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Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball
by Peter MorrisMost baseball fans want to hear about stellar players and spectacular plays, statistics and storied franchises. Level Playing Fields sheds light on a usually unnoticed facet of the game, introducing fans and historians alike to the real fundamentals of baseball: dirt and grass. In this lively history, Peter Morris demonstrates that many of the game&’s rules and customs actually arose as concessions to the daunting practical difficulties of creating a baseball diamond. Recovering a nearly lost and decidedly quirky chapter of baseball history, Level Playing Fields tells the engaging story of Tom and Jack Murphy, brothers who made up baseball&’s first great family of groundskeepers and who played a pivotal role in shaping America&’s national pastime. Irish immigrants who tirelessly crafted home-field advantages for some of baseball&’s earliest dynasties, the brothers Murphy were instrumental in developing pitching mounds, permanent spring training sites, and new irrigation techniques, and their careers were touched by such major innovations as tarpaulins and fireproof concrete-and-steel stadiums. Level Playing Fields is a real-life saga involving craftsmanship, resourcefulness, intrigue, and bitter rivalries (including attempted murder!) between such legendary figures as John McGraw, Connie Mack, Honus Wagner, and Ty Cobb. The Murphys&’ story recreates a forgotten way of life and gives us a sense of why an entire generation of American men found so much meaning in the game of baseball.
Leverage
by Cohen Joshua C.A timely book about bullies, their victims, and a high school football team where winning is the only thing that mattersThis intense sports novel will strike a chord with those who followed the tragic football stories that broke in 2011. In this heart-pounding debut, Joshua C. Cohen conveys the pressures and politics of being a high school athlete in a way that is both insightful and compelling. At Oregrove High, there's an extraordinary price for victory, paid both on and off the football field, and it claims its victims without mercy. When the unthinkable happens, an unlikely friendship is at the heart of an increasingly violent, steroid-infused power struggle. This is a book that will stay with readers long after they turn the last page. .
Leverage
by Joshua CohenThe football field is a battlefield There's an extraordinary price for victory at Oregrove High. It is paid on and off the football field. And it claims its victims without mercy including the most innocent bystanders. When a violent, steroid-infused, ever-escalating prank war has devastating consequences, an unlikely friendship between a talented but emotionally damaged fullback and a promising gymnast might hold the key to a school's salvation. Told in alternating voices and with unapologetic truth, Leverage illuminates the fierce loyalty, flawed justice, and hard-won optimism of two young athletes.
Leveraging Brands in Sport Business
by Mark P. Pritchard Jeffrey L. StinsonThis edited text compiles advanced material relating to strategy and marketing in the field of sports business. Featuring contributions from experts across the sports business field, the book approaches strategy from the standpoint of managing and marketing a brand. With integrated current-day examples highlighting practices and issues, as well as ‘real-world’ applied video cases, this book is ideal for marketing students and sports business practitioners looking to gain strategic insights into the industry.
Leveraging Disability Sport Events: Impacts, Promises, and Possibilities (Disability Sport and Physical Activity Cultures)
by Laura Misener Gayle McPherson David McGillivray David LeggThis empirically-grounded text examines the policy, planning, development and implementation of disability sport events. It draws insights from a major international comparative study of different types of large multi-national sporting events: integrated events where able-bodied athletes and athletes with a disability compete alongside one another, and non-integrated events where athletes with a disability are separated by time but occurring in the same location. Guided by a critical disability studies perspective, the book highlights the strategic opportunity of sporting events to influence social change around community participation, and attitudes and awareness about disability more broadly. It also challenges assumptions about positive event legacies and suggests a need for a multi-lateral approach to planning. An important read for students, researchers and scholars in the fields of sport policy, sport development, disability sport, sport management, disability studies and event studies.
Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events: Concepts and Cases
by Jonathan GrixThis volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strategies and the legacies from previous sports megas (London, Seoul, Sydney, Vancouver) and recent and future 'emerging' states and their hosting strategies (India, China, Qatar, Russia, Brazil).
