Dark Tower" and "Writing into the Millennium"; each examines an aspect of King's contemporary canon that has yet to be analyzed.

Author : Stanley Wiater,Christopher Golden,Hank Wagner
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1429931450

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The Complete Stephen King Universe by Stanley Wiater,Christopher Golden,Hank Wagner Pdf

The myriad worlds and universes King has created are, in reality, one world, one universe. Here is the guide to that universe. The Complete Stephen King Universe is the only definitive reference work that examines all of Stephen King's novels, short stories, motion pictures, miniseries, and teleplays, and deciphers the threads that exist in all of his work. This ultimate resource includes in-depth story analyses, character breakdowns, little-known facts, and startling revelations on how the plots, themes, characters, and conflicts intertwine. After discovering The Complete Stephen King Universe, you will never read Stephen King the same way again.

Author : Robert Penn Warren
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156012952

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All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren Pdf

Willie Stark's obsession with political power leads to the ultimate corruption of his gubernatorial administration.

Author : Lou Hernández
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476634821

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Bobby Maduro and the Cuban Sugar Kings by Lou Hernández Pdf

 Roberto “Bobby” Maduro (1916–1986) was a visionary baseball team owner and executive. His dedication to promoting the game internationally from the 1950s through the 1970s remains unrivaled. He headed Havana-based clubs in the Cuban Winter League and teams in the U.S. minor leagues, which helped brand Caribbean baseball in the eyes of North American fans. He co-built the first million-dollar ballpark in Latin America. His Havana stadium was confiscated by Castro’s revolution, along with all his accumulated wealth. Maduro began a new life in exile in the U.S., first as a minor league owner, then as a front office executive. He founded the short-lived Inter-American League in 1979, composed of five Caribbean-basin teams and one U.S. entry from his adopted hometown of Miami. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn said of his many achievements, “No one was more dedicated, more knowledgeable or more concerned about the game than Bobby Maduro.”

Author : Bryan Soderholm-Difatte
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781442252226

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The Golden Era of Major League Baseball by Bryan Soderholm-Difatte Pdf

In The Golden Era of Major League Baseball: A Time of Transition and Integration, Bryan Soderholm-Difatte explores the noteworthy and significant changes taking place in baseball in and around the 1950s. Beginning with Jackie Robinson’s rookie season in 1947, Soderholm-Difatte provides a careful and thorough examination of baseball’s integration, including the state of blacks in the majors ten years into the Jackie Robinson era, when elite players were accepted but few blacks with “average” major league ability were regulars in the starting lineup. The author also looks at the dying practice of player-managers, the increasing use of relief pitchers and platooning, and the continued dominance of the New York Yankees. The Golden Era included three central characters whose innovations, strategies, and vision changed the game, and each of their stories is told in this book: Branch Rickey, who challenged the baseball establishment by integrating the Dodgers; Casey Stengel, whose 1949-1953 Yankees won five straight championships; and Leo Durocher, whose spy operations was a major factor in the Giants’ 1951 pennant surge, but who was also a leading innovator in managing his pitching staff. Concluding with an overview of how baseball’s race and diversity issues have evolved since the Golden Era, this book will be of interest to baseball fans and historians as well as scholars examining the history of integration in sports.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Sports
ISBN : UOM:39015070320505

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Outing and the Wheelman by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Sexton,Thomas Oliphant,Peter J. Schwartz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781101609736

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Baseball as a Road to God by John Sexton,Thomas Oliphant,Peter J. Schwartz Pdf

The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other. Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others. Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.

Author : William F. McNeil
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786481286

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The Single-Season Home Run Kings by William F. McNeil Pdf

After Babe Ruth erased Buck Freeman's record in 1919, the new mark stood for 34 years before Maris bettered it, defying as he did an incredulous sporting public. And just as fans' anger grew old and Maris was grudgingly credited--or discredited--with an unrepeatable hot streak, along came Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, two goliaths who in 1998 and the years just after proved fans wrong again. But when in 2001, only three years after McGwire seemed to put the record beyond reach, Barry Bonds topped him by three. This time fans were staunch in their disbelief, and while many celebrated Bonds' achievement, others questioned its significance. This revised edition of Bill McNeil's Ruth, Maris, McGwire, and Sosa ("libraries especially will want this"--Library Journal) reviews the careers of each home run titan, with special attention to the record-breaking seasons. The cultural and social changes that may have affected both the players' season totals and fan reception are also considered.

