Memoirs

Memoirs
Author: British Astronomical Association
Publisher:
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1893
Genre: Astronomy
ISBN:

A Whole New Game

A Whole New Game
Author: John P. Rossi
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2015-11-16
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0786481560

Bismarck once said that God looked after drunkards, children and the U.S. of A. Some say that baseball should be added to the list. It must have been divine intervention that led the sport through a series of transformative challenges from the end of World War II to the game's first expansion in 1961. During this period baseball was forced to make a number of painful choices. From 1949 to 1954, attendance dropped more than 30 percent, as once loyal fans turned to other activities, started going to see more football, and began watching television. Also, the sport had to wrestle with racial integration, franchise shifts and unionization while trying to keep a firm hold on the minds and emotions of the public. This work chronicles how baseball, with imagination and some foresight, survived postwar challenges. Some of the solutions came about intelligently, some clumsily, but by 1960 baseball was a stronger, healthier and better balanced institution than ever before.

REDEMPTION OF THE DAMNED: VOL. 1 AERIAL PHENOMENA

REDEMPTION OF THE DAMNED: VOL. 1 AERIAL PHENOMENA
Author: Martin Shough
Publisher: Anomalist Books, LLC
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2019-06-28
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1949501108

UNRAVELLING AERIAL MYSTERIES OF THE PAST Charles Fort published his first and most influential book, The Book of the Damned, a century ago in 1919, collecting together many historical reports of strange aerial phenomena. Since the birth of the UFO controversy in 1947 Fort’s writings have been cited in countless books and web pages. Yet this is the first time in a hundred years that researchers have systematically verified the sources and content of every one of these oft-recycled stories, correcting many errors, placing each case in its historical context, and submitting it to a careful scientific investigation in an attempt to find a conventional answer. What were these reported phenomena? Is it possible to find non-exotic explanations? With the advantage of modern knowledge, methods, and resources, in most cases the answer proves to be yes. Some of the solutions found may shock the general reader and surprise even specialists. Yet in the end a few well-documented events remain unexplained.