Is This A Great Game Or What
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Is This A Great Game Or What
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Author : Tim Kurkjian
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2007-05-01
Is This A Great Game Or What written by Tim Kurkjian and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Stories and observations from the ESPN baseball commentator: “Is this a great book or what? Hilarious, irreverent, informative.” —Dan Shaughnessy, author of Reversing the Curse ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian has spent over twenty-five years covering almost 3,000 Major League Baseball games—and interviewing about that many players, coaches, managers and executives. In Is This a Great Game, or What?, Kurkjian combines his years of experience and his uncanny knowledge and deep love of the game to create a book filled with some of the most fascinating insight into Major League Baseball this side of Jim Bouton’s Ball Four. Whether he’s explaining what goes through a ballplayer’s mind when he faces a fastball in the chapter “My Face Was Crushed by a Bowling Ball Going 90mph,” detailing bizarre rituals and superstitions performed by some of the game’s greatest players, or taking us into the locker room to see what transpires in a Major League clubhouse, Kurkjian’s tales are at times hilarious, other times horrifying, yet always entertaining. Kurkjian has spoken to some of the greatest ballplayers ever over the years and they have revealed details about themselves and the game they love with a candor that readers won’t find anywhere else. Filled with memorable anecdotes, this is an essential book for baseball fans. “Mostly humorous anecdotes collected on the baseball beat, but the standout chapter is a serious examination of the element of fear in the game. . . . Kurkjian also has a wonderful chapter on baseball’s unsung heroes, the scouts, underpaid lifers who travel thousands of backroad miles per year to find the next-best version of Mickey Mantle or Roger Clemens . . . Even as they savor every word, readers will be jealous: Why can’t we love our jobs as much as this guy does?” —Booklist “Kurkjian has collected more delightful and insightful stories than anyone since Casey Stengel.” —George F. Will, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Men at Work
The Great Game
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Author : Peter Hopkirk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Great Game written by Peter Hopkirk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized in Kipling's Kim. When play firstbegan the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India. This book tells the story of the Great Game through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or native horsetraders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence, and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some neverreturned.
Serpent Gate
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Author : Michael McGarrity
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-02-12
Serpent Gate written by Michael McGarrity and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-12 with Fiction categories.
After receiving a call from the newly appointed chief of the New Mexico State Police, ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney is thrown into an investigation of a small-town cop-killing no one has been able to solve. His only lead: a homeless schizophrenic's ramblings about rape and an uncharted place called Serpent Gate. Meanwhile, back in Santa Fe, priceless art is stolen from the governor's offices and a beautiful young blonde is murdered in a millionaire's mansion. Kerney follows a trail of clues to Mexico, where he faces off against an old nemesis with powerful government connections. Unwilling to back down, Kerney must use all of his tenacity, raw courage, and knowledge of the criminal mind in a bloody showdown that may cost him his life.
The Great Game Of Business
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Author : Jack Stack
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2013-07-04
The Great Game Of Business written by Jack Stack and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Business & Economics categories.
In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of International Harvester. Today it's one of the most successful and competitive companies in the United States, with a share price 3000 times what it was thirty years ago. This miracle turnaround is all down to one man, Jack Stack, and his revolutionary system of Open-Book Management, in which every employee understands the company's key figures, can act on them and has a real stake in the business. In Stack's own words: 'When employees think, act and feel like owners ... everybody wins.' As a management strategy, 'the great game of business' is so simple and effective that it's been taken up by companies from Intel to Harley Davidson.
The Great Game Of Business
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Author : Jack Stack
language : en
Publisher: Currency
Release Date : 1992
The Great Game Of Business written by Jack Stack and has been published by Currency this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Business & Economics categories.
Profiles the workers and managers of a small engine remanufacturing operation in Springfield, Missouri and the new approach to management they revolutionized when their parent company, International Harvester went down the tubes
America S Great Game
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Author : Hugh Wilford
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2013-12-03
America S Great Game written by Hugh Wilford and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-03 with History categories.
From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this crisis was not a historical inevitability -- far from it. Indeed, the earliest generation of CIA operatives was actually the region's staunchest western ally. In America's Great Game, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford reveals the surprising history of the CIA's pro-Arab operations in the 1940s and 50s by tracing the work of the agency's three most influential -- and colorful -- officers in the Middle East. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt was the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and the first head of CIA covert action in the region; his cousin, Archie Roosevelt, was a Middle East scholar and chief of the Beirut station. The two Roosevelts joined combined forces with Miles Copeland, a maverick covert operations specialist who had joined the American intelligence establishment during World War II. With their deep knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs, the three men were heirs to an American missionary tradition that engaged Arabs and Muslims with respect and empathy. Yet they were also fascinated by imperial intrigue, and were eager to play a modern rematch of the "Great Game," the nineteenth-century struggle between Britain and Russia for control over central Asia. Despite their good intentions, these "Arabists" propped up authoritarian regimes, attempted secretly to sway public opinion in America against support for the new state of Israel, and staged coups that irrevocably destabilized the nations with which they empathized. Their efforts, and ultimate failure, would shape the course of U.S. -- Middle Eastern relations for decades to come. Based on a vast array of declassified government records, private papers, and personal interviews, America's Great Game tells the riveting story of the merry band of CIA officers whose spy games forever changed U.S. foreign policy.
Great Game East
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Author : Bertil Lintner
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-01
Great Game East written by Bertil Lintner and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-01 with History categories.
Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the British imperial government, and competition for strategic access to the Indian Ocean have given rise to tense gamesmanship, political intrigue, and rivalry between the two Asian giants. FormerFar Eastern Economic Review correspondent Bertil Lintner has drawn from his extensive personal interviews with insurgency leaders and civilians in remote tribal areas in northeastern India, newly declassified intelligence reports, and his many years of firsthand experience in Asia to chronicle this ongoing struggle. His history of the “Great Game East” is the first significant account of a regional conflict which has led to open warfare on several occasions, most notably the Sino-India border war of 1962, and will have a major impact on global affairs in the decades ahead.
A Great Game
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Author : Stephen Harper
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-10-21
A Great Game written by Stephen Harper and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
History of the game of hockey and the teams who pursued the first Stanley Cup during the early 1900's.
Baseball Is The Greatest Game
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Author : Ted Field
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2024-10-09
Baseball Is The Greatest Game written by Ted Field and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-09 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Baseball Is The Greatest Game is a thesis proving that baseball is our greatest game and should be regarded as our only National Pastime. Besides being a pastoral game of great beauty—a double play is like ballet, the most graceful thing to watch in any team sport— baseball is attendant to our culture and history like no other. It matches the seasons and rhythms of our lives, coming to us each year with our rising hopes in the spring and leaving us as we retreat into the cold certainty of fall. Like no other sport, baseball has drawn the affections of our finest writers. Besides noted baseball scribes Roger Angel, Roger Kahn, and Thomas Boswell, celebrated authors like Barnard Malamud, Phillip Roth, and W.P. Kinsella have been inspired to write works of fiction about baseball that belong on the bookshelves of great literature. Baseball doesn’t forget its past. It comes back to us over and over on a timeless continuum that allows us to admire and compare the game’s present heroes and their accomplishments with all who have gone on before. Most of all, baseball is fun.
America S Great Game
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Author : Hugh Wilford
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-12-03
America S Great Game written by Hugh Wilford and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-03 with History categories.
From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this crisis was not a historical inevitability -- far from it. Indeed, the earliest generation of CIA operatives was actually the region's staunchest western ally. In America's Great Game, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford reveals the surprising history of the CIA's pro-Arab operations in the 1940s and 50s by tracing the work of the agency's three most influential -- and colorful -- officers in the Middle East. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt was the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and the first head of CIA covert action in the region; his cousin, Archie Roosevelt, was a Middle East scholar and chief of the Beirut station. The two Roosevelts joined combined forces with Miles Copeland, a maverick covert operations specialist who had joined the American intelligence establishment during World War II. With their deep knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs, the three men were heirs to an American missionary tradition that engaged Arabs and Muslims with respect and empathy. Yet they were also fascinated by imperial intrigue, and were eager to play a modern rematch of the "Great Game," the nineteenth-century struggle between Britain and Russia for control over central Asia. Despite their good intentions, these "Arabists" propped up authoritarian regimes, attempted secretly to sway public opinion in America against support for the new state of Israel, and staged coups that irrevocably destabilized the nations with which they empathized. Their efforts, and ultimate failure, would shape the course of U.S. -- Middle Eastern relations for decades to come. Based on a vast array of declassified government records, private papers, and personal interviews, America's Great Game tells the riveting story of the merry band of CIA officers whose spy games forever changed U.S. foreign policy.