In the Best Interests of Baseball?: Governing the National Pastime, Paperback - Andrew Zimbalist

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A graphic novel-style history of baseball, providing an illustrated look at the major games, players, and rule changes that shaped the sport. This ...

The National Pastime is the annual review of baseball historical research and regional topics published by the Society for American Baseball Resear...

Reducere. Since its inception, The National Pastime has featured excellent research and essays about baseball history. This year, though, we asked our contri...

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Reducere. The Western Gate to the Sunshine State boasts an epic history of hardball, dating back nearly to the beginning of the sport. Sunshine, loyal fans a...

Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingAuthor(s): Will CarrollNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 230 x 19Cover type: Paperback / so...

With careers spanning two to three times that of an average player, baseball's best broadcasters have no shortage of history to offer. They have wi...

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Reducere. Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in whic...

Second Secretary of the Central Committee of a Soviet republic does not sound a very important position, but as this book shows it was an extremely...

Reducere. DescriptionFor the past sixty years, countries have conducted military and civilian activities in space, often for competitive purposes. But they h...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Barbara ZimbalistNumber of pages: 330Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 22Cover type...

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This fully updated edition of the best-selling guidebook from National Geographic showcases 300 of the best scenic drives across the United States....

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Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Andrew ZimbalistIllustration(s): 31 tablesNumber of pages: 388Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x...

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Reducere. In No Mere Pastime: A Life in High Places, Ken Stanton's ambition to climb the big walls of Yosemite and follow in the footsteps of heroes like Roy...

Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts...

This book explores the fraught and widespread reliance by journalists on anonymous sources, whistleblowers and others to whom they owe an obligatio...

Studies how the Chinese Communist Party uses and reforms its taxation institution to promote economic growth and governance quality while limits th...

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A study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the cour...

Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, WydawnictwoAuthor(s): Anna Paszkowska-rogaNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 169 x 238 x 15...

This accessible but theoretically sophisticated volume reveals how neoliberalism - as both an economic project and a broader political approach - h...

This year, London's elected mayor and assembly turn twenty. But has London's mayoralty lived up to the expectations that were set for it? Have its ...

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Forget the steroid-addled, overpaid, and unmotivated players: America's pastime is still alive and well, and is still the heartfelt sport it's alwa...

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DescriptionA bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of The Revenge of G...

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Offers the first comprehensive study of nationwide Socialist activity at the municipal level during the Progressive Era. This is a unique study of ...

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Building on the rich literatures in political science on coalitions, legislatures, and voting behaviour, this book weaves together sophisticated st...

DescriptionThis book follows Dizzy and Daffy Dean's All-Stars as they barnstormed across the country in 1934, taking the field against the greatest...

Reducere. One of America's finest poets joins forces with one of baseball's most outrageous pitchers to paint a revealing portrait of our national game. Dona...

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