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White Sox Park's Amazing Vendors

Author : Lloyd Rutzky and Joel Levin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467103244

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White Sox Park's Amazing Vendors by Lloyd Rutzky and Joel Levin Pdf

Baseball lives, whether one interprets that as meaning that the country's national pastime is still breathing and well after nearly two centuries or as a reference to the people who work in the "industry." More than 50 years ago, one young man became employed by the Chicago White Sox and began photographing virtually everybody with whom he worked. His intention was to have pictures of his friends and coworkers for the future. Now, Arcadia Publishing is proud to add Lloyd Rutzky's memories of his "team" experiences to its Images of Modern America series in this volume, a companion to the groundbreaking Wrigley Field's Amazing Vendors, published in 2018.

White Sox Park's Amazing Vendors

Author : Lloyd Rutzky,Joel Levin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439667163

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White Sox Park's Amazing Vendors by Lloyd Rutzky,Joel Levin Pdf

Baseball lives, whether one interprets that as meaning that the country's national pastime is still breathing and well after nearly two centuries or as a reference to the people who work in the "industry." More than 50 years ago, one young man became employed by the Chicago White Sox and began photographing virtually everybody with whom he worked. His intention was to have pictures of his friends and coworkers for the future. Now, Arcadia Publishing is proud to add Lloyd Rutzky's memories of his "team" experiences to its Images of Modern America series in this volume, a companion to the groundbreaking Wrigley Field's Amazing Vendors, published in 2018.

Wrigley Field's Amazing Vendors

Author : Lloyd Rutzky,Joel Levin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439664896

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Wrigley Field's Amazing Vendors by Lloyd Rutzky,Joel Levin Pdf

In 1970, a vendor at Wrigley Field had an amazing idea to turn his personal camera away from the baseball diamond and toward his fellow ballpark hawkers as they went about their daily jobs of selling souvenirs, programs, hot dogs, ice cream, and soft drinks. Along the way, he also captured images of other employees--ushers, security staff, commissary workers, and union officials. The result, Wrigley Field's Amazing Vendors, offers a never-before-seen perspective of major-league baseball that Arcadia Publishing is proud to include in its Images of Modern America series. The subjects themselves are amazing: a blind Frosty Malt vendor; a singing peanut vendor; a Coca-Cola vendor who went on to become an economic adviser to the president of the United States. Many of the vendors photographed in the 1970s are still in the aisles of Wrigley Field today. Others left for new career opportunities. A few became legends in vending history.

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2002

Author : William M. Simons,Alvin L. Hall
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786415700

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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2002 by William M. Simons,Alvin L. Hall Pdf

This is an anthology of 24 papers that were presented at the Fourteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held in June 2002, and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Subsequent to initial presentation, papers were revised and edited for publication. The anthology is divided into five parts: Timebend: Baseball as History; The Business of Baseball; Race: Soul of the Game; Baseball Media: Literature, Journalism, and Cinema; and Baseball Culture: Age, Sexuality, and Religion. Timebend: Baseball as History ruminates on the lingering resonance of the game's past. The Business of Baseball examines sport from a commercial perspective. Race: Soul of the Game chronicles the African-American experience in baseball. Baseball Media: Literature , Journalism, and Cinema analyzes depictions of the game in the popular arts. Baseball Culture: Age, Sexuality, and Religion explores the social fabric of sport. Each part contains multiple essays related by theme and topic. A guide to the paper follows.

The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed.

Author : Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476617442

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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.

Dream Makers

Author : Jim “The Rookie” Morris,Mark Stuertz
Publisher : Savio Republic
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781682617977

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Dream Makers by Jim “The Rookie” Morris,Mark Stuertz Pdf

Jim Morris is no stranger to big dreams. Since he was five years old, he passionately yearned to play baseball in the major leagues. However, despite all his hard work and determination, a series of unfortunate events and injuries scuttled his career before he was twenty-five. Doctors told him he would never play again. Then at age thirty-five—after a string of highly implausible events and at an age when most players are retiring—Morris found himself on the mound as a relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. His return to the game was so incredible that Disney made his story into a heartwarming film—The Rookie—with a stellar performance by Dennis Quaid. It was released to popular acclaim and was a huge box office success. It won the ESPY for Best Sports Movie in 2002 and the CAMIE award for Character and Morality in Entertainment. Dream Makers picks up where The Rookie left off. This compelling memoir explores the untapped territory of Morris’s life, including his contentious relationship with his father, his incessant and grueling struggle with pain and addiction, the mentorship with his wise and loving grandfather who kept him grounded, and the resolve and faith that drove him to overcome every tribulation. Dream Makers explores the transformative power of surrounding yourself with the best, most accomplished people possible—inspiring you to overcome life’s obstacles and achieve your dreams. Life can come at you fast, but with God, all things are possible. “It’s not about me. It’s what God can do through me.”

Deportes

Author : José M Alamillo
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978813663

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Deportes by José M Alamillo Pdf

Deportes uncovers the hidden experiences of Mexican male and female athletes, teams and leagues and their supporters who fought for a more level playing field on both sides of the border. They proved that they could compete in a wide variety of sports at amateur, semiprofessional, Olympic and professional levels.

Comiskey Park's Last World Series

Author : Charles N. Billington
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476635576

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Comiskey Park's Last World Series by Charles N. Billington Pdf

 Charter members of the American League and the country's last "neighborhood" pro baseball franchise, the White Sox are one of the few teams of the power hitting-focused modern era to win a pennant with speed, pitching and defense. Covering the 1959 White Sox from a range of perspectives, the author examines the club's historical importance to Chicago and the significance of the '59 "South Side Series"--the first in 40 years. Many behind-the-scenes details are discussed, from the refined media markets of Golden Age baseball to the team's ancillary sources of revenue to the bitter legal feud between Charles Comiskey and Bill Veeck.

Contract Options for Buyers and Sellers of Talent in Professional Sports

Author : Duane W Rockerbie,Stephen T. Easton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030495138

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Contract Options for Buyers and Sellers of Talent in Professional Sports by Duane W Rockerbie,Stephen T. Easton Pdf

This Palgrave Pivot re-examines salary formation in Major League Baseball in light of real option theory to clarify the connection between salary and marginal revenue product for professional baseball players. Current literature has tended to treat single-year and multi-year contracts similarly, ignoring the potential option value for teams and for players. Recent work points to the observation that both high-productivity and low-productivity athletes have salaries that systematically differ from their marginal revenue product, and that free agents signing multi-year contracts are overpaid relative to free agents signing one-year contracts. This book argues that the value of signing an athlete to a contract should be determined similarly to the determination of the value of an investment project or a financial asset. This book demonstrates how to calculate the value of real options to the player and the team owner with a simple two-year contract, and offers extensions to the real options model for multiyear contracts or when a player is early or late in his career.

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2013-2014

Author : William M. Simons
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476620145

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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2013-2014 by William M. Simons Pdf

Generally acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research and pedagogy. This collection of 17 new essays is selected from the approximately 100 presentations of the 2013 and the 2014 symposia, covering topics whose importance extends beyond the ballpark. Presented in six themed parts, the essays consider the congruence of culture and baseball, the importance of ballpark itself, the myths, legends and icons of the baseball imagination, international and ethnic game variations, the work of baseball museum curators and a context for the game's rules of play and labor.

Thirty Baseball Parks and Seventy Home Runs

Author : Ophelia R. Wade
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 146281543X

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Thirty Baseball Parks and Seventy Home Runs by Ophelia R. Wade Pdf

This is a baseball and travel book. A Missouri couple visited all thirty baseball parks, forty-eight continental states, five great lakes, and Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. They were present when Mark McGwire shattered batting records and hit his seventieth home run in 1998. The book is full of baseball trivia.

