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Taking the Field

A Fan's Quest to Run the Team He Loves

By: Howard Megdal

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Taking the Field

A Fan's Quest to Run the Team He Loves

By: Howard Megdal

Documents the author's experiences as an avid Mets fan who became a general manager and tapped his resources as an internet sportswriter in order to reverse the team's losing streak, describing his public rallies and campaigns and the key decisions and lessons that marked his journey. 30,000 first printing.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608195791

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The Cardinals Way

How One Team Embraced Tradition and Moneyball at the Same Time

By: Howard Megdal

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The Cardinals Way

How One Team Embraced Tradition and Moneyball at the Same Time

By: Howard Megdal

Chronicles the history and tradition of the St. Louis Cardinals, from the era when they were managed by Branch Rickey in the years following World War I to the present day.

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Macmillan

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1250058317

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9781250058317

Taking the Field

A Fan's Quest to Run the Team He Loves

By: Howard Megdal

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A Fan's Quest to Run the Team He Loves

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Wilpon's Folly

The Story of a Man, His Fortune, and the New York Mets

By: Howard Megdal

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Wilpon's Folly

The Story of a Man, His Fortune, and the New York Mets

By: Howard Megdal

On December 11, 2008, in the middle of a busy baseball offseason, Bernard Madoff was arrested for orchestrating a massive financial fraud. Among his chief investors was Mets owner Fred Wilpon, who not only lost a major revenue stream as a result, but is now being sued for "fictitious profits" that he now owes to other Madoff victims. To the tune of almost a billion dollars. How did this happen? Where did Wilpon go wrong, and why does a fraud victim suddenly owe money? The truth about these questions has been largely hidden, but in this short book, the whole story is fully revealed. In this tight narrative, Howard Megdal tells the dramatic financial tale and proves a surprising truth: Wilpon's thirty-year reign as owner of the Mets is about to end. Perhaps the most public victim of the Madoff scandal, Wilpon now faces a long road, and likely a difficult offseason. Here Megdal articulates both Wilpon's position and those against him. Like Michael Lewis' The Big Short, this book unravels the world of a major investment scandal through an entertaining and recognizable story.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608199045

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50 Trailblazers of the 50 States

Celebrate the Lives of Inspiring People Who Paved the Way from Every State in America!

By: Howard Megdal

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50 Trailblazers of the 50 States

Celebrate the Lives of Inspiring People Who Paved the Way from Every State in America!

By: Howard Megdal

Meet 50 trailblazers who made the United States what it is today in this bright, fact-packed biography book. With one trailblazer from every state, you'll discover how Rosa Parks from Alabama fought for civil rights, how Barack Obama from Hawaii became the USA's first Black president, how Margaret Murie from Alaska pioneered the American environmentalist movement, and how Betty Ford from Michigan improved treatment for drug addiction. Each spread features a timeline of the trailblazer's life, key facts about their achievements, and how their trailblazing continues today. By honoring people who strove in the areas of equal rights, feminism, and environmentalism/conservation, this fact-packed book celebrates what makes America great, then and now. Alabama: Rosa Parks; Alaska: Margaret Murie; Arizona: Cesar Chavez; Arkansas: All-American Redheads (women's basketball team); California: Colin Kaepernick; Colorado: Corky Gonzales; Connecticut: Rebecca Lobo; Delaware: Joe Biden; Florida: Emma Gonzalez; Georgia: Jackie Robinson; Hawaii: Barack Obama; Idaho: Marilyn Schuler; Illinois: Betty Friedan; Indiana: Eugene V. Debs; Iowa: Carrie Chapman Catt; Kansas: William Allen White; Kentucky: Muhammad Ali; Louisiana: Norris Henderson; Maine: Dorothea Dix; Maryland: Thurgood Marshall; Massachusetts: W.E.B. DuBois; Michigan: Betty Ford; Minnesota: Maya Moore; Mississippi: Myrlie Evers-Williams; Missouri: Michael Harrington; Montana: Barbara Ehrenreich; Nebraska: Susette La Flesche; Nevada: Velma Bronn Johnson; New Hampshire: Doris Haddock; New Jersey: Paul Robeson; New Mexico: Notah Begay; New York: Margaret Sanger; North Carolina: Jessica McDonald; North Dakota: Dave Archambault; Ohio: LeBron James; Oklahoma: Woody Guthrie; Oregon: Lola Baldwin; Pennsylvania: Rachel Carson; Rhode Island: Marjorie van Vliet; South Carolina: Sarah and Angelina Grimke; South Dakota: Hubert Humphrey; Tennessee: Hattie Caraway; Texas: Lyndon Johnson; Utah: David Nelson; Vermont: Clarina I.H. Nichols; Virginia: Mildred Loving; Washington: Jenny Durkan; West Virginia: Debbie Null; Wisconsin: Robert LaFollette; Wyoming: Harriet Elizabeth Byrd The perfect book for kids to discover the most amazing achievements in American history. Learn about key social issues including feminism and civil rights. Inspiring, informative and fun, this book can be picked up any time of day for a whistlestop tour of the United States, right from your own home, school, or library. The 50 States series of books for young explorers celebrates the USA and the wider world with key facts and fun activities about the people, history, and natural environments that make each location within them uniquely wonderful. Vivid illustrations, maps, and infographics bring the places to colorful life. Also available from the series: Only in America, Only in America Activity Book, Only in California, Only in Texas, We Are the United States, 50 Adventures in the 50 States, and The 50 States.

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Wide Eyed Editions

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0711291861

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9780711291867

The Baseball Talmud

The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball's Chosen Players

By: Howard Megdal

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The Baseball Talmud

The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball's Chosen Players

By: Howard Megdal

Updated and expanded edition! From the icons of the game to the players who got their big break but never quite broke through, The Baseball Talmud provides a wonderful historical narration of Major League Jewish Baseball in America. All the stats, the facts, the stories, and the (often unheralded) glory. This delightful compmendium reveals that there is far more to Jewish baseball than Hank Greenberg's powerful slugging and Sandy Koufax's masterful control. From Ausmus to Zinn, Berg to Kinsler, Holtzman to Yeager, and many others, Howard Megdal draws upon the lore and the little-known details that increase our enjoyment of the game. This new, expanded edition of The Baseball Talmud rewrites the history of Jewish baseball and is a book that every baseball fan should own.

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Triumph Books

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163727033X

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The Baseball Talmud

The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball's Chosen Players

By: Howard Megdal

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The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball's Chosen Players

By: Howard Megdal

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Wilpon's Folly

The Story of a Man, His Fortune, and the New York Mets

By: Howard Megdal

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The Story of a Man, His Fortune, and the New York Mets

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Rare Gems

How Four Generations of Women Paved the Way For the WNBA

By: Howard Megoal

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Rare Gems

How Four Generations of Women Paved the Way For the WNBA

By: Howard Megoal

An expansive and compelling chronicle tracing the rise of modern women's basketball Elvera "Peps" Neuman got lost in the sounds and rhythms of basketball, dribbling and shooting on a hoop affixed to her family's barn in Eden Valley, Minnesota. In the years preceding Title IX, Neuman's dreams of playing the game professionally meant a life away from home on barnstorming tours and even forming a team of her own, the Arkansas Gems. Sixty years later, she got to witness what a sold-out Target Center in downtown Minneapolis looked like on the Friday night of the 2022 Women's Final Four. Neuman's cheers joined with a crowd of 18,268 to send a wall of sound toward the Twin Cities' own Paige Bueckers and her Connecticut teammates. The 5'11 Bueckers may have worn her ponytail a little differently than Neuman, but Neuman certainly saw something of herself in the young superstar. This is the story of the pioneers who shaped so much of the modern infrastructure for women's basketball, whose histories intersect and wind their way through the state of Minnesota. It is the story of forcing open doors— to ensure teams even existed, to allow those teams to play in conditions resembling those men could take for granted, to ensure that the color of your skin or who you love would not be a barrier to building a life centered around basketball. To end the double-standard that treats every undeniable success by women as a one-off, but every setback as a referendum. Four generations of women have played essential and diverse roles: Neuman and her friend and collaborator of a half-century, Vicky Nelson; Cheryl Reeve and her wife, Carley Knox; Lindsay Whalen, Maya Moore, Seimone Augustus, Sylvia Fowles, and WNBA's Minnesota Lynx; right through to the future of the game in Bueckers and the stars of tomorrow. Through meticulous research and evocative storytelling, this captivating narrative gives due recognition to the luminaries who ushered in women's basketball's modern era.

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1637272006

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The Handbook of Institutional Research

By: Richard D. Howard,Gerald W. McLaughlin,William E. Knight

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The Handbook of Institutional Research

By: Richard D. Howard,Gerald W. McLaughlin,William E. Knight

Institutional research is more relevant today than ever before as growing pressures for improved student learning and increased institutional accountability motivate higher education to effectively use ever-expanding data and information resources. As the most current and comprehensive volume on the topic, the Handbook describes the fundamental knowledge, techniques, and strategies that define institutional research. The book contains an overview of the profession and its history, examines how institutional research supports executive and academic leadership and governance, and discusses the varied ways data from federal, state, and campus sources are used by research professionals. With contributions from leading experts in the field, this important resource reviews the analytic tools, techniques, and methodologies used by institutional researchers in their professional practice and covers a wide range of topics such as: conducting institutional research; statistical applications; comparative analyses; quality control systems; measuring student, faculty, and staff opinions; and management activities designed to improve organizational effectiveness.

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691

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118234510

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9781118234518

50 Trailblazers of the 50 States

Celebrate the Lives of Inspiring People Who Paved the Way from Every State in America!

By: Howard Megdal

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Celebrate the Lives of Inspiring People Who Paved the Way from Every State in America!

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Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology E-Book

By: Howard M. Fillit,Kenneth Rockwood,John B Young

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Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology E-Book

By: Howard M. Fillit,Kenneth Rockwood,John B Young

The leading reference in the field of geriatric care, Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 8th Edition, provides a contemporary, global perspective on topics of importance to today's gerontologists, internal medicine physicians, and family doctors. An increased focus on frailty, along with coverage of key issues in gerontology, disease-specific geriatrics, and complex syndromes specific to the elderly, makes this 8th Edition the reference you'll turn to in order to meet the unique challenges posed by this growing patient population. - Consistent discussions of clinical manifestations, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and more make reference quick and easy. - More than 250 figures, including algorithms, photographs, and tables, complement the text and help you find what you need on a given condition. - Clinical relevance of the latest scientific findings helps you easily apply the material to everyday practice. - A new chapter on frailty, plus an emphasis on frailty throughout the book, addresses the complex medical and social issues that affect care, and the specific knowledge and skills essential for meeting your patients' complex needs. - New content brings you up to date with information on gerontechnology, emergency and pre-hospital care, HIV and aging, intensive treatment of older adults, telemedicine, the built environment, and transcultural geriatrics. - New editor Professor John Young brings a fresh perspective and unique expertise to this edition.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702063444

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9780702063442

Howard Dean In His Own Words

By: Howard Dean

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Howard Dean In His Own Words

By: Howard Dean

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Macmillan

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0312330731

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9780312330736

Walter Howard: Reflections in Moonlight

By: Walter Howard

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Walter Howard: Reflections in Moonlight

By: Walter Howard

There is something old-fashioned and sage-like in Walter Howard's poetic voice. I can imagine him reading from a mountaintop-- with the raging elements a backdrop to his words. Howard is a learned man-- and has been an academic for many years-- but his poetry is in the tradition of a true romantic. He uses nature and emotion to find spiritual truth. He embraces beauty-- with all its allure, but is not afraid to reveal its frightening and dark side as well. Howard uses ample doses of levity to pull the fly down on our most cherished traditions and notions, but in the same token he shows a deep respect and affinity for all the things this world has to offer." - Doug Holder, Publisher of Ibbetson Street Press

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Lulu.com

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1387535242

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Taking the Field

Taking the Field

The Cardinals Way

The Cardinals Way

Taking the Field

Taking the Field

Wilpon's Folly

Wilpon's Folly

50 Trailblazers of the 50 States

50 Trailblazers of the 50 States

The Baseball Talmud

The Baseball Talmud

The Baseball Talmud

The Baseball Talmud

Wilpon's Folly

Wilpon's Folly

Rare Gems

Rare Gems

The Handbook of Institutional Research

The Handbook of Institutional Research

50 Trailblazers of the 50 States

50 Trailblazers of the 50 States

Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology E-Book

Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology E-Book

Howard Dean In His Own Words

Howard Dean In His Own Words

Walter Howard: Reflections in Moonlight

Walter Howard: Reflections in Moonlight

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