Author : Joel A. Rippel
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873515580
For athletes, fanatics, and trivia buffs alike, Minnesota's first and only comprehensive sports almanac features 125 glorious years of winning, losing, and playing the game.
Author : Mark W. Seeley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780873519779
Second edition of the popular weather almanac! Whether planning your garden, settling a bet, or making neighborly small talk, this fascinating guide will give you all the facts and figures, all the trials and tales you need.
Author : Tony Greiner; Howard Mohr
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0873517415
A chronological compendium of remarkable and curious events in the history of the North Star State
Author : Jack W. Plunkett
Publisher : Plunkett Research, Ltd.
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Professional sports
ISBN : 1593921403
A guide to the business side of sports, teams, marketing and equipment - a tool for strategic planning, competitive intelligence, employment searches or financial research. It contains trends, statistical tables, and an industry glossary. It includes over 350 one page profiles of sports industry firms, companies and organizations.
Author : Jack W. Plunkett
Publisher : Plunkett Research, Ltd.
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 2007-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 159392089X
A market research guide to the business side of sports, teams, marketing and equipment - a tool for strategic planning, competitive intelligence, employment searches or financial research. It contains trends, statistical tables, and an industry glossary. It includes over 350 one page profiles of sports industry firms, companies and organizations.
Author : Kate Roberts
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873515948
A fabulous showcase of individuals, events, and inventions that have made Minnesota.
Author : Zeke Fuhrman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 179607263X
Professional sports returned to Minnesota in 1961, a year after one of the most successful pro sports franchises left Minneapolis for Los Angeles in 1960. Since then, a history of last-second losses, historically bad teams, draft busts, missed calls, terrible trades, disappointing playoff runs, blown leads, under-qualified front office staff and coaches and untimely injuries. Yet, this fan base stays loyal. For some reason. 'Land of 10,000 Aches' goes deeper into the most heart-breaking, gut-wrenching, soul-crushing, even-I-could-make-that-field-goal moments in Minnesota sports history with first-hand accounts from players, coaches and fans. Everybody remembers where they were for the good things: the Minneapolis Miracle, Kirby Puckett's Game Six home run. But were you face down in disbelief when Garrett Hartley kicked the Saints to the Super Bowl? Or forced into an emotional fetal position watching the Eagles hang 38 unanswered points on the NFL's best defense? Until names like Sal Bando, Ron Schock, Claude Osteen, Ed Thorp, Gordie Peterkin and Sergei Krivokrasov make your stomach turn, you have a long drop into the doldrums of Minnesota melancholy. This book is your guide down.
Author : Gerry Brown
Publisher : ESPN Books
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781933060385
For over 10 years, the ESPN Sports Almanac has been the definitive source for answers to most every sports question. From record-holders to champions, auto racing to the Iditarod, ballparks, business news, and Who's Who to the dearly departed athletes of the year past, the ESPN Sports Almanac 2008 tracks them in hundreds of photos, thousands of tables, countless facts and figures, plus expert analysis from ESPN's most popular personalities (Chris Berman, Dan Patrick, Stuart Scott, Mike Golic, Mike Greenberg, Dick Vitale, et al.). Add fan input from ESPN.com's SportsNation polls, along with ESPN's unique brand of humor, and this latest edition will keep the ESPN Sports Almanac the reigning champion and a New York Times best-seller.
Author : Joel Rippel
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 2023-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1439678200
Twin Cities sports fans are well-versed in disappointment, but the last 120 years of Minneapolis and St. Paul sports have also produced forgotten milestones. Most know of the Vikings' Super Bowl woes and the Twins' record-setting postseason losing streak. Few know that the first full-time college basketball coach originated here and that a Babe Ruth home run record supplanted a local player's achievement. Fewer still know about near misses like John Wooden almost becoming the University of Minnesota basketball coach in 1948 and Billie Jean King turning down an offer to join the Twin Cities' World Team Tennis franchise. Longtime Twin Cities journalist Joel Rippel documents these subjects and other forgotten or unheralded stories.
Author : Patrick Reusse
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781681342306
Memories and stories from more than half a century of writing, reporting, and ranting by a Minnesota sports icon. Minneapolis Star Tribune senior columnist Patrick Reusse is a legendary fixture in Minnesota sports. Like his late colleague Sid Hartman, he is known by his legion of fans (and those who find him curmudgeonly) by one name: Reusse! Starting as a sportswriter in 1965 and still going strong in 2021, Reusse has covered every major sporting event imaginable and met scores of unforgettable characters during his long career in newspapers, radio, and television. Reusse's unique writing style and eye for human-interest angles have made him a master storyteller. He has collected a trove of stories along the way: from growing up in tiny Fulda as the son of an undertaker, to landing a columnist gig at a big-city newspaper; from covering Tom Kelly's Twins championship teams, to handing out fictional turkeys every Thanksgiving; from Olympic triumphs and failures, to countless major moments from Twins Cities sports teams. Reusse has seen a lot in his more than half a century reporting on sports in Minnesota and around the country. With his coauthor and fellow Star Tribune sports journalist Chip Scoggins, he brings together here his favorite stories, characters, and memories in that distinctive Reusse voice.
