Sports Memories Of Western Pennsylvania

Author : Lisa A. Alzo,Alby Oxenreiter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 073855037X

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Sports Memories of Western Pennsylvania by Lisa A. Alzo,Alby Oxenreiter Pdf

Since the late 1800s, sports have played a key role in shaping the very character of western Pennsylvania. The area's largest city, Pittsburgh, boasts well-known professional sports teams in baseball, football, and hockey. In fact, no other city of comparable size has had such success in sports at the professional level, earning bragging rights and the nickname "City of Champions." Sports Memories of Western Pennsylvania is a salute to the athletes, coaches, announcers, and fans, both professional and amateur, who together created a rich sports history for western Pennsylvania.

Author : David Shribman,Richard "Pete" Peterson
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781623680640

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50 Great Moments in Pittsburgh Sports by David Shribman,Richard "Pete" Peterson Pdf

A century of Pittsburgh’s rich sports history is celebrated through 50 greatest moments in this volume, culled from the coverage by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Among the storied past of athletics in the Pennsylvanian city, this collection highlights such events as the Pirates at the World Series; Steelers' Super Bowls; the Penguins with their back-to-back Stanley Cups; the era when Carnegie “Tech,” Duquesne, and Pitt were all playing college bowls; and boxing title bouts fought by Harry Greb, Teddy Yaroz, and Billy Conn. These moments and others from the wide spectrum of franchises and Hall of Fame athletes in Pittsburgh’s history are celebrated in a commemorative format that illustrates why Pittsburgh has earned the title of the “Best Sports City” more than once and why “City of Champions” has come to describe the town time and time again.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Home video systems industry
ISBN : UCSD:31822029450475

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Bowker's Complete Video Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Guido
Publisher : Word Assn Pub
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1595714642

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Alle-Kiski Sports History by George Guido Pdf

This book is the result of numerous hours of researched text, photo acquisition and interviews compiled over the years. Book jacket.

Author : Roland Lazenby
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1582613516

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Chicago's Greatest Sports Memories by Roland Lazenby Pdf

From the Bears' 73-0 win in 1940 over the Redskins in the most lopsided playoff game in NFL history to Michael Jordan and the Bulls' six NBA championships in the '90s, Chicago's Greatest Sports Memories presents the greatest moments in Chicago sports history. This book features stories and photographs from the archives of the Chicago Sun-Times, plus introductions and original essays by award-winning writer Roland Lazenby. The book contains historical and eyewitness accounts of such feats as Rocky Marciano's knockout of Jersey Joe Walcott in 1953; Walter Payton breaking Jim Brown's rushing record in 1984; and Bobby Hull becoming the first NHL player to exceed 50 goals in a season in 1966.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123021003

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Western Pennsylvania History by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Finoli,Tom Aikens
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738598321

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Forbes Field by David Finoli,Tom Aikens Pdf

In 1909, Pittsburgh Pirates president Barney Dreyfuss began construction on a new facility for his team in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. Dreyfuss decided to call his palace - the first concrete and steel facility built in the National League - Forbes Field, after the British general John Forbes, a hero in the French and Indian War. Opened on June 20, 1909, Forbes Field was a hit from the onset; the venue hosted large crowds that came to watch the Pirates win in their first World Series against the Detroit Tigers that year. As the years went on, Forbes Field became synonymous with the greatest sports memories in the city's history. Patrons saw the trials and tribulations of the Steelers as well as some of the greatest collegiate football teams in the history of the game. The University of Pittsburgh won three collegiate football national championships, and Duquesne University and Carnegie Tech also fielded many winning teams while calling Forbes Field home. Alongside football, boxing was a constant event at the famed facility, hosting some of the most memorable pugilists this city has ever produced. Above all else, it was a baseball mecca. While the field is no longer in use, the wall remains intact, reminding Pittsburghers of the field's rich history.

