Swinging Away: How Cricket and Baseball Connect
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781857596441
ISBN-10: 1857596447
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 201 x 248 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Scala Books
ISBN-10: 1857596447
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 201 x 248 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Scala Books
Notă biografică
Beth Hise is curator of the exhibition 'Swinging Away'. A Yale-educated Cleveland Indians fan, she previously curated the MCC Travelex Ashes Exhibition tour to Australia in 2006-7. She works as curator at the Historic Houses Trust in Sydney, Australia. Matthew Engel is a journalist who has reported cricket from almost every imaginable country, including the United States, and edited 12 editions of 'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'. He is also a baseball-lover who has covered three World Series.
Cuprins
Contents: Preface by Matthew Engel Introduction: The Games Today 1: Play! / Play Ball! 2: Origins of the Games 3: Empires And Missions: Spreading The Game 4: The Scientific Game: Amateurs and Professionals 5: Cricket in Philadelphia 6. The Doubleday Ball and the Ashes Urn
Recenzii
As a result of the exceptional production standards, readers may find it difficult to studiously digest the text that accompanies the images on each spread without their right hand apparently acting on its own will moving to turn the page and reveal the next set of wonders. In this way, the book offers a similar feeling to being at the exhibition itself. But this page-skipping tendency in no way occurs because the prose is of poor quality; in fact, the opposite is true. Swinging Away is an exhibition catalogue that, remarkably, could be successfully translated into a talking book format. - Nine