The Call Up To The Majors

Author : Thomas A. Rhoads
Publisher : Springer
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461489245

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The Call Up to the Majors by Thomas A. Rhoads Pdf

This book explores the unique relationships between professional baseball teams and the unique ways professional baseball leagues are organized in North America with a primary focus on how proximity can and does impact consumer demand. Perhaps more than any other matter that arises in the business of baseball, proximity to other professional baseball teams is a concern that has uniquely shaped professional baseball leagues in North America. It is this particular component in how professional baseball leagues are organized that suggests building a proximity-based approach to studying the economics of minor league baseball. This book opens up new ways to study minor league baseball, specifically, and sports leagues more generally. So even as advanced technology has eliminated some of the need for fans to be in close proximity to the teams they love to follow, there is still a need to understand more completely how proximity matters can impact the way professional baseball leagues are structured and how that structure can ultimately impact the quality of the games that entertain sports fans everywhere. This book will be of interest to both sports economists and practitioners.

Author : Charles H. Harris,Louis R. Sadler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806149547

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The Great Call-Up by Charles H. Harris,Louis R. Sadler Pdf

On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire army National Guard, some 150,000 men, to meet an armed threat to the United States: border raids covertly sponsored by a Mexican government in the throes of revolution. The Great Call-Up tells for the first time the complete story of this unprecedented deployment and its significance in the history of the National Guard, World War I, and U.S.-Mexico relations. Often confused with the regular-army operation against Pancho Villa and overshadowed by the U.S. entry into World War I, the great call-up is finally given due treatment here by two premier authorities on the history of the Southwest border. Marshaling evidence drawn from newspapers, state archives, reports to Congress, and War Department documents, Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler trace the call-up’s state-based deployment from San Antonio and Corpus Christi, along the Texas and Arizona borders, to California. Along the way, they tell the story of this mass mobilization by examining each unit as it was called up by state, considering its composition, missions, and internal politics. Through this period of intensive training, the Guard became a truly cohesive national, then international, force. Some units would even go directly from U.S. border service to the battlefields of World War I France, remaining overseas until 1919. Balancing sweeping change over time with a keen eye for detail, The Great Call-Up unveils a little-known yet vital chapter in American military history.

Author : Zak Ford
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476692791

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Called Up by Zak Ford Pdf

To reach the majors, a ballplayer must not only possess natural ability and world-class skills but must also overcome nearly insurmountable odds. The journey is not possible without extreme dedication. Along the way mentors play a large role, and circumstances must align. For an elite few, years of effort and perseverance culminate with putting on a big league uniform. Drawing on original interviews with more than 100 players who debuted between 1961 and 2018, this collection presents their first-person stories of how they were called up to play Major League Baseball.

Author : Frank N. Schubert
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0160429544

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The Whirlwind War by Frank N. Schubert Pdf

CMH Publication 70-30. Edited by Frank N. Schubert and TheresaL. Kraus. Discusses the United States Army's role in the Persian Gulf War from August 1990 to February 1991. Shows the various strands that came together to produce the army of the 1990s and how that army in turn performed under fire and in the glare of world attention. Retains a sense of immediacy in its approach. Contains maps which were carefully researched and compiled as original documents in their own right. Includes an index.

Author : Jonathan Weeks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781442281738

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Latino Stars in Major League Baseball by Jonathan Weeks Pdf

Some of the best players in Major League Baseball were born outside the United States, with Latino players representing one of the fastest growing ethnicities in the league. Current and former stars such as Albert Pujols, Rod Carew, and Miguel Cabrera all found incredible success in MLB. They have won major awards, guided their teams to the postseason, played in All-Star games, and an elite few have been enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Latino Stars in Major League Baseball: From Bobby Abreu to Carlos Zambrano celebrates the ever-increasing diversity of baseball in America. It includes more than 140 in-depth profiles of retired and active ballplayers representing countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. For many of these players, the road to “The Show” wasn’t easy—discrimination, poverty, language barriers, and government restrictions are major obstacles that Latino players have faced in the past and continue to face today. Author Jonathan Weeks covers these struggles and more in the profiles, showing the players’ strength, resiliency, and ultimately, their rise to the top of professional baseball. Latino Stars in Major League Baseball is a definitive collection of the best and brightest Latino stars both past and present. Full of colorful anecdotes and inspiring stories, this book provides a rich understanding of Latino players’ impact on baseball in the United States.

Author : Peter Ephross,Martin Abramowitz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786465071

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Jewish Major Leaguers in Their Own Words by Peter Ephross,Martin Abramowitz Pdf

Between 1870 and 2010, 165 Jewish Americans played Major League Baseball. This work presents oral histories featuring 23 of them. From Bob Berman, a catcher for the Washington Senators in 1918, to Adam Greenberg, an outfielder for the Chicago Cubs in 2005, the players discuss their careers and consider how their Jewish heritage affected them. Legends like Hank Greenberg and Al Rosen as well as lesser-known players reflect on the issue of whether to play on high holidays, responses to anti-Semitism on and off the field, bonds formed with black teammates also facing prejudice, and personal and Jewish pride in their accomplishments. Together, these oral histories paint a vivid portrait of what it was like to be a Jewish Major Leaguer.