Whiskey Makers in Washington, D.C.: A Pre-Prohibition History

Author : Troy Hughes
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467153379

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Whiskey Makers in Washington, D.C.: A Pre-Prohibition History by Troy Hughes Pdf

"Men are divided into three classes. There are men who love their liquor, men who sell liquor, and politicians who are on both sides of the question." Before Prohibition, a number of liquor merchants operated in the District of Columbia. This was a time when intoxicating beverages were at the forefront of the national conversation and the District, being subject only to laws passed by Congress, served as a testing ground for regulation. Learn the stories of the Poison Squad, Lemonade Lucy, the Sons of Temperance, and the sad tale of Senators baseball star Ed Delahanty. On the political front, read a blow-by-blow account of the decade long whiskey war, which involved every branch of the federal government as it sought to answer the question, "What is whiskey?" Local author and whiskey producer Troy Hughes provides a glimpse into Washington whiskey culture and the businesses of producers at the turn of the twentieth century.

Wrigleyworld

Author : Kevin Kaduk
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781101210871

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Wrigleyworld by Kevin Kaduk Pdf

In 2016 the Chicago Cubs finally won the World Series after a 108 year losing streak. But before that, "never say die” was a way of life for Cubs fans, including sportswriter Kevin Kaduk... In the summer 2005 season, in a fit of nostalgic, heartfelt (and possibly insane) loyalty to his “Lovable Losers,” Kevin quit his job as a sportswriter in Kansas City and moved back to the Windy City on a quest to find the heart and soul of what has come to be known as “Wrigleyville.” As Kevin searched for answers, he found one hell of a good time. In this rollicking exploration of baseball and blind faith, he weaves a riveting tale of the team that stole his heart—and the life of the neighborhood surrounding baseball’s most historic ballpark. He takes us from the famed ivy-fronted bleachers in Wrigley Field to the full-blast party atmosphere that vibrates through the surrounding blocks every game day. He visits the rooftops across the street from the field where the beer is ice cold and the bratwurst never stops coming and explores the depths of Wrigleyville’s bar scene, where raucous celebration and heartrending commiseration are all too common. So crack open a cold one, and get ready to experience the true adventures of Kevin Kaduk—a man who took himself out to the ballgame, bought himself some peanuts and Cracker-Jack...and never came back.

Up by the Bootstraps

Author : Sean M. McWeeney
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-27
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9798888128800

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Up by the Bootstraps by Sean M. McWeeney Pdf

About the Book Sean M. McWeeney has led an amazing life. Up by the Bootstraps outlines his life on the rough and tough West Side of Chicago, where he was unafraid of hard work or a good fight. He ran numbers, struggled, and triumphed through life’s twists and turns, to become the head of the FBI’s Organized Crime Section and later establish an international multi million-dollar corporation known for handling complex hostage and extortion negotiations for international corporations. This memoir reveals the inner workings of the FBI’s battle to bring down major mafia families’ organizations throughout the United States. And is an entertaining read of a life well lived by a colorful, gifted, and talented man who when given the choice at a young age between a life of crime or justice, chose justice. About the Author Sean M. McWeeney is a graduate of DePaul University in Chicago, with a bachelor's degree in commerce, where he was president of the senior class of 1961. He also received an MBA from the University of Rhode Island in 1964. McWeeney served as an officer in the US Navy from 1962 to 1965, attaining the rank of lieutenant. He went on to become an FBI agent from 1965 to 1988 and served as an Organized Crime supervisor in the New York office. His time in this office led to the arrest of Carlo Gambino, head of the infamous Gambino Mafia family. After retirement from the FBI, McWeeney founded an international security corporation, Corporate Risk International. Before the sale of the company, they went on to handle over six hundred kidnapping and extortion incidents over several years. McWeeney is married and has six children. His first wife Joan passed away in 2005. She played a substantial role in the success of both his careers.

Sports for Sale

Author : David A. Klatell,Norman Marcus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015012433093

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Sports for Sale by David A. Klatell,Norman Marcus Pdf

Although sports broadcasting has never been more popular with the fans, the advent of cable TV and the proliferation of televised sporting events has greatly eroded each network's share of revenue in the billion-dollar industry, spawning a dramatic growth of corporate marketing campaigns and sporting events that are manipulated through advances in technology.