Eyes On The Sporting Scene 1870 1930

Author : Pamela A. Bakker
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476601674
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eyes on the Sporting Scene, 1870-1930 written by Pamela A. Bakker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helms Hall of Fame's brothers William M. and Andrew B. "June" Rankin lived exciting lives covering sports for papers like the New York Sunday Mercury, New York Herald, New York World, Brooklyn Daily Eagle and New York Clipper from 1870 to 1930. Playing for amateur and semiprofessional Rockland County (N.Y.) clubs in the mid-1860s through early 1870s, the brothers developed into baseball writers and editors. Often working with Henry Chadwick, called the Father of Baseball, the brothers became authorities on the sport, writing histories of clubs and players, and scoring for the early New York and Brooklyn clubs. June went on to cover boxing as it transitioned into a gentlemen's sport, football as it emerged on college campuses, and golf through the formative years of the USGA and PGA. He also wrote two baseball books. Filled with sporting details, this book sets the brothers into a period of great changes in the world of American sports.

Author : Charlie Bevis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786496657
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tim Keefe written by Charlie Bevis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest pitchers of the 19th century, Tim Keefe (1857-1933) was an ardent believer in the artisan work ethic that was becoming outmoded in burgeoning industrial America. A master craftsman, he compiled 342 career victories during his 14-season Major League career while adapting to numerous changes in pitching rules during the 1880s. Known as a strategic pitcher, he outsmarted batters, particularly with his change-of-pace pitch. He led the New York Giants to the National League pennant in 1888 and 1889, establishing a Major League record with 19 consecutive pitching victories in 1888. He taught pitching as a college baseball coach, wrote several articles about his craft and established a sporting goods firm where he manufactured a baseball of his own design. He was a proponent for players' rights as the secretary of the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players, which formed the ill-fated Players' League in 1890. This first-ever biography of Keefe covers the career of the 1964 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.

Author : Jon David Cash
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476680833
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boom and Bust in St. Louis written by Jon David Cash and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The St. Louis Cardinals, despite winning more World Series than any Major League franchise except for the New York Yankees, have seen their share of dry spells when they were shut out of the postseason. Like the American economy, the Cardinals have seen their fortunes cycle through prolonged ups and downs, with booms in 1885-1888, 1926-1946, 1964-1968, 1982-1987 and 1996-2011, and busts in 1889-1925, 1947-1963, 1969-1981 and 1988-1995. Drawing on years of research, this book chronicles the Cardinals' periods of success and failure and explains the reasons behind them.

Author : Pamela A. Bakker
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786479159
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 104th Field Artillery Regiment of the New York National Guard, 1916-1919 written by Pamela A. Bakker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book chronicles the extensive training and heroic service of the New York National Guard's 104th Field Artillery Regiment from the period of 1916 to 1919. The regiment, initially called the 1st Field Artillery Regiment, served as border patrol in Texas during the Mexican Punitive Expedition in 1916, and trained at the gunnery field at La Gloria, Texas. During World War I, they trained by the Glassy Mountains at Camp Wadsworth in South Carolina, and then at the School of Fire of Camp de Souge near Bordeaux, France. Because of this extensive training, elements of the 27th Division were splintered off and placed within a number of other divisions. The 52nd Field Artillery Brigade, under which the 104th Field Artillery Regiment served, was attached to the 33rd Division as their artillery, and then the 79th Division for the entire Meuse-Argonne Offensive near Verdun. Using field diaries, photos and letters, their story of courage under extreme conditions including enemy shelling and gas is recorded and their memory preserved.

Author : Holly Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691050034
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures written by Holly Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures explores complex American attitudes toward the Near East--as revealed in collected paintings, interior design, and multiple vernacular forms--at the formative moment of industrialization and the crystallization of a truly mass culture. Published to coincide with the multimedia exhibition that opens at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and travels to the Walters Art Gallery and the Mint Museum of Art, this catalogue considers how urban, mercantile, Protestant America represented the Islamic world of the Middle East and North Africa in ways that say more about itself than the foreign culture. This gorgeously illustrated volume first looks at the use of Orientalist stereotypes by some of the country's most important high art painters of the nineteenth century: Frederic Edwin Church's treatment of the exotic terrain through a lens of deep religiosity; a more cosmopolitan reading of the harem girl by John Singer Sargent; the perfumed alternative to industrial capitalism conjured in the landscapes and market scenes of Samuel Colman and Louis Comfort Tiffany; and interpretations of the Orient as emancipatory by Ella Pell, the only major woman Orientalist. The book next traces the popularization of Orientalism in the decorative arts (including a few treasures from Olana, Church's Moorish-style home on the Hudson), on Broadway, and in Hollywood, as well as through advertising that linked consumer products with visual suggestions of exotic sexuality and through cultural objects, such as the Shriners' fez. The generous color plates show both an innocent romanticization of the Orient and a darker, heavily eroticized version of Oriental "otherness." An excellent chronology and bibliography, in addition to expert essays by both Americanists and Islamicists, give context to absorbing images. Though a perfect companion for visitors to the exhibition, Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures is also for anyone seeking an uncommon take on the development of American self-understanding. Exhibition Schedule: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Williamstown, Massachusetts June 11-September 4, 2000 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore, Maryland October 1-December 10, 2000 The Mint Museum of Art Charlotte, North Carolina February 3-April 22, 2001

Author : Eric J. Evans
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Social History of Britain in Postcards, 1870-1930 written by Eric J. Evans and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1980 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pamela A. Bakker
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476615675
Total Pages : 227 pages
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Download or read book The 104th Field Artillery Regiment of the New York National Guard, 1916-1919 written by Pamela A. Bakker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book chronicles the extensive training and heroic service of the New York National Guard's 104th Field Artillery Regiment from the period of 1916 to 1919. The regiment, initially called the 1st Field Artillery Regiment, served as border patrol in Texas during the Mexican Punitive Expedition in 1916, and trained at the gunnery field at La Gloria, Texas. During World War I, they trained by the Glassy Mountains at Camp Wadsworth in South Carolina, and then at the School of Fire of Camp de Souge near Bordeaux, France. Because of this extensive training, elements of the 27th Division were splintered off and placed within a number of other divisions. The 52nd Field Artillery Brigade, under which the 104th Field Artillery Regiment served, was attached to the 33rd Division as their artillery, and then the 79th Division for the entire Meuse-Argonne Offensive near Verdun. Using field diaries, photos and letters, their story of courage under extreme conditions including enemy shelling and gas is recorded and their memory preserved.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a beautiful presentation of the Paintings from the Manoogian Collection that was on display in 1989. All of the painting in this collection are presented in this book as well as the Artists' biographies."--Amazon.

Author : Christian K. Messenger
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport in American Literature (1830-1930). written by Christian K. Messenger and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alarik Rynell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book Antedatings and Additions for OED written by Alarik Rynell and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: