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Author : Bob Burke
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738531892
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball in Oklahoma City written by Bob Burke and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oklahoma City is completing its first century of minor league baseball. Since 1904, organized professional teams called the Mets, Indians, Senators, Boosters, 89ers, and now the RedHawks have thrilled fans of all ages. Several fan-favorites who have graced the diamond for Oklahoma City have gone on to stardom in "The Big Show," including major league all-stars Lonnie Smith and Juan Gonzales. Legendary names like Rogers Hornsby and Bill Veeck have also played a part in Oklahoma City's baseball history. As the second century of baseball in Oklahoma City begins, the Oklahoma RedHawks continue the tradition of playing superb baseball in the "The Little Show," with perhaps another future major league all-star or two honing his skills before a capacity crowd at the Brick.

Author : Svetlana Vasileva-Karagʹozova
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580465285
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming of Age Under Martial Law written by Svetlana Vasileva-Karagʹozova and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do historical cataclysms affect the social conditioning of young people? How do individuals born in the same period come to form an identifiable "generation"? How do coming-of-age stories create a sense of community and generational identity? Coming of Age under Martial Law: The Initiation Novels of Poland's Last Communist Generation addresses these questions, examining a selection of post-1989 coming-of-age novels authored by the generation of Polish writers whose transition from adolescence to adulthood coincided with Poland's transition from communism to liberal democracy.BR> Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova argues that when cataclysms of any nature overlap with the sensitive period of maturation into adulthood, they disrupt the natural rhythm of society's self-renewal. In the case of the Polish '89ers, the generational clash with their predecessors did not produce the anticipated generational change in leadership, but a pathological role reversal: the elders refused to give up their leadership positions, while the young were stifled in their development and occupied marginal social spaces. This social imbalance is profoundlly reflected in the content and themes of the novels produced by this younger generation, as the author shows. Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova is an assistant professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas.

Author : J. J. Parker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462842216
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tink Wilson written by J. J. Parker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a young man do when he learns his hometown girlfriend is carrying his child? In 1963 America, he typically married her. But Tink Wilson is a minor-league baseball player living in California when he learns his Illinois girlfriend is pregnant. Plus, hes fallen in love with a glamorous young Southern California actress while trying to achieve his lifelong goal of reaching the big leagues. "Tink Wilson" is a bawdy, Huck Finnish portrayal of the lives of the fictional 1963 San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League. Presented in flashbacks, the novel reveals Tink to be an unsophisticated 21-year-old who offers no-holds-barred insight into the story's other characters, who range from the wild, the hip and the skirt-chasing to homebodies who prefer watching TV or fishing to raising hell. "Tink Wilson" is a whimsical tale of young people chasing dreams in America in the time of President Kennedy, the civil rights struggle, and the Mercury space program. J.J. Parker is a former news reporter who's written 40 short stories and several humorous yet touching plays, including those about 1960s icons Sonny Liston and Robert Kennedy. "Tink Wilson" is his debut novel.

Author : Janina Krieger
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3662666839
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book’s Road in the Age of Digitization written by Janina Krieger and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although every area of life is permeated by digital processes, the majority of Germans seem to resist digital alternatives with regard to the activity of reading. The printed book continues to enjoy much greater popularity than the eBook. This seems surprising, since the entire communication behavior has moved to digital devices. So what lies behind this? Why are there still printed books in digital times? Previous studies of the printed book have focused primarily on its media future, as this seemed threatened by digitization. In this work, Janina Krieger instead examines the past from three perspectives in order to gain insights into the present. While other studies always chose one method and these mostly belonged to the quantitative approach, here three subjects are identified, which are examined with different methods and in their combination can provide an answer to the research question: the consumers of literature (the readers), literature itself (the selected genre is the novel), and the media theories of the 20th century, which have already dealt with media change.

Author : Robert C. Trumpbour
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496211782
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eighth Wonder of the World written by Robert C. Trumpbour and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research 2016 Pete Delohery Award for Best Sports Book from Shelf Unbound When it opened in 1965, the Houston Astrodome, nicknamed the Eighth Wonder of the World, captured the attention of an entire nation, bringing pride to the city and enhancing its reputation nationwide. It was a Texas-sized vision of the future, an unthinkable feat of engineering with premium luxury suites, theater-style seating, and the first animated scoreboard. Yet there were memorable problems such as outfielders’ inability to see fly balls and failed attempts to grow natural grass—which ultimately led to the development of AstroTurf. The Astrodome nonetheless changed the way people viewed sports, putting casual fans at the forefront of a user-experience approach that soon became the standard in all American sports. The Eighth Wonder of the World tears back the facade and details the Astrodome’s role in transforming Houston as a city while also chronicling the building’s storied fifty years in existence and the ongoing debate about its preservation.

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Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Public Lands written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781599216270
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Minor League Baseball Road Trip written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthusiastic, irreverent, but exhaustive guidebook to all the stadiums of Minor League Baseball, following up on the success of the first Ultimate Baseball Road Trip book, which was dedicated to Major League stadiums.

Author : Přibáň, Jiří
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN 13 : 8024634236
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Defence of Constitutionalism written by Přibáň, Jiří and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a century after the publication of Czech politician Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk’s study The Czech Question, Czech politics has become a pragmatic question of democratic constitutionalism and civility. Originally published in major Czech newspapers, these essays on contemporary European politics demonstrate that this new understanding involves both technical questions of power-making and critical questions of its meaning. Democracy, Jirí Pribán shows, is the proces of permanent self-correction. It possesses both the capacity to respond to unexpected problems and crises and intrinsic tensions between principled arguments and everyday administrative processes. Defending constitutionalism, therefore, draws on principles of civil rights and freedoms, limited government, and representative democracy, the validity and persuasive force of which are at stake not only in the Czech Republic, but also in the European Union and our global society at large.

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Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harlow's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Dolson
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 143990569X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jim Bunning written by Frank Dolson and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Hall of Famer who pitched no-hitters against the sluggers of both leagues, took on sportswriters and baseball leaders, and started a second career as a politician.