Author : Brian Sandalow
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 163494030X
Chicago: America’s Best Sports Town tells the stories of the athletes and beloved sports teams of this Midwestern metropolis. Yes, some losing is involved, but so is plenty of triumph and, most of all, passion.
Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 025207615X
A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history
Author : Ed Wheatley
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1681064022
What city broke barriers by welcoming some of the first African American baseball players in addition to the first female owners of both an MLB and NFL team? Where have local colleges dominated a specific sport, winning dozens of national titles over as many years? The answer, of course, lies in St. Louis, a hotbed of professional and amateur sports with a diverse history and an evolving legacy of success. In St. Louis Sports Memories: Forgotten Teams and Moments from America’s Best Sports Town, relive the highlights from the championships to the crossroads of social change that have characterized St. Louis’s sports scene for more than a century. Learn about the tennis legend who found an accepting environment to master his game during the racial turmoil of the 1960s. Make sure you can recite both the four MLB teams and the four NFL teams that have called St. Louis home. Each moment or memory is accompanied by history and anecdotes to form an indelible vignette showcasing some of the most loved as well as the long forgotten stories of the names you know and the ones you should know. Local award-winning author Ed Wheatley brings his die-hard fan perspective to this unique and nostalgic look at St. Louis’s winning record. Root for the home teams and for the bygone heroes in this town that boasts one of the greatest histories in the annals of sports.
Author : Luis Mirón
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 946300100X
With 2015 marking the 10th commemoration of Hurricane Katrina, education reform in New Orleans continues to garner substantial local, national, and international attention. Advocates and critics alike have continued to cite test scores, new school providers, and different theories of governance in making multiple arguments for and against how contemporary education policy is shaping public education and its role in the rebuilding of the city. Rather than trying to provide a single, unified account of education reform in New Orleans, the chapters in this volume provide multiple ways of approaching some of the most significant questions around school choice and educational equity that have arisen in the years since Katrina. This collection of research articles, essays, and journalistic accounts of education reform in New Orleans collectively argues that the extreme makeover of the city’s public schools toward a new market-based model was shaped by many local, historically specific conditions. In consequence, while the city’s schools have been both heralded as a model for other cities and derided as a lesson in the limits of market-based reform, the experience of education reform that has taken place in the city – and its impacts on the lives of students, families, and educators – could have happened only in New Orleans.
Author : Andrew R. L. Cayton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1918 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 2006-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253003490
This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.
Author : Brian Sandalow
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1532174705
Jose Altuve: Baseball Superstar tells the story of a baseball underdog whose small stature didn't keep him from winning multiple batting titles, the American League MVP Award, and the World Series with the Houston Astros. Features include a timeline, a glossary, further readings, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Doug Williams
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1634940393
Baseball is America's pastime, captivating fans each summer. Take a front-row seat to everything that makes MLB great in Baseball Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide.
Author : Sean McAdam
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1634940288
This book recounts the stories behind the triumphs—and occasional setbacks—of the athletes, coaches, and teams that have combined to make Boston America’s best sports town.
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1599216264
Author : Will Graves
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1634940415
Nothing brings fans together quite like pro football, a Sunday tradition. Take a front-row seat to everything that makes the NFL great in Football Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide.
