Nationals on Parade
Author : Mark Michael Stang
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : 9781933197029
Buzz Saw
Author : Jesse Dougherty
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982152273
Book Description
The remarkable story of the 2019 World Series champion Washington Nationals told by the Washington Post writer who followed the team most closely. By May 2019, the Washington Nationals—owners of baseball’s oldest roster—had one of the worst records in the majors and just a 1.5 percent chance of winning the World Series. Yet by blending an old-school brand of baseball with modern analytics, they managed to sneak into the playoffs and put together the most unlikely postseason run in baseball history. Not only did they beat the Houston Astros, the team with the best regular-season record, to claim the franchise’s first championship—they won all four games in Houston, making them the first club to ever win four road games in a World Series. “You have a great year, and you can run into a buzz saw,” Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg told Washington Post beat writer Jesse Dougherty after the team advanced to the World Series. “Maybe this year we’re the buzz saw.” Dougherty followed the Nationals more closely than any other writer in America, and in Buzz Saw he recounts the dramatic year in vivid detail, taking readers inside the dugout, the clubhouse, the front office, and ultimately the championship parade. Yet he does something more than provide a riveting retelling of the season: he makes the case that while there is indisputable value to Moneyball-style metrics, baseball isn’t just a numbers game. Intangibles like team chemistry, veteran experience, and childlike joy are equally essential to winning. Certainly, no team seemed to have more fun than the Nationals, who adopted the kids’ song “Baby Shark” as their anthem and regularly broke into dugout dance parties. Buzz Saw is just as lively and rollicking—a fitting tribute to one of the most exciting, inspiring teams to ever take the field.
On Parade
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Band music
ISBN :
Book Description
China
Author : William A. Callahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0199604398
Book Description
China is fast becoming the next superpower - a rise that presents a challenge to the world economically, politically and culturally. Drawing on extensive new Chinese sources, Professor Callahan sheds fascinating light on how Chinese people understand their changing place, and what that might mean for the world.
Fields in Vision
Author : Garry Whannel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 2005-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134938594
Book Description
Fields in Vision offers a comprehensive and analytical study of the international phenomenon of television sports coverage. Garry Whannel considers the historical development of sport on television, the growth of sponsorship and the way that television and sponsorship have re-shaped sport in the context of the enterprise culture. Drawing on archival research, Whannel first charts the development of the BBC Outside Broadcast department, and the growing battle for dominance between BBC and ITV, showing how sponsorship and the rising power of sports agents began to transform sport - not only in the UK but across the world - in the 1960s. He goes on to examine the implications of this vast and escalating global network during the 1980s by analysing the central role that stars and narratives began to play in television sport, presenting case studies of major contests such as Coe versus Ovett and Decker versus Budd. His study also takes into account one of the more indirect, but no less significant results of international televised sport - the rise of popular fitness chic and the American monopoly of the workout boom of the 1980s. Fields in Vision explains the development of television sport by linking its economic transformation with the cultural forms through which it is represented, offering a study encompassing not simply the sports world, but our relationship with television and the media industries as a whole.
The Jihadis Plus - Know the Anti-Nationals
Author : RSN Singh
Publisher : Lancer Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release :
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Book Description
This book “The Jihadis Plus - Know the Anti-Nationals” is a sequel to the book ‘Know the Anti-Nationals’ published in 2021, both in English and Hindi. What is germane to the internal security challenges to Bharat Nation and the Indian State, are ideologies and isms. The dynamics of internal conflicts and shades of anti-national characters and allied forces keep changing, but the ideological moorings and motivations of the anti-nationals remain unchanged. If they were to change, they would whither. Since anti-nationals keep mutating in updated versions, correspondingly this book became an imperative. Sanatan is not expansionist, because it is eternal. Nevertheless it certainly prescribes offensive-defence. Without offensive defence Bharatiya nationhood cannot be preserved and nurtured. This book can be read independently as well as in conjunction with the previous book ‘Know the Anti-Nationals’. Contents • India is Indeed their Motherland • Clash of Civilizations in the Subcontinent • Global Jihad in India • Holy Books, Politics and Wars • Gandhi: Contributions, Conflicts, Compromises • Polity at War with National Security • Politics of Assassinations • Was the First CDS Killed? • Why Target Sushil Pandit? • Yet Another Attempt to Force an Ethnic Exodus from Kashmir • Dark Clouds Went Away with 370 • Kashmir: De-radicalization is the only Solution • Your Lordships should Trust the Wisdom of Armed Forces • Anti-Nationals versus Agniveers • The Jihadi-in-Chief is Chief Guest at Sandhurst • Pakistan: Mussalman versus Islam • Women May Cause Implosion of Pakistan • Assault on India by a Chief Minister • India’s Biggest Scam Growing Bigger • A New Messiah in Kashmir! • AMU: Then and Now • Maoism: Crush the Head • Only Courtrooms cannot Secure India • Politician - Terrorist Alliance in India • Terrorizing Trident • Women at War with Jihadis • CAA: India has the Sacred Right to Secure its Territory • Jihadi Pakistan Riding on Corona • Trump did not Exempt Islamic Terror within India • UN can only Address Terror, not Proxy War • Victory in Modern War
Legislative Calendar
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release :
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ISBN :
Book Description
We Winna Be Dauntit! The History of the Racine Kilties Drum and Bugle Corps 1934 - 1992
Author : George Fennell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 739 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1300266171
Book Description
Were you ever a member, instructor or a fan of the Racine Kilties Junior Drum and Bugle Corps? If so, then "We Winna Be Dauntit! The History of the Racine Kilties Drum and Bugle Corps 1934 - 1992" is for you! Through deep and extensive research this remarkable book chronicles the history of the Kilties during all three phases of their existence: the parade corps years from 1934 through 1947, the competitive years from 1948 through 1982 and the alumni corps years of 1986 and 1992. Inside you will find: 133 photographs How and when the Kilties were organized Rosters for every year from 1947 through 1986 Repertoires for every year from 1952 through 1992 Parent's Club Officers listed for nearly all years Schedules and turn-out information for all years Scores or placements for most of the contests entered Details about every Kiltie Kapers and every "Drum Corps Day" Fund raising methods used by the Parent's Club to support the Kilties How, when and why the Kilties disbanded
Out in the Periphery
Author : Omar Guillermo Encarnación
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199356653
Book Description
Out in the Periphery explores how Latin America, a region known for its Catholic heritage and machismo culture, came to embrace gay rights. At the heart of this analysis is the activism of Latin America's gay rights organizations, a long-neglected social movement even by students of Latin American social movements.
The 2005 Washington Nationals
Author : Ted Leavengood
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2006-09-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786426780
Book Description
Here is the story of the 2005 Washington Nationals. Told from a fan's perspective, the narrative begins inside RFK on opening day, expressing the simple pleasures of baseball that 34 years couldn't erase. As the team took one series after another, baseball fans quickly forgot that many on the roster had ever played to empty seats in Montreal. Descriptive prose covers each game, from the crack of Brad Wilkerson's bat to Livan Hernandez's eight-inning outings.
