Swinging 73

Author : Matthew Silverman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780762793235

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Swinging '73 by Matthew Silverman Pdf

Interest and attendance were dropping, and football was ascending. Stuck in a rut, baseball was dying. Then Steinbrenner bought the Yankees, a second-division club with wife-swapping pitchers, leaving the House That Ruth Built not with a slam but a simper. He vowed not to interfere—before soon changing his mind. Across town, Tom Seaver led the Mets’ stellar pitching line-up, and iconic outfielder Willie Mays was preparing to say goodbye. For months, the Mets, under Yogi Berra, couldn’t get it right. Meanwhile, the A’s were breaking a ban on facial hair while maverick owner Charlie Finley was fighting to keep them underpaid. But beneath the muttonchops and mayhem, lay another world. Elvis commanded a larger audience than the Apollo landings. A Dodge Dart cost $2,800, gas was a quarter per gallon. A fiscal crisis loomed; Vietnam had ended, the vice president resigned, and Watergate had taken over. It was one of the most exciting years in the game’s history, the first with the designated hitter and the last before arbitration and free agency. The two World Series opponents went head-to-head above the baby steps of a dynasty that soon dwarfed both league champions. It was a turbulent time for the country and the game, neither of which would ever be the same again.

Author : Matthew Silverman
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0762780606

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Swinging '73 by Matthew Silverman Pdf

Looks at the eccentricities of the 1973 baseball season, the first year with a designated hitter, and the larger national context in which it was played.

Author : Sam Ulano
Publisher : Vital Health Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04
Category : Aging
ISBN : 9781890612405

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Keep Swinging by Sam Ulano Pdf

For the multitudes of people entering their senior years, jazz-drumming great Sam Ulano offers a road map to aging well and managing your health, money, and attitude. Based on his personal philosophies and life experiences, Keep Swinging provides straight-shooting words of wisdom on such subjects as retirement, dealing with kids, and being alone. His messages--which are filled with anecdotal humor, common sense, and joy--offer a great source of hope and comfort.

Author : Louis Prima,Randy Johnson
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Musicals
ISBN : 0573633800

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The Wildest!!! Hip, Cool and Swinging! by Louis Prima,Randy Johnson Pdf

This exciting new musical features nearly 40 tunes performed on stage with a live band, including "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody," "That Old Black Magic," "Sing, Sing, Sing," and "I Wish You Love." Louis Prima and Keely Smith's musical sounds and style defined an era that has transcended generations and has become timeless in its appeal. THE WILDEST!!! arrives at a moment when Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and other Las Vegas icons are being idolized as musical heroes. It's also about a unique era - the nightclub years of the late 50's and early 60's. It is a journey to the past that will lead some to new discoveries and others cherished memories.

Author : Ronald Moore
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781598867800

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How to Keep Swinging by Ronald Moore Pdf

If you?ve ever struck out during this all important game of life, it's okay! In his book Life Happens: How to Keep Swinging When You?ve Taken More Hits Than A Louisville Slugger, author Ron Moore shares that the most important element in keeping dreams alive, pizazz and excitement in this game of life, is to never stop getting up to the plate and swinging no matter what kind of ?hit? you?ve taken. Inside the covers of this book, you?ll find humor and entertainment mixed with some deeply solid principles revealed through some of the good, the bad, and the ugly of his life. You?ll discover how he personally keeps swinging in this most important game of life and how you can as well.

Author : Jocelyn Hazelwood Donlon
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807849774

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Swinging in Place by Jocelyn Hazelwood Donlon Pdf

An appreciation of the significance of the porch in everyday life in the US South. It reveals that the porch is a stage for many social dramas, and it uses literature, folklore, oral histories and photographs to show how southerners have used the porch to negotiate public and private boundaries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754082397625

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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1895 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1978 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000065837368

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11799681

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Senate documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dale Tafoya
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493043637

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Billy Ball by Dale Tafoya Pdf

In the early 1970s, the Oakland Athletics became only the second team in major-league baseball history to win three consecutive World Series championships. But as the decade came to a close, the A's were in free fall, having lost 108 games in 1979 while drawing just 307,000 fans. Free agency had decimated the A’s, and the team’s colorful owner, Charlie Finley, was looking for a buyer. First, though, he had to bring fans back to the Oakland Coliseum. Enter Billy Martin, the hometown boy from West Berkeley. In Billy Ball, sportswriter Dale Tafoya describes what, at the time, seemed like a match made in baseball heaven. The A’s needed a fiery leader to re-ignite interest in the team. Martin needed a job after his second stint as manager of the New York Yankees came to an abrupt end. Based largely on interviews with former players, team executives, and journalists, Billy Ball captures Martin’s homecoming to the Bay area in 1980, his immediate embrace by Oakland fans, and the A’s return to playoff baseball. Tafoya describes the reputation that had preceded Martin—one that he fully lived up to—as the brawling, hard-drinking baseball savant with a knack for turning bad teams around. In Oakland, his aggressive style of play came to be known as Billy Ball. A’s fans and the media loved it. But, in life and in baseball, all good things must come to an end. Tafoya chronicles Martin’s clash with the new A’s management and the siren song of the Yankees that lured the manager back to New York in 1983. Still, as the book makes clear, the magical turnaround of the A’s has never been forgotten in Oakland. Neither have Billy Martin and Billy Ball. During a time of economic uncertainty and waning baseball interest in Oakland, Billy Ball filled the stands, rejuvenated fans, and saved professional baseball in the city.

Author : USA Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057003430036

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Annual Report by USA Patent Office Pdf

Author : Matthew Silverman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493024209

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One-Year Dynasty by Matthew Silverman Pdf

Relive the games, moves, and players of the hard-hitting team that won the 1986 World Series. Vin Scully called the tenth-inning groundball in Game Six of the 1986 World Series—Mets versus Red Sox—that sealed a comeback, fueled a curse, and turned a batting champion into a scapegoat. But getting there was a long, hard slog with plenty of heartache. After being knocked out of contention the previous two seasons, the Mets blasted through the National League that year. They won blowouts, nailbiters, fights, and a 14-inning game that ended with one pitcher on the mound, another in right field, and an All-Star catcher playing third base. Matt Silverman covers famous baseball players including: Ron Darling, Dwight Gooden, Keith Hernandez, Darryl Strawberry and more. Going beyond the partying and excess, Silverman recounts in this book, step by step, the team’s meteoric rise in 1986, when they captured their first division title in over a decade, shattered the franchise record, and then won it all.

Author : Carmen Sylva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Romanian poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015064528493

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Songs of Toil by Carmen Sylva Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electric power
ISBN : IOWA:31858048099752

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International Text-book of Medical Electro-physics and Galvanism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Wancho,Rick Huhn,Leonard Levin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803245877

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Pitching to the Pennant by Joseph Wancho,Rick Huhn,Leonard Levin Pdf

"A commemorative volume on the 1954 Cleveland Indians"--