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Roberto Gonzalez Echevarra presents a detailed exploration of the history of baseball in Cuba. The author examines the social, political and cultural climate through which the game has thrived.
Baseball --- Base-ball --- Ball games --- Social aspects --- History.
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This is an anthology of papers that were presented at the Twelfth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. Capped by Roger Kahn's essay on the rise and fall of great baseball prose, this Symposium plumbed such topics as baseball in the classroom, the national pastime and American Christianity, corporate encroachment, and the difficult course pursued by a Negro League team owner who also happened to be white and female.
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Bollettieri's training and development system is recognized around the world as one of the best. He has worked with many of world's top players, including Andre Agassi, Venus and Serena Williams, Boris Becker, Mary Pierce, and Jim Courier. Starting with the fundamentals, you'll learn how to choose the right grip and build a strong foundation with posture and stance. Every shot is addressedforehand and backhand, serves and return of serve, and specialty shots like the overhead and lob. You'll get lessons on conditioning and mental training, then learn the game plans and strategies to make you a champion. A chapter on choosing and stringing the perfect racket is also included. Bollettieri's Tennis Handbook offers you unmatched insight into the world's top tennis development program from the man who started it all. Bollettieri covers everything from skill development and stroke techniques to his ideas on coaching and practicing. (Bron: www.humankinetics.com)
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This work explores the vibrant world of football from the 1920's through the 1950's, a period in which the game became deeply embedded in American life. It reconstructs a media-created world of football and looks at its deep entanglements with a modernizing American society.
Football --- Mass media and sports --- Sports and mass media --- Sports --- American football --- Foot-ball --- Ball games --- History --- Social aspects
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