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The Fix Is In

A History of Baseball Gambling and Game Fixing Scandals

By: Daniel E. Ginsburg

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The Fix Is In

A History of Baseball Gambling and Game Fixing Scandals

By: Daniel E. Ginsburg

On September 27, 1865, gambler Kane McLoughlin paid William Wansley $100 to ensure that the Brooklyn Eckfords would beat the Mutuals of New York. Wansley bribed Mutuals shortstop Tom Devyr and third baseman Ed Duffy to join the plot. The result was a 23-11 win by the Eckfords in a game marked by "passed balls and...muffed easy flys." Baseball was faced with its first gambling scandal. This is a comprehensive account of gambling and game fixing scandals that have gripped the nation. Attention is rightly focused on the best known incidents (e.g., the Black Sox scandal and the Pete Rose case), but the lesser known scandals are covered in-depth as well. Included are two chapters on game fixing scandals in the minor leagues.

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McFarland

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0786419202

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9780786419203

From the Streets to the Hamptons

By: Daniel Spaeth

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From the Streets to the Hamptons

By: Daniel Spaeth

From the Streets to the Hamptons is about a strong-willed woman who is fighting to regain her life after being cruelly blacklisted and thrown on the streets. But after meeting her now best friend, she begins to design her plan for revenge on the one who took everything away from her. Even though she knew it would take a long time, fate steps in and introduces her to an arrogant, handsome billionaire. He has the means to help her get even with the person who destroyed her life, but at what cost to her? About the Author Daniel Spaeth always had a vivid imagination and always loved to tell stories from fantasy roleplaying games to horror stories. He is a hardworking family man who has been happily married to his loving and supportive wife of over thirty years. They have one son, who is their tech support. Other than writing, he’s interested in cars and home renovation.

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Dorrance Publishing

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9798888129272

Tasting Freedom

Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America

By: Daniel R. Biddle,Murray Dubin

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Tasting Freedom

Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America

By: Daniel R. Biddle,Murray Dubin

The life and times of the extraordinary Octavius Catto, and the first civil rights movement in America.

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Temple University Press

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159213467X

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9781592134670

The Man with the Sawed-Off Leg and Other Tales of a New York City Block

By: Daniel J. Wakin

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The Man with the Sawed-Off Leg and Other Tales of a New York City Block

By: Daniel J. Wakin

They stand proudly gazing across the Hudson River at the cliffs of New Jersey. Their brows are marked by ornamental pediments. Greek columns stand as sentries by their entrances and stone medallions bedeck their chests. They are seven graceful relics of Beaux Arts New York, townhouses built more than 100 years ago for a new class of industrialists, actors and scientists -- many from abroad -- who made their fortunes in the United States and shaped the lives of Americans. This book brings to life the ghosts who inhabit that row of townhouses on Manhattan’s stately Riverside Drive for the first fifty years of the 20th Century, including a vicious crew of hoodlums who carried out what at the time was the largest armored car robbery in American history. It was a daring, minutely planned exploit that ended in blood, when one of the gangsters accidentally shot himself. He was taken to one of the townhouses -- then, in 1934, an underworld safehouse -- where he died and was stuffed in a steamer trunk (but his cohorts had to saw off one of his legs to fit him in it). From gangsters to industrialists, from future mayors to murderers, from movie stars to mafia dons, one block in a burgeoning city saw it all. The people who lived in each of the "Seven Sisters" reads like a mini Who's Who. Meet: * Percy Geary and John Oley, two Albany gangsters with a background in kidnapping and bootlegging; * Lucretia Davis, baking powder heiress whose parents were engaged in a bitter divorce that included allegations that her mother was trying get her father declared insane and take over his business; * Jokichi Takamine, the world's first biotech engineer and a rare Japanese scientist in the United States at the turn of the 19th century--He discovered diastase, an enzyme to ferment whisky and settle the stomach, and the adrenaline, a major scientific discovery; * Marion Davies, the mistress of William Randolph Hearst, who rose to movie stardom on the back of W.R.'s publicity machine while living on the block; * Julia Marlowe, American's greatest Shakespearean actress around 1900, just to name a few. If only the buildings could speak. * The Fabers of pencil fame * Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (Albany gang made famous by William Kennedy) * Duke Ellington, two mayors, and lurking in the background Legs Diamond.... If only the walls could talk? Dan Wakins makes it so in this unforgettable intimate glimpse into the history of New York City.

