A Slow Pitch Summer

Author : Edwin Amenta
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226016684
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Professor Baseball written by Edwin Amenta and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It happens every summer: packs of beer-bellied men with gloves and aluminum bats, putting their middle-aged bodies to the test on the softball diamond. For some, this yearly ritual is driven by a simple desire to enjoy a good ballgame; for others, it’s a way to forge friendships—and rivalries. But for one short, wild-haired, bespectacled professor, playing softball in New York’s Central Park means a whole lot more. It's one last chance to heal the nagging wounds of Little League trauma before the rust of decline and the relentless responsibilities of fatherhood set in. Professor Baseball is the coming-of-middle-age story of New York University professor and Little League benchwarmer Edwin Amenta. As rookie manager of the Performing Arts Softball League’s doormat Sharkeys, he reverses softball’s usual brawn-over-brains formula. He coaxes his skeptical teammates to follow his sabermetric and sociological approach, based equally on Bill James and Max Weber, which in the heady days of early success he dubs “Eddy Ball.” But Amenta soon learns that his teammates’ attachments to favorite positions and time-honored (if ineffective) strategies are hard to break—especially when the team begins losing. And though he rejects the baseball-as-life metaphor, life keeps intruding on his softball season. Amenta here comes to grips with the humiliation of assisted reproduction, suffers mysterious ailments, and finds himself lingering at the sponsor’s bar, while his partner, a beautiful but baseball-challenged professor, second-guesses his book in the making. Can he turn his team—and his life—around? Packed with colorful personalities, dramatic games, and the bustle of New York life, Professor Baseball will charm anyone who has ever root, root, rooted for the underdog.

Author : Christopher Madden
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323442579
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Netter's Sports Medicine E-Book written by Christopher Madden and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by past presidents of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, Netter’s Sports Medicine, 2nd Edition, is a superbly illustrated, go-to sports medicine resource for the outpatient office, the training room, on the sideline, and for certification preparation. Designed for quick reference, this interdisciplinary reference by Drs. Christopher Madden, Margot Putukian, Eric McCarty, and Craig Young, is organized by both topic and sport, so you can find what you need quickly. Whether you are a primary care physician managing a common or unique musculoskeletal injury in an ambulatory setting ... an orthopaedic surgeon gaining insight about a medical or psychological problem foreign to the cast or operating room ... an athletic trainer figuring out a diagnosis in the training room ... or a physical therapist pursuing further in-depth sports medicine knowledge, this reference gives you the guidance you need to keep athletes and other active patients at the top of their game. More than 1,000 superb Netter graphics, tables, figures, pictures, diagnostic images, and other medical artwork highlight the easy-to-read, bulleted text. Ideal for the sports clinician, team physician, and any health care professionals who provide care to athletes and active individuals. New chapters on travel considerations for the athlete, EKG interpretation, cardiac disease, diagnostic imaging and ultrasound, injury prevention protocols, equestrian sports and rodeo medicine, mixed martial arts, and many more. Up-to-date coverage of nutritional supplements, eating disorders, sports and pharmacology for chronic conditions and behavioral medicine, and extreme and adventure sports.

Author : Leon Speroff
Publisher : Arnica Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780974568690
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Slow-pitch Summer written by Leon Speroff and published by Arnica Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slow-Pitch Summer is a candid, endearing, and often humorous memoir of a physcian returning to his first softball season in forty years. Dr. Speroff takes the reader along his journey as he rekindles his lifelong love affair with the game. From choosing the perfect glove, to finding the sweet spot on the bat, to the camaraderie among his teammates on the 60-plus Lime Popsicles, this story celebrates a personal triumph over the aging process.

Author : Ben Chappell
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503628604
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican American Fastpitch written by Ben Chappell and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mexican American communities in the central United States, the modern tradition of playing fastpitch softball has been passed from generation to generation. This ethnic sporting practice is kept alive through annual tournaments, the longest-running of which were founded in the 1940s, when softball was a ubiquitous form of recreation, and the so-called "Mexican American generation" born to immigrant parents was coming of age. Carrying on with fastpitch into the second or third generation of players even as wider interest in the sport has waned, these historically Mexican American tournaments now function as reunions that allow people to maintain ties to a shared past, and to remember the decades of segregation when Mexican Americans' citizenship was unfairly questioned. In this multi-sited ethnography, Ben Chappell conveys the importance of fastpitch in the ordinary yearly life of Mexican American communities from Kansas City to Houston. Traveling to tournaments, he interviews players and fans, strikes up conversations in the bleachers, takes in the atmosphere in the heat of competition, and combs through local and personal archives. Recognizing fastpitch as a practice of cultural citizenship, Chappell situates the sport within a history marked by migration, marginalization, solidarity, and struggle, through which Mexican Americans have navigated complex negotiations of cultural, national, and local identities.

Author : Jim Brown
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 9780736033909
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports Talent written by Jim Brown and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future of Sports Talent.

Author : Ronald G. Bliss
Publisher : W. Clement Stone
ISBN 13 : 9780396068921
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Softball Summer written by Ronald G. Bliss and published by W. Clement Stone. This book was released on 1974 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The team's prospects seem bleak when they start the softball season with only eight palyers, one an Indian who has never played the game before. Then they discover the Indian is a girl.

Author : Amateur Softball Association of America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781572432741
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Official Rules of Softball written by Amateur Softball Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential resource for players and fans of the game. Included are the sport's official playing rules, pitching regulations, referee signals, and field diagrams for fast and slow pitch, both 12 inch and 16 inch.

Author : Tony Renzoni
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467142670
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connecticut Softball Legend Joan Joyce written by Tony Renzoni and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan Joyce will always be known as the unbeatable pitcher for the Raybestos Brakettes and the Connecticut Falcons, whose numerous career records--including an incredible 150 no-hitters and 50 perfect games--made her the best in the game. However, she was also one of the most gifted athletes the state has ever produced, as she also set records in basketball and later went on to a stellar career in the LPGA. A true pioneer of women's sports, Joan is currently the head softball coach at Florida Atlantic University. Join author Tony Renzoni as he profiles the multifaceted career of one of the country's greatest athletes.

Author : Rainer Martens
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 0736094067
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complete Guide to Slowpitch Softball written by Rainer Martens and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2011 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and original instructional guide to the unique sport of slowpitch. Learn basic to advanced offensive and defensive techniques, as well as expert advice on physical and psychological conditioning.

Author : John L. Kinsler
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469762722
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Softball Game written by John L. Kinsler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-10-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 20 million men and women in this country play softball. On the surface, The Softball Game is about men and their need for battles. Aggression is as coded in our DNA as is our need to reproduce. It is a fun game with laughs recalled from years playing softball. The old storyteller is reluctant to do battle. He tells the confrontation in the first person singular, episode by episode. The game is a tribal struggle played by redneck, bad guys and middle class, semi-affluent, anti-heroes. Coming to the rescue is Beth - - a woman! Beth reduces the male struggle to a farce. The driving timbre is the storytellers experiences with three females whose lives are indirectly, obliquely, and directly affected by his wars at softball. The Softball Game is about these women. Phaedra literally hands the young warrior his first sexual experience. Entering the man world still a child, he meets Bridgette his playtoy. She is a transition to adulthood and the paragon of summer love. Playing at sex with adult bodies and a childs maturity, they both lose. Then comes Beth. If you read one chapter, it should be 11. There has never been a hero like her.