Author : Tom Callahan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781324004288

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Gods at Play: An Eyewitness Account of Great Moments in American Sports by Tom Callahan Pdf

A beautifully observed narrative of American sport: character, grit, tragedy, unremarked heroism, and, always, the illuminating story behind the story. As a columnist for Time magazine, among many other publications, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American sport across four decades. He takes us from Roberto Clemente clinching his 3,000th, and final, regular-season hit in Pittsburgh; to ringside for the Muhammad Ali–George Foreman fight in Zaire; and to Arthur Ashe announcing, at a news conference, that he’d tested positive for HIV. There are also little-known private moments: Joe Morgan whispering thank you to a virtually blind Jackie Robinson on the field at the 1972 World Series, or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar saying he was more interested in being a good man than in being the greatest basketball player. Brimming with colorful vignettes and enlivened by Callahan’s eye for detail, Gods at Play offers surprising portraits of the most celebrated names in sports. Roger Rosenblatt calls Callahan “the most complete sportswriter in America. He knows the most and writes the best."

Author : Bob Broeg
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1883982316

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The 100 Greatest Moments in St. Louis Sports by Bob Broeg Pdf

St. Louis produced the 1904 Olympics, the man who created tennis's Davis Cup, the first forward pass in football, one of the best collections of soccer talent in North America, a Man named Stan, a record-smashing seventy home runs in one season, and most recently, the Super Bowl champion Rams.

Author : Stephen G. Wieting
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135284138

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Sport and Memory in North America by Stephen G. Wieting Pdf

Cultures and nations remember themselves with select bodily images, evocative rituals and texts. This volume illustrates how sport is used in the creation, maintenance and now global dissemination of a nation's cherished values. Carefully drawn cases of sport in North America - American baseball and football, figure skating and gymnastics, Canadian hockey and track and field, for example - show the potency of sport's "cultural work". The book captures uplifting images which are stressed in the public performance and national and international broadcasting of sport, but also notes the omissions and distortions of social reality that persist in sport performance and mass marketing in North America.

Author : Robert Hayashi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822989998

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Fields of Play by Robert Hayashi Pdf

A Pittsburgh Sports History Centering Issues of Race and Economic Disparity Americans love sports, from neighborhood pickup basketball to the National Football League, and everything in between. While no city better demonstrates the connection between athletic games and community than Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the common association of the city’s professional sports teams with its blue-collar industrial past illustrates a white nostalgic perspective that excludes the voices of many who labored in the mines and mills and played on local fields. In this original and lyrical history, Robert T. Hayashi addresses this gap by uncovering and sharing overlooked tales of the region’s less famous athletes: Chinese baseball players, Black women hunters, Jewish summer campers, and coal miner soccer stars. These athletes created separate spaces of play while demanding equal access to the region’s opportunities on and off the field. Weaving together personal narrative with accounts from media, popular culture, legal cases, and archival sources, Fields of Play details how powerful individuals and organizations used recreation to promote their interests and shape public memory. Combining this rigorous archival research with a poet’s voice, Hayashi vividly portrays how coal towns, settlement houses, municipal swimming pools, state game lands, stadia, and the city’s landmark rivers were all sites of struggle over inclusion and the meaning of play in the Steel City.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Publishers' catalogs
ISBN : 083523245X

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Publishers Trade List Annual, 1992 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sheldon Anderson
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781610756785

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Twin Cities Sports by Sheldon Anderson Pdf

The histories in Twin Cities Sports are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The compilation includes a wide range of important studies on the hub of interwar speedskating, the success of Gopher football in the Jim Crow era, the integration of municipal golf courses, the building of a world-renowned park system, the Minneapolis Lakers’ basketball dynasty, the Minnesota Twins’ connections to Cuba, and more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011999476

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The Publishers' Trade List Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dave Romeo
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781475939804

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Pursuing Your Passions! by Dave Romeo Pdf

Pursuing Your Passions! How to Create a Truly Meaningful Life Are you enjoying the fulfilling life you deserve? Do you have a burning desire to show the world your talent? What are your passions? Do you come alive through dancing, singing, sports, music, golf, painting, hunting, traveling, bowling, cooking, reading, pottery, bird-watching, skiing, fishing, gardening, hiking, scrapbooking, target archery, writing, coin collecting, running, or horseback riding? Are you enjoying them as much as you want? Do you need a well-deserved vacation from the mundane? Dave Romeo, a results coach, and one of America's top motivational speakers, takes you on a journey of self-examination to explore the fulfillment you will enjoy when you tap your talents and throw yourself into your passions. You will learn how to express your talents and happiness in a positive way as you grow personally, professionally, and spiritually. In his latest book, Dave Romeo challenges you to discover your personal passions and express the greatness within you. Dave Romeo is the author of Striving for Signifiance.