Download or read book Blur on the Base Paths written by Brandon Terrell and published by Game On!. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Mason needs to speed things up on the base paths, so he visits Sal's Used Sporting Goods to buy some different cleats and learns all about the Man of Steal, Rickey Henderson. Can Ben's vintage cleats help his team get past a showdown with their crosstown rivals?
Download or read book Jackie Robinson written by Joseph Dorinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With these words, President Clinton contributed to Long Island University's three-day celebration of that momentous event in American history when Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball. This new book includes presentations from that celebration, especially chosen for their fresh perspectives and illuminating insights. A heady mix of journalism, scholarship, and memory offers a presentation that far transcends the retelling of just another sports story. Readers get a true sense of the social conditions prior to Robinson's arrival in the major leagues and the ripple effect his breakthrough had on the nation. Anecdotes enliven the story and offer more than the usual "larger than life" portrait of Robinson. A melange of contributors from the sports world, academia, and journalism, some of Robinson's contemporaries, Dodger fans, and historians of the era, all sharing a passion for baseball, reflect on issues of sports, race, and the dramatic transformation of the American social and political scene in the last fifty years. In addition to the editors, the list of authors includes Peter Golenbock, one of America's preeminent sports biographers and author of Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers, 1947-1957, Tom Hawkins, the first African-American to star in basketball at Notre Dame and currently Vice-President for Communications of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Bill Mardo a former writer for the New York Daily Worker, Roger Rosenblatt, teacher at the Southampton Campus of Long Island University, and author of numerous articles, plays, and books, Peter Williams, author of a study of sports myth, The Sports Immortals, and Samuel Regalado, author of Viva Baseball!: LatinMajor Leaguers and Their Special Hunger.
Download or read book Name That Ballplayer written by Wayne Stewart and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a cue from the legendary TV game show "Name That Tune," Stewart's "Name That Ballplayer" is a unique baseball quiz book. Not only are the clues given in tiers, but the book's four chapters run from extremely easy to much more obscure.
Download or read book Five Seasons written by Roger Angell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of our national pastime’s most unforgettable era from the bestselling author of The Summer Game—“No one writes better about baseball” (The Boston Globe). Classic New Yorker sportswriter Roger Angell calls 1972 to 1976 “the most important half-decade in the history of the game.” The early to mid-1970s brought unprecedented changes to America’s ancient pastime: astounding performances by Nolan Ryan and Hank Aaron; the intensity of the “best-ever” 1975 World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Red Sox; the changes growing from bitter and extended labor strikes and lockouts; and the vast new influence of network television on the game. Angell, always a fan as well as a writer, casts a knowing but noncynical eye on these events, offering a fresh perspective to baseball’s continuing appeal during this brilliant and transformative era.
Download or read book Great Hitters of the Negro Leagues written by Paul Hoblin and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Hitters of the Negro Leagues covers the best batters in black baseball. Step up to the plate for vivid accounts of legendary players such as John Henry Lloyd, Dick Lundy, Willie Wells, Oscar Charleston, Oliver Marcelle, James Bell, Martin Dihigo, Ted Radcliffe, Walter Leonard, Norman Stearnes, Buck O'Neil, Josh Gibson, Raleigh Mackey, and Mule Suttles, as well as the great teams they hit for such as the Homestead Grays, Pittsburg Crawfords, and Kansas City Monarchs. Readers will learn about the players' backgrounds, accomplishments, and rise to fame, and the integration of many of these super sluggers into Major League Baseball. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Core Animation written by Marcus Zarra and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apple’s Core Animation framework enables Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod touch developers to create richer, more visual applications–more easily than ever and with far less code. Now, there’s a comprehensive, example-rich, full-color reference to Core Animation for experienced OS X and iPhone developers who want to make the most of this powerful framework. Marcus Zarra and Matt Long reveal exactly what Core Animation can and can’t do, how to use it most effectively–and how to avoid misusing it. Building on your existing knowledge of Objective-C, Cocoa, and Xcode, they present expert techniques, insights, and downloadable code for all aspects of Core Animation programming, from keyframing to movie playback. Zarra and Long thoroughly review similarities and differences between Core Animation on the Mac and iPhone, helping you write code that can easily move between platforms. They also present a full chapter of innovative techniques and proven “rules of thumb” for optimizing Core Animation’s real-world performance. Coverage includes: Taking full advantage of Core Animation’s lightweight layers and views Using keyframes to gain complete control over your animations Creating startling effects with Core Animation transforms Leveraging Core Image’s powerful filtering capabilities from within Core Animation Playing QuickTime movies using Core Animation’s QTMovieLayer Using the OpenGL layer to achieve greater control over movie playback Integrating advanced Quartz Composer visualizations into your user interfaces How to use helper layers to draw gradients, composite shapes, and replicate sublayers Adding mouse and keyboard user interaction points, and much more...
