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Baseball in Crisis: Spiraling Costs, Bad Behavior, Uncertain ...

Baseball in Crisis: Spiraling Costs, Bad Behavior, Uncertain ...

Frank P. Jozsa, Jr.

Information about baseball's history, and the sport's business opportunities and problems, are included in such books as Frank P. Jozsa, Jr., Baseball, Inc.: The National Pastime as Big Business (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006); Scott Barzilla, ...
A Hoosier's Journey: Athlete, Student, Teacher, and Author

A Hoosier's Journey: Athlete, Student, Teacher, and Author

Frank P. Jozsa Jr

In September 1941, I was born in Terre Haute, Indiana.
National Football League Franchises: Team Performances, ...

National Football League Franchises: Team Performances, ...

Frank P. Jozsa Jr.

As such this book focuses on the development and maturity of the organization and its members, but most importantly, how each of them performed in seasons and postseasons and then to what extent they have succeeded as a business enterprise ...
National Basketball Association Franchises: Team Performance ...

National Basketball Association Franchises: Team Performance ...

Frank P. Jozsa Jr.

This book examines the development and organization of the NBA and its clubs, how each club has performed in seasons and postseasons, and to what extent each has prospered and succeeded as a business enterprise despite competition for ...
College Sports Inc.: How Commercialism Influences ...

College Sports Inc.: How Commercialism Influences ...

Frank P. Jozsa Jr.

​For several decades in America, athletic programs in colleges and universities received financial support and resources primarily from their respective schools and such sources as alumni and the National Collegiate Athletic Association ...
Football Fortunes: The Business, Organization and Strategy ...

Football Fortunes: The Business, Organization and Strategy ...

Frank P. Jozsa, Jr.

This book details the growth of an industry generating billions of dollars in revenue; explains intricacies of the league's expansions and mergers, territories and relocations; the operation and organization of franchises; the role of ...
Major League Baseball Organizations: Team Performances and ...

Major League Baseball Organizations: Team Performances and ...

Frank P. Jozsa Jr.

By linking and comparing the historical performances of MLB teams to financial information about them as business organizations, this book offers a unique contribution to the literature on the sports industry.
National Basketball Association Strategies: Business ...

National Basketball Association Strategies: Business ...

Frank P. Jozsa Jr.

Hoop Lore traces the origins of basketball and development of the sport's professional leagues. Written by Connie Kirchberg and published in 2007, the book covers the status of the NBA as of the early 2000s and portrays how the league ...
National Football League Strategies: Business Expansions, ...

National Football League Strategies: Business Expansions, ...

Frank P. Jozsa Jr.

The book may also be used as a reference or supplemental text for college and university students enrolled in such applied undergraduate and graduate courses and seminars as sports administration, sports business and sports management.
Baseball, Inc.: The National Pastime as Big Business

Baseball, Inc.: The National Pastime as Big Business

Frank P. Jozsa, Jr.

Focusing on the last fifty years, this work examines the past and present commercial elements of organized baseball, emphasizing the dual roles--competitive sport and profitable business--which the sport must now fulfill.
The National Basketball Association: Business, Organization ...

The National Basketball Association: Business, Organization ...

Frank P. Jozsa

6 To explain and trace the origins of basketball and some of its professional leagues, McFarland & Company published Hoop Lore:A History of the National Basketball Association (2007). Authored by Connie Kirchberg, this is a comprehensive ...
National League Franchises: Team Performances Inspire ...

National League Franchises: Team Performances Inspire ...

Frank Jozsa

This brief analyzes each of the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises in the National League and their past regular-season and postseason records and financial performances while operating as competitive, popular, and profitable or ...
The Frank Book:

The Frank Book:

Jim Woodring

The Frank Book also features an introduction by one of Frank’s biggest fans (himself a Frank, or almost): Francis Ford Coppola.
Totally Frank: The Autobiography of Frank Lampard

Totally Frank: The Autobiography of Frank Lampard

Frank Lampard

Chelsea and England footballer Frank Lampard charts his life story from childhood to young West Ham apprentice to multi-millionaire world footballing celebrity and lynchpin of the national team.
Let Me Be Frank: My Life at Virginia Tech

