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Author: Susan Jacoby Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300235402 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 219
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Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital distraction. These paradoxes are explored by the historian and passionate baseball fan Susan Jacoby in a book that is both a love letter to the game and a tough-minded analysis of the current challenges to its special position—in reality and myth—in American culture. The concise but wide-ranging analysis moves from the Civil War—when many soldiers played ball in northern and southern prisoner-of-war camps—to interviews with top baseball officials and young men who prefer playing online “fantasy baseball” to attending real games. Revisiting her youthful days of watching televised baseball in her grandfather’s bar, the author links her love of the game with the informal education she received in everything from baseball’s history of racial segregation to pitch location. Jacoby argues forcefully that the major challenge to baseball today is a shortened attention span at odds with a long game in which great hitters fail two out of three times. Without sanitizing this basic problem, Why Baseball Matters remind us that the game has retained its grip on our hearts precisely because it has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to reinvent itself in times of immense social change.
Author: Tampa Bay Rays Journal Design Be Publisher: ISBN: 9781661240448 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
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This is the must have Journal to Organize your life! It is designed to help you being more Successful, more Grateful for what you have, and it helps you to Track your passewords. to organize your goals and to remember your flights ...
Author: WriteDrawDesign Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781721087457 Category : Languages : en Pages : 202
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Any Tampa Bay Rays baseball fan who loves to write will enjoy this 6x9-inch 200-page lined journal. The cream-colored pages and gray lines are easier on the eyes than black ink on white paper. Perfect to use as a diary for recording your daily thoughts or to just have a notebook to carry with you at all times. Small enough to fit in a purse or backpack but big enough to last for a long time! Practical and last-minute gift idea for Tampa Bay Rays fans of any age who like to write ... men, women, boys and girls. Diehard Rays fans would love to get one of these for any occasion - Birthday Christmas Father's Day Mother's Day Anniversary Graduation Retirement ... or just because! Enjoy hours of writing in this journal with a cover that features the two main colors of your favorite Major League Baseball team. Go Rays!! Also available with the two colors reversed - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1721087648
Author: WriteDrawDesign Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781721087648 Category : Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
Any Tampa Bay Rays baseball fan who loves to write will enjoy this 6x9-inch 200-page lined journal. The cream-colored pages and gray lines are easier on the eyes than black ink on white paper. Perfect to use as a diary for recording your daily thoughts or to just have a notebook to carry with you at all times. Small enough to fit in a purse or backpack but big enough to last for a long time! Practical and last-minute gift idea for Tampa Bay Rays fans of any age who like to write ... men, women, boys and girls. Diehard Rays fans would love to get one of these for any occasion - Birthday Christmas Father's Day Mother's Day Anniversary Graduation Retirement ... or just because! Enjoy hours of writing in this journal with a cover that features the two main colors of your favorite Major League Baseball team. Go Rays!! Also available with the two colors reversed - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1721087451
Author: Susan Jacoby Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300235402 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 219
Book Description
Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital distraction. These paradoxes are explored by the historian and passionate baseball fan Susan Jacoby in a book that is both a love letter to the game and a tough-minded analysis of the current challenges to its special position—in reality and myth—in American culture. The concise but wide-ranging analysis moves from the Civil War—when many soldiers played ball in northern and southern prisoner-of-war camps—to interviews with top baseball officials and young men who prefer playing online “fantasy baseball” to attending real games. Revisiting her youthful days of watching televised baseball in her grandfather’s bar, the author links her love of the game with the informal education she received in everything from baseball’s history of racial segregation to pitch location. Jacoby argues forcefully that the major challenge to baseball today is a shortened attention span at odds with a long game in which great hitters fail two out of three times. Without sanitizing this basic problem, Why Baseball Matters remind us that the game has retained its grip on our hearts precisely because it has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to reinvent itself in times of immense social change.
Author: Mark Stewart Publisher: Norwood House Press ISBN: 1599534983 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 50
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A revised Team Spirit Baseball edition featuring the Tampa Bay Rays that chronicles the history and accomplishments of the team. The Team Spirit series paints an engaging, detailed yet accessible picture of professional sports teams. By focusing on the history, great victories and memorable personalities, the books have an enduring quality that will not go out of date quickly. The text is enhanced with plenty of full color photographs as well as reproductions of vintage trading cards and team memorabilia.
Author: Mark Stewart Publisher: ISBN: 9781599531755 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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"Presents the history, accomplishments and key personalities of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team. Includes timelines, quotes, maps, glossary and website"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Jonah Keri Publisher: ESPN ISBN: 0345517652 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 274
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What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team’s Cinderella journey from divisional doormat to World Series contender. When former Goldman Sachs colleagues Stuart Sternberg and Matthew Silverman assumed control of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2005, it looked as if they were buying the baseball equivalent of a penny stock. But the incoming regime came armed with a master plan: to leverage their skill at trading, valuation, and management to build a model twenty-first-century franchise that could compete with their bigger, stronger, richer rivals—and prevail. Together with “boy genius” general manager Andrew Friedman, the new Rays owners jettisoned the old ways of doing things, substituting their own innovative ideas about employee development, marketing and public relations, and personnel management. They exorcized the “devil” from the team’s nickname, developed metrics that let them take advantage of undervalued aspects of the game, like defense, and hired a forward-thinking field manager as dedicated to unconventional strategy as they were. By quantifying the game’s intangibles—that extra 2% that separates a winning organization from a losing one—they were able to deliver to Tampa Bay something that Billy Beane’s “Moneyball” had never brought to Oakland: an American League pennant. A book about what happens when you apply your business skills to your life’s passion, The Extra 2% is an informative and entertaining case study for any organization that wants to go from worst to first.
Author: Dave Scheiber Publisher: Advance Ink Publishing ISBN: 9780692487969 Category : Languages : en Pages : 290
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Dewayne Staats marks his 40th year as a Major League Baseball broadcaster with POSITION TO WIN, a book that chronicles his amazing journey through America's pastime - a fascinating career working alongside some of baseball's all-time great announcers and calling some of the memorable moments of the game. Many Tampa Bay Rays fans may only know Staats as a Fox Sports/Sun Sports fixture, and the only television play-by-play man in the 18-season history of the Tampa Bay franchise. But in Position to Win: A Look at Baseball and Life from the Best Seat in the House. Staats reflects on his vast experiences in the booth that include: Being a partner with three Hall of Fame announcers: Gene Elston with the Houston Astros, Harry Caray with Chicago Superstation WGN covering the Cubs and Tony Kubek with the MSG Network doing the games of the New York Yankees, as well as working as a national baseball broadcaster for ESPN. Calling nine no-hitters (among them Nolan Ryan's record-breaking fifth and one of the game's most dramatic - thrown by New York's inspirational, one-armed star Jim Abbott). A total of nearly 6,000 MLB broadcasts, with the unique distinction of being the announcer to make the call the first two of the three times in major league history a player has homered for his 3,000th hit (Wade Boggs in 1999 and Derek Jeter in 2011). Dewayne has collaborated with veteran Florida-based author and national award-winning journalist Dave Scheiber (co-author of "Covert" and "Surviving the Shadows"). The result is a lively book that will appeal to anyone who loves baseball or enjoys an engaging success story with a message: How hard work, preparation and persistence helped position him to achieve a childhood dream and rise to the top of his profession. It's a universal lesson that can apply to everyone, no matter what a person's passion or pursuit in life may be.
Author: Sloan MacRae Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1448865077 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria rose quickly through the minor leagues to become one of the MLBs top players. This biography follows Longorias career from his childhood to his college days at Long Beach State University, to his award-winning career with the Rays. Photographs from on and off the field show this All-Star in action.
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