Leveraging Mega-Event Legacies
by Jonathan GrixThis is a multi-disciplinary contribution to the burgeoning literature on and around mega-events in general and sports mega-events in particular. The volume is not specifically about mega-events or their management, but rather how such events act as a lens through which a number of important and critical questions about the decisions to host, the host nation, its society and the politics of culture, sport and leisure more broadly can be dealt with. In doing so this book seeks to build on, and out from initial work on (sports) mega events by acknowledging the major shift towards ‘emerging’ states awarded such events since 2006 and incorporating the latest advances in research that have taken place in recent years. For example, debates about what constitutes a ‘mega-event’, what is meant by a ‘legacy’, what is ‘soft power’ and so on are dealt with from a team of leading academics from a variety of academic disciplines. This book was previously published as a special issue of Leisure Studies.
Lewis Hamilton (EDGE: Dream to Win #2)
by Roy AppsEver had a dream -- a dream to win? Lewis had a dream -- to be a Formula 1 racing driver. This is the story of Lewis's early years and his break through into top-level motorsports.This title is published by Franklin Watts EDGE, which produces a range of books to get children reading with confidence. We believe this title will be of interest to readers aged 7+ and to older readers who struggle with reading. EDGE - for books kids can't put down.
Lewis Hamilton: EDGE - Dream to Win
by Roy Apps Chris KingEver had a dream -- a dream to win? Lewis had a dream -- to be a Formula 1 racing driver. This is the story of Lewis's early years and his break through into top-level motorsports.This title is published by Franklin Watts EDGE, which produces a range of books to get children reading with confidence. We believe this title will be of interest to readers aged 7+ and to older readers who struggle with reading. EDGE - for books kids can't put down.
Lewis Moody: My Life in Rugby
by Lewis MoodyLewis 'Mad Dog' Moody has been a familiar face in English rugby for fifteen successful and, at times, painful years. The former Leicester and now Bath flanker has seen and done it all in a sport that has changed beyond recognition from his first forays into the sport to the huge spectacle that rugby, and especially test match rugby, has become. Known for his near-suicidal fashion of playing the game, Moody has achieved as much as anyone in the history of the sport, from league, cup and European honours with an iconic Leicester Tigers team alongside the likes of Martin Johnson and Neil Back, to a 2003 World Cup winners medal and an MBE when still a young man. A great deal of heartbreak would follow - pain, illness, self-doubt and dark days in the four years before the next World Cup campaign that saw Moody and England fall in the 2007 final but he re-emerged to finally captain his country to a third World Cup campaign in 2011. Mad Dog - An Englishman is the story, warts and all, of one of the most-loved and respected British sporting figures; a story that allows the reader into the inner sanctum of a top rugby star's life, from the early days of student and rugby dressing room mayhem, to the latter years of dedication to the cause, and utter professionalism against all odds. You may think some of Lewis Moody's adventures are well-known. You would be wrong. In this searingly honest autobiography the original 'Mad Dog' lays himself bare and, along the way, takes you on an incredible journey that will make you laugh, cry and understand what it takes to construct a career as successful as Lewis Moody's.
Lewis Moody: My Life in Rugby
by Lewis MoodyLewis 'Mad Dog' Moody has been a familiar face in English rugby for fifteen successful and, at times, painful years. The former Leicester and now Bath flanker has seen and done it all in a sport that has changed beyond recognition from his first forays into the sport to the huge spectacle that rugby, and especially test match rugby, has become. Known for his near-suicidal fashion of playing the game, Moody has achieved as much as anyone in the history of the sport, from league, cup and European honours with an iconic Leicester Tigers team alongside the likes of Martin Johnson and Neil Back, to a 2003 World Cup winners medal and an MBE when still a young man. A great deal of heartbreak would follow - pain, illness, self-doubt and dark days in the four years before the next World Cup campaign that saw Moody and England fall in the 2007 final but he re-emerged to finally captain his country to a third World Cup campaign in 2011. Mad Dog - An Englishman is the story, warts and all, of one of the most-loved and respected British sporting figures; a story that allows the reader into the inner sanctum of a top rugby star's life, from the early days of student and rugby dressing room mayhem, to the latter years of dedication to the cause, and utter professionalism against all odds. You may think some of Lewis Moody's adventures are well-known. You would be wrong. In this searingly honest autobiography the original 'Mad Dog' lays himself bare and, along the way, takes you on an incredible journey that will make you laugh, cry and understand what it takes to construct a career as successful as Lewis Moody's.
Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse
by Kim WickensNATIONAL BESTSELLER • &“A vivid portrait of America&’s greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, and the dramatic times in which they lived.&”—Geraldine Brooks, author of HorseThe powerful true story of the champion Thoroughbred racehorse who gained international fame in the tumultuous Civil War–era South, and became the most successful sire in American racing historyThe early days of American horse racing were grueling. Four-mile races, run two or three times in succession, were the norm, rewarding horses who brandished the ideal combination of stamina and speed. The stallion Lexington, named after the city in Kentucky where he was born, possessed these winning qualities, which pioneering Americans prized. Lexington shattered the world speed record for a four-mile race, showing a war-torn nation that the extraordinary was possible even in those perilous times. He would continue his winning career until deteriorating eyesight forced his retirement in 1855. But once his groundbreaking achievements as a racehorse ended, his role as a sire began. Horses from his bloodline won more money than the offspring of any other Thoroughbred—an annual success that led Lexington to be named America&’s leading sire an unprecedented sixteen times. Yet with the Civil War raging, Lexington&’s years at a Kentucky stud farm were far from idyllic. Confederate soldiers ran amok, looting freely and kidnapping horses from the top stables. They soon focused on the prized Lexington and his valuable progeny. Kim Wickens, a lawyer and dressage rider, became fascinated by this legendary horse when she learned that twelve of Thoroughbred racing's thirteen Triple Crown winners descended from Lexington. Wickens spent years meticulously researching the horse and his legacy—and with Lexington, she presents an absorbing, exciting account that transports readers back to the raucous beginning of American horse racing and introduces them to the stallion at its heart.
La leyenda de los escarabajos
by Mauricio SilvaGrandes hitos en la historia del ciclismo en Colombia. En Colombia hay dos tipos de escarabajos: los más de setenta y cinco mil coleópteros , y los pedalistas amos de las montañas, cuyas virtudes los han convertido en deportistas de talla mundial y, no pocas veces, en verdaderos héroes. Este libro contiene los 100 momentos más impactantes del ciclismo colombiano: las increíbles gestasdel Zipa Forero, Ramón Hoyos, Cochise Rodríguez, Lucho Herrera, Fabio Parra, Oliverio Rincón, Santiago Botero, Mariana Pajón, Rigoberto Urán, Nairo Quintana, Esteban Chaves,y muchos otros campeones que, con sus corazones, logros y títulos, le han demostrado al país por qué el ciclismo es el auténtico deporte nacional.
La leyenda de los invencibles
by Horacio ConvertiniEsta novela entrañable de Horacio Convertini nos traslada en el tiempo y en los recuerdos de infancia para demostrar que no existe magia más poderosa que la amistad. Iván y su papá Víctor tienen que ordenar un cuartito del patio. Lo que no imaginan es que entre juguetes olvidados, pelotas pinchadas y artefactos descompuestos se esconde un verdadero tesoro: ¡la foto de Los Invencibles! Y aquí es donde comienza la historia... Un grupo de amigos que lo darán todo, un campeonato de fútbol que quedará para el recuerdo, los intentos por descubrir al monstruo de la laguna y hasta una pomada mágica...
Lezioni di ballo
by Cristina Fontana R. CooperChico vive da due anni una relazione che lo consuma con un uomo prepotente. Quando il suo ragazzo gli rivela che sta vedendo qualcun altro, a Chico non resta altra scelta che trasferirsi sopra il garage del cugino in un piccolo paese tra i boschi di sequoie. Qui tira avanti svogliatamente. Per farlo uscire, il cugino lo spinge a offrirsi come volontario per aiutare con lo spettacolo annuale della scuola di danza del posto. Chico non si aspetta di finire a una lezione di ballo o di iniziare a sentirsi di nuovo vivo tra le braccia del suo maestro. Rafael, il figlio del proprietario della scuola, è stato un ballerino di talento, ma ora ama insegnare. Sebbene Chico ne sia attratto, ha paura di avvicinarlo. Rafael, però, è determinato, e a Chico basterà un solo ballo per capire che ha ancora qualcosa da imparare.
LGBT Athletes in the Sports Media
by Rory MagrathIn recent years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes have received more media attention than ever before. Declining levels of homophobia across the Western world has facilitated a greater acceptance of LGBT athletes among heterosexual teammates, fans, and the sports media. Consequently, academic interest in sport, gender and sexuality has also increased substantially. This edited collection combines studies of gender and sexuality with that of the sports media to provide the first-ever comprehensive academic overview of LGBT athletes in the sports media. It draws upon work from a wide range of international scholars to provide an interdisciplinary analysis of improved media coverage of LGBT athletes, as well as the numerous issues and barriers which continue to exist. LGBT Athletes in the Sports Media will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, media studies, and gender studies.
LGBT Football Fans: Authenticity, Belonging and Visibility (Critical Research in Football)
by Rory MagrathWhile recent years have seen the emergence of a significant body of research on LGBT inclusion in sport, little is known about LGBT fans. This book provides the first in-depth examination of LGBT football fans’ experiences and sense of place in the contemporary English game. Drawing on almost 100 semi-structured interviews with LGBT fans, it explores several important findings, including how these fans represent ‘authentic’ notions of fandom, the emergence of LGBT Fan Groups, improved stadium environment for LGBT fans, LGBT-themed chanting and the role of governing bodies and professional football clubs. The research presented in this book extends current theorising of under-represented groups of sports fans. This is fascinating and important reading for those with an interest in the sociology of sport, sports fandom, gender and sexuality.
L'Husky: L’Internazionale “Kékéko”, la corsa dei cani da traino!
by Yves Patrick BeaulieuLa capitale dell’Abitibi, Rouyn-Noranda, quest’inverno accoglie l’internazionale kékéko, la famigerata corsa dei cani da traino. Quel giorno, Rodolfo Galarneau, un novizio in questo universo, non ha dubbi che salirà sul podio…La capitale dell’Abitibi, Rouyn-Noranda, quest’inverno accoglie l’internazionale kékéko, la famigerata corsa dei cani da traino. Quel giorno, Rodolfo Galarneau, un novizio in questo universo, non ha dubbi che salirà sul podio…
Liar's Code: Growing Up Fishing
by Richard ChiapponeWarm, funny, and memorable musings on a life spent fishing.With this eclectic collection of personal essays taking him from his childhood haunts along the industrial Niagara River of the 1960s to Alaska and the saltwater flats of the Caribbean, Richard Chiappone elongates the fishing-writing genre, suggesting that he finds almost anything a fisherman does interesting-anything but the actual fishing.In one piece, he gets no farther than the curb outside his upstate New York childhood home, futilely waiting for his ride to the rivers of his dreams. In another account he describes an afternoon, standing in a midwinter snow bank, casting to house cats. With humor and self-skewering wit, Chiappone admits he can’t cast very well, ties some of the ugliest flies in the world, and spent nineteen years of his life trying to catch a permit.The essays, both funny and touching, reveal him as a writer of stark contradictions: a man who despises winter and loves living in Alaska; who laments having spent half his life just downstream from the infamous Love Canal, and simultaneously remembers those years with elegiac fondness. Lifting his gaze past the tip of his fly rod, and beyond the river and the fish all the way into his own heart, he portrays everything from a sentimental memory of his mother to his doubts about the adequacy of his grief over a dead daughter, making this compilation a kind of memoir in linked essays-a fisherman’s life examined.Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, catfish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
The Liars Society
by Alyson GerberA USA Today bestseller! The Inheritance Games and One of Us is Lying for middle grade -- beloved author Alyson Gerber's new series is an unforgettable mystery featuring a secret society, a mysterious island, and dangerous family secrets.Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she's never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life.Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone, that is, except for Jack, who is entirely mediocre. He's desperate to prove his worth to his influential father. But Jack has a secret of his own . . . one with the power to ruin everything.When the money for their school trip to a private island-exclusive to Boston students-is stolen, Jack and Weatherby are invited to play a high-stakes game and solve the mystery of the missing money. If they win, they'll be selected to join the oldest, most powerful secret society in the world-and they'll be Boston royalty forever. If they lose . . . well, they better not lose.Beloved author Alyson Gerber crafts an unforgettable mystery that asks-are some secrets and lies impossible to overcome?
