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The Only Game in Town

Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved

By: Fay Vincent

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The Only Game in Town

Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved

By: Fay Vincent

An account of baseball in the 1930s and 1940s is presented from the perspectives of players who share memories about such topics as the dominance of the Yankees, the impact of World War II, and the integration of African-American ballplayers.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743273184

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9780743273183

The Last Commissioner

A Baseball Valentine

By: Fay Vincent

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The Last Commissioner

A Baseball Valentine

By: Fay Vincent

On a beautiful July morning in 1991, three men gathered in a hotel suite for an informal breakfast and conversation. The discussion ranged widely over events and characters of the past, famous names and fabled accomplishments flowing along with the coffee and juice. Two of them, Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, were the ultimate symbols of athletic glory for generations of American men. The third man, Fay Vincent, was living a dream, sitting with and asking questions of his boyhood heroes. Fay Vincent never set out to be the commissioner of baseball. He got into the game alongside his good friend A. Bartlett Giamatti, as deputy commissioner, when Giamatti was named to the sport's highest office in 1989. They spent their first spring and summer dealing with Pete Rose's gambling, and Vincent's legal expertise complemented his friend's moral thunder. But that was to be their only season working side by side, as Bart Giamatti's heart gave out just days after the announcement of the Rose suspension. Vincent found himself the only logical candidate to fill a position as guardian of the best interests of the game he loves. In The Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine, Vincent takes us along for the ultimate fan's fantasy camp. As commissioner, he got to talk baseball with the likes of Yogi Berra, Larry Doby, Warren Spahn, Ernie Banks, Eddie Lopat, Whitey Ford, and Henry Aaron. He brought his legal training to bear on the delicate issue of whether Roger Clemens uttered the magic word that would justify his being tossed out of a playoff game (and it's not the word you think). He was one of the few outsiders at the annual Hall of Fame banquet for the new inductees and their immortal peers, where he watched, amazed, as Johnny Mize demonstrated to Ralph Kiner his method of hitting an inside pitch -- a piece of advice from forty years past. And he brought equal respect and attention to the greats of the Negro Leagues, listening to the gracefully told stories of Joe Black and Buck O'Neil, slowly learning how Slick Surratt earned his nickname, hearing Jimmie Crutchfield give as good a definition of a well-lived life as we will ever know. Vincent shares these stories and more: his high regard for umpires, instilled in his youth by his father, an NFL official and respected local ump; his close relations with the Bush family, forged in a summer spent working in the oil fields with his schoolmate Bucky Bush, the 41st president's brother (and 43rd president's uncle); his unusual experiences with the relentless George Steinbrenner, including the famous meeting where the Yankees owner was facing a two-year suspension and plea-bargained it down to a lifetime ban. Vincent also gives his candid views on the state of baseball today, firm in his belief that the game will survive its current leadership and even prosper. Through it all, Vincent's deep love of baseball shines through. His most remarkable accomplishment as commissioner may have been to emerge from the office with his fandom intact. The Last Commissioner is truly a valentine to the game, written with the insight and vision that comes from the lofty perch of the ultimate front-row seat.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416587306

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9781416587309

The Gospel of John in Modern Interpretation

By: Stanley E. Porter,Ron C. Fay

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The Gospel of John in Modern Interpretation

By: Stanley E. Porter,Ron C. Fay

The Gospel of John in Modern Interpretation provides a unique look at the lives and work of eight interpreters who have significantly influenced Johannine studies over the last two centuries. The chapters contain short biographical sketches of the scholars that illuminate their personal and academic lives, followed by summaries and evaluations of their major works, and concluding with an analysis of the ongoing relevance of their work in contemporary Johannine scholarship. Key thinkers surveyed include C. H. Dodd, Rudolph Bultmann, Raymond Brown, Leon Morris, and R. Alan Culpepper. An introduction and conclusion by general editors Stanley Porter and Ron Fay trace the development of Johannine scholarship from F. C. Baur to the present, and examine how these eight scholars' contributions to Johannine studies have shaped the field. Anyone interested in the recent history of the study of John will find this volume indispensable.

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Kregel Academic

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0825445108

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9780825445101

It's What's Inside the Lines That Counts

Baseball Stars of the 1970s and 1980s Talk About the Game They Loved

By: Fay Vincent

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It's What's Inside the Lines That Counts

Baseball Stars of the 1970s and 1980s Talk About the Game They Loved

By: Fay Vincent

It’s What’s Inside the Lines That Counts brings together ballplayers, managers, an umpire, and the first head of the players’ union to describe the momentous changes to the game that took place in the 1970s and 1980s. Former MLB commissioner Fay Vincent draws from his ongoing oral history of the game to celebrate the era that spans the Miracle Mets through free agency to Cal Ripken’s historic consecutive-games streak. Willie McCovey remembers meeting the Giants’ other Willie and the powerful impact that Willie Mays had on him. He expresses pride that the Giants chose to honor him at their ballpark with McCovey Cove. Teammate Juan Marichal, one of baseball’s Latino pioneers, recalls encountering racism for the first time in America. He recounts fortuitously overhearing a conversation among Latino ballplayers before a Giants-Pirates game that provided him with crucial information about Roberto Clemente. Managers Dick Williams and Earl Weaver assess their Hall of Fame careers. Williams remembers his contentious relationship with Charlie Finley and explains why he never managed for George Stein-brenner. Earl Weaver says he has changed, that umpires were "fantastic people," and that he shouldn’t have gotten thrown out of so many ballgames. Read it here for yourself. Tom Seaver, one of the dominant pitchers of his era, shares a funny incident from his first All-Star game, when he was young and looked even younger, and discloses the important piece of baseball wisdom that Gil Hodges gave him early in his career that has guided him ever since. Don Baylor recalls playing with a variety of teammates and teams, including the remarkable experience of playing in three consecutive World Series with three different teams, going from the 1986 Red Sox that came so close to winning the Series to the 1987 Minnesota Twins team that actually did it. Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith, "the Wizard of Oz," tells the story of how he began his signature back flip and offers insights into how he was able to pull off some of the most spectacular defensive plays in baseball history. Baseball’s Iron Man Cal Ripken remembers the high expectations that came with being the son of a baseball manager and explains why the "Orioles way" was more than just a slogan for him. Bruce Froemming, MLB’s longest-serving umpire, reveals the rules behind the fine art of allowing managers and coaches to have their say and still maintain absolute control over the game. And Marvin Miller, one of the most important figures in the history of the game, explains the origins and intentions of baseball’s players’ union and why he is so proud of what it has achieved. No fan of the game will want to pass up this illustrated, fascinating remembrance of two decades when baseball changed forever.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439163316

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Fashioning Faces

The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism

By: Elizabeth A. Fay

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Fashioning Faces

The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism

By: Elizabeth A. Fay

A fresh look at how literary and visual portraiture in the Romantic era embodied a newly commercial culture

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UPNE

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1584657782

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We Would Have Played for Nothing

Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved

By: Fay Vincent

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We Would Have Played for Nothing

Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved

By: Fay Vincent

Presents the events of baseball in the 1950s and 1960s from the perspectives of the players, covering such subjects as the careers of Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and Duke Snider.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416553436

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9781416553434

Romantic Medievalism

History and the Romantic Literary Ideal

By: E. Fay

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Romantic Medievalism

History and the Romantic Literary Ideal

By: E. Fay

Nineteenth century medievalism is usually associated with Scott's world of Ivanhoe , but Romantic Medievalism argues that Scott's is a conservative use of the past and that radical poets such as the young Coleridge, Keats and Shelley used the medieval to critique and change, rather than validate, the present. These poets identified with the troubadour of courtly love, a disempowered figure often politically at odds with the establishment figure of the knight.

