Author : Jonathan Eig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743294610
A chronicle of the 1947 baseball season during which Jackie Robinson broke the race barrier is a sixtieth anniversary tribute based on interviews with Robinson's wife, daughter, and teammates.
Author : David P. Earle
Publisher : Mark Batty Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,54 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art calendars
ISBN : 9781935613077
A perpetual calendar features the work of three hundred sixty-five artists who were assigned a date and given twenty-four hours to create the work of art featured on their date's page.
Author : Lee Bennett Hopkins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152002701
In this unique collection of sports poems by a first-string team of beloved poets, the vitality of the language and the verve of Scott Medlock's illustrations truly echo the energy and joy of participating in athletics. From Jane Yolen's "Karate Kid" to Walt Whitman's "The Runner", the poems in this collection celebrate the pleasure of sport. Full color.
Author : Ric Davies
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1770670572
This book is not only about baseball, but you will enjoy the drama, romance, sights, sounds and all things associated with the love of the game. The book will make you long for the days when baseball was America's game and kids played all day long on a sandlot. It will make you long for the days when being a fan counted and you were proud of your home team and really wanted to be at the home team's ball park! Author and coach Ric Davies shows his own passion for the game in OPENING DAY and helps you to remember your own! You will enjoy this story and relive a time when this game and all that it represents was truly bigger than life!
Author : Barry Friedman
Publisher : Aspen Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Law examinations
ISBN : 9781454806073
A concise, highly accessible guide to exam success. Provides an insider s view of what professors look for in exam answers, and how exam-taking connects to good lawyering. Accompanied by a Web site with content that is both free (e.g., sample outlines, class notes, case briefs) and for-sale (e.g., sample exams and memos written by professors giving feedback on the answers). Features: High-profile, experienced authors from elite schools with hands-on experience teaching the majority of the courses in the traditional 1L curriculum Distinctive central pedagogy: the pinball method of exam-taking Accompanied by Web site with content that is both free (e.g., sample outlines, class notes, case briefs) and for-sale (e.g., sample exams and memos written by professors giving feedback on the answers). Explains to students not just the how but the why of law school exams what makes law school exams different from exams students have encountered in other settings Detailed examples provide concrete demonstrations of exam-taking techniques Highly readable: prose is straightforward and humorous; key points accented with memorably amusing illustrations Not just an exam prep book; students are offered guidance on getting the most out of classes, and law school more generally
Author : Dan Bertalan
Publisher : Envisage Unlimited
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780962395529
Author : Jonathan Knight
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780873388153
Opening Day is sportswriter Jonathan Knight's inning-by-inning look at the opening game at Jacobs Field on April 4, 1994. New home to the Cleveland Indians, The Jake was for fans symbolic of the team's turnaround. For the regional community this new ballpark marked the beginning of Cleveland's long awaited renaissance. and David, purchased the underfinanced and mismanaged franchise. And despite a devastating 1991 season, when the Tribe lost a record 105 games and finished in last place, 34 games behind the division-leading Toronto Blue jays, the team and its fans persevered. The Jacobs' legacy culminated in the opening of Jacobs Field, variously described as a Jewel and Cleveland's field of dreams, in the spring of 1994. The Indians made more postseason appearances in the first five years at Jacobs Field than in the previous ninety-three seasons of franchise history. days of the past, creating this story that shows how the fortunes of the team and the city converged. On that day in early April, the Indians and the City of Cleveland together experienced a true opening day-one in which the past was forgotten and future was clear and bright.
Author : Matthew J. Prigge
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1476648638
Opening day in Milwaukee is an event like no other in baseball--all the pomp and reverence for the return of the season, with a tailgate party like only Brewers fans know how to throw. Each opener creates treasured memories, like Hank Aaron's return to Milwaukee, Sixto Lezcano's walk-off grand slam, the momentous opening of Miller Park, Lorenzo Cain's game-saving grab or the debuts of a couple of kids named Yount and Molitor. Chronicling a half-century of baseball lore, this book relives 53 home openers and the traditions, oddball characters, unlikely heroes and Hall of Fame legends they featured.
Author : Dann Stupp
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Baseball fields
ISBN : 1582617244
The beginning of a new age of Cincinnati Reds baseball is detailed in full-color splendor through this remarkable new book. Opening Day at Great American Ball Park follows all of the activities of the inaugural Opening Day at Cincinnati's new home for baseball, as the Reds battled the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday, March 31, 2003. Located at 100 Main Street, the new stadium features a grass field and seating for over 42,000 baseball-crazed fans, making it the new standard for ballparks across America. Photos filling every page capture glimpses of the fans, an inside tour of Great American Ball Park, the field, and, of course, the players who make it all possible.
Author : Kat Sterling
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A wallflower desperate to avoid an engagement… All Rosie Fontaine wants is to study her butterflies in peace. But as family pressure mounts to accept an unwanted marriage proposal by opening day of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Rosie must convince everyone she’s not a social pariah. So when the real estate magnate she has stealthily scrutinized for years agrees to a fake relationship, she is thrilled. But how is she supposed to protect her heart and keep her hands off Seattle’s most desirable bachelor? A gentleman destined to change her mind… Theodore Townsend is far too busy to help his cousin’s best friend…until he realizes it’s the brainy blonde that has always threatened to distract him from his goals. A few innocent outings should appease his curiosity, except the more time he spends with the captivating scientist, the more he craves her. Before long, he’s caught entirely in her net, consumed with one heart-stopping thought: what if she was his by opening day instead? His by Opening Day is a steamy, turn-of-the-century historical romance perfect for fans of female scientists, letter writing, and a world's fair setting.