Author : Leonard E. Andrews
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781435718692

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The Village Nine by Leonard E. Andrews Pdf

Soft cover version. An outline of the achievements of the Campbellville Baseball Club over the sixteen years between 1952 and 1967. When the team started in the fifties, Campbellville Ontario (Canada) was a small, quiet, remote hamlet and the team was composed of the local boys, many of whom had little baseball experience, but for sixteen years they were to dominate one of the top senior leagues in Ontario. This accomplishment is so unique that it is worth recording for posterity. This is actually a scrapbook comprising the newspaper accounts of most of the games played by the team between 1952 and 1967. It tries to adequately explain how this team achieved such great success and how it captivated the loyalty and love not only of the little village but also of the farming community for miles around.

Author : Ernest J. Lanigan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476609263

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Baseball Cyclopedia by Ernest J. Lanigan Pdf

Ernest J. Lanigan was the nephew of Sporting News founder Al Spink and one of three men in his immediate family to gain acclaim as a newspaperman. As sports editor for the New York Press and official scorer for a handful of World Series, he was the premier statistician of his day. Lanigan compiled the first baseball encyclopedia in 1922, and it is reprinted here with each of its twelve annual supplements. As the original publisher advertised on the book’s title page, it “[c]omprises a review of Professional Baseball, the history of all Major League Clubs, playing records and unique events, the batting, pitching and base running champions, World’s Series’ statistics and a carefully arranged alphabetical list of the records of more than 3500 Major League ball players, a feature never before attempted in print.”

Author : Robert T. Diamond
Publisher : Robert Diamond
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 9780980982107

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Kings of the Diamond by Robert T. Diamond Pdf

Kings of the Diamond is based on historical events in Winnipeg in 1950, drawing on the city¿s great sporting heritage. The main storyline follows the 1950 season of the Northern Hotel team of the Twentieth Century Community Softball League, the powerhouse team that went on to play in the Western Canada Softball Championship that year under the direction of the story¿s chief protagonist ¿ author Robert Diamond¿s father, Lazar Diamond. That legacy is brought to life in this story of the Diamond family and the Northern Hotel and of many of the players and principals of the Twentieth Century Community Softball League. The entire narrative builds inexorably towards the final championship game, when 8,000 people crammed the Aberdeen School Grounds to watch it. Kings of the Diamond is the story of one of the most colourful chapters in the sporting and cultural history of Winnipeg, and of the legendary characters who were the main players on this stage. It is also a story of family and friendships that survive tests of emotional strength, love, and commitment, and of how they find final vindication. From Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz¿ foreword: ¿Winnipeg had its share of larger than life characters in those days. [The author] aptly and authentically describes them all in this tale of Winnipeg sports and other games ... Ex-pat Robert Diamond pays homage to his hometown, offering fascinating insights into how Winnipeg earned its moniker, the Chicago of the North, and to a very special era in softball history.¿

Author : John Nemo
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1411685512

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The King's Game by John Nemo Pdf

Veteran pitcher Cody King takes the mound for Game Seven of the World Series unaware it will mark the final nine innings of his troubled existence. With each pitch, King confronts a past -- from being abandoned by his teenage mother to keeping his wife's love from fading away -- filled with tragedy and talent. King, a fatherless son who grew up to become one of the best pitchers in baseball, struggles in the midst of the most important performance of his life to allow the one true father he has never known reach him before it is too late. A story of fathers, sons and baseball, THE KING'S GAME chases after what many men flee from most -- their own mortality and the beautiful, undeniable mystery that is God's love. A rich, well-told, thought-provoking tale about the precious moments we have on this earth and the role baseball can play in shaping our lives. - The Tennessean