And On The Eighth Day God Created The Yankees

Author : Vincent Bove
Publisher : Logos Associates
ISBN 13 : 9780882705149
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And on the Eighth Day God Created the Yankees written by Vincent Bove and published by Logos Associates. This book was released on 1981 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past and present Yankee players offer their fans advice on school, sports, and living a Christian life

Author : Burton A. Boxerman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786472537
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Weiss written by Burton A. Boxerman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Yankees were the strongest team in the majors from 1948 through 1960, capturing the American League Pennant 10 times and winning seven World Championships. The average fan, when asked who made the team so dominant, will mention Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford or Mickey Mantle. Some will insist manager Casey Stengel was the key. But pundits at the time, and respected historians today, consider the shy, often taciturn George Martin Weiss the real genius behind the Yankees' success. Weiss loved baseball but lacked the ability to play. He made up for it with the savvy to run a team better than his competitors. He spent more than 50 years in the game, including nearly 30 with the Yankees. Before becoming their general manager, he created their superlative farm system that supplied the club with talented players. When the Yankees retired him at 67, the newly franchised New York Mets immediately hired him to build their team. This book is the first definitive biography of Weiss, a Hall of Famer hailed for contributing "as much to baseball as any man the game could ever know."

Author : Vincent J. Bove
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615240763
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Listen to Their Cries written by Vincent J. Bove and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincent J. Bove, CPP has been speaking to audiences on leadership, ethics and character as well as numerous violence prevention and substance abuse awareness initiatives since September 1999. After the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, he felt compelled to put his thoughts in writing. It is his deepest hope that this book will enable individuals to work together in a unity of effort to build communities of hope and trust. In Listen To Their Cries, Mr. Bove ? Discusses the crisis of leadership and character in our society ? Memorializes the incidents of school violence over the past decade ? Reviews lessons learned from the Virginia Tech tragedy ? Highlights the basics of safety and security ? Offers his vision for reawakening the heart of America

Author : Craig Harline
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300167423
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunday written by Craig Harline and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mere mention of "Sunday" will immediately conjure up a rich mix of memories, associations, and ideas for most anyone of any age. Whatever we think of-be it attending church, reading a bulky newspaper, eating brunch, or watching football-Sunday occupies a unique place in Western civilization. But how did we come to have a day with such a singular set of traditions? Here, historian Craig Harline examines Sunday from its ancient beginnings to contemporary America in a fascinating blend of stories and analysis. For the earliest Christians, the first day of the week was a time to celebrate the liturgy, observe the Resurrection, and work. But over time, Sunday in the Western world took on still other meanings and rituals, especially in the addition of both rest and recreation to the day's activities. Harline illuminates these changes in enlightening profiles of Sunday in medieval Catholic England, Sunday in the Reformation, and Sunday in nineteenth-century France-home of the most envied and sometimes despised Sunday of the modern world. He continues with moving portraits of soldiers and civilians trying to observe Sunday during World War I, examines the quiet Sunday of England in the 1930s, and concludes with the convergence of various European traditions in the American Sunday, which also adds some distinctly original habits of its own, such as in the realms of commerce and professional sports.With engaging prose and scholarly integrity, "Sunday" is an entertaining and long-overdue look at a significant hallmark of Western culture.

Author : Vincent J. Bove
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483487318
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reawakening America: Leadership, Vigilance, and Collaboration written by Vincent J. Bove and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely and essential work, nationally acclaimed speaker and author Vincent J. Bove anthologizes his Sentinel Digest articles that examine the leadership crisis and culture of violence in America. From mass shootings and police-community tensions to racial discrimination and the immigration crisis, Bove chronicles our country's afflictions and champions the unsung community heroes who model moral character and integrity needed in a time of apathy. Reawakening America is an inspiring social and political commentary that speaks to the American spirit and encourages citizens to stand up to the corruption, deceit, violence and divisiveness that is plaguing the United States.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1632 pages
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Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wahib Nasrallah
Publisher : Garland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Corporation Histories written by Wahib Nasrallah and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Radclyffe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462846696
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Download or read book Madness Is Catching written by Edward Radclyffe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stateville is one of the strangest towns in the South. Home to State University, which makes the dubious claim to be the finest public university in the Deep South, it is an island of slightly liberal values in the Southern sea of blue-collar and military tradition. And caught between middle-class America and the sharecropper-cum-Klansman past are the educated unemployables who pass as Southern bohemia: artists who can create only when the moonlight is in the magnolias and the utilities have been cut off, writers who struggle to pen modern novels but keep coming back to the War (the only war, it would seem down South), revolutionaries who pose as Marxes and Lenins of reaction but simply cannot persuade the South to rise again, poets who spread chaos and disorder, and angry dishwashers who curse the gods for denying them the right to become movie stars. Their rudderless lives, and how they are changed forever (not necessarily for the better), are the subject of Madness is Catching, a picaresque comedy of idleness that presents classic Southern vices in a new and universal light. Tom Spaulding is one of State Universitys most illustrious dropouts, having earned nearly two hundred credit hoursalmost entirely in electivesand been expelled for refusing to declare a major in anything other than distressed Southern gentleman. At thirty years old, he has never held a full-time job, and it is with the greatest reluctance that he holds a part-time sinecure. He prefers to be known as an artist, although the last time he produced any art was during the Starving Time, when a parental check failed to arrive. After all, to quote Spaulding when on a full stomach, Doing is not as significant as being. Tom Jenkins graduated from State University again and again, but so far it hasnt done him much financial good. He spends his days writing free-verse epics completely unrelated to his near-Ph.D. in polar history (he would have been the first student at a Southern university to write a dissertation on early efforts to cross Antarctica via snowmobile), as well as propaganda tracts encouraging Southerners to rise up and peacefully and democratically overthrow the Yankee oppressors. To supplement his predictably meager income from poetry and propaganda, Jenkins runs a flea-market stall where he sells books recovered from a library dumpster. With the fine clothing, furniture, and surprising luxuries he also finds in dumpsters and thrift shops, Jenkins is able to ape his supposed planter ancestors, a uniquely Southern way of life. Tom Rothman spends his days waiting tables at a truck stop, a great fall from his upper-middle-class youth, when he came to Stateville planning to enroll at the university. Now he provides service with a sneer, grumbling at his customers under his breath, and grumbling loudly and profanely to his friends about the endless ways in which life has ill-used him. But there remains a kernel of seemingly hopeless ambition that Rothman cannot forever ignore. Reginald OBryan, a former carnival barker now on work-related disability, is distinguished among his associates for his unparalleled and cynical indolence. Theres much to be said against work, he tells a receptive Spaulding. Its certainly a destroyer of initiative. OBryan becomes an elder statesman of sloth and a beacon of depravity to his younger friends. A one-man Devils workshop, the only question is whether OBryan will be punished or rewarded by the Southern powersand Powersthat be. Through one adventure, free meal, disaster, and embarrassment after another, this growing band of Southerners fails to learn any lessons at all, unless it is that persistence can be a great waste of time. From the hallowed mock-Tudor-mock-Gothic halls of State University to the inside of a clean and well-lit dumpster, to the offensively uncharitable Megathrift charity store, the lost Sou

Author : Don Raycraft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780891455066
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Value Guide to Baseball Collectibles written by Don Raycraft and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest continues to grow in baseball memorabilia ranging from autographs and copies of Sports Illustrated to "game used" equipment and bats. Numerous guides have been produced that categorize and evaluate baseball cards, but until now there have been few sources for detailed and current information on related memorabilia.