The 100 Greatest Days in New York Sports

The 100 Greatest Days in New York Sports
Author: Stuart Miller
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2020-03-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1538126869

New York City sports history, like the city itself, is noisy, confident, and endlessly fascinating. This is the city where Joe Louis struck a blow against the Nazis, where major league baseball was integrated, and where marathons and professional tennis came into their own. The 100 Greatest Days in New York Sports, Updated Edition, recounts New York’s greatest sporting moments, from Jackie Robinson integrating baseball to the Ali-Frazier fight to the New York Giants stunning the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. It covers dramatic sporting events involving the likes of Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali, Serena Williams, Reggie Jackson, Dr. J, Joe Namath, and many more. This updated edition features a new, chronological approach to highlight the remarkable history and development of sports in the city and the nation. It also includes many new moments, an updated ranking, and a single list that incorporates events that took place outside the city but involved New York teams. Pick a sport—baseball, football, basketball, boxing, tennis—and in every case New York has had front-row seats for the sport’s major developments and most memorable events. The 100 Greatest Days in New York Sports illuminates how important sports are to the life of New York and the city’s preeminent place in American sports history. It’s about all the “firsts” that occurred here, the many titles that have been won, and all the drama in between.

100 Days of School Mad Libs Junior

100 Days of School Mad Libs Junior
Author: Kim Ostrow
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0593222075

Let's VERB up and down and celebrate the first 100 days of school with Mad Libs Junior! Inside this Mad Libs Junior, you'll find all the ways to celebrate the first 100 days of school! This interactive book is perfect for beginning readers who aren't yet comfortable with parts of speech. With easy-to-follow directions and word banks to guide them, readers can enjoy crafting 21 exciting stories, based on all kinds of fun 100 Days activities!

My Greatest Day in Baseball

My Greatest Day in Baseball
Author: John P. Carmichael
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780803263680

My Greatest Day in Baseball, one of the earliest collections of the game’s oral histories, presents forty-seven famous stars from the golden age of baseball relating their most unforgettable moments in the sport. Ty Cobb vividly recreates the seventeenth-inning tie between the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers with the 1908 pennant at stake. Grover Cleveland Alexander describes the day he saved the 1926 world championship for the St. Louis Cardinals. Babe Ruth recalls hitting the homer he had promised to the crowd at a 1932 World Series game. Dizzy Dean recounts a run-in with Ford Frick and a record-setting day in 1933 when he struck out seventeen Chicago Cubs. Among the other celebrated baseball figures telling their dramatic stories are Leroy “Satchel” Paige, Casey Stengel, Leo “The Lip” Durocher, Honus Wagner, Johnny Evers, Lefty Gomez, Tris Speaker, Cy Young, Pepper Martin, George Sisler, Billy Southworth, Enos Slaughter, Connie Mack, Walter Johnson, and Rogers Hornsby.

The Hundred Greatest Stars

The Hundred Greatest Stars
Author: James B. Kaler
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2006-05-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0387216251

While there are guides to the visible sky, this is the first book to encompass the most important stars known in the universe at a level accessible to the layperson. The noted astronomer James Kaler takes us on a tour of the 100 most interesting stars, describing their characteristics and importance in words and vivid pictures. James B. Kaler is an internationally recognized expert on stars and their formation. A professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois, he is the author of "Stars and Their Spectra" (Cambridge), "Stars" (Freeman/Scientific American Library), "Cosmic Clouds" (Freeman/Scientific American Library), and numerous articles for popular and professional astronomy magazines.

The 100 Greatest Heroes

The 100 Greatest Heroes
Author: Harry Paul Jeffers
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780806524764

Contains profiles, ranked in order of significance, of the world's most influential heroes of all time.

The 100 Greatest Advertisements 1852-1958

The 100 Greatest Advertisements 1852-1958
Author: Julian Watkins
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2012-11-09
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486144089

The priceless ingredient; His master's voice; 9944/100% pure; over 100 others. How they were written, their impact, and much more. Remarkable record. 130 illustratrions.

The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century

The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century
Author: Peter Dreier
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1568586949

A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted -- because the radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history. It isn't taught in most high schools. You can't find it on the major television networks. In popular media, the most persistent interpreter of America's radical past is Glenn Beck, who teaches viewers a wildly inaccurate history of unions, civil rights, and the American Left. The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century, a colorful and witty history of the most influential progressive leaders of the twentieth century and beyond, is the perfect antidote.

The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists

The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists
Author: Joel McIver
Publisher: Jawbone Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2008-12-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1906002207

The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists is a controversial and much-needed guide to the world of metal guitar, featuring the most accomplished performers from the vast legions of metal. As well as celebrating the classic metal musicians who have defined the scene since the 1970s, author Joel McIver delves deep into the modern thrash metal, death metal, black metal, doom metal, power metal and battle metal movements to unearth those players for whom no tremolo divebomb is too high and no tuning is too low.This book is no mere list for geeks, though. McIver's objective in writing this book is to recognise the incredible skills that these players possess. Moreover, although they're all masters of sweep picking, fretboard tapping and the other tricks of the modern shredder, these players are far from simple speed freaks: The 100 Greatest... makes a point of featuring players whose feel and instinct for the values of metal outweigh mere technical mastery. If you've ever wielded a tennis rack in anger in front of a bedroom mirror, or even if you're a metal musician yourself, you need this book: the world of the overdriven guitar will never look the same again.