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Author: Roger Kahn Publisher: Diversion Books ISBN: 1938120434 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 289
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"A fine anthology." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In these essays, written between 1954 and 1990, bestselling author Roger Kahn touches on locker-room controversies and politics, while inviting readers to share in the passion, grace, energy, and intense concentration involved in playing sports. Kahn pays warm tribute to his special heroes, Jackie Robinson, Roger Maris and Carl Furillo, along with those he particularly admired in the press box, John Lardner and Red Smith. Kahn also esteems football lineman Merlin Olsen, hockey goalie Glenn Hall, cager Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, outfielder Mickey Mantle, boxing promoter Don King, and last piece, "Story Without a Hero," about Pete Rose. Praise for Roger Kahn: "As a kid, I loved sports first and writing second, and loved everything Roger Kahn wrote. As an adult, I love writing first and sports second, and love Roger Kahn even more." —Pulitzer Prize winner, David Maraniss "He can epitomize a player with a single swing of the pen." —TIME magazine "Roger Kahn is the best baseball writer in the business." —Stephen Jay Gould, New York Review of Books "Kahn has the almost unfair gift of easy, graceful writing." —BOSTON HERALD
Author: Roger Kahn Publisher: Diversion Books ISBN: 1938120434 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
"A fine anthology." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In these essays, written between 1954 and 1990, bestselling author Roger Kahn touches on locker-room controversies and politics, while inviting readers to share in the passion, grace, energy, and intense concentration involved in playing sports. Kahn pays warm tribute to his special heroes, Jackie Robinson, Roger Maris and Carl Furillo, along with those he particularly admired in the press box, John Lardner and Red Smith. Kahn also esteems football lineman Merlin Olsen, hockey goalie Glenn Hall, cager Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, outfielder Mickey Mantle, boxing promoter Don King, and last piece, "Story Without a Hero," about Pete Rose. Praise for Roger Kahn: "As a kid, I loved sports first and writing second, and loved everything Roger Kahn wrote. As an adult, I love writing first and sports second, and love Roger Kahn even more." —Pulitzer Prize winner, David Maraniss "He can epitomize a player with a single swing of the pen." —TIME magazine "Roger Kahn is the best baseball writer in the business." —Stephen Jay Gould, New York Review of Books "Kahn has the almost unfair gift of easy, graceful writing." —BOSTON HERALD
Author: Aluta Nite Publisher: Andrews UK Limited ISBN: 1783335114 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 59
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Contained in this book are 32 outdoor games and activities we were involved in as children growing up. We made apparatus we needed ourselves using all sorts of materials available around our homesteads.
Author: Michael O'Mara Books Publisher: Michael O'Mara ISBN: 9781782437215 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 0
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You'll enjoy re-living your childhood as you test your logic and reasoning and enjoy playing these wonderful games. All the classics are here from battleships and hangman, to cut-out card games such as snap, dominoes and pairs, to the timeless board games Ludo and Snakes and Ladders, all presented in a gorgeous vintage style.
Author: Bob Byrne Publisher: UNSW Press ISBN: 9781742234564 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Remember grabbing a copy of the late edition afternoon paper from the paper boy? Watching a Graham Kennedy skit on TV? Did you buy a 45rpm single or a 33rpm album at your local record shop? And play it on your record player? If you answered yes to any of these questions chances are you are part of the Baby Boomer generation. How time has flown! It all seems just like yesterday. Take a pleasantly sentimental trip down memory lane with Bob Brown as he shows us bits of Australia we've forgotten, identities and landmarks we loved and let him remind us that some of the best things about Australia haven't changed.
Author: Frank Aycox Publisher: Front Row Experience ISBN: 9780915256167 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 168
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This comprehensive social game book is an eye-opening analysis of the behavioral dynamics of children in the contemporary classroom. It includes over 75 interactive, fun, social games and shows you how to effectively lead Social Play sessions in the classroom. Research has proven that this method of improving social skills actually increases test scores by 30%, because students become less antagonistic, more cooperative and more capable of increased attentiveness. Contains the secrets to enriching the entire school environment.
Author: Steven A. Cohen Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743201663 Category : Children Languages : en Pages : 184
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If childhood is magic, kids have created its principal enchantment by dreaming up their own games, writing their own rules, inventing endless variations on anything fun. Bottle Cap Soldiers. Kid Crusher, Ring-a-leavio, Chinaberry War -- no one remembers the scores anymore and the rules changed as often as the players, but the strongest and best memories of childhood grow from the games we played.
Author: Steve Bowden Publisher: Kings Road Publishing ISBN: 184358445X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 284
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This is a must-have book for any computer enthusiast whether they are young or old. Covering the100 best games ever to be produced from Pac-Man Vs andPokemon Red/Blue to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Worms -- make sure you've not missed out any of the cult classics. With detailed descriptions of each game, the design process behind them and the secrets that lie within, this book will rekindle games from your childhood as well as introducing you to previously un-played games.
Author: Oliver Roeder Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 1324003782 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 326
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A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.
Author: Edna Staples Publisher: ISBN: 9781932621167 Category : Games Languages : en Pages : 228
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Before there were televisions, video games and computers, people played games for entertainment. In Wolf Over the Ridge . . . Games We Used to Play, Edna Staples compiles an assortment of games that she remembers from her childhood and her days of teaching in a one-room school house.Historical notes and instructions for 165 games, ranging from games played in school, to party games, to toddler games, to square dancing are included in this collection.
Author: Roger Kahn
Author: Roger Kahn
Author: Aluta Nite
Author: Michael O'Mara Books
Author: Bob Byrne
Author: Frank Aycox
Author: Steven A. Cohen
Author: Steve Bowden
Author: Camilla Gryski
Author: Oliver Roeder
Author: Edna Staples