Pitched Battle

Author : John Klima
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786412037
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pitched Battle written by John Klima and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitching duels are the essence of baseball competition--they require great measures of patience and fundamentals, and take the best one pitcher has to offer and give him a loss he does not deserve. They do not happen often, but when two good pitchers alternately take the mound and remove the game from the batters hands, spectators are on the edges of their seats. Those rare games and pitchers get all the attention in this work, as the author provides commentary on the greatest pitching duels of all time. It covers 35 of them, beginning with that of May 5, 1904, between Rube Waddell and Cy Young and ending with the May 28, 2000, opposition of Pedro Martinez and Roger Clemens. Other highlighted games include those pitting Christy Matthewson against Chief Bender, Sherry Smith against Babe Ruth, Bill Wright against Satchel Paige, Warren Spahn against Juan Marichal, Bob Gibson against Don Drysdale, Steve Carlton against Phil Niekro, and Greg Maddux against Pedro Martinez, just to name a few.

Author : Peter Hain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 178661524X
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pitch Battles written by Peter Hain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There will be a black Springbok over my dead body.” — Dr Danie Craven, President of the South African Rugby Board, 1969 Just a year after the controversial D’Oliveira affair, the organised disruption of the all-white 1969/70 South African rugby and cricket tours to Britain represented a significant challenge to apartheid politics. Led by future cabinet minister Peter Hain, the ‘Stop the Seventy Tour’ campaign brought about the cancellation of both tours, presaging white South Africa’s expulsion from the Olympics and the end of apartheid sport altogether. With his brand of attention-grabbing, direct action sports protest, the 19-year-old Hain emerged as a hero to some and enemy to others. Now, reflecting on these experiences with fifty years of hindsight, Lord Hain, together with South Africa’s foremost sports historian and fellow anti-apartheid activist André Odendaal, shows how decades of relentless international and domestic campaigning for equality led to a Springbok team captained by black athlete Siya Kolisi winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Interspersing a wide range of examples with personal testimony, Pitch Battles explores the themes of sport, globalisation and resistance from the deep past to the present day. Published in the same year as the Stop The Tour documentary from acclaimed director Louis Myles, this compelling story of sacrifice, struggle and triumph reveals how sport should never be divorced from politics or society’s values.

Author : Larry Writer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925321616
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pitched Battle written by Larry Writer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid story of the men and women who took a stand when sport mixed with politics In 1971, when the racially selected all-white Springbok rugby team toured Australia, we became a nation at war with ourselves. There was bloodshed as tens of thousands of anti-Apartheid campaigners clashed with governments, police, and rugby fans -- who were given free reign to assault protestors. Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen declared a State of Emergency. Prime minister William McMahon called the Wallabies who refused to play 'national disgraces'. Barbed wire ringed the great rugby grounds to stop protestors invading the field. Pitched Battlerecreates what became of the most rancorous periods in modern Australian history -- a time of courage, pain, faith, fanaticism, and political opportunism -- which made heroes of the Wallabies who refused to play, played a key role in the later political careers of Peter Beattie, Meredith Burgmann, and Peter Hain, and ultimately contributed to the abandonment of Apartheid.

Author : James Q. Whitman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071875
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Verdict of Battle written by James Q. Whitman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, war is considered a last resort for resolving disagreements. But a day of staged slaughter on the battlefield was once seen as a legitimate means of settling political disputes. James Whitman argues that pitched battle was essentially a trial with a lawful verdict. And when this contained form of battle ceased to exist, the law of victory gave way to the rule of unbridled force. The Verdict of Battle explains why the ritualized violence of the past was more effective than modern warfare in bringing carnage to an end, and why humanitarian laws that cling to a notion of war as evil have led to longer, more barbaric conflicts. Belief that sovereigns could, by rights, wage war for profit made the eighteenth century battle’s golden age. A pitched battle was understood as a kind of legal proceeding in which both sides agreed to be bound by the result. To the victor went the spoils, including the fate of kingdoms. But with the nineteenth-century decline of monarchical legitimacy and the rise of republican sentiment, the public no longer accepted the verdict of pitched battles. Ideology rather than politics became war’s just cause. And because modern humanitarian law provided no means for declaring a victor or dispensing spoils at the end of battle, the violence of war dragged on. The most dangerous wars, Whitman asserts in this iconoclastic tour de force, are the lawless wars we wage today to remake the world in the name of higher moral imperatives.

Author : Franklin M. Davis Jr
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789120306
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breakthrough: The Epic Story of the Battle of the Bulge written by Franklin M. Davis Jr and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This battle,” Hitler said, “is to decide whether we shall live or die.” Skilfully, secretly, he assembled three German armies—24 divisions, 250,000 men, 970 tanks and 1900 pieces of artillery. Taking advantage of the harsh winter, he picked a place where the Allied forces were water-thin—four American divisions and one armored cavalry regiment—and unleashed a devastating attack to annihilate the outnumbered defenders. Thus started the greatest pitched battle ever fought by the United States in its history—the engagement that destroyed forever the myth of the vaunted superiority of the German soldier.

Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1538 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Phrase and Fable written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Sabin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521782740
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare written by Philip Sabin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second volume of a systematic and up-to-date account of Roman warfare from the Late Republic to Justinian.

Author : James Q. Whitman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674068114
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Verdict of Battle written by James Q. Whitman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaughter in battle was once seen as a legitimate way to settle disputes. When pitched battles ceased to exist, the law of victory gave way to the rule of unbridled force. Whitman explains why ritualized violence was more effective in ending carnage, and why humanitarian laws that view war as evil have led to longer, more barbaric conflicts.

Author : Henry Smith Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germanic empires (concluded) written by Henry Smith Williams and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Student's Practical Dictionary of Idioms, Phrases and Terms written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: