Author : Phil Bildner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374301301
A school, sports, and friendship story perfect for fans of Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids.
Author : Sue Macy
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 1993-04-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805019421
"An interesting and informative look at the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that operated from 1945–1954.... A significant title." --School Library Journal, starred review
Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780807842201
Traces the development of modern collegiate and professional sports, explains how they reflect American culture, and looks at the role sports have played in Americanizing immigrants
Author : Marvin Miller
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 9781566635998
Marvin Miller became the first executive director of the newly formed Major League Baseball Players Association. He recounts his experience in dealing with club owners and his success in winning a new role for the players. He helped virtually end the system that bound an athlete to one team forever and thereby raised salaries enormously. formed
Author : Belle Payton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481406434
Middle school gets multiplied in this new series about twins Alex and Ava, whose father is the coach of a small-town Texas football team! When twelve-year-old twins Alex and Ava Sackett move from the East Coast to Texas so their dad can coach an elite high school football team, they have to get used to not only a whole new school and town, but also the fame that comes with being football’s first family. They’ve got a plan to make it through: stick together! Because even though Alex and Ava are total opposites, they’ve always stuck together. But then Ava cuts her hair short, and Alex fears that Ava wants a new town to mean a new start—as an individual. At the same time, Alex’s concern has Ava wondering if she’s no longer cool enough for her twin. Are Alex and Ava still the same dynamic duo they’ve always been, or are they headed down different paths?
Author : Dennis W. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,72 MB
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135968128
So much has changed during the past decade in political campaigning that we can almost say "it's a whole new ball game." This book analyzes the way campaigns were traditionally run and the extraordinary changes that have occurred in the last decade. Dennis W. Johnson looks at the most sophisticated techniques of modern campaigning—micro-targeting, online fundraising, digital communication, the new media—and examines what has changed, how those changes have dramatically transformed campaigning, and what has remained fundamentally the same despite new technologies and communications. Campaigns are becoming more open and free-wheeling, with greater involvement of activists and average voters alike. But they can also become more chaotic and difficult to control. Campaigning in the Twenty-First Century presents daunting challenges for candidates and professional consultants as they try to get their messages out to voters. Ironically, the more open and robust campaigns become, the greater is the need for seasoned, flexible and imaginative professional consultants.
Author : Jimmy Sanderson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Communication in sports
ISBN : 9781612890531
Chronicles social media's rapid rise in becoming a powerful "player" in the sports industry and draws upon relevant examples involving athletes and sports organisations to demonstrate both the positive and problematic consequences that social media has created for athletes and sports organisations.
Author : Stephen J Walker
Publisher : Pocol Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2019-04-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781929763887
Despite a long and uneven history, Major League Baseball's Washington franchises have hardly been the stuff of legend. However, in 1969, when new owner Bob Short coaxed batting legend and rookie manager Ted Williams out of retirement, these annual no-names climbed out of the depths and straight into the hearts of Washington baseball fans starving for a winner. Led by The Capital Punisher Frank Howard, whose tape-measure home runs sometimes seemed like optical illusions, the Senators simply won ball games with a determination rarely seen in D.C. environs. A Whole New Ballgame showcases the 1969 Senators' magical season, complete with updated player bios, new photographs, stats, game action, and stories. Foreword by Dick Bosman.
Author : Phil Bildner
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374305102
With their fifth grade graduation only weeks away, Rip, Red, and the rest of their classmates must decide if boycotting a test is worth forfeiting their graduation gala and the opportunity to play with Hoops Machine, a Harlem Globetrotters-like team.
Author : Phil Bildner
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374312745
A 2021 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 A 2021 ALA Rainbow Book A Bank Street Best Book of 2021 A heartfelt and relatable novel from Phil Bildner, weaving the real history of Los Angeles Dodger and Oakland Athletic Glenn Burke--the first professional baseball player to come out as gay--into the story of a middle-school kid learning to be himself. When sixth grader Silas Wade does a school presentation on former Major Leaguer Glenn Burke, it’s more than just a report about the irrepressible inventor of the high five. Burke was a gay baseball player in the 1970s—and for Silas, the presentation is his own first baby step toward revealing a truth about himself he's tired of hiding. Soon he tells his best friend, Zoey, but the longer he keeps his secret from his baseball teammates, the more he suspects they know something’s up—especially when he stages one big cover-up with terrible consequences. A High Five for Glenn Burke is Phil Bildner’s most personal novel yet—a powerful story about the challenge of being true to yourself, especially when not everyone feels you belong on the field.
