Best Sports Stories 1990

Best Sports Stories 1990
Author: Sporting News
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1990-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9780892043538

An anthology of the best sports journalism and photography of 1989.

The Dodgers Encyclopedia

The Dodgers Encyclopedia
Author: William McNeil
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2000-09-25
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781582613161

The Dodgers Encyclopedia is the definitive book on Los Angeles and Brooklyn Dodgers baseball. It traces the history of one of Major League Baseball's most successful organizations, from the misty beginnings of its predecessors in rural Brooklyn more than 140 years ago, through their formative years in the major leagues, as a member of the American Association from 1884 through 1889, to a full-fledged representative of the National League since 1890. It covers the exciting and oftenzany years in Brooklyn through 1957, as well as a long and successful sojourn in Southern California during the last half of the 20th century.

Sport, Philosophy, and Good Lives

Sport, Philosophy, and Good Lives
Author: Randolph Feezell
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1496211480

There's more to sports than the ethos of competition, entertainment, and commercialism expressed in popular media and discourse. Sport, Philosophy, and Good Lives discusses sport in the context of several traditional philosophical questions, including: What is a good human life and how does sport factor into it? To whom do we look for ethical guidance? What makes human activities or projects meaningful? Randolph Feezell examines these questions along with other relevant topics in the philosophy of sport such as the contribution of play to a meaningful life, the various reasons for pessimistic views of sport, the various claims that celebrated athletes are role models, and the seldom-questioned view that coaches are in a position to offer advice to athletes on how to live or on leadership skills. He also discusses the way that non-Western attitudes found in Buddhism, Taoism, and the Bhagavad Gita might be used to address the vulnerabilities of sports participants. Feezell draws from current sports issues, popular literature, and contemporary sports figures to shed light on the attraction and value of sports and examine the accompanying ethical issues.

The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America

The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America
Author: Lyle Spatz
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0803239920

Tells the story of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers in contextualized biographies of the players, managers, and everyone else important to the team.

Book Review Index Cumulation, 1989

Book Review Index Cumulation, 1989
Author: Neil E. Walker
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Total Pages: 1416
Release: 1990-04
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780810305816

The Index provides a broad coverage and access to book reviews in the general social sciences, humanities, sciences, and fine arts, as well as general interest magazines and includes journals from Great Britain, Canada, Switzerland, Israel and Australia. In addition, it indexes several journals that, while published in the US, concentrate on reviewing foreign published or foreign language books. These include Hispania, French Review, German Quarterly and World Literature Today.