The Majors

Author : W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780515089950
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Majors written by W.E.B. Griffin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-11-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dien Bien Phu. Saigon. Hanoi. In 1954, they were only exotic names from a French campaign halfway around the world. But now American fighting men--proven on the bloody beaches of Normandy and in the minefields of Korea--are summoned to help beat back the guerilla forces of Ho Chi Minh. To some, the "secret" war in Indochina was the depth of folly. To others, like the Majors, it pointed to the heights of glory...

Author : John Feinstein
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316378054
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Majors written by John Feinstein and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT DOES IT TAKE to win a major championship and reach the absolute pinnacle of golf? Through a season of the four tournaments -- the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship -- known collectively as the majors, John Feinstein takes us where the television cameras never go, both off the links and "inside the ropes", as he reveals the special challenges and rituals, the frustrations and exhilaration, that mark the lives and careers of the world's greatest golfers.

Author : Eric Leifer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674040069
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making the Majors written by Eric Leifer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this in-depth look at major league sports, Eric Leifer traces the growth and development of major leagues in baseball, football, basketball, and hockey, and predicts fundamental changes as the majors pursue international expansion. He shows how every past expansion of sports publics has been accompanied by significant changes in the way sporting competition is organized. With each reorganization, the majors have created teams closer in ability, bringing repetition to competition across time, only to expand and energize the public's search for differences between teams and for events that disrupt the repetitive flow. The phenomenal success of league sports, Leifer writes, rests on their ability to manufacture inequalities for fans to latch on to without jeopardizing the equalities that draw fans in. Leifer supports his theory with historical detail and statistical analysis. He examines the special concerns of league organizers in pursuing competitive balance and presents a detailed analysis of how large-city domination has been undermined in the modern era of Major League Baseball. Using games from the four major league sports, he then shows how fans can themselves affect the course of competition. In NFL football, for example, fans account for nearly all of the persisting inequality in team performance. The possibility of sustaining inequality among equals emerges from the cross-pressures that fans and leagues place on competition. With substantial data in hand, Leifer asks the essential question facing the leagues today: how can they sustain a situation that depends entirely on simultaneous equality and contention, one in which fan involvement may evaporate as soon as one team dominates? His answer has significant implications for the future of major league sports, both nationally and internationally.

Author : Karl Paffen
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Majors Way written by Karl Paffen and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Mark Patterson (retired USMC) is a simple man with a great love for family, friends, and most of all, his country! He has faced many enemies of the latter. This time, he is involved in the taking down of a man who is trying to ruin his loves! Jose Chicaro is just this kind of man he despises! Mark takes this personally, and he goes after Chicaro with a vengeance! He has just a few friends to help him on this quest to stop the drug cartel, one of them being Colonel John Stork (Jon)--his old and dear friend! Together they go after Chicaro to try and stop this threat to all our freedoms!

Author : Thomas A. Rhoads
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1461489245
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Call Up to the Majors written by Thomas A. Rhoads and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the unique relationships between professional baseball teams and the unique ways professional baseball leagues are organized in North America with a primary focus on how proximity can and does impact consumer demand. Perhaps more than any other matter that arises in the business of baseball, proximity to other professional baseball teams is a concern that has uniquely shaped professional baseball leagues in North America. It is this particular component in how professional baseball leagues are organized that suggests building a proximity-based approach to studying the economics of minor league baseball. This book opens up new ways to study minor league baseball, specifically, and sports leagues more generally. So even as advanced technology has eliminated some of the need for fans to be in close proximity to the teams they love to follow, there is still a need to understand more completely how proximity matters can impact the way professional baseball leagues are structured and how that structure can ultimately impact the quality of the games that entertain sports fans everywhere. This book will be of interest to both sports economists and practitioners.

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271039374
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gateway to the Majors: Williamsport and Minor League Baseball written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many people know Williamsport as the "birthplace of Little League Baseball, " it is also a city with a rich professional baseball tradition. Since the earliest days of the Pennsylvania State Association, professional minor league baseball has flourished in Williamsport, and hundreds of players and managers have passed through historic Bowman Field on their way to the major leagues, including Jim Bunning, Ferguson Jenkins, and Nolan Ryan. Gateway to the Majors is a comprehensive history of professional minor league baseball in Williamsport from the earliest days up to the present.The accompanying appendix of former Williamsport players who played in the Major Leagues is a valuable reference tool for baseball historians. In addition, this book illustrates how the city's relationship with baseball forged a distinct civic identity and national reputation as "Baseball Town, USA."

Author : Morgan G. Brenner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786453958
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Majors of Golf written by Morgan G. Brenner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-09-12 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work is a complete source for the results of each of golf's major tournaments (the Master's Tournament, U.S. Open, British Open Championship, and PGA Championship). Information includes the final position, round-by-round score, and complete major tournament record of every golfer, including those that didn't finish, to have participated in a major. Appendices list all players with possible name variations or for whom there is conflicting data.

Author : College Entrance Examination Board
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0874479819
Total Pages : 1372 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of Majors 2013 written by College Entrance Examination Board and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the top 200 college majors and a guide to 3600 colleges offering any or all of these programs.

Author : College Entrance Examination Board
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1457300222
Total Pages : 1370 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of Majors 2014 written by College Entrance Examination Board and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 1370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book that describes majors in depth and lists the colleges that offer them.

Author : William Dawes Malton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A manual for foot and mounted points: the duties of majors, adjutants and markers in infantry drill written by William Dawes Malton and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: