The Old Ball Game
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The Old Ball Game
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Author : Mark Alvarez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Old Ball Game written by Mark Alvarez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Baseball categories.
The Old Ball Game
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Author : Frank Deford
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2007-12-01
The Old Ball Game written by Frank Deford and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The legendary NPR sports commentator and Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual friendship between two towering figures in baseball history. At the turn of the twentieth century, Christy Mathewson was one of baseball’s first superstars. Over six feet tall, clean cut, and college educated, he didn’t pitch on the Sabbath and rarely spoke an ill word about anyone. He also had one of the most devastating arms in all of baseball. New York Giants manager John McGraw, by contrast, was ferocious. The pugnacious tough guy was already a star infielder who, with the Baltimore Orioles, helped develop a new, scrappy style of baseball, with plays like the hit-and-run, the Baltimore chop, and the squeeze play. When McGraw joined the Giants in 1902, the Giants were coming off their worst season ever. Yet within three years, Mathewson clinched New York City’s first World Series for McGraw’s team by throwing three straight shutouts in only six days, an incredible feat that is invariably called the greatest World Series performance ever. Because of their wonderful odd-couple association, baseball had its first superstar, the Giants ascended into legend, and baseball as a national pastime bloomed. “A fine baseball book but just as fine a study of American popular culture.” —Booklist, starred review
There Goes The Old Ball Game
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Author : Dick Poston
language : en
Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Release Date : 1974
There Goes The Old Ball Game written by Dick Poston and has been published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.
That Old Ball Game
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Author : David R. Phillips
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
That Old Ball Game written by David R. Phillips and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Baseball categories.
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
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Author : Jack Norworth
language : en
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Take Me Out To The Ball Game written by Jack Norworth and has been published by Charlesbridge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Text and illustrations present the well-known song about baseball games.
Out At The Old Ball Game
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Author : Bernie Bookbinder
language : en
Publisher: Bridge Works Publishing Company
Release Date : 1995
Out At The Old Ball Game written by Bernie Bookbinder and has been published by Bridge Works Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Baseball players categories.
When a player on a flagging New York baseball team announces he is gay, the owner does not fire him, instead he fires everyone else and forms an all-gay team. The novel follows the rising fortunes of the new club amid swirling controversy.
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
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Author : Maryann Kovalski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Take Me Out To The Ball Game written by Maryann Kovalski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Baseball stories categories.
A grandmother takes her two granddaughters to a ballgame. Includes music and text to the song "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" (words by Jack Norworth; music by Albert von Tilzer).
Ball Bat And Bishop
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Author : Robert William Henderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Ball Bat And Bishop written by Robert William Henderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Business & Economics categories.
Step aside, Abner Doubleday! In this impeccably researched history, Robert W. Henderson uncovers the true origins not only of baseball but of a score of related sports involving hitting, catching, throwing, or kicking a ball. Henderson traces the origins of ball sports to religious rites in ancient Egypt, where the ball (perhaps a shrunken head) represented a fertility symbol and opposing teams engaged in mock combat signifying the struggle of good against evil. Centuries later, pagan fertility rites featuring the ball were adapted by the Christian church as rituals symbolic of Easter and the Resurrection. Court tennis was also firmly rooted in the church, the earliest players being the bishops, canons, and clerics who played it in their cloistered courtyards. Henderson overturns the popular belief that the game of racquets originated in the debtors' prison on Fleet Street in the early nineteenth century. He also notes that polo, the most ancient of games played with stick and ball, originated in Persia and migrated to China and India, where it was eventually embraced by English imperialists. Other sports discussed include football, lawn tennis, cricket, and golf. The most substantial portion of Henderson's study is devoted to the game of baseball. Providing copious evidence of early forms of baseball played in England and the United States before 1829, he offers a meticulous account of the legerdemain by which Abner Doubleday, the famous Civil War general, came to be identified as the inventor in 1839 of a game that was already at least two centuries old. The new foreword by Leonard Koppett affirms the significance of this classic work of sports history, which was the first to dismantle the Doubleday/Cooperstown myth.
The Ball Game Biz
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Author : David George Surdam
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
The Ball Game Biz written by David George Surdam and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This work uses economic theory, simple probability, statistical concepts and game theory to analyze the economics of professional sports. It treats sports leagues as cartels and uses historical examples to test theories regarding labor economics. Many key issues that have sparked raging arguments among fans and writers are addressed, including free agency's effect on competitive balance, how rising player salaries have/haven't affected ticket prices, and the effect of a new stadium on the local economy, among many others. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
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Author : Amy Whorf McGuiggan
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2009-04-01
Take Me Out To The Ball Game written by Amy Whorf McGuiggan and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
For anyone who has ever sung ?Take Me Out to the Ball Game? during the seventh-inning stretch and wondered why we sing it when we are already at the ball game, this entertaining book supplies the answers. And why did this song become the sport?s anthem rather than one of hundreds of other baseball songs, such as George M. Cohan?s ?Take Your Girl to the Ball Game,? written the same month? This story, told here in full for the first time, evokes the bright hope of turn-of-the-century America, the backstage drama of vaudeville, and the beguiling charm of baseball itself. Amy Whorf McGuiggan supplies the fascinating details behind the song?s beginnings in 1908, when Jack Norworth, a vaudeville headliner and Tin Pan Alley songwriter who had never even been to a game, was inspired by a subway advertisement to create the song that, though a hit in its day, did not become a time-honored tradition until broadcaster Harry Caray and team owner and marketing genius Bill Veeck Jr. reintroduced it during the 1970s. Here is America?s game and the American century seen through the prism of one impossibly catchy tune and illustrated throughout with vintage photographs, advertising images, and sheet music culled from America?s premier collections.