So Much More Than A Game

Author : Robert F. Burk
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0807875376

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To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams--and those who play on them--our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball. During what Burk calls baseball's "paternalistic era," from 1921 to the early 1960s, the sport's management rigidly maintained a system of racial segregation, established a network of southern-based farm teams that served as a captive source of cheap replacement labor, and crushed any attempts by players to create collective bargaining institutions. In the 1960s, however, the paternal order crumbled, eroded in part by the civil rights movement and the competition of television. As a consequence, in the "inflationary era" that followed, both players and umpires established effective unions that successfully pressed for higher pay, pensions, and greater occupational mobility--and then fought increasingly bitter struggles to hold on to these hard-won gains.

Author : Madison Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0807552712

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A look at how Black players came to shine on the basketball court.

Author : Julie Wyckoff
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557078851

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Author : Thad Williamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015054130177

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Author : Ronny Mintjens
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466931565

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More Than a Game by Ronny Mintjens Pdf

Ronny Mintjens, linguist, teacher, and professional football coach, needed to find a way to really see the world, something deeper than mere tourism. Leaving the comfort and familiarity of his own European life, Mintjens decided to pursue his love of professional sports and exotic cultures all at once. He began coaching football at clubs all across Africa. Beginning in southern and then moving on to eastern Africa, Mintjens soon realized that there was more to professional football than simply training and winning matches. Trying to find ways to make a true mark on the game, Mintjens travelled from one club to the next. Each club, from Mount Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti Plains to Table Mountain and the Cape of Good Hope, held its own surprises and boasted its own strengths and weaknesses. In the end, each had its own lessons on the intricate weaving of African culture and heritage. Leave your life behind and dive into the exotic world of African sports with this fascinating tale of an ambitious foreigner and his deep journey to understand football as a way of life in the African football club. In this relatively unknown part of the world, football is certainly more than a game.

Author : Phil Jackson,Charley Rosen
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781609802622

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More Than a Game by Phil Jackson,Charley Rosen Pdf

More than a Game covers the years that follow the one featured in the ESPN documentary series "The Last Dance." After leaving the Bulls at the end of the 1997-1998 season—the year featured in the new ESPN documentary series "The Last Dance"—Phil Jackson had one year off and started to write this book—together with his old friend, fellow player and coach, the basketball novelist Charley Rosen. Then Phil took the LA Lakers coaching job, Rosen followed him there, and by the time they finished writing this book it was 2000 and Phil had won yet another NBA championship, the first of five he would win with his new team. In More than a Game, Jackson and Rosen look backward to their origins as players and coaches, forward to the future of the game of basketball, and linger in the moving target of the present—lavishing page after page on the Triangle Offense and all the ways it reveals the essence of the game of basketball they both love so much. This is Jackson in his prime, transitioning from the Bulls to the Lakers, a master of the art of winning, who would go on to claim more NBA championships, eleven, than any other coach in NBA history. As he writes in More than a Game of his newest championship team: "We won because our fundamentals were sound, because Shaq was so dominant and Kobe was so creative, but we also won because we developed a certain confidence in our ability to win."

Author : Duncan Pell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504937481

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Andrew Ball returns in a multidimensional thriller set in todays turbulent world. When Englands cricket captain is attacked and injured, Ian Thorne is promoted to lead the team on their tour of India. But life gets complicated for Thorne when his ex-wife disappears and a Sunday newspaper exposes him for conspiring to organise betting scams. Cricket lover Andrew Ball cant save an old friend from dying on the streets of Florence when he helps an ex-cabinet minister infiltrate an Italian secret society. And theres no respite for Russian speaker Ball as he is persuaded to go on a dangerous mission to help set up a network of spies along Ukraines eastern border. But perhaps its one assignment too many for the semiretired intelligence officer.

Author : Brian Billick,Michael MacCambridge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781439124987

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More than a Game by Brian Billick,Michael MacCambridge Pdf

Today's National Football League is more successful, more exciting, and more popular than ever. But the game in the twenty-first century is also ruled by a constant quest for more money. Super Bowl-winning head coach Brian Billick's More Than a Game examines how the relentless competition off the field affects the game on the field, and what it means for the future of America's most popular sport. One of the NFL's most successful leaders, Billick coached the Baltimore Ravens from 1999 to 2007, leading his team to victory in Super Bowl XXXV in 2001. With nearly two decades in the league, and now a Fox game analyst and NFL Network contributor, Billick has experienced the league's enormous pressure to win as well as seen what happens to those who don't. Following the 2007 season, he took a step back from the coaching life and decided to spend a season examining the game he loved so much from other perspectives. Collaborating with Michael MacCambridge (whose book America's Game is regarded as the definitive modern history of the NFL), he delved into the NFL from every possible angle, spending time with people at every level of the game. More Than a Game explains how the spectacle that dominates fall weekends in America works, and why it has served all of football's interest groups -- owners players, and fans alike -- so well over the years. We get a glimpse of the changing profile and increased influence of the league's owners. We come to better understand the pressure that players are under to perform for their team and for themselves and their future contracts. We see the challenge facing NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who must balance the concerns of owners, players, sponsors, the league's television network "partners," and the fans, whose devotion and dollars make the entire enterprise possible. Along the way, we see how the financial forces are exerting themselves on every level, working their way into the essence of the game itself. Billick takes the measure of new offensive and defensive strategies, explains refined scouting and team-building methods, and focuses on the elusive quest for the franchise quarterback that can make or break careers. Packed with the privileged knowledge that comes from a true NFL insider, More Than a Game is more than a look inside the complex system that is pro football. It's an attempt to understand why the game is so compelling, and what it will take to keep it that way. Complete with important developments in the 2009 off-season, the book stands as an absolute must-read for NFL fans.

