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Statistical Encyclopedia of North American Professional ...

Statistical Encyclopedia of North American Professional ...

K. Michael Gaschnitz

... Sox AL) Sporting News Player of the Year-Dale Murphy (Atlanta Braves NL) Cal Ripken (Baltimore Orioles AL) Sporting News Rookie of the Year-Darryl Strawberry (New York Mets NL) Craig McMurty (Atlanta Braves NL) Ron Kittle ( Chicago ...
Still the Arena of Civil War: Violence and Turmoil in ...

Still the Arena of Civil War: Violence and Turmoil in ...

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Mary Jo O''Rear examines how Texas newspaper editors reported the news of violent events. Looking at the coverage of violence inside and outside of the state , editors generally reflected the views of their subscribers. As such, it is obvious that Texas readers were bombarded with news that favored the perspective of ex- Confederates and conservative Democrats. In many cases, editors justified violence against blacks and Unionists, dismissing it as the natural result of northerners'' ...
NASCAR Record and Fact Book 2005 Edition

NASCAR Record and Fact Book 2005 Edition

Sporting News Editors

Bobby Allison 235,795 3. Buddy Baker 115,150 4. Bobby Isaac 106,426 5. Donnie Allison 69,995 6. Pete Hamilton 60,440 7. James Hylton 55,860 8. Benny Parsons 48,517 9. Fred Lorenzen 45,100 10. Cecil Gordon 42,949 Ronnie Hopkins ...
Weekly World News

Weekly World News

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Editors Romantic ghost is my kind of guy Editors: Hey, what's wrong with that Lorraine Maltby over in England? She's got a nice, friendly ghost who comes around every morning, crawls into bed and cuddles up with her. I'm about 40 years ...
The Sporting news baseball trivia 2

The Sporting news baseball trivia 2

Joe Hoppel

Lists a wide range of facts, statistics, and records concerning the hitting, pitching, and baserunning achievements of professional baseball players
Sporting Spaces 2: A Pictorial Review

Sporting Spaces 2: A Pictorial Review

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Features full-colour images of sporting spaces around the world.
A Woman's Work: Writing Baseball History with Harold Seymour

A Woman's Work: Writing Baseball History with Harold Seymour

Dorothy Jane Mills

The book contains numerous photographs from the author's personal collection, most of them in print for the first time as well as a foreword by Steve Gietschier of The Sporting News.
Sporting News Chronicle of 20th Century

Sporting News Chronicle of 20th Century

Ron Smith

A compilation of clippings culled from the annals of the nation's oldest sports publication chronicle the sports events from each decade since 1900.
Weekly World News: The Royals

Weekly World News: The Royals

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Neil McGinness Dr. Barry Leed, PhD (MBS) With Additional Material from the Editors of Weekly World News: Carlton Wrey, Jet Durman, Drake Andrews, Brian Featherstone, John Davis, Kelly Turner, Ragan Dunn, Neville Osborne, Joe Berger, ...
Weekly World News: Titanic

Weekly World News: Titanic

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Written by Neil McGinness Dr. Barry Leed, PhD (MBS) With Additional Material from the Editors of Weekly World News: Mark Miller, Dick Siegel, Michael Chiron, Mike Foster, Joe Berger, Ann Victoria, Tanya Broder, Randy Jeffries, Daniel Dean  ...
Weekly World News: Bigfoot

Weekly World News: Bigfoot

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Bigfoot Written by Neil McGinness Dr. Barry Leed, PhD (MBS) With Additional Material from the Editors of Weekly World News: Mark Miller, Dick Siegel, Henry Weber, Michael Chiron, Angus Fenwick, Charles Kerwin, Miles Chianti, Roger ...
Weekly World News: Werewolves

Weekly World News: Werewolves

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Werewolves Written by Neil McGinness Dr. Barry Leed, PhD (MBS) With Additional Material from the Editors of Weekly World News: Vincenzo Sardi, Nelson Mann, Randy Willis, Cathie Vick, Reggie Thomas, Val Parcells, Tim Skelly, Cindy ...
Interpreting News

Interpreting News

Graham Meikle

'we are presented not only with fragmented news but news without context, without consequences, without value, and therefore without essential seriousness; that is to say, news as pure entertainment' (Postman 1985: 102) Mika Brzezinski ...
Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News

Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News

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HARRY ENoch, whose skill has this year been made so strikingly apparent, comes of a family of trainers, his father having for years lived at Zetland Lodge. and had charge of the horses of Lord Zetland, and of that sound sportsman the late Mr ...
Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News

Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News

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THE FARCET FEN COURSING CLUB PRODUCE MEETING AT WRYDE, NEAR PETERBOROUGH Miss Ruth Fawcett's Rapid Footsteps, by Tom—Rhythmical Footsteps, The A marr l'en '' runner-up in Wrydelands Bracelet Stake. an egg to ...
Gentlemen and Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to ...

