Download or read book Boomer Ball The Ultimate Street Game Book written by Fred Lavner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boomerist Fred Lavner takes you back in time for a lighthearted look at the great games we played with a simple rubber ball. Follow Fred as he tells his tall tales of how the rubber plant evolved over thousands of years to create the iconic Spaldeen Hi-Bounce Pinky and the Pimple Ball, so kids of all ages could entertain themselves for hours and days with all kinds of nifty street games.
Download or read book The Ultimate Yankee Book written by Harvey Frommer and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The perfect gift for the diehard fan in your life or an enviable treasure for yourself, The Ultimate Yankee Book is the most current and comprehensive resource of trivia, people and stories from the teams creation in 1901 to today. Harvey Frommer is a renowned baseball historian and the author of The New York Yankee Encyclopedia. In many ways, this book is an expansion and renovation of that book, adding new stories such as the Steinbrenner owners and famed recent legends such as Derek Jeter and A-Rod. But it goes beyond the first book. Far more than just stories, the book is packed with enough statistics, bests-and-worsts, oddities and assorted data to satisfy serious trivia junkies. One of the best new features is the Yankee March of Time, including essential trivia from every year, and the daring and daunting Ultimate Yankee Quiz. Test your own knowledge or that of friends and family at your next gathering or World Series party with 150 questions and detailed answers in this fun, informative quiz. Fans of the Yankees are proud to call their team the greatest of all time not only have they boasted the most World Series championships and the most players in the Hall of Fame, they re also the most hotly discussed team in the news media, social media and in books."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball 2d ed written by Jonathan Fraser Light and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America's culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues' decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.
Download or read book Baby Boomer Baseball written by Robert Kravetz and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball has enchanted generations of players and fans with its charm and has been a constant in American life since the nineteenth century. Growing up as a boy in the 1950s and 1960s, Robert Kravetz learned the art of fending for himself on the baseball diamond. There, he and fellow players settled arguments and honed their baseball skills, learning the intricacies of a beautifully simplistic game. His baseball hero—and the hero for millions of other boys—was Mickey Mantle. At seven years old, he would rip open the morning newspaper to see if Mickey had beaten out Al Kaline for the runs batted in part of the Triple Crown and Ted Williams for the batting average honors. In Baby Boomer Baseball, Kravetz relives his youth, sharing fascinating tales from the golden era of baseball and observing the game’s changes through its steroid era and beyond. Whether Kravetz is drawing on his awe for the game as a boy or on personal discussions with Gary Carter, Hank Bauer, Tommy John, Bob Mathias, Clete Boyer, Tim McCarver, and the former director of research of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Tim Wiles, he shares stories that will rekindle your love for America’s pastime.
Download or read book The Ultimate Boston Red Sox Time Machine Book written by Martin Gitlin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Boston Red Sox Time Machine presents a timeline format that not only includes the Red Sox's greatest moments—including its nine World Series wins and individual achievements—but focuses also on some very unusual seasons and events, such as the refusal of the New York Yankees to go up against them in the 1904 World Series, the derivation of its name, and of course the famous Curse of the Bambino. There are dozens of impressive, wild, wacky and wonderful stories over the years regarding Red Sox history and Gitlin is the perfect person to write it with his trademark humor and thorough knowledge of Red Sox lore.
Download or read book The Great American Baseball Card Flipping Trading and Bubble Gum Book written by Brendan C. Boyd and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 1973 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on collecting baseball cards in childhood accompany remarks on the skills and achievements of players whose pictures were found in bubble gum packages
Download or read book On Learning Golf written by Percy Boomer and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War & Peace of golf. A quaint old classic from 1946, with an intro by the Duke of Windsor. It's good advice, and seriously, this game has hardly changed a whit in 50 years!
Download or read book Best Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Life magazine empowers men to continually improve their physical, emotional and financial well-being to better enjoy the most rewarding years of their life.
Download or read book The Ultimate Code Book written by Michael Knight and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evoke the cheater within! For GameCube: • Gauntlet Dark Legacy • Resident Evil • WrestleMania X8 For PS2: • Grand Theft Auto 3 • Medal of Honor Frontline • Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 For Xbox: • Blood Wake • Dead or Alive 3 • Max Payne For Game Boy Advance: • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone • Sonic Adventure • Star Wars Attack of the Clones For Game Boy: • Cubix • Megaman Xtreme • Shrek For PC: • Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project • Return to Castle Wolfenstein • The Sum of All Fears For PSX: • Army Men: World War–Team Assault • Digimon 3 • Lilo & Stitch For N64: • Banjo-Tooie • Conker's Bad Fur Day AND OVER 15,000 MORE!
