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Author : Larry Moffi
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780486146119
Enshrinement in the Hall of Fame is the ultimate honor for major leaguers. This rousing oral history recounts stories of 17 players who came up just short: Virgil Trucks, Gene Woodling, Carl Erskine, and others.
Author : Tom Stanton
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781429981132
Every true baseball fan dreams of visiting Cooperstown. Some make the trip as boys, when the promise of a spot in the lineup with the Yankees or Red Sox or Tigers glows on the horizon, as certain as the sunrise. Some go later in life, long after their Little League years, to glimpse the past, not the future. And still others talk of somedays and of pilgrimages that await. For Tom Stanton, the trip took nearly three decades. The dream first grabbed hold of him in 1972, in the era of Vietnam and Watergate and Johnny Bench and the Oakland Athletics. Stanton, then an eleven-year-old Michigan boy who lived for the game, became fascinated by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the sport's spiritual home, the place to which great players aspire. He plotted ways to convince his father to take him to the famous village along Lake Otsego. But his plans for that season never materialized. They disappeared in the turmoil caused by his mother's life-threatening illness and his brother's antiwar activities. Still, the dream lingered through the summers that followed. Twenty-nine years later, he invited the two men who had introduced him to the sport, his elderly father and his older brother, to join him on a trip to the Hall. Finally, they embarked on their long-delayed adventure. The Road to Cooperstown is a true story populated with colorful characters: a philanthropic family that launched the museum and uses its wealth to, among other things, ensure that McDonald's stays out of the turn-of-the-century downtown; the devoted fan who wrote a book to get his hero into the Hall of Fame; the Guyana native who grew up without baseball but comes to the induction ceremony every year; the librarian on a mission to preserve his great-grandfather's memory; the baseball legends who appear suddenly along Main Street; and the dying man who fulfills one of his last wishes on a warm day in spring. As he did with his award-winning book, The Final Season, Tom Stanton again tells a magical tale of fathers, brothers, and baseball heroes certain to resonate with sports fans everywhere. This adventure, though brief, provides a true bonding experience that is the heart of a sweet, one-of-a-kind book about baseball, family, the Hall of Fame, and the town with which it shares a rich heritage.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : PRNC:32101066152156
Author : Donald L. Deardorff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780313095467
This guide to the available literature on sports in American culture during the last two decades of the 20th century is a companion to Jack Higg's Sports: A Reference Guide (Greenwood, 1982). The types of individual or team sports included in this volume include those that are viewed as physical contests engaged in for physical, emotional, spiritual, or psychological fulfillment. With a focus on books alone, chapters review the available literature regarding sports and each concludes with a bibliography. Academic journals likely to contain articles on the topics discussed are listed at the end of each chapter. Twelve chapters discuss sports and American history, business and law, education, ethnicity and race, gender, literature, philosophy and religion, popular culture, psychology, science and technology, sociology and world history. This reference and guide to further research will appeal to scholars of popular culture and sports. An index and two appendixes are included, one listing important dates in American sports from 1980 through 2000 and one listing sports halls of fame, museums, periodicals, and websites.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Cooperstown (N.Y.)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924072059995
Author : Bob Luke
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476662121
The struggle to integrate the Baltimore Orioles mirrored the fight for civil rights in Baltimore. The Orioles debuted in 1954, the same year the Supreme Court struck down public school segregation. As Baltimore experienced demonstrations, white flight and a 1968 riot, team integration came slowly. Black players--mostly outfielders--made cameo appearances as black fans stayed away in droves. The breakthrough came in 1966, with the arrival of a more enlightened owner, and African American superstar Frank Robinson. As more black players filled the roster, the Orioles dominated the American League from 1969 through much of the 1970s and into the early 1980s. Attempts to integrate the team's executive suite were less successful. While black players generally did not participate in civil rights actions, several under Robinson's leadership pushed for front office jobs for former black players. Drawing on primary sources and interviews with former executives, players and sportswriters, this book tells the story of the integration of the Orioles. The author describes how tensions between community leaders and team officials aborted negotiations to both increase black attendance and put an African American in the club's executive ranks.
Author : Samuel Truesdale Livermore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Cooperstown (N.Y.)
ISBN : YALE:39002013795357
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Canada
ISBN : PSU:000052908736
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Canada
ISBN : CORNELL:31924102365719
Author : Ed Edmonds,Frank G. Houdek
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476664385
Baseball and law have intersected since the primordial days. In 1791, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance prohibited ball playing near the town's meeting house. Ball games on Sundays were barred by a Pennsylvania statute in 1794. In 2015, a federal court held that baseball's exemption from antitrust laws applied to franchise relocations. Another court overturned the conviction of Barry Bonds for obstruction of justice. A third denied a request by rooftop entrepreneurs to enjoin the construction of a massive video screen at Wrigley Field. This exhaustive chronology traces the effects the law has had on the national pastime, both pro and con, on and off the field, from the use of copyright to protect not only equipment but also "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" to frequent litigation between players and owners over contracts and the reserve clause. The stories of lawyers like Kenesaw Mountain Landis and Branch Rickey are entertainingly instructive.
Author : Claude Hale Birdseye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Bench-marks
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019743975
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCAL:B2969167
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148100203932X
Author : James Carson Webster,Erastus Dow Palmer
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780874132021
Deals with Palmer's life and career, the development and character of his work, his ideas about art, and contemporary comments on his work. An annotated catalog of Palmer's sculpture and appendixes that contain his writings on art and letters are included. (American Art Senes)
Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Interstate commerce
ISBN : UCAL:B2911058