Download or read book The Ultimate Guide to Pro Baseball Teams written by Nate LeBoutillier and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes each of the teams in Major League Baseball, including players, coaches, history, and fun facts.
Download or read book The Roger Angell Baseball Collection written by Roger Angell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 1335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “the clear-eyed poet laureate of baseball”—a definitive collection of three nonfiction classics chronicling MLB into the modern age (New York Post). In these three classic volumes, legendary New Yorker sportswriter Roger Angell chronicles the triumphs, travails, heroes, and history of America’s favorite pastime. In The Summer Game, Angell covers ten seasons in the major leagues from the 1960s to the early 1970s. With his signature panache, Angell captures the flavor of the game and the spirit of legends such as Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson, and Willie Mays. In Five Seasons, Angell covers the mid-1970s, which he calls “the most important half-decade in the history of the game.” From the accomplishments of Nolan Ryan and Hank Aaron to the rising influence of network television, Angell offers a fresh perspective on this transformative period. And in Season Ticket, Angell recounts the larger-than-life narratives of baseball in the mid-1980s. Diving into subjects including the notorious 1986 World Series and the Curse of the Bambino, Sparky Anderson’s Detroit Tigers, and performance-enhancing drug use, Angell offers insights that are crucial to understanding the game as we know it today.
Download or read book Game Time written by Roger Angell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Baseball’s most eloquent analyst” demonstrates why he has “long since attained the status of national treasure,” in this classic essay collection (The New York Times Book Review). Roger Angell's famous explorations of the summer game are built on acute observation and joyful participation, conveyed in a prose style as admired and envied as Ted Williams’s swing. Here is Angell on Fenway Park in September, on Bob Gibson brooding in retirement, on Tom Seaver in mid-windup, on the abysmal early and recent Mets, on a scout at work in backcountry Kentucky, on Pete Rose and Willie Mays and Pedro Martinez, on the astounding Barry Bonds at Pac Bell Park, and more. With twenty-nine essays divided between spring, summer, and fall, Game Time carries readers through the arc of the season with refreshed understanding and pleasure. With an introduction by Richard Ford, this collection represents Angell’s best writings, from spring training in 1962 to the explosive World Series of 2002. A New York Times Notable Book
Download or read book Believe written by Tom McAuley and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever dreamed of playing on an all-star baseball team? Ten-year-old Matthew did, and he made it. Believe is an inspirational story about a boy’s dreams and what he did to make them real. It is about his journey, the friends he made along the way, and how he touched their lives. Flip the pages and see how Matthew teaches you how important it is to never give up. Sometimes when things seem impossible, all you have to do is believe. You never know, that word could be magic.
Download or read book Handbook of Geometric Computing written by Eduardo Bayro Corrochano and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many computer scientists, engineers, applied mathematicians, and physicists use geometry theory and geometric computing methods in the design of perception-action systems, intelligent autonomous systems, and man-machine interfaces. This handbook brings together the most recent advances in the application of geometric computing for building such systems, with contributions from leading experts in the important fields of neuroscience, neural networks, image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, uncertainty in geometric computations, conformal computational geometry, computer graphics and visualization, medical imagery, geometry and robotics, and reaching and motion planning. For the first time, the various methods are presented in a comprehensive, unified manner. This handbook is highly recommended for postgraduate students and researchers working on applications such as automated learning; geometric and fuzzy reasoning; human-like artificial vision; tele-operation; space maneuvering; haptics; rescue robots; man-machine interfaces; tele-immersion; computer- and robotics-aided neurosurgery or orthopedics; the assembly and design of humanoids; and systems for metalevel reasoning.
Download or read book Folly Monitor written by David Lynn and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folly Monitor is essential for every Christian and all others who sincerely honor our heavenly Father and truly love the Messiah, our Risen Savior. So much of what you have been led to believe is, in actuality, folly and deception from the enemy. You owe it to yourself to allow the truths within this important book to expose the lies that have spread throughout our society and the world. Folly Monitor is a must read for every patriotic American who is passionate about our founding documents and the principles and values that make our nation uniquely precious. Every right-minded, constitutional, "Tea Party" conservative, who is devoted to integrity and truth, will be blown away by the deceptions exposed within the pages of this great book. Folly Monitor is a must read for such a time as this. Knowledge is power and the truth shall set you free. Discover how the systems and institutions that you have lived under for your entire life are not at all what you have been led to believe. You have been victimized by an intricate, devious structure of folly, lies and corruption. Folly Monitor's author is merely a humble servant of our Creator, our heavenly Father. The author's bio is insignificant in this epic battle between deception and truth, darkness and light. Satan knows that we are easily deceived. However, even in our transgressions, Father loves us. It is incumbent upon us to pursue truth and light, thereby overcoming folly and deception. The only One who is worthy of recognition is He who is Truth and Light, our loving Father. To Him be all praise and esteem.
