Flip Flop Fly Ball

Author : Craig Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608193489
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flip Flop Fly Ball written by Craig Robinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many miles does a baseball team travel in one season? How tall would A-Rod's annual salary be in pennies? What does Nolan Ryan have to do with the Supremes and Mariah Carey? You might never have asked yourself any of these questions, but Craig Robinson's Flip Flop Fly Ball will make you glad to know the answers. Baseball, almost from the first moment Robinson saw it, was more than a sport. It was history, a nearly infinite ocean of information that begged to be organized. He realized that understanding the game, which he fell in love with as an adult, would never be possible just through watching games and reading articles. He turned his obsession into a dizzyingly entertaining collection of graphics that turned into an Internet sensation. Out of Robinson's Web site, www.flipflopflyball.com, grew this book, full of all-new, never-before-seen graphics. Flip Flop Fly Ball dives into the game's history, its rivalries and absurdities, its cities and ballparks, and brings them to life through 120 full-color graphics. Statistics-the sport's lingua franca-have never been more fun. (By the way, the answers: about 26,000 miles, at least if the team in question is the 2008 Kansas City Royals; 3,178 miles; they were the artists atop the Billboard Hot 100 when Ryan first and last appeared in MLB games.)

Author : Craig Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608192695
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flip Flop Fly Ball written by Craig Robinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively treasury of baseball trivia gleaned from the author's flipflopflyball.com website is comprised of 120 full-color graphics that share statistical, historical and cultural tidbits on everything from the miles traveled by a baseball team in one season to the height of A-Rod's annual salary in pennies. 35,000 first printing.

Author : Ron Kaplan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496209885
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die written by Ron Kaplan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Propounding his "small ball theory" of sports literature, George Plimpton proposed that "the smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature." Of course he had the relatively small baseball in mind, because its literature is formidable--vast and varied, instructive, often wildly entertaining, and occasionally brilliant. From this bewildering array of baseball books, Ron Kaplan has chosen 501 of the best, making it easier for fans to find just the books to suit them (or to know what they're missing). From biography, history, fiction, and instruction to books about ballparks, business, and rules, anyone who loves to read about baseball will find in this book a companionable guide, far more fun than a reference work has any right to be.

Author : Gail K. Dickinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Library Management written by Gail K. Dickinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles selected articles from Library Media Connection to help school librarians and pre-service librarians learn about how to implement best practices for school library management. At a time when budget cuts threaten the role of the school librarian, dynamic learning experiences can resurrect the usefulness of the library and the role of its staff. The seventh edition of this popular book helps librarians develop engaging school library programs for greater student involvement. Comprised of important articles from Library Media Connection (LMC), School Library Management: Seventh Edition is a compilation of best practices in the field of school library management. An excellent textbook for professors teaching LIS courses, the book contains updates to standards and technologies, and features the latest initiatives guiding practices, including Standards for the 21st Century Learner and Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Programs. Each of the book's five sections features helpful tips from LMC and lists relevant resources for school library management. Selected articles address standards, inquiry, ethics, and information literacy. The book also includes a focus on the role of the school librarian in designing authentic assessments.

Author : Pam Goble
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631980637
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Curriculum Pop written by Pam Goble and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From body art to baseball cards, comics to cathedrals, pie charts to power ballads . . . students need help navigating today’s media-rich world. And educators need help teaching today’s new media literacy. To be literate now means being able to read, write, listen, speak, view, and represent across all media—including both print and nonprint texts, such as film, TV, podcasts, websites, visual art, fashion, architecture, landscape, and music. This book offers secondary teachers in all content areas a flexible, interdisciplinary approach to integrate these literacies into their curriculum. Students form cooperative learning groups to evaluate media texts from various perspectives (artist, producer, sociologist, sound mixer, economist, poet, set designer, and more) and show their thinking using unique graphic organizers aligned to the Common Core State Standards

Author : Kristin Fontichiaro
Publisher : Cherry Lake
ISBN 13 : 162431192X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Creating Infographics written by Kristin Fontichiaro and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infographics can pack a lot of information into a small amount of space with clever use of text and images. Readers will find out how to unpack, draw evidence from, evaluate, and integrate content presented in this visual format. They will also learn how to make purposeful, informative, and visually appealing infographics of their own.

Author : Jake Black
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101995165
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Buds Together Fun written by Jake Black and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A super fun book based on Steven Universe, a hugely popular Cartoon Network show about Steven, an endearing, lovable boy with growing magical abilities, and the Crystal Gems, a trio of powerful women who watch over Steven and protect humankind from harm. Are you ready to join Steven and his crew on heroic adventures? Test your knowledge of all things Steven Universe with quizzes about the Crystal Gems and Beach City, try your hand at a job at the Donut Shop, and design your own game for the Funland Arcade. It's like you and Steven were destined to be best buds!

Author : Rafe Bartholomew
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101187913
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Rims written by Rafe Bartholomew and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man's journey through the Philippines' most unlikely obsession: basketball. In Pacific Rims, Rafe Bartholemew, journalist, New Yorker, and veteran baller, ventures through the Philippines to investigate the country's love of basketball. From street corners where diehards fashion hoops out of old car parts to the professional league where politicians exploit team loyalties to win elections, Pacific Rims gets the story-and gets in the game.

Author : Howard L. Craft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988983168
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bull City Summer written by Howard L. Craft and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of artists find stories and images on the field and behind the scenes about the Durham Bulls.

Author : Charlie Huston
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345464788
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caught Stealing written by Charlie Huston and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] fantastically hopped-up thriller . . . a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock.”—Entertainment Weekly (Editor’s Choice) It’s three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry “call me Hank” Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is surely going to get him killed. It begins when Hank’s neighbor, Russ, has to leave town in a rush and hands over Bud in a carrier. But it isn’t until two Russians in tracksuits drag Hank over the bar at the joint where he works and beat him to a pulp that he starts to get the idea: Someone wants something from him. He just doesn’t know what it is, where it is, or how to make them understand he doesn’t have it. Within twenty-four hours Hank is running over rooftops, swinging his old aluminum bat for the sweet spot of a guy’s head, playing hide and seek with the NYPD, riding the subway with a dead man at his side, and counting a whole lot of cash on a concrete floor. All because of two cowboys, two Russian mafia men, and some of the weirdest goons ever assembled in one place. All because of Bud. All because once, in another life, in another world, the only thing Hank wanted was to take third base—without getting caught.