Author: Christy Mathewson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752421401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Reproduction of the original: Catcher Craig by Christy Mathewson

Author: Christy Mathewson
Publisher:
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Category : Baseball players
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: Christy Mathewson
Publisher:
ISBN: 3752445653
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Reproduction of the original: Catcher Craig by Christy Mathewson

Author: Charles M. Relyea
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337465377
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: Johnson Public Library (Hackensack, N.J.)
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Paul Aron
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476688303
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Focusing on the ten most influential baseball books of all time, this volume explores how these landmark works changed the game itself and made waves in American society at large. Satchel Paige's Pitchin' Man informed the dialog surrounding integration. Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al changed the way Americans viewed their baseball heroes and influenced the work of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Bill James's Baseball Abstract transformed the way managers--including those in fields other than baseball--analyzed numbers. Pete Rose's My Story and My Prison Without Bars exposed and deepened a cultural divide that paved the way for Donald Trump.

Author: Michelle Nolan
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786458305
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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This history of American sports fiction traces depictions of baseball, basketball and football in works for all age levels from early dime novels through the 1960s. Chapters cover dime novel heroes Frank and Dick Merriwell; the explosion of sports novels before World War II and its influence on the authors who later wrote for baby boom readers; how sports novels persisted during the Great Depression; the rise and decline of sports pulps; why sports comics failed; postwar heroes Chip Hilton and Bronc Burnett; the lack of sports fiction for females; Duane Decker's Blue Sox books; and the classic John R. Tunis novels. Appendices list sports pulp titles and comic books featuring sports fiction.

Author: Diane Jackson Hill
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486309887
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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A short-tailed shearwater flies from the edge of the Southern Ocean to the rim of the Arctic Circle – and back – every year. This remarkable 30,000 kilometre journey is driven by seabird law. Instinct and community will guide her. A wingspan the size of a child’s outstretched arms will support her. But first, she must catch the wind ... Based on birds that live on Griffiths Island, near Port Fairy, Victoria, Windcatcher is a tale of migration, conservation and survival that begins with one small bird called Hope. Written by award-winning children’s author Diane Jackson Hill and illustrated by Craig Smith, one of Australia’s most prolific and popular illustrators, Windcatcher explores the mysteries of seabird migration. For primary aged readers.

Author: Amber Roessner
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807156124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Amber Roessner examines "herocrafting" in sports journalism through an incisive analysis of the work surrounding two of baseball's most enduring personalities -- Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson. While other scholars have demonstrated that the mythmakers of the Golden Age of Sports Writing (1920--1930) manufactured heroes out of baseball players for the mainstream media, Roessner probes further, with a penetrating look at how sportswriters compromised emerging professional standards of journalism as they crafted heroic tales that sought to teach American boys how to be successful players in the game of life. Cobb and Mathewson, respectively stereotyped as the game's sinner and saint, helped shape their public images in the mainstream press through their relationship with four of the most prominent sports journalists of the time: Grantland Rice, F. C. Lane, Ring Lardner, and John N. Wheeler. Roessner traces the interactions between the athletes and the reporters, delving into newsgathering strategies as well as rapport-building techniques, and ultimately revealing an inherent tension in objective sports reporting in the era. Inventing Baseball Heroes will be of interest to scholars of American history, sports history, cultural studies, and communication. Its interdisciplinary approach provides a broad understanding of the role sports journalists played in the production of American heroes.