Playing for Their Nation

Playing for Their Nation
Author: Steven R. Bullock
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780803213371

"Steven R. Bullock describes how virtually every significant American military installation around the world boasted formal baseball teams and leagues designed to soothe the anxieties of combatants and prepare them physically for battle. Officials also sponsored hundreds of exhibition contests involving military and civilian teams and tours by major league stars to entertain servicemen and elevate their spirits."--BOOK JACKET.

National Pastime

National Pastime
Author: Stefan Szymanski
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2005
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780815782599

Szymanski and Zimbalist pay special attention to the rich and complex evolution of baseball from its beginnings in America, and they trace modern soccer from its foundation in England through its subsequent expansion across the world.

Nation at Play

Nation at Play
Author: Ronojoy Sen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231539932

Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and colonialism, and as an independent nation. Some sports that originated in India have fallen out of favor, while others, such as cricket, have been adopted and made wholly India's own. Sen's innovative project casts sport less as a natural expression of human competition than as an instructive practice reflecting a unique play with power, morality, aesthetics, identity, and money. Sen follows the transformation of sport from an elite, kingly pastime to a national obsession tied to colonialism, nationalism, and free market liberalization. He pays special attention to two modern phenomena: the dominance of cricket in the Indian consciousness and the chronic failure of a billion-strong nation to compete successfully in international sporting competitions, such as the Olympics. Innovatively incorporating examples from popular media and other unconventional sources, Sen not only captures the political nature of sport in India but also reveals the patterns of patronage, clientage, and institutionalization that have bound this diverse nation together for centuries.

Nation: The Play

Nation: The Play
Author: Mark Ravenhill
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2012-03-31
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781448109685

Following the National Theatre's success with plays based on novels by well-loved children's writers like Philip Pulman (His Dark Materials), Jamila Gavin (Coram Boy) and Michael Morpurgo (War Horse), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill's exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett's witty and challenging adventure story in a major Christmas production for 2009. A parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau's village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other's language; somehow they must learn to survive. As starving refugees gather, Daphne delivers a baby, milks a pig, brews beer and does battle with a mutineer. Mau fights cannibal Raiders, discovers the world is round and questions the reality of his tribe's fiercely patriarchal gods. Together they come of age, overseen by a foul-mouthed parrot, as they discard old doctrine to forge a new Nation.

Pay to Play

Pay to Play
Author: Elizabeth Brackett
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Investigates the culture of corruption in Illinois state politics, Blagojevich's reckless actions, and how Obama managed to avoid the taint of this same environment.

Playing the Enemy

Playing the Enemy
Author: John Carlin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781594201745

After being released from prison and winning South Africa's first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: Use the national rugby team, the Springboks--long an embodiment of white supremacist rule--to embody and engage a new South Africa as they prepared to host the 1995 World Cup. The string of wins that followed not only defied the odds, but capped Mandela's miraculous effort to bring South Africans together in a hard-won, enduring bond.

Dare To Play

Dare To Play
Author: Carly Phillips
Publisher: CP Publishing
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1947089536

He’s the bad boy of baseball who’s about to lose everything. She needs a husband to get custody of her teenage sister. Suddenly a marriage of convenience doesn’t look so bad. Pitcher, Jaxon Prescott has a lot on his plate. Major League Baseball. Reputation as a player. And now? He’s on the verge of losing it all. He didn’t mean to sleep with his general manager’s daughter or get into a brawl that was captured on camera. But his notoriety is a problem and everything he's worked for is at risk. What’s a bad boy to do? Marry his sister's best friend to save his career, even if it’s the opposite of everything he wants and believes in. Macy Walker is the sole guardian of her half-sister until the girl’s mother returns and wants her daughter back. In order to win custody, Macy needs to provide stability and marrying someone would do the trick. Luckily for her, her best friend’s brother needs a wife. They're this close to getting exactly what they want - as long as they don't fall in love. A stand-alone novel DARE NATION SERIES Book 1: Dare to Resist Book 2: Dare to Tempt Book 3: Dare to Play Book 4: Dare to Stay Novella: Dare to Tease

The First 100 African Americans to Play in the National Football League

The First 100 African Americans to Play in the National Football League
Author: Jerome Watkins
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2023-06-26
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11, 2001, eighty-one years after the gathering of the founding members of the National Football League in Canton, Ohio, I walked onto the historic Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, as a member of the officiating chain crew to work the football game between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers, which is the oldest rivalry in the NFL.

what it takes to play for the country

what it takes to play for the country
Author: Nikhil Jain
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

Perhaps the most definitive, accurate and well written pieces of literature devised on showing both youngsters and adults the path toward forging a career in international or state cricket, in this book we show the budding cricketer the exact path and journey one must endure in order to achieve the glory and stardom of playing international cricket and representing their country. Like no other guide on the market, in our book, we, fragment by fragment unleash the exact skill sets and facets to the game which must be honed and mastered in order for one to be an elite level cricketer and not just an average one, and step by step show YOU the budding cricketer the exact path necessary for one to reach one’s full potential and be in contention for national selection. Several critical ideas and concepts which have never been discussed before in a coaching manual or within the coaching fraternity before have been explicitly and precisely conveyed in the most lucid and radiant manner. Topics such as the two stages in batting development, the parallel vs sequential method of picking line and choosing your stroke as well as a full rundown on the requisite abilities one must develop in order to be a good spinner, fast bowler, fielder and captain, are all explained in explicit detail. In this book we endeavour to give the budding cricketer and one aiming for national selection, the science and theory behind cricket and the exact route one must follow to gain national selection. We leave no stone unturned and really do give you the formula and recipe needed to gain national selection and do so in the most concise yet elaborate manner. A guide as to how to play for your country doesn’t go any deeper than this and we are so confident that you will walk away double the cricketer you were before, that we give you a money back guarantee if you felt disappointed or unfulfilled with the topics discussed within the book​. Read on as we steer you tantalisingly close to a career in professional cricket.

The National Game

The National Game
Author: Alfred Henry Spink
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780809323043

"Spink provides a history of baseball before 1910; position-by-position biographies of former players and of every major league player of that era; sketches of managers, magnates, journalists, and umpires; the lineup of every championship team from 1871 to 1910 World Series."--Back cover.