Author : Jonah Keri
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780307361370

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Up, Up, and Away by Jonah Keri Pdf

The definitive history of the Montreal Expos by the definitive Expos fan, the New York Times bestselling sportswriter and Grantland columnist Jonah Keri. 2014 is the 20th anniversary of the strike that killed baseball in Montreal, and the 10th anniversary of the team's move to Washington, DC. But the memories aren't dead--not by a long shot. The Expos pinwheel cap is still sported by Montrealers, former fans, and by many more in the US and Canada as a fashion item. Expos loyalists are still spotted at Blue Jays games and wherever the Washington Nationals play (often cheering against them). Every year there are rumours that Montreal--as North America's largest market without a baseball team--could host Major League Baseball again. There has never been a major English-language book on the entire franchise history. There also hasn't been a sportswriter as uniquely qualified to tell the whole story, and to make it appeal to baseball fans across Canada AND south of the border. Jonah Keri writes the chief baseball column for Grantland, and routinely makes appearances in Canadian media such as The Jeff Blair Show, Prime Time Sports and Off the Record. The author of the New York Times baseball bestseller The Extra 2% (Ballantine/ESPN Books), Keri is one of the new generation of high-profile sports writers equally facile with sabermetrics and traditional baseball reporting. He has interviewed everyone for this book (EVERYONE: including the ownership that allowed the team to be moved), and fans can expect to hear from just about every player and personality from the Expos' unforgettable 35 years in baseball. Up, Up, and Away is already one of the most anticipated sports books of next year.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronics in navigation
ISBN : UOM:39015082047633

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Vessel Traffic Control by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : MINN:31951D020977644

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Major Defense Matters by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee Pdf

Reviews general U.S. defense preparedness, including defense of Berlin and FY60 DOD budget. Classified material has been deleted.

Author : S.S. Van Dine
Publisher : Musaicum Books
Page : 2444 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027222896

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The Greatest Murder Mysteries of S. S. Van Dine - 12 Titles in One Volume (Illustrated Edition) by S.S. Van Dine Pdf

Philo Vance is a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York dilettante and bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent he likes to use for solving some quite complicated crimes. His methods are unusual and often in contradiction to the firm police rules and official requirements, but his wit always gets him a step further. Philo Vance novels were chronicled by his friend Van Dine, who appears as a kind of Dr. Watson figure in the books. Table of Contents: Introduction Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories The Philo Vance Series The Benson Murder Case The Canary Murder Case The Greene Murder Case The Bishop Murder Case The Scarab Murder Case The Kennel Murder Case The Dragon Murder Case The Casino Murder Case The Garden Murder Case The Kidnap Murder Case The Gracie Allen Murder Case The Winter Murder Case S. S. Van Dine is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when he wrote detective novels. He was an important figure in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-WWI New York, and under the pseudonym he created the immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance.

Author : Ron Gawthorp
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781477143506

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Glimpses of Glory by Ron Gawthorp Pdf

Ron Gawthorp is a semi-retired author who now lives in the Alleghany Highlands of Virginia. A veteran writer of some renown in community newspapers early in his life, he has returned to writing after working in the oilfi elds. His fi rst novel, Richer Than The Rockefellers, refl ected life in the oilfields of Illinois, his native state. Glimpses of Glory is his first published non-fiction work. In it he has tediously reconstructed the forgotten career of a professional baseballer from the roaring twenties through the depression. Baseball was a lot different when it started than it is today. These men were the pioneers of the sport. I think it important to remember how they lived, the author says. They worked hard, played hard and gave the game the grit it needed to survive. I especially hope young readers will take note of the way grew. Gawthorp says that over the years he has stumbled into a lot of stories he was unable to publish. Some are book worthy and some are still only short stories, fi ction and nonfiction, but I am still looking to put them on the public plate. I am being much assisted by technological advances in the publishing field. The Good Lord willing and the electric stays on the grid, I ve got enough to keep me busy. The author is an avid history buff and loves visiting historic locations, research and learning. He lived 22 years in West Virginia before retiring just over the mountain to Millboro, VA.

Author : Laurie Grobman,E. Michele Ramsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 9780812251982

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Major Decisions by Laurie Grobman,E. Michele Ramsey Pdf

"The book is an academic/career guide. It argues for the importance of the humanities for job skills and for participation in civic life and politics. The book will help students speak persuasively about the usefulness of their humanities degrees"--

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Estate and Gift Taxation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Gifts
ISBN : MINN:31951P001354304

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Major Estate and Gift Tax Issues by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Estate and Gift Taxation Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556039343819

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Development and Implementation of Range-wide Mission and Major Capabilities at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eric Gondwe
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780615137551

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Major Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance Ministry Principles by Eric Gondwe Pdf

[255 pages] Please note: This is the Second Edition of the book. Third Editions are now available in two separate books, one on Spiritual Warfare Principles and another on Christian Deliverance Principles. Third editions are extensively revised and updated versions - due to reader recommendations on additional content. To go to the third editions please click on the author's name above or click on the appropriate book title link above (depending on which page you're on).