One Game Season

Author : Robert Andrew Powell
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781555847234

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We Own This Game by Robert Andrew Powell Pdf

A Sports Illustrated Best Book of the Year: “Vivid portraits of the kids, parents and coaches of the Greater Miami Pop Warner league” (Linda Robertson, The Miami Herald). Although its participants are still in grade school, Pop Warner football is serious business in Miami, where local teams routinely advance to the national championships. Games draw thousands of fans; recruiters vie for nascent talent; drug dealers and rap stars bankroll teams; and the stakes are so high that games sometimes end in gunshots. In America’s poorest neighborhood, troubled parents dream of NFL stardom for children who long only for a week in Disney World at the Pop Warner Super Bowl. In 2001, journalist Robert Andrew Powell spent a year following two teams through roller-coaster seasons. The Liberty City Warriors, former national champs, will suffer the team’s first-ever losing season. The Palmetto Raiders, undefeated for two straight years, will be rewarded for good play with limo rides and steak dinners. But their flamboyant coach (the “Darth Vader of Pop Warner coaches”) will face defeat in a down-to-the-wire playoff game. We Own This Game is an inside-the-huddle look into a world of innocence and corruption, where every kickoff bares political, social, and racial implications; an unforgettable drama that shows us just what it is to win and to lose in America. “Powell elevates We Own This Game well above the average sports book to a significant sociological study.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Harold Pearl Sheldon,Frank G. Grimes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Game laws
ISBN : UVA:X030353800

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Game Laws for the Season 1932-33 by Harold Pearl Sheldon,Frank G. Grimes Pdf

Author : Harold Pearl Sheldon,Frank Granville Grimes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112019286993

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Game Laws for the Season 1934-35 by Harold Pearl Sheldon,Frank Granville Grimes Pdf

Author : Steve White
Publisher : Steve White
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015071123387

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One Game Season by Steve White Pdf

Author : Mark Cofman
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781600783456

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162-0: Imagine a Red Sox Perfect Season by Mark Cofman Pdf

In a series that imagines the impossible, each book plays out a flawless season for a particular team, identifying the most memorable real-life victory on every single day of the baseball calendar and including archival photos, original quotes and thorough research.

Author : Hugh de Sélincourt
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547109600

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The Game of the Season by Hugh de Sélincourt Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Game of the Season" by Hugh de Sélincourt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 48,8 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.

Author : Sean Fitz-Gerald
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780771024214

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Before the Lights Go Out by Sean Fitz-Gerald Pdf

A Globe and Mail Best Book A finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize A love letter to a sport that's losing itself, from one of our best sports writers. Hockey is approaching a state of crisis in Canada. It's become more expensive, more exclusive, and effectively off-limits to huge swaths of the potential sports-loving population. Youth registration numbers are stagnant; efforts to appeal to new Canadians are often grim at best; the game, increasingly, does not resemble the country of which it's for so long been an integral part. As a lifelong hockey fan and father of a young mixed-race son falling headlong in love with the game, Sean Fitz-Gerald wanted to get to the roots of these issues. His entry point: a season with the Peterborough Petes, a storied OHL team far from its former glory in a once-emblematic Canadian city that is finding itself on the wrong side of the country's changing demographics. Fitz-Gerald profiles the players, coaches and front office staff, a mix of world-class talents with NHL aspirations and Peterborough natives happy with more modest dreams. Through their experiences, their widely varied motivations and expectations, we get a rich, colourful understanding of who ends up playing hockey in Canada and why. Fitz-Gerald interweaves the action of the season with portraits of public figures who've shaped and been shaped by the game: authors who captured its spirit, politicians who exploited it, and broadcasters who try to embody and sell it. He finds his way into community meetings full of angry season ticket holders, as well as into sterile boardrooms full of the sport's institutional brain trust, unable to break away from the inertia of tradition and hopelessly at war with itself. Before the Lights Go Out is a moving, funny, yet unsettling picture of a sport at a crossroads. Fitz-Gerald's warm but rigorous journalistic approach reads, in the end, like a letter to a troubled friend: it's not too late to save hockey in this country, but who has the will to do it?

