Planet Of The Umps

Author : Ken Kaiser,David Fisher
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781429976060

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Planet of the Umps by Ken Kaiser,David Fisher Pdf

For twenty-five years, Ken Kaiser was the most colorful umpire in the major leagues. Planet of the Umps is his sidesplitting tale of life behind the plate. "Two things nobody wants to grow up to be are an umpire and broke. Thanks to my career in baseball, I got both." After calling balls, strikes, and outs for thirty-six baseball seasons and more than three thousand major-league games, umpire Ken Kaiser finally called it a career. From the first day he hit a minor-league catcher with a pool table to the fateful day baseball called him out on a strike, Kaiser was one of the game's most popular and colorful characters. And in this autobiography--written with the coauthor of Ron Luciano's classic bestseller The Umpire Strikes Back--Kaiser brings to life his wild adventures from the pro-wrestling arena to the baseball diamond. This is the hysterically true story of four decades of baseball as lived and loved on the playing field, from Ted Williams and Billy Martin to Derek Jeter and Mark McGwire, from one-eyed umpires to space-age technology. As he did throughout his long and sometimes controversial career, the larger-than-his-chest-protector Kaiser calls 'em as he saw 'em.

Author : Bruce Weber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781416545385

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As They See 'Em by Bruce Weber Pdf

Named One of the Best Baseball Books Ever Written by Esquire An insider’s look at the largely unknown world of professional umpires, the small group of men (and the very occasional woman) who make sure America’s favorite pastime is conducted in a manner that is clean, crisp, and true.​ Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are doing an easy job badly. Millions of American baseball fans are wrong. Bruce Weber, a New York Times reporter, not only interviewed dozens of professional umpires but entered their world, trained to become an umpire, then spent a season working games from Little League to big league spring training. As They See ’Em is Weber’s entertaining account of this experience as well as a lively exploration of what amounts to an eccentric secret society, with its own customs, its own rituals, its own colorful vocabulary. Writing with deep knowledge of and affection for baseball, he delves into such questions as: Why isn’t every strike created equal? Is the ump part of the game or outside of it? Why doesn’t a tie go to the runner? And what do umps and managers say to each other during an argument, really? Packed with fascinating reportage that reveals the game as never before and answers the kinds of questions that fans, exasperated by the clichés of conventional sports commentary, pose to themselves around the television set, Bruce Weber’s As They See ’Em is a towering grand slam.

Author : Ronald E. Kates,Warren Tormey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786472390

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Baseball and Social Class by Ronald E. Kates,Warren Tormey Pdf

This collection of fresh essays examines the intersection of baseball and social class, pointing to the conclusion that America's game, infused from its origins with a democratic mythos and founded on high-minded principles of meritocracy, is nonetheless fraught with problematic class contradictions. Each essayist has explored how class standing has influenced some aspect of the game as experienced by those who play it, those who watch it, those who write about it, and those who market it. The topic of class is an amorphous one and in tying it to baseball the contributors have considered matters of race, education, locality, integration, assimilation, and cultural standing. These elements are crucial to understanding how baseball creates, preserves, reinforces and occasionally assails class divisions among those who watch, play, and own the game.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822031999170

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leslie Sklair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190464189

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The Icon Project by Leslie Sklair Pdf

"A pioneering look at the ways in which contemporary architecture serves the interests of the capitalist class, from global North to South and through to the petro-cities of the Gulf States In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities. Typically designed by globe-trotting "starchitects" or by a few large transnational architectural firms, these projects are almost always driven by private interests. In The Icon Project, sociologist Leslie Sklair focuses on ways in which capitalist globalization is produced and represented all over the world, especially in globalizing cities. Sklair traces how the iconic buildings of our era-elaborate shopping malls, spectacular museums and vast urban megaprojects-constitute the triumphal "Icon Project" of contemporary global capitalism, promoting increasing inequality and hyperconsumerism. He sets out to explain how the architecture industry organizes the social production and marketing of iconic structures and how corporations increasingly dominate the built environment and promote the trend towards globalizing, consumerist cities. The Icon Project, Sklair argues, is a weapon in the struggle to solidify capitalist hegemony as well as reinforce transnational capitalist control of where we live, what we consume, and how we think"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015082964951

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Library Journal by Anonim Pdf

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Author : GURCHARANAM ACADEMY PRIVATE LIMITED
Publisher : Gurcharanam Academy Private Limited
Page : 1695 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Complete Chemistry for NEET(UG) Medium-English by GURCHARANAM ACADEMY PRIVATE LIMITED Pdf

Complete Chemistry for NEET(UG)-Physical, Organic, Inorganic Chemistry cover Class-11th & 12th, Medium-English

Author : R.L. Stine
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545820394

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Let's Get Invisible! by R.L. Stine Pdf

“Out of sight, out of mind” takes on a twisted new meaning in this horrific adventure in one of the–bestselling children’s series of all time. On Max’s birthday, he finds a kind of magic mirror in the attic. It can make him invisible. So Max and his friends start playing “now you see me, now you don’t.” Until Max realizes that he’s losing control. Staying invisible a little too long. Having a harder and harder time coming back. Getting invisible is turning into a very dangerous game. The next time Max gets invisible, will it be . . . forever?

Author : Osmany Porto de Oliveira
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319433370

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International Policy Diffusion and Participatory Budgeting by Osmany Porto de Oliveira Pdf

This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now spread worldwide. The book argues that the action of a group of individuals called “Ambassadors of Participation” was crucial to make PB part of the international agenda. This international dimension has been largely overlooked in the vast literature produced on participatory democracy devices. The book combines public policy analysis and the study of international relations, and makes a broad comparative study of PB, including cases from Latin America, Europe, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The book also presents a new methodology developed to examine PB diffusion, the “transnational political ethnography”, which combines in-depth interviews, participant observation and document analysis both at the local and transnational level.

Author : Emily Ryall
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039218882

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Philosophical Issues in Sport Science by Emily Ryall Pdf

The role and value of science within sport increases with ever greater professionalization and commercialization. Scientific and technological innovations are devised to increase performance, ensure greater accuracy of measurement and officiating, reduce risks of harm, enhance spectatorship, and raise revenues. However, such innovations inevitably come up against epistemological and metaphysical problems related to the nature of sport and physical competition. This Special Issue identifies and explores key and contemporary philosophical issues in relation to the science of sport and exercise. It is divided into three sections: 1. Scientific evidence, causation, and sport; 2. Science technology and sport officiating; and 3. Scientific influences on the construction of sport. It brings together scholars working on philosophical problems in sport to examine issues related to the values and assumptions behind sport and exercise science and key problems resulting from these and to provide recommendations for improving its practice.

Author : Freya Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781782407386

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The Book of Big Science Ideas by Freya Hardy Pdf

A beautifully illustrated celebration of science from the clever people who bring you AQUILA magazine. Ideas are important. They change things. A single idea can start a war, save billions of lives, even rearrange whole planetary systems, or simply make a person giggle until they pee a little bit. They can be totally wrong but widely believed, or undoubtedly right and completely ignored. What's more, they're free, and anyone can have one-including you! The Book of Big Science Ideas looks at 15 brilliant science ideas and more than 50 ingenious thinkers who have helped shape our understanding of the world - whether they were right or wrong! Thinkers include, Wang Zhenyi, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, James Joule, Rosalind Franklin, Charles Darwin, Aristotle, Edith Clarke, Isaac Newton, Grace Hopper, Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace and many, many more! From established ideas like atoms, electricity and the solar system, and ideas that are still evolving such as gravity, energy and classification, right up to recent discoveries like AI and genetics - this jam-packed book takes a fresh approach to science.

Author : Mike Lupica
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142407577

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Heat by Mike Lupica Pdf

The #1 Bestseller! Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat along with aspirations of leading his team all the way to the Little League World Series. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family’s escape from Cuba, Michael’s only family is his seventeen-yearold brother Carlos. If Social Services hears of their situation, they will be separated in the foster-care system—or worse, sent back to Cuba. Together, the boys carry on alone, dodging bills and anyone who asks too many questions. But then someone wonders how a twelve-year-old boy could possibly throw with as much power as Michael Arroyo throws. With no way to prove his age, no birth certificate, and no parent to fight for his cause, Michael’s secret world is blown wide open, and he discovers that family can come from the most unexpected sources. Perfect for any Little Leaguer with dreams of making it big--as well as for fans of Mike Lupica's other New York Times bestsellers Travel Team, The Big Field, The Underdogs, Million-Dollar Throw, and The Game Changers series, this cheer-worthy baseball story shows that when the game knocks you down, champions stand tall.

Author : Michael Byers
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429943208

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Percival's Planet by Michael Byers Pdf

A novel of ambition and obsession centered on the race to discover Pluto in 1930, pitting an untrained Kansas farm boy against the greatest minds of Harvard at the run-down Lowell Observatory in Arizona In 1928, the boy who will discover Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, is on the family farm, grinding a lens for his own telescope under the immense Kansas sky. In Flagstaff, Arizona, the staff of Lowell Observatory is about to resume the late Percival Lowell's interrupted search for Planet X. Meanwhile, the immensely rich heir to a chemical fortune has decided to go west to hunt for dinosaurs and in Cambridge, Massachussetts, the most beautiful girl in America is going slowly insane while her ex-heavyweight champion boyfriend stands by helplessly, desperate to do anything to keep her. Inspired by the true story of Tombaugh and set in the last gin-soaked months of the flapper era, Percival's Planet tells the story of the intertwining lives of half a dozen dreamers, schemers, and madmen. Following Tombaugh's unlikely path from son of a farmer to discoverer of a planet, the novel touches on insanity, mathematics, music, astrophysics, boxing, dinosaur hunting, shipwrecks—and what happens when the greatest romance of your life is also the source of your life's greatest sorrow.

Author : Myron J. Smith (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Baseball
ISBN : UOM:39015069289976

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The Baseball Bibliography by Myron J. Smith (Jr.) Pdf

"With over 57,000 entries, this two-volume set is the most comprehensive non-electronic, non-database, print bibliography on any American sport. Represented here are books and monographs, scholarly papers, government documents, doctoral dissertations, masters' theses, poetry and fiction, novels, pro team yearbooks, college and professional All-Star Game and World Series programs, commercially produced yearbooks, and periodical and journal articles"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Curt Smith
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781597976701

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A Talk in the Park by Curt Smith Pdf

In the largest collection of Voices in any sports book, "A Talk in the Park" features the favorite stories of baseballs most famous and beloved announcers in their own words.