The Sunday Game

Author : Keith McClellan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:49015002451996

Get Book

The Sunday Game by Keith McClellan Pdf

In the most complete and compelling account of the origins of professional football, The Sunday Game tells the stories of all the teams that played independent football in the small towns and industrial cities of the Midwest, from early in the twentieth century to the beginning of the National Football League shortly after the end of World War I. The foundations of what is now the most popular professional sport in America were laid by such teams as the Canton Bulldogs and the Hammond Clabbys, teams born out of civic pride and the enthusiasm of the blue-collar crowds who found, in the rough pleasure of the football field, the gritty equivalent of their own lives, a game they could cheer on Sunday afternoons, their only day free from work.

Author : Jerry Roberts
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476622286

Get Book

Pass Receiving in Early Pro Football by Jerry Roberts Pdf

Big television contracts in the 1960s created the Super Bowl, as well as the 1970 merger of the National Football League with the pass-oriented American Football League. Since then, professional football has been America's most popular televised team sport, developing into a wide-open passing game by the 21st century. Handling the completion side of the aerial game, receivers are not often as celebrated as quarterbacks or coaches, even in the era of San Francisco 49er Jerry Rice's supremacy. This book provides a history of pro pass receiving and its influence on the game prior to the televised era. The author studies pro football's formative and mid-20th century years, highlighting the players who pulled pigskins from flight, like the legendary Don Hutson, Gibby Welch, Johnny Blood, Ray Flaherty, Crazy Legs Hirsch, Mac Speedie, Choo Choo Roberts and many others.

Author : Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476617442

Get Book

The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed. by Jonathan Fraser Light Pdf

More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America’s culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues’ decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.

Author : Craig Harline
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300167429

Get Book

Sunday by Craig Harline Pdf

The mere mention of "Sunday" will immediately conjure up a rich mix of memories, associations, and ideas for most anyone of any age. Whatever we think of-be it attending church, reading a bulky newspaper, eating brunch, or watching football-Sunday occupies a unique place in Western civilization. But how did we come to have a day with such a singular set of traditions? Here, historian Craig Harline examines Sunday from its ancient beginnings to contemporary America in a fascinating blend of stories and analysis. For the earliest Christians, the first day of the week was a time to celebrate the liturgy, observe the Resurrection, and work. But over time, Sunday in the Western world took on still other meanings and rituals, especially in the addition of both rest and recreation to the day's activities. Harline illuminates these changes in enlightening profiles of Sunday in medieval Catholic England, Sunday in the Reformation, and Sunday in nineteenth-century France-home of the most envied and sometimes despised Sunday of the modern world. He continues with moving portraits of soldiers and civilians trying to observe Sunday during World War I, examines the quiet Sunday of England in the 1930s, and concludes with the convergence of various European traditions in the American Sunday, which also adds some distinctly original habits of its own, such as in the realms of commerce and professional sports.With engaging prose and scholarly integrity, "Sunday" is an entertaining and long-overdue look at a significant hallmark of Western culture.

Author : Charlie Bevis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476629643

Get Book

Red Sox vs. Braves in Boston by Charlie Bevis Pdf

For 52 years, Boston was a two-team Major League city, home to both the Red Sox and the Braves. This book focuses on the two teams' period of coexistence and competition for fans. The author analyzes the Boston fan base through trends in transportation, communication, geography, population and employment. Tracing the pendulum of fan preference between the two teams over five distinct time periods, a deeper understanding emerges of why the Red Sox remained in Boston and the Braves moved to Milwaukee.

Author : Ross Moschitto
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Farmers
ISBN : 9780615510187

Get Book

Bona Vita by Ross Moschitto Pdf

Author : Charlie Bevis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786431595

Get Book

The New England League by Charlie Bevis Pdf

This book delves deep into the history of the New England League, whose years of operation spanned six decades during the pivotal early years of minor league baseball. Author Charlie Bevis, an expert on New England's baseball past, explores the complex ties to the regional economy, especially to the textile industry, and discusses the pioneering experiments with playoffs, night baseball, and integration.

Author : Charlie Bevis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786457557

Get Book

Doubleheaders by Charlie Bevis Pdf

Award-winning author Charlie Bevis explores the long history of the major league doubleheader from its beginnings in the late 19th century up to the present day. Emphasizing its significance within baseball and popular culture, Bevis describes the twin bill's role in holiday celebrations, its one-time identity as Sunday sporting event, and the part it played in baseball's survival during the Depression and World War Two.

Author : Dennis Pajot
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786489046

Get Book

Baseball's Heartland War, 1902-1903 by Dennis Pajot Pdf

In late 1901, a number of baseball owners decided to break away from the Western League and form a new league called the American Association. This "outlaw league" refused to recognize organized baseball's reserve clause, but vowed to respect contracts. Unfortunately, organized baseball did not reciprocate. Over the next two years, the leagues battled each other for players, fans, and financial superiority. This narrative of that struggle details the business operations of the different clubs, the difficulties of securing property for ball parks, and the problem of players jumping contracts. It also chronicles the two playing seasons during the conflict and describes the rowdy behavior of both players and umpires that characterized baseball at the time. Although the American Association would go on to a longer and more successful life, this study shows that outcome was by no means certain in the early 20th century.

Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674041035

Get Book

The Peculiar Life of Sundays by Stephen Miller Pdf

Sunday observance in the Christian West was an important religious issue from late Antiquity until at least the early twentieth century. In England the subject was debated in Parliament for six centuries. During the reign of Charles I disagreements about Sunday observance were a factor in the Puritan flight from England. In America the Sunday question loomed large in the nation’s newspapers. In the nineteenth century, it was the lengthiest of our national debates—outlasting those of temperance and slavery. In a more secular age, many writers have been haunted by the afterlife of Sunday. Wallace Stevens speaks of the “peculiar life of Sundays.” For Kris Kristofferson “there’s something in a Sunday, / Makes a body feel alone.” From Augustine to Caesarius, through the Reformation and the Puritan flight from England, down through the ages to contemporary debates about Sunday worship, Stephen Miller explores the fascinating history of the Sabbath. He pays particular attention to the Sunday lives of a number of prominent British and American writers—and what they have had to say about Sunday. Miller examines such observant Christians as George Herbert, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Hannah More, and Jonathan Edwards. He also looks at the Sunday lives of non-practicing Christians, including Oliver Goldsmith, Joshua Reynolds, John Ruskin, and Robert Lowell, as well as a group of lapsed Christians, among them Edmund Gosse, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, and Wallace Stevens. Finally, he examines Walt Whitman’s complex relationship to Christianity. The result is a compelling study of the changing role of religion in Western culture.

Author : Ed Rice
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608936748

Get Book

Baseball's First Indian by Ed Rice Pdf

Born in 1871 on Maine's Penobscot Indian reservation and nephew of a chief, Louis Sockalexis became professional baseball's first American Indian player. Ultimately, his prowess on the diamond inspired the name Cleveland's baseball team carries today. Exploring the brilliant but too-brief major league career of the "Deerfoot of the Diamond," Baseball's First Indian follows Sockalexis's rise to the majors, his fall to the minor leagues of New England, and his final return to the reservation in Maine, where he continued to coach baseball and work as an umpire. This fascinating study of the life of Louis Sockalexis is filled with game action and leavened by the flamboyant and colorful stories of 19th century sportswriters who frequently invented what the truth would not supply. It's a treasure for every student of baseball history.

Author : Marc Yocom
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781644261996

Get Book

The Biggest Theft in World History by Marc Yocom Pdf

The Biggest Theft in World History By: Marc Yocom Adversity is a part of life. How you respond to adversity is a measure of your character. Life isn’t always fair, but you can’t give up; you have to keep on fighting. In The Biggest Theft in World History, Marc Yocom talks about dollars and cents, but the real fight for anyone is spiritual. If you win that battle, you win everything! Meet the real guy behind Facebook, and so much more.

Author : Neil Lanctot
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0815608659

Get Book

Fair Dealing and Clean Playing by Neil Lanctot Pdf

The Hilldale Club of Darby, Pennsylvania, was the dominant team in black baseball during the 1920s. Their success came about largely through the efforts of Hilldale president and manager Edward Bolden. Bolden’s professionalism and reputation for fair play were instrumental in his forming the Eastern Colored (EC) League in 1922. This absorbing story, highlighted with vivid photographs, chronicles the origins and development of black baseball.

Author : William E. Akin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786425709

Get Book

West Virginia Baseball by William E. Akin Pdf

West Virginia sprang into existence as a state in the midst of the Civil War, and "base ball," as it was called then, was close on the heels of statehood. A game in 1866 hosted by the Hunkidori Base Ball Club in Wheeling, is considered the first "match game of Base Ball." Some historians contend the game spread via the movement of soldiers who were from urban areas. The real roots of baseball are not the romantic image of rural boys in sandlots or lazy father-son afternoons. It was born and came of age as an urban sport, a social pursuit of well-heeled young men that in the early days often involved banquets and shows following each game. The author traces the history of minor league and independent league baseball in West Virginia. Baseball below the minor leagues has a rich and comparatively unexplored history, and West Virginia has made substantial contributions to this legacy. Chapters examine the chronological history of baseball and the larger economic and cultural changes that have influenced it. Eras include baseball as a social game (through 1873); the emergence of professional baseball (through 1895); its second boom (through 1905); the deadball era (through 1920); the Martinsburg dynasty (1914 to 1934); as a miners' sport (1920 to 1941); the Middle Atlantic League (1925-1942); the Mountain State League (1937-1942); the postwar years (1945-1955); the nadir (1955-1985); and "A Minor Miracle" (1985-2000), a chapter that heralds a comeback in the popularity of professional baseball.

Author : Charlie Bevis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786492329

Get Book

Jimmy Collins by Charlie Bevis Pdf

This first book-length biography of Jimmy Collins examines the life of an intensely private, business-oriented ballplayer who was the first third baseman to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Collins' life is covered in depth from his early years growing up in Buffalo, through his 14-year major league baseball career 1895-1908 primarily in Boston, to his post-baseball life as a real estate investor. This book sheds new light on Collins' motivations to leverage his baseball success--which included leading Boston to victory in the first modern-day World Series in 1903--into lucrative baseball contracts to fund his real estate investments. When he led the Boston Americans to successive American League championships in 1903 and 1904, Collins was instrumental in the foundation of today's highly successful Boston Red Sox franchise and its intense rivalry with the New York Yankees.