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Simon and Schuster

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1628728493

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9781628728491

In Pursuit of Pennants

Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball

By: Mark Armour,Daniel R. Levitt

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In Pursuit of Pennants

Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball

By: Mark Armour,Daniel R. Levitt

The 1936 Yankees, the 1963 Dodgers, the 1975 Reds, the 2010 Giants—why do some baseball teams win while others don’t? General managers and fans alike have pondered this most important of baseball questions. The Moneyball strategy is not the first example of how new ideas and innovative management have transformed the way teams are assembled. In Pursuit of Pennants examines and analyzes a number of compelling, winning baseball teams over the past hundred-plus years, focusing on their decision making and how they assembled their championship teams. Whether through scouting, integration, instruction, expansion, free agency, or modernizing their management structure, each winning team and each era had its own version of Moneyball, where front office decisions often made the difference. Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt show how these teams succeeded and how they relied on talent both on the field and in the front office. While there is no recipe for guaranteed success in a competitive, ever-changing environment, these teams demonstrate how creatively thinking about one’s circumstances can often lead to a competitive advantage.

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University of Nebraska Press

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1496206010

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9781496206015

Imagining Society

The Case for Sociology

By: Nehring, Daniel,Kerrigan, Dylan

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Imagining Society

The Case for Sociology

By: Nehring, Daniel,Kerrigan, Dylan

Re-examining C.Wright Mills’s legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline. It makes a case for the importance of developing a sociological imagination and provides the steps for how readers can do that. The unique text: • Offers succinct and wide-ranging coverage of many of the most important themes and concepts taught in first year sociology courses; • Has a global framework and case material which engages with decoloniality and critiques an overly white, western and developed world view of sociology; • Is woven through with contemporary examples, from social media to social inequality, big data to the self-help industry; • Rethinks and re-imagines what a critically committed, politically engaged and publicly relevant sociology should look like in the 21st century. This is a lively, engaging and accessible overview of sociology for all its students, teachers and people who want to learn more about sociology today. It is a welcome clarion call for sociology’s importance in public life.

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Bristol University Press

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1529204909

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9781529204902

Introduction to Sport Law with Case Studies in Sport Law

By: John O. Spengler,Paul M. Anderson,Daniel P. Connaughton,Thomas A. Baker

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Introduction to Sport Law with Case Studies in Sport Law

By: John O. Spengler,Paul M. Anderson,Daniel P. Connaughton,Thomas A. Baker

This book aims to help students learn the common legal concepts taught in sport management curricula without the use of unnecessary legalese. Information and examples in the text challenge students to think about sport law concepts and apply them to the practical world of sport management"--

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740

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Human Kinetics

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1492597775

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9781492597773

Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus

Repression, Transformation and Assistance

By: Dave Holmes,Jean Daniel Jacob

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Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus

Repression, Transformation and Assistance

By: Dave Holmes,Jean Daniel Jacob

Drawing on a broad range of approaches in the fields of sociology, anthropology, political science, history, philosophy, medicine and nursing, Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus exposes psychiatric practices that are mobilized along the continuum of repression, transformation and assistance. It critically examines taken for granted psychiatric practices both past and current, shedding light on the often political nature of psychiatry and reconceptualizing its central and sensitive issues through the radical theory of figures such as Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Goffman, and Szasz. As such, this ground-breaking collection embraces a broad understanding of psychiatric practices and engages the reader in a critical understanding of their effects, challenging the discipline’s altruistic rhetoric of therapy and problematizing the ways in which this is operationalized in practice. A comprehensive exploration of contested psychiatric practices in healthcare settings, this interdisciplinary volume brings together recent scholarship from the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia, to provide a rich array of theoretical tools with which to engage with questions related to psychiatric power, discipline and control, while theorizing their workings in creative and imaginative ways.

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Routledge

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1317076893

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9781317076896

The Shadow of Slavery

Peonage in the South, 1901-1969

By: Pete Daniel

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The Shadow of Slavery

Peonage in the South, 1901-1969

By: Pete Daniel

Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employers distorted laws and customs to create debt servitude, most Southerners quietly accepted peonage. To the employer it was a way to control laborers; to the peon it was a bewildering system that could not be escaped without risk of imprisonment, beating, or death. Pete Daniel's book is about this largely ignored form of twentieth-century slavery. It is in part "the record of an American failure, the inability of federal, state, and local law-enforcement officers to end peonage." In a series of case studies and histories, Daniel re-creates the neglected and frightening world of peonage, demanding, "If a form of slavery yet exists in the United States, as so much evidence suggests, then the relevant questions are why, and by whose irresponsibility?" Peonage grew out of labor settlements following emancipation, when employers forbade croppers to leave plantations because of debt (often less than $30). At the turn of the century the federal government acknowledged that the "labyrinth of local customs and laws" binding men in debt was peonage. They outlawed debt servitude and slowly moved against it, but with no large success. Disappearing witnesses and acquitted employers characterized the cases that did go to court. Daniel holds that peonage persists for many reasons: the corruption and apathy of law-enforcement, racist traditions in the South, and the impotence of the Justice Department in prosecuting this violation of federal law. He draws extensively on complaints and trial transcripts from the peonage records of the Justice Department.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252061462

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9780252061462

How Outer Space Made America

Geography, Organization and the Cosmic Sublime

By: Daniel Sage

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How Outer Space Made America

Geography, Organization and the Cosmic Sublime

By: Daniel Sage

In this innovatory book Daniel Sage analyses how and why American space exploration reproduced and transformed American cultural and political imaginations by appealing to, and to an extent organizing, the transcendence of spatial and temporal frontiers. In so doing, he traces the development of a seductive, and powerful, yet complex and unstable American geographical imagination: the ’transcendental state’. Historical and indeed contemporary space exploration is, despite some recent notable exceptions, worthy of more attention across the social sciences and humanities. While largely engaging with the historical development of space exploration, it shows how contemporary cultural and social, and indeed geographical, research themes, including national identity, critical geopolitics, gender, technocracy, trauma and memory, can be informed by the study of space exploration.

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Routledge

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1317120795

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9781317120797

Attentiveness to Vulnerability

A Dialogue Between Emmanuel Levinas, Jean Porter, and the Virtue of Solidarity

By: Daniel J. Fleming

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Attentiveness to Vulnerability

A Dialogue Between Emmanuel Levinas, Jean Porter, and the Virtue of Solidarity

By: Daniel J. Fleming

This book is an attempt to develop a dialogue between the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, Jean Porter's Thomistic theory of the natural law, and the virtue of solidarity as expressed in Catholic Social Teaching. It seeks to explore the implications that such a dialogue would have for our understanding of moral reasoning. Attentiveness to Vulnerability rests on the hypothesis that it is possible to develop a set of robust links between these thinkers and bodies of thought--markedly different as they are in terms of philosophical disposition and framework. Such links specify the ethical implications of Levinas' thought and develop Porter's theory in an original way. This work requires further specification through a developed anthropology, which allows for expansion within the tradition of Catholic theological ethics. The inclusion of Levinas and a focus on the virtue of solidarity allows for an advancement of virtue theory and theological ethics, to the extent that the virtue of solidarity becomes a key aspect of any ethical reasoning.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532606648

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9781532606649

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The Fix Is In

The Fix Is In

From the Streets to the Hamptons

From the Streets to the Hamptons

Tasting Freedom

Tasting Freedom

The Man with the Sawed-Off Leg and Other Tales of a New York City Block

The Man with the Sawed-Off Leg and Other Tales of a New York City Block

In Pursuit of Pennants

In Pursuit of Pennants

Imagining Society

Imagining Society

Introduction to Sport Law with Case Studies in Sport Law

Introduction to Sport Law with Case Studies in Sport Law

Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus

Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus

The Shadow of Slavery

The Shadow of Slavery

How Outer Space Made America

How Outer Space Made America

Attentiveness to Vulnerability

Attentiveness to Vulnerability

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