Let Me Be Frank: My Life at Virginia Tech

Frank Beamer

After 26 seasons as head football coach at Virginia Tech University, Frank Beamer is not only the longest tenured but also the winningest active coach of any major college program, and Let Me Be Frank contains his personal reflections on ...
Let Me Be Frank: My Life at Virginia Tech

Let Me Be Frank: My Life at Virginia Tech

Frank Beamer

After 26 seasons as head football coach at Virginia Tech University, Frank Beamer is not only the longest tenured but also the winningest active coach of any major college program, and Let Me Be Frank contains his personal reflections on ...
Buxton, Hollis, and Limington

Buxton, Hollis, and Limington

Frank H. Sleeper

Frank H. Sleeper. IMAGES of America Buxton, Hollis, AND LlMINGTON Frank H. Sleeper ARCADIA Copyright © 1997 by Frank H. Sleeper ISBN 0-7385-3886-8 Published.
Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland

Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland

Ewan Maccoll

Frank Purslow, The Constant Lovers (London, 1972). Frank Purslow, Marrowbones (London, 1965). Frank Purslow, The Wanton Seed (London, 1968). Frank Purslow, The Foggy Dew (London, 1974). Allan Ramsay, The Tea-Table Miscellany ...
Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye 3rd Edition:

Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye 3rd Edition:

Frank Miller

With a new look generating more excitement than ever before, this third edition is the perfect way to attract a whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller's masterpiece! * Over a million Sin City books in print! * New cover by Frank ...
Frank Sherwin: independent and unrepentant

Frank Sherwin: independent and unrepentant

Frank Sherwin

A celebration of the life of Irish politician and supporter of Fianna Fail Frank Sherwin Senior, in his own words, from his witnessing of the Easter Rising through to the early 1970s.
Totally Frank: My Autobiography

Totally Frank: My Autobiography

Frank Lampard

Chelsea and England footballer Frank Lampard charts his life story from childhood to young West Ham apprentice to multi-millionaire world footballing celebrity and lynchpin of the national team.
Superheroes: Beans-N-Frank

Superheroes: Beans-N-Frank

Mark Davis

Superheroes, their first picture book, is a trip into Big Frank's imagination about how their songs are helping their friends do well in school. If you want an adventure, come on and ride with Beans-N-Frank.
Frank: Fighting Back

Frank: Fighting Back

Frank Bruno

At the age of eleven Frank Bruno was sent to reform school. At thirty-three he was crowned heavyweight champion of the world. At forty-one he was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Now, he's back - with his real story...
Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: The Role of Traditional ...

Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: The Role of Traditional ...

Kevin Nute

The most detailed accounts of Wright's print-collecting activities are to be found inJulia Meech-Pekarik's “Frank Lloyd Wright ... For more on this topic, see Julia Meech-Pekarik, “Frank Lloyd Wright's Other Passion,“ The Nature of Frank Lloyd  ...
South Western Reporter. Second Series: Cases Argued and ...

South Western Reporter. Second Series: Cases Argued and ...

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172 S.W.2d 804 that Mrs. Carrie Tyler Frank was not included in the class "next of kin", and hence was not a beneficiary under the will of Joseph Frank, Sr.; that the one half interest under said will bequeathed to Lou Frank should be divided ...
The Baccarat Battle Book

The Baccarat Battle Book

Frank Scoblete

For the first time ever, Frank shows players how to 'push the house' to reduce the casino's commission on the Bank bet from five percent to four percent. Frank shows how manipulating the pace of the game can bring more comps for less risk.
Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television

Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television

Matthew Bernstein

A third witness, tellingly, is a black employee at the factory (Carl Gordon) who claims he never saw women in Frank's office or witnessed Jim Conley stand watch for Frank: “Most of the time he'd be asleep, drunk, out back.” When Rosser asks ...
The Short Stories of Frank Harris: A Selection

The Short Stories of Frank Harris: A Selection

Frank Harris

Now largely out of print and inacces­sible, and overshadowed since his death in 1931 by the Frank Harris legend and by his reputation as the author of the notorious My Life and Loves, the stories nevertheless bear witness to the ...
Hellstrom's Hive

Hellstrom's Hive

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's classic SF tale of an insect menace threatening the USA First published in 1973, Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction ...
Polk's Morgantown, W. Va., city directory

Polk's Morgantown, W. Va., city directory

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