The names on the cast-bronze plaques hanging in the National Baseball Hall of Fame embody the history and drama of the sport--they are the royalty of baseball.
In spring 2014 Peggy Kokernot Kaplan, a former Trinity University athlete and cofounder of the womens track team, emailed her alma maters athletic department asking the school to post statistics from the teams 1975 season.
Officially licensed by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, this revised and updated volume gathers the biographies, statistics, and photos of over 175 members of the most exclusive club in the sport.
Originally published in 1949, John Alden Knights Black Bass enforces the idea that enjoying the sport of bass fishing to its fullest is only possible when one understands every aspect of it, including fish behavior, bass habitat, changing seasons, gear, and different fishing tactics.
Psychology has an important part to play in the teaching and practice of physical education and sport, and this volume, originally published in 1972, provided a systematic and authoritative introduction to the major areas in this field at the time.
Moto GP is about the individual's story, the battles between the individuals, the different personalities, the different men that are striving for one goal, to win the world championship.
The FIMS Team Physician Manual is the official sports medicine handbook of the International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS), the world's oldest sports medicine organization.
Mountain resort tourism is a competitive environment, experiencing increasing growth in new markets such as China, that require the knowledge and skills developed by mature markets.
Telling an important story about the development of modern Turkey, this fascinating book examines the place of football in Turkish society and the relationship between Turkish sport, nationalism, and globalization.
In these engaging and forthright interviews, thirteen African American athletes talk about how they endured through pain, loneliness, and rejection to become champions.
Prior to the outbreak of World War II, the British presided over the largest Empire in world history, a vast transoceanic and transcontinental realm of dominions, colonies, protectorates and mandates that covered over one-quarter of the world's land mass and comprised a population of over 450-million subjects.
The Science of Basketball is the only book to examine the scientific principles underpinning preparation and performance in basketball, applied to both individual and team contexts.
Most Iowa Hawkeyes fans have attended a basketball game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, seen highlights of "e;The Catch"e; that beat LSU in 2005, and were thrilled by the school's run to the 2014-15 Big Ten Football Championship Game.
Following a period of strategic and ideological change in museums, this book outlines new attitudes in curating and display, education and learning, text and interpretation, access, inclusion, participation, space, and the issues around the sustainability of the encyclopaedic collection.
Schillerndes Panorama einer ganzen Epoche, glänzend erzähltRaus aus den Schatten der NS-Zeit, den Wiederaufbau geschafft - 1972 reißt Deutschland die Fenster auf.
This fully updated fifth edition of Learning to Teach Physical Education in the Secondary School is a comprehensive, yet accessible guide for all student secondary physical education teachers.
While the topic of relationships in professional sports teams is gaining greater attention from researchers and practitioners, the role that coach and athlete language plays in shaping these relationships remains largely unexplored.
Nonfiction films about sports have been around for decades, but the previously neglected subgenre of the documentary has become increasingly popular in the last several years.
Highly practical and engaging, Sports Marketing equips students with the skills, techniques, and tools they need to be successful marketers in any sporting environment.
*Winner of the North American Society for Sport History 2024 Anthology Book Award*This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic.
Dieses Buch handelt von den großen Momenten im Ausdauersport und bringt die Taktiken ans Licht, mithilfe derer Sportler ihre mentale Stärke entwickeln.
