The senses in performance

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Lou Sabin. Illustrated with photos

Records are the heart and soul of baseball. In over 100 years of major-league history, a long list of remarkable records have been written -- and rewritten -- by the game's hard-throwing, hard hitting and hard-running superheroes. This book is about the breaking of records and the men who broke them. Here you'll read about super-hurlers like Tom Seaver, Steve Carlton, Bob Gibson and Don Drysdale; batting champs like Henry Aaron, Willie Mays and Ted Williams; and champion base-stealer Lou Brock. - Introduction.

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deited by Simon Gwyn Roberts

The increasing potency of identity politics across Europe often sees sport acting as a vehicle for the promotion and celebration of regional and sub-national identities. However, while the relationship between sport, the media and national identity has featured in numerous academic and political debates in recent years, the links between sports media and regional identity have received little attention. This seems a curious oversight, because the links between sport and region frequently become a celebration of the local and the distinctive, emblematic of community and continuity. This volume will explore that sense of the counter-hegemonic, where sport is celebrated by a media often keen to promote notions of difference, which might verge on rebellion in some contexts, conceived as resisting global homogeneity or national hegemony. At other times, they may merely reflect a commercial nose for the local audiences tastes, but there is always the sense of preserving something important, a celebration of the diversity that makes us human. This book considers the centrality and cultural significance of particular sports, or clubs, to regional and sub-national identities across Europe and beyond, adopting a comparative approach to the mediatized nature of such portrayals.

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Jonathan Reeser, Roald Bahr

"This handbook will help to improve the medical care delivered to all volleyball athletes and as such will be of value to sports physicians, coaches, therapists, competitors and others interested in the sport."--Jacket.

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Bob Hinz

Traces the history of the National League club nicknamed "the Fizz Kids" during their losing years, but who became known as "the Whiz Kids" after their 1980 championship season.