The challenging puzzlers presented here will have you playing armchair manager or umpire; reading about strange, unusual, and trick plays; and matching up quotes with the people who originated them.
The most popular hobby in the world, stamp collecting has millions of fans in the United States alone. Many are adults who have turned a childhood interest in philately into a pleasurable (and often profitable) lifetime avocation. This volume has everything needed to start a personal stamp collection: Entries for nearly 200 countries; Spaces for more than 2,600 stamps; Over 1,100 black-and-white illustrations of stamps; Easy-to-use Stamp Identifier Table and Index. Clear instructions for using the album and the Stamp Identifier Table are included, along with many useful hints and tips on building a collection. An entertaining, inexpensive way to learn about faraway people and places, stamp collecting brings a sense of excitement and adventure with each new acquisition. This book offers would-be collectors that ticket to discovery.
Presents true stories of events on and off the baseball field, with sidelights about players, managers, rules, and unusual customs connected with the sport.
How strange it is! Kids will go crazy over every wacky, sometimes icky, always entertaining fact in this brand-new Little Giant compilation. The topics range from food to customs, animals to history, nature to sports. For example, in Marostica, Italy, an immense chess board is built into the public square: the pawns and all the pieces are human beings, and the knights sit on real horses! Or how about this: Maine actually has a law that prohibits anyone from stepping out of a plane while it's in the air. From weird worms that stop island natives in their tracks to 4000 year old bathrooms with modern drainage systems, each tidbit of information is truly a treat.
How did National League officials insure the authenticity of Mark McGwire's home run balls as he passed the 50 homer mark during the 1998 season? Under what unusual circumstances did Ken Griffey, Jr., sign a football? When is a record not really a record? Baseball is filled with hundreds of zany stories-- and the funniest and most unusual ones unfold in this collection. Did you know that: * Dave Kingman played for four teams in one season? * Hall of Fame shortstop Luke Appling once ended up with a coffeepot when he was diving for a baseball? * Glen Hubbard is pictured with a nine-foot python draped around his neck and shoulders on his 1984 Fleer baseball card? These and other strange and extraordinary facts about the classic teams and the greatest players await you.
How strange it is! Kids will go crazy over every wacky, sometimes icky, always entertaining fact in this brand-new Little Giant compilation. The topics range from food to customs, animals to history, nature to sports. For example, in Marostica, Italy, an immense chess board is built into the public square: the pawns and all the pieces are human beings, and the knights sit on real horses! Or how about this: Maine actually has a law that prohibits anyone from stepping out of a plane while it's in the air. From weird worms that stop island natives in their tracks to 4000 year old bathrooms with modern drainage systems, each tidbit of information is truly a treat.
The challenging puzzlers presented here will have you playing armchair manager or umpire; reading about strange, unusual, and trick plays; and matching up quotes with the people who originated them.
The most popular hobby in the world, stamp collecting has millions of fans in the United States alone. Many are adults who have turned a childhood interest in philately into a pleasurable (and often profitable) lifetime avocation. This volume has everything needed to start a personal stamp collection: Entries for nearly 200 countries; Spaces for more than 2,600 stamps; Over 1,100 black-and-white illustrations of stamps; Easy-to-use Stamp Identifier Table and Index. Clear instructions for using the album and the Stamp Identifier Table are included, along with many useful hints and tips on building a collection. An entertaining, inexpensive way to learn about faraway people and places, stamp collecting brings a sense of excitement and adventure with each new acquisition. This book offers would-be collectors that ticket to discovery.
Some of baseball's greatest moments are captured in a collection of playoff and World Series upsets, surprises, and record-breakers illustrated with rare, seldom-seen photos
Illustrated play-by-play accounts of each All-Star Game ever played--from the mid-season fund raisers of the Great Depression to the media events of the seventies--feature candid interviews with players, managers, and executives and complete box scores of
Lists current retail values for U.S. regular issues, commemoratives, special delivery, special handling, and parcel post stamps issued between 1847 and the present
To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams--and those who play on them--our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball. During what Burk calls baseball's "paternalistic era," from 1921 to the early 1960s, the sport's management rigidly maintained a system of racial segregation, established a network of southern-based farm teams that served as a captive source of cheap replacement labor, and crushed any attempts by players to create collective bargaining institutions. In the 1960s, however, the paternal order crumbled, eroded in part by the civil rights movement and the competition of television. As a consequence, in the "inflationary era" that followed, both players and umpires established effective unions that successfully pressed for higher pay, pensions, and greater occupational mobility--and then fought increasingly bitter struggles to hold on to these hard-won gains.
How did National League officials insure the authenticity of Mark McGwire's home run balls as he passed the 50 homer mark during the 1998 season? Under what unusual circumstances did Ken Griffey, Jr., sign a football? When is a record not really a record? Baseball is filled with hundreds of zany stories-- and the funniest and most unusual ones unfold in this collection. Did you know that: * Dave Kingman played for four teams in one season? * Hall of Fame shortstop Luke Appling once ended up with a coffeepot when he was diving for a baseball? * Glen Hubbard is pictured with a nine-foot python draped around his neck and shoulders on his 1984 Fleer baseball card? These and other strange and extraordinary facts about the classic teams and the greatest players await you.
Presents true stories of events on and off the baseball field, with sidelights about players, managers, rules, and unusual customs connected with the sport.
Presents true stories of events on and off the baseball field, with sidelights about players, managers, rules, and unusual customs connected with the sport.
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