Run To Glory And Profits

Author : David George Surdam
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781496209702

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Run to Glory and Profits by David George Surdam Pdf

The National Football League has long reigned as America's favorite professional sports league. In its early days, however, it was anything but a dominant sports industry, barely surviving World War II. Its rise began after the war, and the 1950s was a pivotal decade for the league. Run to Glory and Profits tells the economic story of how in one decade the NFL transformed from having a modest following in the Northeast to surpassing baseball as this country's most popular sport. To break from the margins of the sports landscape, pro football brought innovation, action, skill, and episodic suspense on "any given Sunday." These factors in turn drove attendance and rising revenues. Team owners were quick to embrace television as a new medium to put the league in front of a national audience. Based on primary documents, David George Surdam provides an economic analysis in telling the business story behind the NFL's rise to popularity. Did the league's vaunted competitive balance in the decade result from its more generous revenue sharing and its reverse-order draft? How did the league combat rival leagues, such as the All-America Football Conference and the American Football League? Although strife between owners and players developed quickly, pro-football fans stayed loyal because the product itself remained so good.

Author : Paul W Simpson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781794879003

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Star of Greece - For Profit & Glory by Paul W Simpson Pdf

The Star of Greece was an iron clipper ship built by Harland & Wolff of Ireland for JP Corry of Belfast. For more than 20 years she plied the waters between Britain, India and Australia before coming to grief in 1888 with the loss of 18 lives. Her loss on Friday, July 13th 1888 left many unanswered questions, including just who was aboard the �Star of Greece� and what happened to the men and boys on that fateful night over one hundred and twenty years ago. Here now is the updated edition with new research and photographs to commemorate the loss of the clipper ship Star of Greece, and the deaths of 18 men and boys off Lion Head, Port Willunga. South Australia.

Author : Daniel M. DuBois
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350134737

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American Sport in International History by Daniel M. DuBois Pdf

This book explores how American sports, especially basketball, baseball and American football, have projected the US into the world, and brought the world into America. Taking a chronological approach it traces the development of American sports from the turn of the 20th century, highlighting how international forces such as immigration, geopolitics and war have influenced the trajectory of sport in the US, and thus the American experience. DuBois also considers the globalization of American sport and how this soft power shaped international relations throughout the American century. Addressing key questions about the role of sport in the rise of the United States, it frames themes that have come to define sports history; gender, race, economics and politics. It argues that while sport has not necessarily been a catalyst for change, it has often mirrored social issues, and sometimes served as an important tool of progress. Synthesizing major works alongside primary sources, the chapters study boxing, hockey, track and field and soccer alongside the 'big three' (basketball, baseball and American football) through a number of case studies to offer a novel interpretation of American sport history. Spanning early Native American sport, the export of baseball in the American empire, the role of basketball in the Cold War, the influence of immigrants and women in sports, and modern day sport culture, American Sport in International History asks what the role of sport has been and will be in a shifting international environment.

Author : Paul Ellis
Publisher : Dark Matter Publishing, LLC
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781732553217

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Glory's Child by Paul Ellis Pdf

The year is 1968 and the Vietnam War is reaching its nadir. Thomas Bishop, like so many other young men of this generation, faces terrible decisions forced on him by foreign policy of the American government. Honor bound to defend America from communism, Thomas trains to become a Marine Corps pilot to avoid a walking tour in the jungles of Vietnam. Tran Thien Don is a simple peasant boy thrust into the American War following a violent and life changing encounter with soldiers from Saigon. The struggle to preserve and maintain Vietnamese culture through a history of invasion from China, Japan, France, and now the inexplicable devastation from America, has ignited a fire in Don to fight for his country's unification, while seeking the opportunity for revenge on his personal enemies. Oliver Lacey is a young man who is an accidental Marine inductee facing racism in the ranks in Vietnam, missing a civil rights movement at home, and experiencing his own awakening about his place in the world. On the streets of the United States and in universities around the world the war rages. Few escape its reality as the nightly news sends images from Vietnam into homes during dinner. This tragic and unrelenting suppertime carnage sparks a collective awakening and a revolution of social change is born. Glory's Child is a story of the death of American idealism. From multiple perspectives the horrifying truth of war settles in around its characters. It is a gripping tale of heartbreak, survival, death, and a thorough examination of the philosophy and politics surrounding the execution of the American War in Vietnam.

Author : Lorena Seebach Walsh
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807832349

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Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit by Lorena Seebach Walsh Pdf

Lorena Walsh offers an enlightening history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of Jamestown to the close of the Seven Years' War and the end of the "Golden Age" of colonial Chesapeake agriculture. She argues that, in the mid-17th century, planter elites deliberately chose to embrace slavery. Accounts of personal and family fortunes among the privileged minority and the less well documented accounts of the lives of the enslaved workers add a personal dimension to more concrete measures of planter success or failure.