Download or read book Stolen written by Russell Roberts and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stolen base is one of the most fascinating plays in all of sports. In no other sport is the opportunity present for the offense to literally take away what belongs to the defense. In other sports it is the ball (or puck) that must do the scoring; in baseball, however, it is the runner, and base stealing is the runner's greatest weapon. Not just ball games but entire World Series have turned on a steal. This book traces the history of the stolen base and stealing in the major leagues from its humble beginnings through its current status as an indispensable part of a team's offense. Also covered are the players who were synonymous with base stealing: Ty Cobb, Luis Aparicio, Maury Wills, Lou Brock, Rickey Henderson, and others. The most memorable steals in baseball history are also recalled.
Download or read book HTML Studio Skills written by Ian Andrew Bell and published by Hayden. This book was released on 1997 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a visually stimulating, how-to book that walks users through all the features and techniques they'll need to know in HTML to build their own effective Web pages. "HTML Studio Skills" will allow readers to return to a concept for quick review. The CD-ROM contains all of the HTML code and pages used in the book, plus editor demos, clip graphics, and an electronic version of techniques selected from Hayden's "HTML Web Magic".
Download or read book Inkscape written by Tavmjong Bah and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program, Third Edition , is the guide to the Inkscape program, with coverage of versions 0.46 and 0.47. This authoritative introduction and reference features hundreds of useful illustrations.With Inkscape, you can produce a wide variety of art, from photorealistic drawings to organizational charts. Inkscape uses SVG, a powerful vector-based drawing language and W3C web standard, as its native format. SVG drawings can be viewed directly in browsers such as Firefox and Opera. A subset of SVG has been adopted by the mobile phone market. Inkscape is available free for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux operating systems. Systematic coverage of the entire Inkscape program begins with eleven tutorials ranging in difficulty from very basic to highly complex. The remainder of the book covers each facet of Inkscape in detail with an emphasis on practical solutions for common problems.The book is filled with valuable tips and warnings about the use of Inkscape and SVG. Find dozens of Inkscape illustrations from the book in the online color supplement available at http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/. Updated for Inkscape v0.47, this new edition includes complete coverage of new features, including updated Pen and Pencil tools with new spiro, polyline, and sketch modes; the new Eraser tool; and the new Snapping toolbar with improved snapping. Advanced topics include the use of Inkscape’s powerful tiling tool, built-in bitmap tracing, and SVG use on the Web. Complete Coverage of New and Improved Inkscape 0.47 Features Complete vector drawing program supporting the W3C SVG standard Three path-drawing tools (Pencil, Pen, Calligraphy) Five shape-drawing tools (Rectangles, Ellipses, Stars, Spirals, 3D Boxes) Linear and Radial Gradients Pattern fills Tweak Tool for fine adjustment of paths and colors Eraser Tool with both Vector and Bitmap modes Sophisticated snapping for precision drawing and aligning objects Extendable through scripting; over a hundred scripts included Live Path Effects for tasks such as adding patterns along a path while maintaining complete editability Over 200 pre-built SVG filters for adding textures, manipulating color, and so forth A tiling tool to create complex tilings with thirteen different symmetries Clipping and Masking objects An integrated spell checker Built-in bitmap-to-vector tracing The ability to export to more than a dozen graphics formats, including PDF and PostScript The ability to import from more than two-dozen graphics formats, including PDF, Adobe Illustrator, Coral Draw, AutoCad, and XFig
Download or read book You Call the Play Baseball written by Peter Strupp and published by Bantam Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first title in Sports Illustrated for Kids You Call the Play series, with more interactive sports adventures to come. This unique inter active format lets kids control the action and gets them completely involved in reading. In each, the action is accented by black-and-white graphics and statistics throughout.
Download or read book Rotoscoping written by Benjamin Bratt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master what it takes to make your rotoscoping and digital painting blend seamlessly into each shot. Through illustrious four color presentation, the book features step-by-step instruction on the artistic techniques of rotoscoping and digital painting with lessons on: *Articulate mattes *Digital paint in moving footage *Motion tracking *Advanced rotoscoping and digital paint techniques, and much more It also features practical insight on the subject and industry, delving into: *The history and evolution of rotoscoping and the role of the rotoscoper *A typical day in the life of a rotoscoper *How to get a job as a rotoscoper