Liberate/Liderate
by Evelina CabreraEvelina Cabrera, autora de Alta Negra, busca animar a quienes quieren cambiar su vida, para salir y superar la represión que muchas veces es propia, pero está cómodamente instalada dentro de nosotras, después de que el sistema hace ese trabajo fino de sembrarla al decirnos qué tenemos que hacer, cómo debemos pensar, de qué forma tenemos que amar. En este nuevo libro Evelina Cabrera anima y empodera a las mujeres para abrazar sus sueños, romper barreras, recuperarse de los malos momentos y liderar con habilidad y autenticidad. A ella se suman los testimonios de otras mujeres en roles de liderazgo en diferentes ámbitos, cuyas historias personales revelan la vulnerabilidad, la fortaleza y la resiliencia de todas nosotras. Liderate/Liberate te ayudará a liderar tu propia vida, conseguir el trabajo de tus sueños, asegurarte de que tu voz sea escuchada, encontrar y ofrecer apoyo, lograr un mejor equilibrio y aprender el estilo de liderazgo que se adapte a tus puntos fuertes. Liderate/Liberate no tiene recetas mágicas, pero sí busca alumbrar los modos de salir adelante. Comparto mi historia, mi mirada y la de mis amigas. Siempre nos salva la amistad de otras mujeres y la fuerza interior, más allá de todas las tempestades. Nadie dice que es fácil. Pero que nadie diga que es imposible. Que nadie nos diga que no podemos hacerlo.
La libertad enjaulada (El mundo de Olympia #Volumen 2)
by Almudena CidLa libertad enjaulada es la segunda entrega de «Olympia y su mundo», la nueva serie de Almudena Cid en la que podemos seguir los pasos de Olympia en los Juegos Olímpicos. Después de todo lo ocurrido Oly se ha mudado a la residencia Blume, donde coincide con muchos otros deportistas. Entre ellos, Macarena, su compañera de cuarto, una tenista a quien le gusta saltarse las reglas. Junto a Maca y otros viejos y nuevos amigos, entre gymkhanas y charlas pendientes con Mario y Ardilla, continúa su entrenamiento hacia el Mundial y los futuros Juegos de Sídney.
El libro aventurado para las chicas
by Andrea J. BuchananPara toda chica con espíritu independiente que busca travesuras, aquí está la única guía de aventura donde no se permiten chicos.
Líderes del deporte
by Juan Pablo SagarnaLas imágenes de situaciones deportivas nos proveen de valiosos elementospara ser usados en nuestras relaciones. La clave es trasladar laentrega, la pasión, la perseverancia y el compromiso del deporte anuestra vida diaria, como lo demuestran estos deportistas. Existe un método para ser un líder del deporte. Y los principaleslíderes del deporte argentino lo develan aquí, a través de sus historiasde vida. Algunas de las características de este método son ladisciplina, la responsabilidad, la coherencia, la confianza, lahonestidad, el trabajo en equipo, la solidaridad, la capacidad deresolver situaciones, encontrar el modo de relacionarnos únicamente deforma positiva con quienes nos rodean y, sobre todo, detectar laoportunidad para dar definitivamente un salto de calidad.El relato de cada uno de los protagonistas de este libro sirve paraobservar y confirmar que no hay obstáculos. ¿Cómo llegaron a serlíderes? ¿En qué momento hicieron el clic que les permitió derribarcualquier barrera y convertirse en los mejores de cada disciplina?Este libro logra llevar el mensaje de estos brillantes deportistas aquienes no viven el deporte, pero sí pueden aplicar su aprendizaje encuestiones cotidianas, tanto en el trabajocomo en el plano familiar y social.
LIDERES DEL DEPORTE (EBOOK)
by Autores VariosExiste un método para ser un líder del deporte. Y los principales líderes del deporte argentino lo develan aquí, a través de sus historias de vida. Algunas de las características de este método son la disciplina, la responsabilidad, la coherencia, la confianza, la honestidad, el trabajo en equipo, la solidaridad, la capacidad de resolver situaciones, encontrar el modo de relacionarnos únicamente de forma positiva con quienes nos rodean y, sobre todo, detectar la oportunidad para dar definitivamente un salto de calidad. El relato de cada uno de los protagonistas de este libro sirve para observar y confirmar que no hay obstáculos. Cómo llegaron a ser líderes? En qué momento hicieron el clic que les permitió derribar cualquier barrera y convertirse en los mejores de cada disciplina? Líderes del deporte. Líderes en la vida logra llevar el mensaje de estos brillantes deportistas a quienes no viven el deporte, pero sí pueden aplicar su aprendizaje en cuestiones cotidianas, tanto en el trabajo como en el plano familiar y social. Las imágenes de situaciones deportivas nos proveen de valiosos elementos para ser utilizados en nuestras relaciones. La clave es trasladar la entrega, la pasión, la perseverancia y el compromiso del deporte a nuestra vida diaria.