This work starts with the formation of the first baseball club in America, the Olympic Town Ball Club, and concludes with the final year of the National League's monopoly. Also included: the early Philadelphia club teams, including the first great African-American team, the Pythians; Philadelphia's part in the National Association of Base Ball Players; and the golden days of the national champion Philadelphia Athletic Club from 1860 through the National Association years.
The 2008 baseball season was, in many ways, like every other baseball season. It had a little bit of everything, and pretty much everything that happened in baseball in 2008 had some sort of historical precedent, whether it was a similar situation that had occurred sometime during the past 150 years or so, or perhaps something that illustrated baseballas seeming failure to learn from historya]because, he who fails to learn from history is doomed to repeat it. This is 2008, as compared and contrasted against similar stories and people from baseballas past. The steroids mess, great pitchers and great pitching feats, unassisted triple plays, no-hitters, 500/600 home run hitters, big trades, the Hall of Fame, record breakers, The House That Ruth Built. Plus some lighter momentsa]Billy Crystal making the majors, funny team nicknames, abaseballa in Finland. All leading up to the World Series and the weirdest game to ever conclude a season.
Baseball is a game of people. And while managers, owners, lawyers, umpires and statistics sometimes claim center stage, it's the players who make baseball what it is...The Great American Game. Over the course of the past 150 years, thousands of great, and not-so-great, players have left their mark on the game. And, as anyone who knows history can tell you, there's very little new under the sun...even when most baseball games are either played indoors or at night. Baseball...Then and Now takes a look at the players of the game, comparing yesterday's players with the headliners and bottom feeders of today. Ty Cobb and Pete Rose. Honus Wagner and Alex Rodriguez. Dazzy Vance and Curt Schilling. Mario Mendoza and Rey Ordonez. Steve Blass and Rick Ankiel. Pete Reiser and Ken Griffey, Jr. In all 25 chapters, we'll see how events from baseball's past resonate today.
This work starts with the formation of the first baseball club in America, the Olympic Town Ball Club, and concludes with the final year of the National League's monopoly. Also included: the early Philadelphia club teams, including the first great African-American team, the Pythians; Philadelphia's part in the National Association of Base Ball Players; and the golden days of the national champion Philadelphia Athletic Club from 1860 through the National Association years.
Baseball: 1862 to 2003 is a weekly review of the 2003 baseball season, written as the events of 2003 were happening, and looking at them through the lens of baseball history to show how events from baseballas past resonate today. Indeed, the national pastimeas rich history a stretching from the 19th century to the 21st century a provides a variety of examples that illuminate the events of 2003. Baseball: 1862 to 2003 looks at timely historical events and ties them to a story from 2003as headlines, sometimes comparing the past and the present, sometimes contrasting the two, sometimes using a past event as a jumping-off point to look at what happened in 2003. Stories like: Pete Rose, the Hall of Fame elections, the awful Detroit Tigers, Sammy Sosaas corked bat, Roger Clemensa 300th win, acurses, a 20-game losers, playoff failures, and the World Series. Itas baseball, from injuries to uniforms to interleague play to team nicknames.
A new anthology from the editor of the bestselling Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy. Explorations on a journey through the darkest and brightest moments of our lives, the poems gathered here are explorations of loss, of thanksgiving, of transformation. Some show a path forward and others simply acknowledge and empathize with where we are, but all are celebrations of poetry’s ability to express what seemed otherwise inexpressible, to touch deep inside our hearts—and also pull ourselves out of our selves and into greater connection with the world around us. Includes poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins, Joy Harjo, Danusha Lameris, Ada Limon, Kevin Young, Arthur Sze, Ellen Bass, Li Young-Lee, Natasha Tretheway, and many more. The editor also includes an essay on appreciative attention and links to guided meditations for select poems, offering us a chance to have an even deeper experience of reflection.
Baseball: 1862 to 2003 is a weekly review of the 2003 baseball season, written as the events of 2003 were happening, and looking at them through the lens of baseball history to show how events from baseballas past resonate today. Indeed, the national pastimeas rich history a stretching from the 19th century to the 21st century a provides a variety of examples that illuminate the events of 2003. Baseball: 1862 to 2003 looks at timely historical events and ties them to a story from 2003as headlines, sometimes comparing the past and the present, sometimes contrasting the two, sometimes using a past event as a jumping-off point to look at what happened in 2003. Stories like: Pete Rose, the Hall of Fame elections, the awful Detroit Tigers, Sammy Sosaas corked bat, Roger Clemensa 300th win, acurses, a 20-game losers, playoff failures, and the World Series. Itas baseball, from injuries to uniforms to interleague play to team nicknames.
With over 5,200 entries, this volume remains one of the most extensive annotated bibliographies on the USA’s fight against Japan in the Second World War. Including books, articles, and de-classified documents up to the end of 1987, the book is organized into six categories: Part 1 presents reference works, including encyclopedias, pictorial accounts, military histories, East Asian histories, hisotoriographies. Part 2 covers diplomatic-political aspects of the war against Japan. Part 3 contains sources on the economic and legal aspects of the war against Japan. Part 4 presents sources on the military apsects of the war – embracing land, air and sea forces. Religious aspects of the war are covered in Part 5 and Part 6 deals with the social and cultural aspects, including substantial sections on the treatment of Japanese minorities in the USA, Hawaii, Canada and Peru.
Kyoto, the ancient former capital of Japan, breathes history and mystery. Its temples, gardens and palaces are testimony to many centuries of aristocratic and religious grandeur. Under the veneer of modernity, the city remains filled with countless reminders of a proud past. John Dougill explores this most venerable of Japanese cities, revealing the spirit of place and the individuals that have shaped its often dramatic history. Courtiers and courtesans, poets and priests, samurai and geisha people the pages of his account. Covering twelve centuries in all, the book not only provides a historical overview but brings to life the cultural magnificence of the city of "Purple Hills and Crystal Streams". City of Power: The seat of aristocrats and warriors; military might and spiritual authority; unification and the transition to modernity. City of Ritual: Buddhist sects and Shinto festivals; tea ceremony; the role of the geisha; the influence of Zen. City of Arts: Poetry and fiction; architecture and garden design; Heian verse and Noh theatre; art and handicrafts; the Japanese Hollywood.
The 4 volumes in this set, originally published between 1980 and 1983, bring to light and focus on the conflict between Japan and Australia and Japan and the USA. Timothy Hall’s volumes, richly illustrated with black & white photographs, used highly contentious documents as their sources and give fascinating insights into a period of Australian history which is sometimes less than gloious. John J. Sbrega’s tour de force is not only one of the most extensive annotated bibliographies on the USA and Japan in World War 2 ever published, but it also provides invaluable information on lesser known but no less important aspects of the conflict.
In 2003, the National Commission on the Public Service, chaired by Paul Volcker, issued a report detailing problems within the federal government today and recommending changes in its organization, leadership, and operations. This book suggests practical ways to implement the recommendations and defines a research agenda for the future. Thirteen essays address the primary problem areas identified by the Volcker Commission, and the commission report itself is included.
Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Did baseball even have a father--or did it just evolve from other bat-and-ball games? John Thorn, baseball's preeminent historian, examines the creation story of the game and finds it all to be a gigantic lie. From its earliest days baseball was a vehicle for gambling, a proxy form of class warfare. Thorn traces the rise of the New York version of the game over other variations popular in Massachusetts and Philadelphia. He shows how the sport's increasing popularity in the early decades of the nineteenth century mirrored the migration of young men from farms and small towns to cities, especially New York. Full of heroes, scoundrels, and dupes, this book tells the story of nineteenth-century America, a land of opportunity and limitation, of glory and greed--all present in the wondrous alloy that is our nation and its pastime.--From publisher description.
Across the country are hundreds of high school football rivalries. Each might lay claim that it is special in many ways. In the heart of the great central valley of California is one such rivalry that is exceptional in its power over the people who have been part of it. Two high schools, Redwood and Mt. Whitney, began playing an annual football game against each other in 1955. The 50th game of this traditional rivalry was played in 2004 before 10,000 fans and a live television audience. The two schools, located only a few blocks from each other in Visalia, California, a city of 100,000 people, have maintained this intense rivalry for over 50 years like very few schools have ever done. The game is played before a packed stadium every year and the community claims it as the biggest event during the entire year. Part 1 explores the history of the Cowhide game, relating the early humble beginning when the original high school split into two schools. The evolution of the game over 50 years is explored. Using hundreds of questionnaires, newspaper accounts, and many interviews with those involved over the years, the real meaning of the Cowhide tradition is explored and the reasons are brought out as to why this rivalry has not only endured but has actually increased in strength over the years. Part 2 gives a detailed account of each of the 50 games, including the teams' records coming into the game, the results of any subsequent playoffs, and a complete roster of the teams for each year. The article of the local newspaper about the game is included in each chapter. At the end is an appendix of stats, a listing of head and assistant coaches, and other interesting items over the years. Finally there is an index of all the players who played in the game and what years they played.
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