Author : Peter Gammons
Publisher : STATS Publishing
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781884064999
Once again, STATS has unleashed a team of national experts to give readers the best analysis of every player on every major league baseball team. Includes analysis of every team, top to bottom, plus top minor league prospects.
Author : Sporting News
Publisher :
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780892047680
Author : Bill James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1439103771
Preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer compile information on pitches and their origins, nearly two thousand pitchers, and more in this comprehensive guide. Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them—they’re the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a comprehensive source for such information…until now. Bill James and Rob Neyer spent over a decade compiling the centerpiece of this book, the Pitcher Census, which lists specific information for nearly two thousand pitchers, ranging throughout the history of professional baseball. Their guide also includes a dictionary describing virtually every known pitch, biographies of great pitchers who have been overlooked, and top ten lists for fastballs, spitballs, and everything in between. James and Neyer also weigh in on the debate over pitcher abuse and durability, offer a formula for predicting the Cy Young Award winner, and reveal James’s Pitcher Codes. Learn about the origins and development of baseball’s most important pitches and more knuckleballers and submariners than you ever thought existed! Baseball’s action always starts with the pitchers. Begin to understand them and join in on entertaining debates while having a great deal of fun with the history of the game that captivates so many with this one-of-a-kind guide.
Author : Bill James
Publisher : STATS Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2001-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781884064982
Now in its 13th edition, this handbook continues to act as an almanac for all the baseball action that happened on the playing field the previous season. Includes a sneak preview of 2002 with exclusive player projections.
Author : David Finoli
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 9781582614168
Author : Sporting News
Publisher :
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780892047055
Once again, STATS has unleashed a team of national experts to give readers the best analysis of every player on every major league baseball team. Includes analysis of every team, top to bottom, plus top minor league prospects.
Author : Mary Beth Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2005-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313068577
For reference librarians and researchers seeking information on sports and fitness, this guide is an important first stop. For collection development specialists, it is an invaluable selection guide. Allen describes and evaluates over 1,000 information sources on the complete spectrum of sports: from basketball, football, and hockey to figure skating, table tennis, and weight training. Focusing on English-language works published between 1990 and the present, the guide thoroughly covers traditional reference sources, such as encyclopedias and bibliographies, along with instructional sources in print formats, online databases, and Web sites. To enable users in search of information on specific sports or fitness activities, chapters are organized thematically, according to broad- type aquatic sports, nautical sports, precision and accuracy, racket sports, ice and snow sports, ball sports, cycling, and so on, with subcategories for such individual sports as soccer, golf, and yoga. Within these categories, works are further organized by type: reference, instructional, and Web sites.
Author : Mary Degenhardt
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780896725461
In more than nine decades of Girl Scouting, a vast popular and material culture has given rise to a wealth of Girl Scout history collections. More than an identification guide to uniforms, insignia, and other Girl Scout objects, this work also documents when changes occurred and why new items were introduced. Placing these objects in context, this essential guide provides a discerning look at the history and development of the Girl Scout Movement in the United States. Scholars and aficionados of Girl Scout history, costume history, women's studies, popular culture, and dress will welcome this indispensable and definitive resource. This new, expanded edition, with hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and tables, is indisputably the go-to source for information on all Girl Scout uniforms, insignia, awards, and handbooks, as well as dolls, postcards, posters, calendars, and more--from the founding of the Girl Scouts in 1912 through the present day. "An invaluable resource to Girl Scout councils managing a history collection. And, beyond that . . . an informative and intriguing glimpse . . . into the evolution of a Movement that . . . today is the world's preeminent organization dedicated solely to girls." --Cynthia B. Thompson, chair, National Board of Directors, and Kathy Cloninger, national chief executive officer, GSUSA "An indispensable reference for collectors; a fascinating resource for anyone interested in Girl Scouting, this comprehensive guide to Girl Scout memorabilia is firmly grounded in the history of the Girl Scouts of the United States. Mary Degenhardt and Judith Kirsch show us what Girl Scouts wore and read, and explain how changes in uniforms, insignia, and publications reflect the evolution of Girl Scout programs and the expansion of opportunities for American girls. Reading this book is like walking through a fine museum where material culture brings the past to life." --Anastatia Sims, author of Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhood
Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0393073491
The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.
Author : Luis F. B. Plascencia
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2012-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813553342
Central to contemporary debates in the United States on migration and migrant policy is the idea of citizenship, and—as apparent in the continued debate over Arizona’s immigration law SB 1070—this issue remains a focal point of contention, with a key concern being whether there should be a path to citizenship for “undocumented” migrants. In Disenchanting Citizenship, Luis F. B. Plascencia examines two interrelated issues: U.S. citizenship and the Mexican migrants’ position in the United States. The book explores the meaning of U.S. citizenship through the experience of a unique group of Mexican migrants who were granted Temporary Status under the “legalization” provisions of the 1986 IRCA, attained Lawful Permanent Residency, and later became U.S. citizens. Plascencia integrates an extensive and multifaceted collection of interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, ethno-historical research, and public policy analysis in examining efforts that promote the acquisition of citizenship, the teaching of citizenship classes, and naturalization ceremonies. Ultimately, he unearths citizenship’s root as a Janus-faced construct that encompasses a simultaneous process of inclusion and exclusion. This notion of citizenship is mapped on to the migrant experience, arguing that the acquisition of citizenship can lead to disenchantment with the very status desired. In the end, Plascencia expands our understanding of the dynamics of U.S. citizenship as a form of membership and belonging.