Author : Matt Doeden
Publisher : Millbrook Press (Tm)
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541540941

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"This book explores controversies in sports, including black boxer Jack Johnson, Jessie Owens in the 1936 Olympics, Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier, Muhammad Ali's refusal to fight in the Vietnam War, #MeToo and the US gymnastics team, and much more"--

Author : Barry Atkins
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0719063655

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More Than a Game by Barry Atkins Pdf

Taking its cue from practices of reading texts in literary and cultural studies, this book considers the computer game as a new and emerging mode of contemporary storytelling. In a carefully organized study, Barry Atkins discusses questions of narrative and realism in four of the most significant games of the last decade: Tomb Raider, Half-Life, Close Combat and SimCity. This is a work for both the student of contemporary culture and those game-players who are interested in how computer games tell their stories.

Author : Dirk Hayhurst
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806536712

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Bigger Than the Game by Dirk Hayhurst Pdf

"The best writer in a baseball uniform." —Tyler Kepner, The New York Times After nearly a decade in the minors, Dirk Hayhurst defied the odds to climb onto the pitcher's mound for the Toronto Blue Jays. Newly married, with a big league paycheck and a brand new house, Hayhurst was ready for a great season in the Bigs. Then fate delivered a crushing hit. Hayhurst blew out his pitching shoulder in an insane off-season workout program. After surgery, rehab, and more rehab, his major-league dreams seemed more distant than ever. From there things got worse, weirder, and funnier. In a crazy world of injured athletes, autograph-seeking nuns, angry wrestlers, and trainers with a taste for torture, Hayhurst learned lessons about the game—and himself—that were not in any rulebook. Honest, soul?searching, insightful, hilarious, and moving, Dirk Hayhurst's latest memoir is an indisputable baseball classic. Praise for The Bullpen Gospels and Out of My League "Dirk Hayhurst writes about baseball in a unique way. Observant, insightful, human, and hilarious." —Bob Costas "A fun read. . .This book shows why baseball is so often used as a metaphor for life." —Keith Olbermann "Entertaining and engaging. . .reminiscent of Jim Bouton's Ball Four." —Booklist "A rare gem of a baseball book." —Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated "A humorous, candid, and insightful memoir of Hayhurst's rookie season in the majors. . .Grade: Home Run." —Cleveland Plain Dealer

Author : Leonard DiPaul,Edward T. Hastings,Sharon Fuqua Retif
Publisher : Saint Mary's Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Catholic athletes
ISBN : 9780884898863

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More Than a Game by Leonard DiPaul,Edward T. Hastings,Sharon Fuqua Retif Pdf

Train your young person's spirit. Help him or her grow stronger in faith and in commitment to God. Every sport presents us with moments to meet God. Wins give us moments for gratitude. Losses give opportunities to learn. Conflict with family and team members can lead us to deeper relationships. Through stories, prayers, and reflections, the pocket-sized More Than a Game helps young athletes find God, inner strength, and confidence at all these crossroad moments.

Author : Marilyn Joseph
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481767750

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More Than a Game by Marilyn Joseph Pdf

More Than a Game begs the question: can the NFL withstand another scandal? With Super Bowl XLIX to be played February 1, 2015, two NFL teams appear predestined to make the journey to Glendale, Arizona. The Atlantic City Rollers (AFC) and the Omaha Stampeders (NFC) are fictitious teams yet, in actuality, current teams in the authors mind. With his job in jeopardy, Rollers Defensive Coordinator, Jamie Longoria, believes he can survive the post-season termination by learning the plays of Mike Jacobs, Head Coach of the Omaha Stampeders. Mike, perhaps the best NFL head coach in the league, is nobodys fool, at least until Longorias corruptive plans trickle down to Sam Sheldon and Andrew Baxter, Rollers enthusiasts. While Spygate and Bountygate will always be recalled as NFL scandals, Jenna Huddy, a product of foster homes until emancipated at eighteen, is sent to Omaha where she unknowingly perpetrates the next disgrace known as GotPlaysgate. More Than a Game takes place from November, 2014 through Super Bowl Sunday 2015. Omaha, Atlantic City and Two Harbors, Minnesota form the background settings for this novel.

Author : David K. Wiggins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538114988

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More Than a Game by David K. Wiggins Pdf

More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and bring people together, the book chronicles the ways in which African Americans overcame racial discrimination to achieve success in an institution often described as America's only true meritocracy. African Americans have often glorified sport, viewing it as one of the few ways they can achieve a better life. In reality, while some African Americans found fame and fortune in sport, most struggled just to participate – let alone succeed at the highest levels of sport. Thus, the book has two basic themes. It discusses the varied experiences of African Americans in sport and how their participation has both reflected and changed views of race.

Author : Nathan Chiarlitti
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781525539800

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More Than a Game by Nathan Chiarlitti Pdf

Every year, hundreds of thousands of young players take to the ice, dreaming of a career in hockey, yet, only a few make it to the big leagues. A successful hockey career shouldn’t be defined by championships won, records broken, or contracts signed. In More Than a Game, Nathan Chiarlitti argues that hockey can develop important qualities to help players in their everyday lives. This book takes hockey players, parents, coaches and fans through the highs and lows of the game, season after season, league after league, and shares some of the important lessons that over twenty years of hockey has taught. Whether in a professional league, a junior league, a minor league or a beer league, hockey really is, More Than a Game.