Download or read book The Game of Balls Ball Games All Over The World written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your child is a sport-loving little person, he/she would find this book of ball games highly appealing! This book effectively cultivates a love for learning because it is very visual. There isn't a lot of reading to do, so it's great for non-readers too! The best thing about picture books is they speak the universal language of images so they're easy to understand. Order a copy today!
Download or read book The Ball written by John Fox and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist John Fox sets off on a worldwide adventure to thefarthest reaches of the globe and the deepest recesses of our ancientpast to answer a question inspired by his sports-loving son: "Why do we play ball?" From Mexican jungles to the small-town gridirons of Ohio, frommedieval villages and royal courts to modern soccer pitches andbaseball parks, The Ball explores the little-known origins ofour favorite sports across the centuries, and traces how a simpleinvention like the ball has come to stake an unrivaled claim on ourpassions, our money, and our lives. Equal parts history and travelogue,The Ball removes us from the scandals and commercialism of today'ssports world to uncover the true reasons we play ball, helping us reclaimour universal connection to the games we love.
Download or read book Having a Ball written by John Byl and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2008 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It makes sense: Kids, balls, bouncing, laughter, and fun all go together. And in Having a Ball: Stability Ball Games, author John Byl shows you how to get kids bouncing, laughing, moving, and having great fun--all as they improve their fitness skills. Having a Ball features -73 stability ball games, with variations, that teach balance and coordination; -a great variety of challenges, races, relays, and team games for all participants; -a game finder that helps you quickly find the right activity for your group; and -games that work for youth in fitness centers, schools, park departments--wherever it is you work with kids. The book is organized into seven chapters based on the nature of the activities and the number of players involved. There are games for partners working together to complete a challenge; for individuals, pairs, or groups to complete tasks as quickly as possible; and relays involving teams of three or four players each. There are also chase games, games for larger groups, and activities that pit two teams against each other. Each game lists an objective and notes the equipment, number of players, and setup required. Instructions take you sequentially through explaining the game to your players. The games come with variations, and you and your players are encouraged to add to those variations to make the games work best for your particular situation. Whether you're using these games in a fitness center, recreation program, or school, they'll be a hit with kids because the games are a blast--and using nontraditional equipment helps to level the playing field so everyone gets to participate equally.
Download or read book The Pinky Ball Book and the Pinky Ball written by Dina Anastasio and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces a type of ball that was originally manufactured only for the insides of tennis balls but became popular itself.
Download or read book The Mesoamerican Ballgame written by Vernon L. Scarborough and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.
Download or read book The Secret History of Balls written by Josh Chetwynd and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may fancy yourself a sports fan, but chances are you don't know: A fish eyeball was used as the center of some nineteenth-century baseballs The race to make better billiard balls led to the invention of plastics The Nerf ball was originally created to be part of a board game featuring cavemen Balls are the unsung heroes of sports. They are smacked, flung, dribbled, crushed, thrown, and kicked. They're usually only the subject of scrutiny when something goes wrong: a tear, the application of an illegal foreign substance, or a dent from overuse. Nevertheless, if you're watching nearly any major sporting event from around the world, you're likely following the ball wondering where it will go next... The Secret History of Balls mines the stories and lore of sports and recreation to offer insight into 60 balls-whether they're hollow, solid, full of air, or stuffed with twine or made of leather, metal, rubber, plastic, or polyurethane-that give us joy on playing fields and in every arena from backyards to stadiums around the globe.
Download or read book Great Games for Big Activity Balls written by Todd Strong and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Add more fun, excitement, and variety to your physical education class or youth program with big activity balls. This book is ideal for anyone who works with kids and provides them with a variety of cooperative games, water games, and modified classic games.
Download or read book Play Ball written by Jess M. Brallier and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the worldrs"s best ball games are found inside this easy-to-follow, cleverly illustrated book. From stickball to stoop ball, dodge ball to handball, marathon kickball to ball hockey, Play Ball! is guaranteed to provide the instruction for hours and hours of outdoor fun! And best of all, it comes with the greatest toy ever-an all purpose, tennis-ball-sized, soft-so-you-cannot-break-a-window-with-it ball. Whether playing alone, with a friend, or the entire block, Play Ball! is all a kid will need to have a ball!
Download or read book Ball Games written by Doug Stillinger and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing The Klutz Book of Ball Games, the definitive collection of must-know ball games along with three perfect tools of the trade: a tennis ball, a perforated plastic ball and a pink rubber high-bounce ball. With more than 25 games and activities, there's something here for every playground palette, from time-honoured classics like Spudand Four Square to soon-to-be-classic Klutz originals like Ollie, Ollie, Over the Wallie. There are games for solitary players, a few for small groups, and a couple that can only be defined as mob madness. All the games are simple to play, with a handful of straightforward rules and nothing to hold back the fun. Ball games book plus balls: It's a simple idea, with simply universal appeal, and so obvious it took 28 years for us to get around to it. Comes With: tennis ball, super pink ball and whirly ball. Awards: Canadian Toy Testing Council Three Star Award.
Download or read book The Ball Book written by Joshua David Stein and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bounce along with this rhyming read-aloud about all kinds of balls From footballs to eyeballs, beach balls to meatballs, if you can roll it, this book has it! With his signature whimsy and wordplay, author Joshua David Stein compares and contrasts different kinds of balls in this part-reference, part-comedy act. The book invites readers to identify various sports balls, while simultaneously weaving in a whole selection of unexpected rollable objects. A winning formula for every young reader who loves to kick, throw, catch, or giggle.
Download or read book Great Games for Big Activity Balls written by Todd Strong and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Games for Big Activity Balls presents 73 games for big activity balls, with more than 70 variations of physical activities and games that have two common themes: fun and physical activity. The games are ideal for all ages and abilities and for the gym, the outdoors, or whatever setting you work in. Games are offered in seven areas: 1. Cooperative games that are designed only for play with big balls 2. Adaptations of several sports, including baseball, soccer, and basketball 3. Modified traditional playground games 4. Wild and wacky track-and-field adaptations 5. Guinness Book of World Record games, where you can set world records, or at least have a blast trying 6. Giant carnival games that spin off of carnival games and rides 7. Water games that are sure to make a big splash with your group Great Games for Big Activity Balls offers fresh, often downright hilarious ways to promote physical activity!
Download or read book Play with Us written by Oriol Ripoll and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells how to play more than one hundred games that are played by children throughout the world, ranging from board games and jacks to jumping and hand games.
Download or read book Ball Sport Trivia written by Alf Alderson and published by Dog n Bone. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're a football fan, a basketball player, a tennis aficionado, a keen golfer, or a baseball nut you'll love this fascinating collection of over 250 sport facts. Whether you're a football fan, a basketball player, a tennis aficionado, a keen golfer, or a baseball nut you'll love this fascinating collection of over 250 sport facts. Did you know... Billiard balls from the late nineteenth century had the unfortunate tendency to explode when hit? Football players have been recorded taking tackles with a force that’s greater than being hit by a car at 40 mph? Official NCAA basketballs must be able to bounce at least 49in. when dropped? Like the sound of these facts and want to know more? Then Ball Sport Trivia is essential reading. Featuring obscure, unbelievable, intriguing, and engaging facts about some of the world’s most popular (and not so popular) ball sports, discover well over 250 fascinating nuggets of information on the sports, the balls, the players, the history, and lots more. Over 20 sports are covered and you can find out why the number of dimples on a golf ball can make you a better player, what the fastest recorded serve is in a tennis match, and who is the world’s highest-earning ball player. All this makes this miscellany a must have for any Sport Trivia nut.
Download or read book The Ball Book written by Margaret Hillert and published by Norwood House Press. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy format concept book focusing on ball-shaped objects, including toys and Earth. Beautifully re-illustrated with a fresh and appealing look, these Beginning-to-Read books foster independent reading and comprehension. Using high frequency words and repetition, readers gain confidence while enjoying stories about every day life and adventures. Educator resources include reading reinforcement activities and a word list in the back. Activities focus on foundational, language and reading skills. Sections include; phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. Teacher notes available on website.
Download or read book Ball Bat and Bishop written by Robert William Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Aqua Fun written by Uwe Rheker and published by Meyer & Meyer Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aqua Fun -Games and Fun for the Advanced" is a manual with a vast variety of possibilities to have fun in the water after you have learned to swim. The main emphasis is placed on adapting the proper games with a ball (water polo, water basketball, water volleyball, water football and underwater polo amongst others).
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World written by Alison Futrell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport and spectacle in the ancient world has become a vital area of broad new exploration over the last few decades. This Handbook brings together the latest research on Greek and Roman manifestations of these pastimes to explore current approaches and open exciting new avenues of inquiry. It discusses historical perspectives, contest forms, contest-related texts, civic and social aspects, and use and meaning of the individual body. Greek and Roman topics are interwoven to simulate contest-like tensions and complementarities, juxtaposing, for example, violence in Greek athletics and Roman gladiatorial events, Greek and Roman chariot events, architectural frameworks for contests and games in the two cultures, and contrasting views of religion, bodily regimens, and judicial classification related to both cultures. It examines the social contexts of games, namely the evolution of sport and spectacle across cultural and political boundaries, and how games are adapted to multiple contexts and multiple purposes, reinforcing social hierarchies, performing shared values, and playing out deep cultural tensions. The volume also considers other directing forces in the ancient Mediterranean, such as Bronze Age Egypt and the Near East, Etruria, and early Christianity. It addresses important themes common to both antiquity and modern society, such as issues of class, gender, and health, as well as the popular culture of the modern Olympics and gladiators in cinema. With innovative perspectives from authoratative scholars on a wide range of topics, this Handbook will appeal to both students and researchers interested in ancient history, literature, sports, and games.