Download or read book A Baby Boomer s Times Travels Thoughts and Hopes written by Martin Feess and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1949, Martin Feess joined the American baby boomer generation—one of the most privileged group of people to ever walk the earth. While growing up in a small Wisconsin town on a picturesque lake, Feess learned about Dick and Jane, collected an abundance of toys, played baseball, and watched hours of television westerns, just like many other boys of his generation. In a fascinating story of a boomer’s time as seen through a boomer’s eyes, Feess leads others through his experiences as part of the disillusioned generation of the Vietnam War as he matured, served in the army, attended college, and moved west to begin a new chapter. While sharing personal anecdotes, observations, and lessons learned, Feess provides a look into how his journey eventually took him to the Middle East, Europe, and Asia where he learned to embrace the perspectives of others living around the world. Through his experiences and historical reflections, Feess offers an educational window into the making of a unique generation that today looks back in laughter and forward in hope while attempting to better understand who we all are as Americans. A Baby Boomer’s Times, Travels, Thoughts, and Hopes shares personal stories, observations, and historical facts that provide an entertaining and thought-provoking slice of Americana.
Download or read book Perfect written by James Buckley, Jr. and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among baseball achievements, the perfect game--one in which no runners reach base--remains the greatest. Though many have come close, only 20 pitchers have achieved such perfection in more than a century of baseball. This exhaustive compendium examines the fascinating story behind every perfect game and uncovers details both great and small, illuminating the majesty of these titanic achievements. The faithfully narrated record of all 20 games--punctuated by statistics, trivia, little-known anecdotes, and personal memories from both witnesses and the pitchers themselves--gets inside the minds of the players who made baseball history. In addition to profiling some of the game's greatest pitchers, such as Cy Young, Sandy Koufax, and Randy Johnson, or others including Charley Robertson who had otherwise unremarkable careers, this updated edition features new chapters devoted to Dallas Braden, Mark Buehrle, and Roy Halladay, the three latest pitchers to throw a perfect game, and a comprehensive appendix profiles several pitchers who almost achieved perfection.
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1947-05-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Download or read book Timeless Toys written by Tim Walsh and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Why Didn't I Think of That! includes the passage "If a toy has magic, when people see it they say, 'Oooh! What is that?' . . . It appeals to the kid in everybody." That same kind of magic captures "the kid in everybody" when they pick up Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them. Timeless Toys represents one of the finest documentaries and displays of modern toys ever written. Author Tim Walsh, a successful toy inventor himself, reveals a world of commerce, toys, and wonder that is equally fun, fascinating, and nostalgic. Readers of every age and background will find it impossible to pick up this book, turn a few pages, and not become spellbound by its insightful stories and the personal memories that the text and 420 brilliantly colored photographs bring forth. Slinky, Lego, Tonka trucks, Monopoly, Big Wheel, Frisbee, Hula Hoop, Super Ball, Scrabble, Barbie, Radio Flyer Wagons: All of these and many, many more are featured in this fascinating tome, along with the toys' histories, insider profiles, and rare interviews with toy industry icons. It's simply magic!
Download or read book Izzy A Life Inside The Old Philadelphia Jew Mob written by Fred Lavner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yankee Stories Untold written by Rich Marazzi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-03-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich Marazzi has experienced Yankee history and its culture first-hand as a fan, a writer for Yankees Magazine, a radio talk show host, umpire in the Old Timer's Day game for 16 years, a writer for Mel Allen, the long-time voice of the Yankees, and currently as a baseball rules consultant who was hired by general manager Brian Cashman in 2004. He was also trained by Bob Sheppard as a back-up to the legendary Yankee Stadium public address announcer. In this book Marazzi takes the reader inside Yankee baseball by covering life in the press box, the dugout, the clubhouse, the umpire's room and more. He compiles untold Yankee stories culled from interviews of many of the Yankee greats over the last seven decades including Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Don Mattingly, Derek Jeter and more.
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Download or read book Baseball and the Baby Boomer written by Talmage Boston and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tapping into the nostalgic era of feel-good baseball in the late 1940s and moving up to the Mitchell report, this collection documents the story of baseball as seen through the eyes and experiences of the postwar generation. From daytime games heard on the radio to players testifying before Congress on steroid usage, baseball has undergone a major transformation over the past sixty years. This chronicling of such vast changes features stories involving famed players such as Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, Roger Maris, and Nolan Ryan.
