Bready, James H.:Baseball in Baltimore; The First 100 Years
- signiertes Exemplar 1998, ISBN: 9780801858338
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New. This book explores the innovations, disruptions and changes that are required to adapt in a fast-evolving landscape due to the extraordinary circumstances triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. Recognized experts from around the world share their research and professional experience on how the working environment, as well as the world around them, have changed due to the pandemic. The book considers how different fields across technology and business have been affected by this new, dramatic scenario and the drastic consequences that the pandemic had on them. With diverse contributions stemming from public health, technology strategies, urban planning, and sociology to sustainable management, this volume is articulated into four distinct, but complementary, sections of People, Process, Planet, and Prosperity influencing the post-COVID world. This book will be of great interest to those in the fields of computer science and information technology, as well as those studying the impact and effects of Covid-19 is having on society. Adrian T H Kuah is a research leader at both The Cairns Institute in Australia and Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia at James Cook University. Roberto Dillon is the Academic Head for the School of Science and Technology in James Cook University Singapore where his research focuses on game design, history of technology and cyber security., 6, New York: The Free Press, 1993. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Patrick Ford (Author photograph). ix, [1], 463, [5] pages. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Peter Skerry is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where his research focuses on social policy, racial and ethnic politics, and immigration. Professor Skerry has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and served as Director of Washington Programs for the University of California at Los Angeles' Center for American Politics and Public Policy, where he also taught political science. He was formerly a Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Legislative Director for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York. He serves on the editorial board of the journal American Politics Research and on the board of advisory editors of Society magazine. Professor Skerry is also a member of the Advisory Council on European/Transatlantic Issues at the Heinrich Böll Foundation of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (the German Green Party). His writings on politics, racial and ethnic issues, immigration and social policy have appeared in a variety of scholarly and general interest publications, including Society, Publius, The Journal of Policy History, The New Republic, Slate, The Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, National Review, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. His book, Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority (Harvard University Press), was awarded the 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A study of the two large communities in San Antonio and Los Angeles shows how Mexican-Americans are beginning to use the coalition-building strategies embraced by Jews, Italians, and black Americans to gain political clout and economic success. Derived from a Kirkus review: Skerry doesn't think that Mexican-Americans are ambivalent about being North Americans. Rather, the ``ambivalence'' of the subtitle reflects his skepticism as to whether Mexican-Americans are a minority requiring special consideration due to a history of exclusion, or whether their patterns of mobility and assimilation more closely mirror those of European immigrants. The author finds Mexican-Americans all but forced into playing the race game by the structure of contemporary politics, though more than 50% identified themselves in the 1990 Census as `white.'' Skerry's comparative analysis of Mexican-American politics in San Antonio and Los Angeles is a provocative and enlightening study of the impact of local political structures on how groups can be empowered politically or how legalistic quick fixes may merely satisfy `an impatient society more concerned that the disadvantaged be formally represented than that their actual influence or power be enhanced.'' Going beyond the particular Mexican-American issues under discussion and his probably controversial critique of racial politics, Skerry brilliantly illuminates structural changes in American politics, with pertinent discussion of issue-oriented politics; community organizing; the decline of local parties; and consideration of relationships among the people, their leaders, and the government itself. With its pertinent analysis, this could be a contemporary political-science classic., The Free Press, 1993, 3, Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good. ix, [1], 242, [4] pages. Illustrations. Suggested Reading. Index. Minor stain inside front cover and on front DJ flap. Minor sticker residue on back of DJ. The author was a A graduate of Haverford College in 1939. He wrote for the Baltimore Evening Sun for over 50 years. He was one of the first members of the Society for American Baseball Research. This work is packed with rare illustrations, colorful anecdotes, and fascinating details many of them skillfully brought to life from the original box scores on preserved newspaper pages and scorecards Baseball in Baltimore tells a story that will captivate baseball fans everywhere. Among the highlights: Baseball in Baltimore is enriched by 150 rare illustrations. They show the Orioles of 1885, in pin-striped splendor; former players Ned Hanlon, Steve Brodie, and others, inspecting the new Municipal Stadium in 1922; Wee Willie Keeler laying down a bunt; the legendary Wilbert Robinson, mask and mitt in hand; the minor-league Orioles raising the flag on Opening Day, 1910; Lefty Grove on the mound; Roy Campanella, a teenaged regular; Babe Ruth tending bar with his father in 1915; and the big parade of 1954, when major league baseball at last returned to Baltimore. The teams were the Marylands and Terrapins, the Drydocks and Pastimes, the Black Sox, the Elite Giants, and, of course, the Orioles. Players had names like Wee Willie Keeler and John McGraw, Babe Ruth and Lefty Grove, Roy Campanella, and Satchell Paige. In Baseball in Baltimore: The First Hundred Years, Bready presents a vivid and compelling portrait of the players, the managers, the ballparks, and the games that shaped the history of the national pastime in one of America's oldest baseball towns. It was 1859 when the game of baseball came to Baltimore, as George F. Beam's Excelsiors played their first games at Flat Rock in Druid Hill Park. In the century that followed, Baltimore had franchises in eight different professional leagues and games were played in nine city parks from the Madison Avenue Grounds to Union Park, from old Oriole Park to Bugle Field. Bready also revisits the International League teams of the first half of the twentieth century. He also describes the teams Baltimore fielded in the old Negro leagues the Black Sox and Elite Giants whose patrons, in fairly intimate surroundings, saw some of the finest players the game has ever produced. The players make this book a joy to read., The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, 2.5<