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Springer

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1403913617

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The Book of Joshua

By: F. R. Fay,George Ripley Bliss

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The Book of Joshua

By: F. R. Fay,George Ripley Bliss

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385386357

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9783385386358

Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance

Poetry, Place, and the Sense of Community

By: Jessica Fay

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Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance

Poetry, Place, and the Sense of Community

By: Jessica Fay

This is the first extended study of Wordsworth's complex, subtle, and often conflicted engagement with the material and cultural legacies of monasticism. It reveals that a set of topographical, antiquarian, and ecclesiastical sources consulted by Wordsworth between 1806 and 1822 provided extensive details of the routines, structures, landscapes, and architecture of the medieval monastic system. In addition to offering a new way of thinking about religious dimensions of Wordsworth's work and his views on Roman Catholicism, the book offers original insights into a range of important issues in his poetry and prose, including the historical resonances of the landscape, local attachment and memorialization, gardening and cultivation, Quakerism and silence, solitude and community, pastoral retreat and national identity. Wordsworth's interest in monastic history helps explain significant stylistic developments in his writing. In this often-neglected phase of his career, Wordsworth undertakes a series of generic experiments in order to craft poems capable of reformulating and refining taste; he adapts popular narrative forms and challenges pastoral conventions, creating difficult, austere poetry that, he hopes, will encourage contemplation and subdue readers' appetites for exciting narrative action. This book thus argues for the significance and innovative qualities of some of Wordsworth's most marginalized writings. It grants poems such as The White Doe of Rylstone, The Excursion, and Ecclesiastical Sketches the centrality Wordsworth believed they deserved, and reveals how Wordsworth's engagement with the monastic history of his local region inflected his radical strategies for the creation of taste.

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Oxford University Press

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0192548158

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9780192548153

The Opium War, 1840-1842

Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by which They Forced Her Gates Ajar

By: Peter Ward Fay

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The Opium War, 1840-1842

Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by which They Forced Her Gates Ajar

By: Peter Ward Fay

This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irrever

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807847143

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9780807847145

Almighty God Created the Races

Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law

By: Fay Botham

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Almighty God Created the Races

Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law

By: Fay Botham

In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United States, Fay Botham argues that religion--specifically, Protestant and Catholic beliefs about marriage and race--had a significant effect on legal decisions concerning miscegenation and marriage in the century following the Civil War. She contends that the white southern Protestant notion that God "dispersed" the races and the American Catholic emphasis on human unity and common origins point to ways that religion influenced the course of litigation and illuminate the religious bases for Christian racist and antiracist movements.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807899224

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9780807899229

This Mortal Coil

The Human Body in History and Culture

By: Fay Bound Alberti

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This Mortal Coil

The Human Body in History and Culture

By: Fay Bound Alberti

To many people the idea that 'the body' has its own history might sound faintly ridiculous. The body and its experiences are usually seen as something that we share with people from the past. Like 'human nature', it represents the unchanging in a changing world. Bodies just are... But the body does have a history. The way that it moves, feels, breathes, and engages with the world has been viewed very differently across times and cultures. For centuries, 'we' were believed to be composed of souls that were part of the body and inseparable from it. Now we exist in our heads, and our bodies have become the vessels for that uncertain and elusive thing we call our 'true selves'. The way we understand the material structure of the body has also changed radically over the centuries. From the bones to the skin, from the senses to the organs of sexual reproduction, every part of the body has an ever-changing history, dependent on time, culture, and place. This Mortal Coil is an exploration of that history. Peeling away our assumptions about the unchanging nature of the human body, Fay Bound Alberti takes it apart in order to put it back anew, telling the cultural history of our key organs and systems from the inside out, from blood to guts, brains to sex organs. The understanding of the 'modern body' she reveals in the process is far removed from the 'eternal' or timeless object of common assumption. In fact, she argues, its roots go back no further than the sixteenth century at the earliest - and it has only truly existed in its current form since the nineteenth century.

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Oxford University Press

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0191036560

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9780191036569

The Cowboy at Work

By: Fay E. Ward

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The Cowboy at Work

By: Fay E. Ward

Want to know how to throw a half-diamond hitch and wield a branding iron? Interested in the recipe for S. B. stew? This authoritative manual by an old-time cowboy explains it all. 600 black-and-white illustrations.

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Courier Corporation

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0486426998

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9780486426990

Theaters of Occupation

Hollywood and the Reeducation of Postwar Germany

By: Jennifer Fay

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Theaters of Occupation

Hollywood and the Reeducation of Postwar Germany

By: Jennifer Fay

In the aftermath of total war and unconditional surrender, Germans found themselves receiving instruction from their American occupiers. It was not a conventional education. In their effort to transform German national identity and convert a Nazi past into a democratic future, the Americans deployed what they perceived as the most powerful and convincing weapon-movies. In a rigorous analysis of the American occupation of postwar Germany and the military’s use of “soft power,” Jennifer Fay considers how Hollywood films, including Ninotchka, Gaslight, and Stagecoach, influenced German culture and cinema. In this cinematic pedagogy, dark fantasies of American democracy and its history were unwittingly played out on-screen. Theaters of Occupation reveals how Germans responded to these education efforts and offers new insights about American exceptionalism and virtual democracy at the dawn of the cold war. Fay’s innovative approach examines the culture of occupation not only as a phase in U.S.–German relations but as a distinct space with its own discrete cultural practices. As the American occupation of Germany has become a paradigm for more recent military operations, Fay argues that we must question its efficacy as a mechanism of cultural and political change. Jennifer Fay is associate professor and codirector of film studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816647445

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9780816647446

Sports

The Ultimate Teen Guide

By: Gail Fay

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Sports

The Ultimate Teen Guide

By: Gail Fay

Whether playing baseball, basketball, field hockey, football, lacrosse, tennis, soccer, softball, volleyball, or wrestling, millions of teens all over the country participate in some sporting activity. Despite widespread enthusiasm for such activities, not all teens know how to make the most out of their interests, and some teens who might want to get involved don't know which sports are right for them. For high school athletes of all levels, this book provides up-to-date information on sports-related issues, practical tips, and valuable resources. Each chapter features quotes from current and former high school athletes who share their experiences related to the given topic. Issues discussed include -choosing a sport to play -balancing all aspects of life as a student-athlete -dealing with the pressures of competition -improving athletic performance -consequences of performance-enhancing drugs and supplements -common injuries and prevention measures -training during the off-season -playing in college -sports-related careers and opportunities Throughout the book, readers will find sidebars containing various sports-related tidbits: high school sports stories, the history of various sports, interesting facts, short biographies, and sports-themed young adult novels. Filled with useful information, Sports: The Ultimate Teen Guide will help high school athletes of all levels, from freshman novices to highly competitive seniors.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0810882175

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9780810882171

Beyond Abuse

A biographical fiction of Marcella March, a sixth generation Jamaican whose adversities made her confident, self-reliant and emboldened.

By: Fay Ferguson

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Beyond Abuse

A biographical fiction of Marcella March, a sixth generation Jamaican whose adversities made her confident, self-reliant and emboldened.

By: Fay Ferguson

Beyond Abuse is a biographical fiction novel centered on the journey of Marcella March, a biracial, sixth generation Jamaican growing up in the early 20th century. Due to a tragic ‘incident’ in Jamaica, Marcella is sent to Colombia, South America to live with extended family. After five painful years in Colombia, she returns to Jamaica only to find herself in drastically different circumstances. With several brothers fighting in the Second World War in England, and key family members being meanspirited, her curiosity piqued. This leads her to delve into the family’s complicated lineage to England. The revelation is astounding. Marcella March’s lifelong quest for success is threatened by the blatant and subtle abuse that she faces. Will our heroine’s tormentors succeed in quelling her fiery determination? Dive into the heart-wrenching story of Marcella’s desire to overcome adversity and rise above her family’s painful past, all while developing into the resilient young woman that she is destined to be.

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FriesenPress

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1039125123

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Book's by Fay Robinson

The Only Game in Town

The Only Game in Town

The Last Commissioner

The Last Commissioner

The Gospel of John in Modern Interpretation

The Gospel of John in Modern Interpretation

It's What's Inside the Lines That Counts

It's What's Inside the Lines That Counts

Fashioning Faces

Fashioning Faces

We Would Have Played for Nothing

We Would Have Played for Nothing

Romantic Medievalism

Romantic Medievalism

The Book of Joshua

The Book of Joshua

Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance

Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance

The Opium War, 1840-1842

The Opium War, 1840-1842

Almighty God Created the Races

Almighty God Created the Races

This Mortal Coil

This Mortal Coil

The Cowboy at Work

The Cowboy at Work

Theaters of Occupation

Theaters of Occupation

Sports

Sports

Beyond Abuse

Beyond Abuse

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