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Now available in paperback, the "fresh and fascinating" ("The Plain
Dealer," Cleveland), "splendid and brilliant" ("Philadelphia Daily
News") history of the early game by the Official Historian of Major
League Baseball.
Who really invented baseball? Forget Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown
and Alexander Cartwright. Meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus
Wheaton, and other fascinating figures buried beneath the
falsehoods that have accrued around baseball's origins. This is the
true story of how organized baseball started, how gambling shaped
the game from its earliest days, and how it became our national
pastime and our national mirror.
"Baseball in the Garden of Eden" draws on original research to tell
how the game evolved from other bat-and-ball games and gradually
supplanted them, how the New York game came to dominate other
variants, and how gambling and secret professionalism promoted and
plagued the game. From a religious society's plot to anoint Abner
Doubleday as baseball's progenitor to a set of scoundrels and
scandals far more pervasive than the Black Sox Fix of 1919, this
entertaining book is full of surprises. Even the most expert
baseball fan will learn something new with almost every page.
When Vince Lombardi took the job of coaching the Green Bay Packers
in 1959, he inherited a team that had gone from legendary to
laughing stock. They hadn't fielded a winning team in over a decade
and had gone 1-10-1 in the 1958 season despite having seven future
Hall of Famers on the team. They were a team accustomed to losing
and in desperate need of a turnaround. """That First Season"
chronicles that turnaround at the hands of Lombardi, himself
serving as a head coach for the first time. The Packers were a team
of talented underachievers more used to lax coaching and late
nights than grueling practices and curfews. Lombardi's no-bull
coaching style helped hammer them into winners who operated with
machine-like precision. Every football fan knows that the Packers
under Lombardi were champions, but "That First Season" shows how he
did it, bringing readers the inside story of a sports
dynasty.
Over the last decade, many local students have preferred to study
overseas. This has caused governments to announce the creation of
programs and developments in the higher education sector to upgrade
South-East Asia to a leading education hub. Moreover, many
governments declared that they would work on the insurance of
learning to increase the quality of the degrees and the teaching
itself. This has led many to question the results of these
declarations. Higher Education Challenges in South-East Asia
provides an overview of what has been happening over the last ten
years in higher education in South-East Asia. It also works to
solve the challenges in modern education such as the impacts of
digitalization, globalization, and Generation Y and Z learning
styles. Covering topics that include globalization, educational
technologies, and comparative teaching, this book impacts academic
institutions, policymakers, government officials, university and
college administrators and leaders, academicians, researchers, and
students.
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