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Author : Donald Gropman
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : 9780806521152
This immensely readable biography tells the story of Shoeless Joe Jackson, generally considered baseball's greatest natural hitter ever--but who was implicated in the most notorious sports scandal in American history. of photos.
Author : Thomas Louis Stix
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Sports stories
ISBN :
Author : Daniel A. Nathan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252073137
Addressing the relationship between cultural narratives and social reality, Nathan considers the media's coverage of the Black Sox scandal, from front-page attention to scathing commentaries and cartoons, when the story broke in 1920 and in the following years.
Author : William N. Taylor, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2002-01-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786411283
The first edition of this work, published in 1982, concentrated on the athlete's use of and the physician's knowledge of, anabolic steroids. This fully updated second edition discusses the continuing controversy over their use in competitive sports. An introduction of the use and abuse of anabolic steroids is followed by chapters on such topics as anabolic steroid compounds, the anabolic-to-androgen ratio, basic principles of muscle building, current anabolic steroid preparations, anabolic steroid regimes used by athletes, the enhancement of athletic performance, adverse physical effects and mental health risks, the classification of anabolic steroids as controlled substances, growth hormones and other anabolic hormones, the limits of urine drug testing, medical applications of anabolic steroids, muscle building and ergogenic supplements, and addictions.
Author : Rick Shenkman
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0465012574
Levees break in New Orleans. Iraq descends into chaos. The housing market teeters on the brink of collapse. Americans of all political stripes are heading into the 2008 election with the sense that something has gone terribly wrong with American politics. But what exactly? Democrats blame Republicans and Republicans blame Democrats. Greedy corporate executives, rogue journalists, faulty voting machines, irresponsible defense contractors-we blame them, too. The only thing everyone seems to agree on, in fact, is that the American people are entirely blameless. In Just How Stupid Are We?, best-selling historian and renowned myth-buster Rick Shenkman takes aim at our great national piety: the wisdom of the American people. The hard truth is that American democracy is more direct than ever-but voters are misusing, abusing, and abdicating their political power. Americans are paying less and less attention to politics at a time when they need to pay much more: Television has dumbed politics down to the basest possible level, while the real workings of politics have become vastly more complicated. Shenkman offers concrete proposals for reforming our institutions-the government, the media, civic organizations, political parties-to make them work better for the American people. But first, Shenkman argues, we must reform ourselves.
Author : Harvey Frommer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1630760099
Another peek at baseball's good old days—or, in this case, bad old days—by veteran sports-historian Harvey Frommer. Frommer paints Shoeless Joe as a baseball natural ("Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball"—Ty Cobb), an illiterate hick (his table utensils consisted of knife and fingers), and an innocent man snared by the greatest scandal in baseball history.
Author : Jan R. Van Meter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 2008-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226849686
"So the next time we hear or see one of these verbal symbols used to sell a product, illustrate a point, make a joke, reshape a current cause, or resuscitate a forgotten ideal, we will finally be equipped to understand its broader role as a key source of the values we continue to share and fight about. Taken together in Van Meter's able hands, these famous slogans and catchphrases give voice to our common history even as we argue about where it should lead us."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 32,63 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Sports
ISBN : 0252075234
Chicago has garnered national recognition by winning the World Series, the Super Bowl, and a string of titles in the National Basketball Association. But amateur sports also play a large role in the city's athletic traditions, especially in schools and youth leagues. In fourteen chapters, experts focus on multiple aspects of Chicago sports, including long looks at amateur boxing, the impact of gender and ethnicity in sports, the politics of horse racing and stadium building, the lasting scandal of the Black Sox, and the perpetual heartbreak of the Cubs. Well illustrated with forty photographs, this volume will help historians and sports fans alike appreciate the longstanding importance of sports in Chicago. Contributors are Peter Alter, Robin F. Bachin, Larry Bennett, Linda J. Borish, Gerald Gems, Elliott J. Gorn, Richard Kimball, Gabe Logan, Daniel A. Nathan, Timothy Neary, Steven A. Riess, John Russick, Timothy Spears, Costas Spirou, and Loic Wacquant.
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1315 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1134929986
A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.
Author : David L. Fleitz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 2001-03-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786409785
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson was one of baseball's greatest hitters and most colorful players. Born Joseph Jefferson Wofford Jackson on July 16, 1888, in Pickens County, South Carolina, Jackson went to work in a textile mill when he was around six years old, and got his start in baseball playing for the Brandon Mill team at the age of 13 earning $2.50 a game. He emerged as the star of the team and a favorite of fans with his hitting and throwing abilities, and moved up to play in the Carolina Association, where he received his nickname "Shoeless" because the blisters on his feet forced him to play in his stockings. He then made his move to the major leagues, signing on with the Philadelphia Athletics and rising to fame. This work chronicles Jackson's life from his poor beginnings to his involvement in the scandal surrounding the 1919 World Series to his life after baseball and his death December 5, 1951, with most of the work focusing on his baseball career.