Author : David George Surdam
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781496205711

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The Age of Ruth and Landis by David George Surdam Pdf

As the 1919 World Series scandal simmered throughout the 1920 season, tight pennant races drove attendance to new peaks and presaged a decade of general prosperity for baseball. Babe Ruth shattered his own home-run record and, buoyed by a booming economy, professional sports enjoyed what sportswriters termed a "Golden Age of Sports." Throughout the tumultuous 1920s, Major League Baseball remained a mixture of competition and cooperation. Teams could improve by player trades, buying Minor League stars, or signing untried youths. Players and owners had their usual contentious relationship, with owners maintaining considerable control over their players. Owners adjusted the game so that the 1920s witnessed a surge in slugging and a diminution in base stealing, and they provided a better ballpark experience by both improving their stadiums and minimizing disruptions by rowdy fans. However, they hesitated to adapt to new technologies such as radio, electrical lighting, and air travel. The Major Leagues remained an enclave for white people, while African Americans toiled in the newly established Negro Leagues, where salaries and profits were skimpy. By analyzing the economic and financial aspects of Major League Baseball, The Age of Ruth and Landis shows how baseball during the 1920s experienced both strife and prosperity, innovation and conservatism. With figures such as the incomparable Babe Ruth, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Rogers Hornsby, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Tris Speaker, and Eddie Collins, the decade featured an exciting brand of livelier baseball, new stadiums, and overall stability.

Author : David Wootton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674989900

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Power, Pleasure, and Profit by David Wootton Pdf

David Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore.

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9791041983971

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North America by Anthony Trollope Pdf

"North America" is a travel narrative written by Anthony Trollope, the renowned Victorian novelist. First published in 1862, this work provides Trollope's observations and reflections on his travels through the United States and Canada in the early 1860s. In "North America," Trollope shares his impressions of American and Canadian society, politics, and culture during a time of significant change. He explores various aspects of life in North America, including the social and political systems, the impact of slavery, and the character of the people he encounters. Trollope's narrative style is known for its wit and keen insights, and "North America" is no exception. While the views expressed in the book may reflect the author's personal biases and the time in which he wrote, it remains a valuable historical document offering perspectives on North America during the 19th century.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210025940063

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Mental suggestion
ISBN : HARVARD:HC4HSS

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Suggestion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard David Kennedy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781312725300

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The Profit Book Two by Richard David Kennedy Pdf

What do you get when you take a failed novelist, a capricious "alien," a world renowned- but debauched evangelist, an alcoholic estate manager and mix them together with a half dozen other eccentric characters? What you get is distinctly different cocktail called THE PROFIT that you won't be able to order at a bar anywhere. The plot is a riddle in an enigma that is so well-woven and imaginative it's almost too simple to understand. The content is mature, intended for adults who are discerning readers who enjoy fine, avant-garde literature and bristling social satire, particularly about evangelists and their followers, and should be appreciated by atheists, agnostics and the devoutly religious alike who have open minds. The reader is sure to be as "captivated" as it the Writerman in the book in this most exquisite of his offerings.

Author : William Greenhill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015074645642

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An Exposition of the Prophet Ezekiel by William Greenhill Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Commerce
ISBN : NYPL:33433022514727

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Chamber of Commerce Journal of Maine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Customs administration
ISBN : UOM:35112101950329

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The Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philip Shabecoff,Alice Shabecoff
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781588367129

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Poisoned Profits by Philip Shabecoff,Alice Shabecoff Pdf

In this shocking and sobering book, two fearless journalists directly and definitively link industrial toxins to the current rise in childhood disease and death. In the tradition of Silent Spring, Poisoned Profits is a landmark investigation, an eye-opening account of a country that prizes money over children’s health. With indisputable data, Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff reveal that the children of baby boomers–the first to be raised in a truly “toxified” world–have higher rates of birth defects, asthma, cancer, autism, and other serious illnesses than previous generations. In piercing case histories, the authors identify the culprit as corporate pollution. Here are the stories of such places as Dickson, Tennessee, where babies were born with cleft lips and palates after landfill chemicals seeped into the water, and Port Neches, Texas, where so many graduates of a high school near synthetic rubber and chemical plants contracted cancer that the school was nicknamed “Leukemia High.” The danger to our children isn’t just in the outside world, though. The Shabecoffs provide evidence that our homes are now infested with everything from dangerous flame retardants in crib mattresses to harmful plastic softeners in teething rings to antibiotics and arsenic in chicken–additives that are absorbed by growing and physically vulnerable kids as well as by pregnant women. Compounding the problem are chemical corporations that sabotage investigations and regulations, a government that refuses to police these companies, and corporate-hired scientists who keep pertinent secrets massaged with skewed data of their own. Poisoned Profits also demonstrates how people are fighting back, whether through grassroots parents’ groups putting pressure on politicians, the rise of “ecotheology” in the pulpits of formerly indifferent churches, or the new “green chemistry” being practiced in labs to replace bad elements with good. The Shabecoffs also include helpful tips on reducing risks to children in how they eat and play, and in how parents clean and maintain their homes. Powerful, unflinching, and eminently readable, Poisoned Profits is a wake-up call that is bound to inspire talk and force change.