The Ballgame Of Life

Author : Vernon L. Scarborough
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816513604
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mesoamerican Ballgame written by Vernon L. Scarborough and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.

Author : Dr. Carole Burrowes
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728316995
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry Life Forever written by Dr. Carole Burrowes and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is one of poetry in various forms. There are poems of love, spirituality, laughter, and the facts of life. Happy reading!

Author : E. Michael Whittington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500051085
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sport of Life and Death written by E. Michael Whittington and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mesoamerican ballgame was no ordinary sport. Played by the Olmecs, Maya and Aztecs, from at least 1200 BC to the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century AD, it was both a contest of breathtaking athletic skill and a ritual spectacle in which the struggle between the opposing forces of day and night, good and evil, life and death was enacted by the teams on the ballcourt. ''The Sport of Life and Death'', the most comprehensive work ever on the Mesoamerican ballgame, brings together a range of these works of art, of striking beauty, vivacity and power, from tiny jade carvings of the Olmecs depicting their player kings to the ring-shaped stone goals that once stood in Aztec ballcourts. Essays by leading authorities on Mesoamerican art and culture discuss all aspects of the ballgame, such as the natural history of rubber, the magnificent architecture of the ballcourts, the extraordinary equipment worn by the players, the complex religious symbolism and ritual elements of the games and descriptions of versions that are still played today in Mexico.

Author : Dave Buscema
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1613214200
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game of My Life New York Yankees written by Dave Buscema and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Game of My Life New York Yankees, everyone from stars to supersubs offers personal stories revealing the obstacles they had to overcome in order to succeed on sports’ biggest stage. Some of the biggest names to ever don the pinstripes are captured in personal portraits here, from Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera to Don Mattingly, Reggie Jackson, Ron Guidry, and all the way back to Yogi Berra and Tommy Henrich. Along with taking readers behind the scenes of the greatest moments in Yankees history—from Bucky Dent’s home run to David Wells’s perfect game—the book offers a glimpse of what helped the stars reach their peak. Jorge Posada made up for the dream his father lost as a political prisoner in Cuba. Ron Guidry hunted from the time he was a boy to help his hard-working father put food on the table. Award-winning writer Dave Buscema, who covers the Yankees on a regular basis, paints a personal picture of the Yankees’ biggest stars, and captures the joy of those who rose from obscurity to history. The game accounts spark memories of the most exciting moments in Yankees history. The players’ personal stories show that, for many of them, the game of their life was often about more than just a game.

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1596701005
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game of My Life written by Lew Freedman and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the memories of former and current Chicago Bears players, including Dick Butkus, Gale Sayers, Mike Singletary, Stan Jones, and Brian Urlacher.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Deford
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802142474
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Ball Game written by Frank Deford and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the unusual friendship between John McGraw and Christy Mathewson, "The Old Ball Game" is a masterful chronicle of the early days of baseball from America's most beloved sportswriter. Illustrations throughout.

Author : Noel Schraufnagel
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786435577
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Baseball Novel written by Noel Schraufnagel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography covers approximately 400 novels published from 1838 through 2007. A substantial introduction to the history and development of the genre precedes the chronologically arranged entries, which provide bibliographic details and extensive annotations on plot, themes, and compositional strengths and weaknesses. Mainstream novels by writers such as Hemingway, Wolfe, Roth, and DeLillo are included. Appendices provide historical overviews for the primary baseball subgenres, including mystery, fantasy, and science-fiction; lists for novels that foreground issues of race or ethnicity (or both, as in Winegardner's Vera Cruz Blues), gender (Gilbert's A League of Their Own), and class (Hay's The Dixie Association); and the author's rankings of great baseball novels overall and by subgenre.

Author : Phil Bildner
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374301301
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Whole New Ballgame written by Phil Bildner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A school, sports, and friendship story perfect for fans of Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids.

Author : Ted Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780973144314
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teddy Ballgame written by Ted Williams and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An initimate portrait of one of the most compelling sports figure of the 20th century, vibrantly told in Ted Williams own plain-spoken words.