Author: Steven R. Bullock
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803213371
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"Steven R. Bullock describes how virtually every significant American military installation around the world boasted formal baseball teams and leagues designed to soothe the anxieties of combatants and prepare them physically for battle. Officials also sponsored hundreds of exhibition contests involving military and civilian teams and tours by major league stars to entertain servicemen and elevate their spirits."--BOOK JACKET.
Playing for Their Nation
Author: Steven R. Bullock
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803213371
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"Steven R. Bullock describes how virtually every significant American military installation around the world boasted formal baseball teams and leagues designed to soothe the anxieties of combatants and prepare them physically for battle. Officials also sponsored hundreds of exhibition contests involving military and civilian teams and tours by major league stars to entertain servicemen and elevate their spirits."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803213371
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"Steven R. Bullock describes how virtually every significant American military installation around the world boasted formal baseball teams and leagues designed to soothe the anxieties of combatants and prepare them physically for battle. Officials also sponsored hundreds of exhibition contests involving military and civilian teams and tours by major league stars to entertain servicemen and elevate their spirits."--BOOK JACKET.
National Pastime
Author: Stefan Szymanski
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815782599
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Szymanski and Zimbalist pay special attention to the rich and complex evolution of baseball from its beginnings in America, and they trace modern soccer from its foundation in England through its subsequent expansion across the world.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815782599
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Szymanski and Zimbalist pay special attention to the rich and complex evolution of baseball from its beginnings in America, and they trace modern soccer from its foundation in England through its subsequent expansion across the world.
Nation at Play
Author: Ronojoy Sen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231539932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and colonialism, and as an independent nation. Some sports that originated in India have fallen out of favor, while others, such as cricket, have been adopted and made wholly India's own. Sen's innovative project casts sport less as a natural expression of human competition than as an instructive practice reflecting a unique play with power, morality, aesthetics, identity, and money. Sen follows the transformation of sport from an elite, kingly pastime to a national obsession tied to colonialism, nationalism, and free market liberalization. He pays special attention to two modern phenomena: the dominance of cricket in the Indian consciousness and the chronic failure of a billion-strong nation to compete successfully in international sporting competitions, such as the Olympics. Innovatively incorporating examples from popular media and other unconventional sources, Sen not only captures the political nature of sport in India but also reveals the patterns of patronage, clientage, and institutionalization that have bound this diverse nation together for centuries.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231539932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and colonialism, and as an independent nation. Some sports that originated in India have fallen out of favor, while others, such as cricket, have been adopted and made wholly India's own. Sen's innovative project casts sport less as a natural expression of human competition than as an instructive practice reflecting a unique play with power, morality, aesthetics, identity, and money. Sen follows the transformation of sport from an elite, kingly pastime to a national obsession tied to colonialism, nationalism, and free market liberalization. He pays special attention to two modern phenomena: the dominance of cricket in the Indian consciousness and the chronic failure of a billion-strong nation to compete successfully in international sporting competitions, such as the Olympics. Innovatively incorporating examples from popular media and other unconventional sources, Sen not only captures the political nature of sport in India but also reveals the patterns of patronage, clientage, and institutionalization that have bound this diverse nation together for centuries.
The First 100 African Americans to Play in the National Football League
Author: Jerome Watkins
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11, 2001, eighty-one years after the gathering of the founding members of the National Football League in Canton, Ohio, I walked onto the historic Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, as a member of the officiating chain crew to work the football game between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers, which is the oldest rivalry in the NFL.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11, 2001, eighty-one years after the gathering of the founding members of the National Football League in Canton, Ohio, I walked onto the historic Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, as a member of the officiating chain crew to work the football game between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers, which is the oldest rivalry in the NFL.
Constitution and Playing Rules of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385490197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385490197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Nation: The Play
Author: Mark Ravenhill
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9781448109685
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Following the National Theatre's success with plays based on novels by well-loved children's writers like Philip Pulman (His Dark Materials), Jamila Gavin (Coram Boy) and Michael Morpurgo (War Horse), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill's exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett's witty and challenging adventure story in a major Christmas production for 2009. A parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau's village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other's language; somehow they must learn to survive. As starving refugees gather, Daphne delivers a baby, milks a pig, brews beer and does battle with a mutineer. Mau fights cannibal Raiders, discovers the world is round and questions the reality of his tribe's fiercely patriarchal gods. Together they come of age, overseen by a foul-mouthed parrot, as they discard old doctrine to forge a new Nation.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9781448109685
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Following the National Theatre's success with plays based on novels by well-loved children's writers like Philip Pulman (His Dark Materials), Jamila Gavin (Coram Boy) and Michael Morpurgo (War Horse), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill's exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett's witty and challenging adventure story in a major Christmas production for 2009. A parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau's village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other's language; somehow they must learn to survive. As starving refugees gather, Daphne delivers a baby, milks a pig, brews beer and does battle with a mutineer. Mau fights cannibal Raiders, discovers the world is round and questions the reality of his tribe's fiercely patriarchal gods. Together they come of age, overseen by a foul-mouthed parrot, as they discard old doctrine to forge a new Nation.
A Little Pretty Pocket-book
Author: John Newbery
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book is a children's book written by John Newbery. It is commonly thought to be the first children's book ever made, and provides a code of conduct for boys and girls in different social settings.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book is a children's book written by John Newbery. It is commonly thought to be the first children's book ever made, and provides a code of conduct for boys and girls in different social settings.
The Nation
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Playing the Enemy
Author: John Carlin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594201745
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
After being released from prison and winning South Africa's first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: Use the national rugby team, the Springboks--long an embodiment of white supremacist rule--to embody and engage a new South Africa as they prepared to host the 1995 World Cup. The string of wins that followed not only defied the odds, but capped Mandela's miraculous effort to bring South Africans together in a hard-won, enduring bond.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594201745
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
After being released from prison and winning South Africa's first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: Use the national rugby team, the Springboks--long an embodiment of white supremacist rule--to embody and engage a new South Africa as they prepared to host the 1995 World Cup. The string of wins that followed not only defied the odds, but capped Mandela's miraculous effort to bring South Africans together in a hard-won, enduring bond.
The National Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description