Author : John Margolies
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Miniature Golf explains in words and pictures the six decades of a purely American sport, filled with wonderful mini-memorabilia, signage, and inventive hazards guaranteed to charm and delight mini-golf fans everywhere. 210 illustrations, 150 in full color.
Author : John Margolies
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783836511735
Contains nearly four hundred color photographs of unique signs, artifacts, and buildings discovered by the author while traveling the roads of America for some thirty years.
Author : Mike Vago
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0761154132
The perfect golfing gift: A book that is a complete, working 9-hole miniature golf course, with miniature golf balls and putter included. The first book you can play through. The book that's a true original. Featuring nine themed courses, from pirates to dinosaurs to the classic windmill, The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf celebrates the silliness and the golf-for-everyone! attitude of Putt-Putt. Each page in the book is a cleverly designed hole, modeled on real mini golf courses. Tap the ball through the grooves and make sure to avoid the obstacles. Then see if you can get it in the clown's mouth on the last hole. Every hole is par fun.
Author : Rick Reilly
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 031652784X
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all of his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming."-- The New Yorker "Golf is the spine of this shocking, wildly humorous book, but humanity is its flesh and spirit." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Every one of Trump's most disgusting qualities surfaces in golf." -- The Ringer An outrageous indictment of Donald Trump's appalling behavior when it comes to golf -- on and off the green -- and what it reveals about his character. Donald Trump loves golf. He loves to play it, buy it, build it, and operate it. He owns 14 courses around the world and runs another five, all of which he insists are the best on the planet. He also claims he's a 3 handicap, almost never loses, and has won an astonishing 18 club championships. How much of all that is true? Almost none of it, acclaimed sportswriter Rick Reilly reveals in this unsparing look at Trump in the world of golf. Based on Reilly's own experiences with Trump as well as interviews with over 100 golf pros, amateurs, developers, and caddies, Commander in Cheat is a startling and at times hilarious indictment of Trump and his golf game. You'll learn how Trump cheats (sometimes with the help of his caddies and Secret Service agents), lies about his scores (the "Trump Bump"), tells whoppers about the rank of his courses and their worth (declaring that every one of them is worth $50 million), and tramples the etiquette of the game (driving on greens doesn't help). Trump doesn't brag so much, though, about the golf contractors he stiffs, the course neighbors he intimidates, or the way his golf decisions wind up infecting his political ones. For Trump, it's always about winning. To do it, he uses the tricks he picked up from the hustlers at the public course where he learned the game as a college kid, and then polished as one of the most bombastic businessmen of our time. As Reilly writes, "Golf is like bicycle shorts. It reveals a lot about a man." Commander in Cheat "paints a side-splitting portrait of a congenital cheater" (Esquire), revealing all kinds of unsightly truths Trump has been hiding.
Author : Mark Dyreson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1317572696
When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even those enjoyed in the motherland. From the war of independence and the creation of the republic to the twenty-first century, sporting pastimes have served as essential ingredients in forging nationhood in American history. This collection gathers the work of an all-star team of historians of American sport in order to explore the origins and meanings of the idea of national pastimes—of a nation symbolized by its sports. These wide-ranging essays analyze the claims of particular sports to national pastime status, from horse racing, hunting, and prize fighting in early American history to baseball, basketball, and football more than two centuries later. These essays also investigate the legal, political, economic, and culture patterns and the gender, ethnic, racial, and class dynamics of national pastimes, connecting sport to broader historical themes. American National Pastimes chronicles how and why the USA has used sport to define and debate the contours of nation. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author : Maria Reidelbach
Publisher : M J F Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781567311273
An illustrated history of the most influential and unique humor magazine in post-war America.
Author : Transportation Research Board
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 2005-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0309094984
TRB Special Report 282: Does the Built Environment Influence Physical Activity? Examining the Evidence reviews the broad trends affecting the relationships among physical activity, health, transportation, and land use; summarizes what is known about these relationships, including the strength and magnitude of any causal connections; examines implications for policy; and recommends priorities for future research.
Author : Peter Genovese
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1978831978
The Jersey Shore, our most treasured asset, the envy of forty-nine other states, comes alive in this new book by the reporter and writer who knows New Jersey—and the Jersey Shore—best. Every conceivable topic—where to eat, where to stay, landmarks and attractions, what to do with the kids—is covered with the kind of inside information you just won’t find on tourism web sites or Facebook. All one hundred-plus Shore towns are included, from Sandy Hook to Cape May. There are hundreds of restaurant listings and recommendations. The book also contains engaging profiles and vignettes of the people and places that give the Shore its special character and charm. A throwback five-and-dime store on Long Beach Island. Banner pilots. Birders. Baby parades. And more. You want lists and rankings? The book is full of them—twenty best Shore towns, twenty-one secret spots down the Shore, twenty essential Jersey Shore experiences, fifty things we bet you didn’t know about the Shore, and so on. The book is the next best thing to being at the Shore; actually, it may be better than being there (think of those epic traffic jams on the Parkway, and all the money you’ll save on tolls, beach fees, and bad boardwalk pizza).
Author :
Publisher : Prints of Pirates
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Miniature golf
ISBN : 0956079903
Author : Peter Genovese
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811701839
Descriptions of some offbeat places and people of Florida.