Gentlemen and Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to ...

Nicholas Foulkes

This is a tale of money, gambling and sporting obsession; of rogues and rascals, outrageous criminality, aristocratic complacency, and a gripping investigation to expose the most audacious sporting plot of the age.
Scottish Sporting Legends

Scottish Sporting Legends

Robert Philip

Scottish sport is the richest of tapestries and in Scottish Sporting Legends the cream of the crop are entertainingly profiled in a revealing collection of pen portraits of stars past and present.
The Right Angle: Tales from a Sporting Life

The Right Angle: Tales from a Sporting Life

Bob Rich

Games have defined him in business, sports, and life. In this collection of colorful vignettes spanning four decades, Rich recounts some of the major highlights of his sporting life and his career.
Great Sporting Wisdom: Legendary Quotes from the World of Sport

Great Sporting Wisdom: Legendary Quotes from the World of Sport

John Scally

Desmond Lynam Darwin Revisited Tonight, a special Horizon programme, Survival of the Fartest ... Fastest. Richard Baker from the BBC cassette Sporting Gaffes Sequence Of Events That performance would have won him the Olympic gold ...
The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 100 Greatest Players: A ...

The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 100 Greatest Players: A ...

Ron Smith

Provides a ranking of the 100 greatest baseball players of the twentieth-century
Conshohocken and West Conshohocken Sports

Conshohocken and West Conshohocken Sports

Jack Coll

The Conshohocken Soap Box Derby, Little League baseball, and the Fellowship House have also provided an assortment of sporting events. Conshohocken and West Conshohocken Sports is a pictorial tribute to this region's storied sporting past.
Every Saturday in Autumn: College Football's Greatest Traditions

Every Saturday in Autumn: College Football's Greatest Traditions

Ron Smith

"Every Saturday in Autumn takes you on-campus to experience the pomp and pageantry of all that is uniquely college football in America. "The Sporting News delivers the top 25 traditions in the country.
News Online: Transformations and Continuities

News Online: Transformations and Continuities

Graham Meikle

This volume examines these changes and analyses their impact upon news, how it is written, produced and received. With leading international scholars, it is the key text on news today.
Ersatz News

Ersatz News

Joel Robbins

Tired of the same old news in the same old way. Well, try Ersatz News for a fresh take on current events. Just maybe these articles will make you laugh or at least say, "What the.
News from nowhere: television and the news

News from nowhere: television and the news

Edward Jay Epstein

A study of the processes used to gather and present television news, based on the author's observations of the three major networks
Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age

Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age

C. W. Anderson

Breaking down the walls of the traditional newsroom, Rebuilding the News traces the evolution of news reporting as it moves from print to online.
Cyberfactories: How News Agencies Produce News

Cyberfactories: How News Agencies Produce News

Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

Walter Lippmann would have loved this book.Õ Ð Bruno Latour, Sciences Po Paris, France ÔTT, Ansa, Reuters are not intermediaries that transfer information to their clients, rather they are producers of the news. . . or better, in this ...
New York Magazine

New York Magazine

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5:18 INTERNATIONAL VIEWPOINT/ ROB SUNDE NEWS 5:25 W1 REPORT ON MEDICINE LOU ADLER NEWS ^WEATH 7:00 7:06 7:10 7:12 jk WEATHER NORM MACDONALD NEWS HELICOPTER TRAFFIC REPORT •••»?• SPORTS/ ED ...
Corporate Giving Watch

Corporate Giving Watch

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... Editor: Monica Hubbard Contributing Editors: Matthew Brisbois and Bohdan Romaniuk Contributing Associate Editors: LySandra Hill and Pamela Kalte Contributing Assistant Editors: Carolyn Swift-Muschott and Kathryn Wandzel Production: ...
Rooney: A Sporting Life

Rooney: A Sporting Life

Rob Ruck

431 The business: Bill Christine, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 17, 1974. 431 A battle-scarred: Pat Livingston, Pittsburgh Press, June 1, 1974; Ted Col- ton, McKeesport Daily News, June 6, 1974; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 7, 1974. 431 The ...

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