Author : Steve White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0964322811

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One Game Season by Steve White Pdf

Author : Mark Schofield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1523408286

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17 Drives by Mark Schofield Pdf

Every football game is a Shakespearean drama played out over the course of 60 minutes, with peaks and valleys, good plays and bad plays, in front of thousands - if not millions - of eyes. But in each game there are turning points: moments when the balance of power shifts from one team to the other. They can occur early in a game, in the third quarter, or in the final seconds These moments are often part of a single drive, coming as an offense puts together a string of plays that change the course of a game. These are moments when 11 players, bonded together, see the fruits of their hard work in the spring and summer pay off. The 2015 college football season contained many highs and lows - big upsets, stunning performances, and thrilling games that came down to the final seconds. In this book we examine 17 of these game-changing drives, an unconventional week-by-week recap of the season. These drives reveal not only how their particular contest turned out, but when viewed collectively, tell the story of a season and provide a glimpse into how the game is being played across the college football landscape. The season-long story gives us a window into the schemes, plays and designs that teams are using on the field, and what teams call upon when the biggest play is needed. Each one of the 17 moments contained herein are, in their own way, championship drives. Some, like the Week 4 game-winning drive by the Memphis Tigers against the Cincinnati Bearcats, showed off a potential NFL star like Tigers QB Paxton Lynch, who marched his team down the field in 2 minutes. Others, like Stanford's short but clutch drive against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, dashed one team's College Football Playoff hopes. And one - a classic 9-minute, 22-play, 82-yard drive, led by Michigan State's Connor Cook against undefeated Iowa in the Big 10 Championship Game - helps define the term championship drive. Finally, the CFB playoffs, and Alabama's execution resulting in the crowning of a National Champion.

Author : Ephraim Arnold Jacob,Robert Alexander Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112105414348

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An Analytical Digest of the Law and Practice of the Courts of Common Law, Divorce, Probate, Admiralty and Bankruptcy, and of the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal of England by Ephraim Arnold Jacob,Robert Alexander Fisher Pdf

Author : Deborah Riley,Jody Revenson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781683835332

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The Art of Game of Thrones, the Official Book of Design from Season 1 to Season 8 by Deborah Riley,Jody Revenson Pdf

Filled with gorgeous illustrations and artwork from HBO's hit series, The Art of Game of Thrones is the definitive collection. Beautifully crafted and presented in a deluxe, large format, these pages present a visual chronicle of the meticulous work done by artists to bring the world of Westeros to life on-screen.

Author : Stanley Cohen
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781616086916

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Man in the Crowd by Stanley Cohen Pdf

Chronicles the history of baseball in New York from World War II to the present, examining how the sport helped carry Americans through times of turmoil and social decay.

Author : Angelique Chengelis
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781641251150

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100 Things Michigan Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by Angelique Chengelis Pdf

Most Michigan Wolverines fans have taken in a game or two at legendary Michigan Stadium, have sported khaki pants on gameday like Jim Harbaugh, and have heard the story of the 10-Year War. But only real fans know the legend behind the M Ring, the best place to eat when on a road trip to Ohio State, or all the lyrics to "The Victors." 100 Things Michigan Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource guide for true fans of Michigan Wolverines football. Whether you're a die-hard booster from the days of Bo Schembechler or a new supporter of Coach Harbaugh, these are the 100 things every fan needs to know and do in their lifetime. In this revised and updated edition, Angelique Chengelis, who covers the Wolverines for the Detroit News, has collected every essential piece of Michigan knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom.

Author : John G. Robertson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476632889

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Too Many Men on the Ice by John G. Robertson Pdf

 Entering the 1978–1979 season, the Boston Bruins had been one of the best teams in the National Hockey League for more than a decade. Yet they could not shake the postseason jinx the Montreal Canadiens held over them—the Habs had ousted them in 13 consecutive playoff series going back to 1940s. The Bruins wanted one more shot at their nemeses, after coming up short in both the 1977 and 1978 Stanley Cup finals. They got their chance in the semifinal round. Led by the colorful but embattled coach Don Cherry, the underdog Bruins played seven heart-stopping games. Victory seemed within their grasp but was snatched away with an untimely penalty in the final minutes of game seven. The author looks back at the season from opening night at Boston Garden to the catastrophic conclusion at the Montreal Forum, with detailed accounts of the semifinal games and a post-mortem of the infamous bench penalty.