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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Foul Ball【電子書籍】[ Jim Bouton ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A rollicking and “compelling” true story of baseball, big money, and small-town politics by the author of the classic ＜em＞Ball Four＜/em＞ (＜em＞Publishers Weekly＜/em＞).＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Host to organized baseball since 1892, Pittsfield, Massachusetts’s Wahconah Park was soon to be abandoned by the owner of the Pittsfield Mets, who would move his team to a new stadium in another townーan all too familiar story. Enter former Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton and his partner with the best deal ever offered to a community: a locally owned professional baseball team and a privately restored city-owned ballpark at no cost to the taxpayers.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The only people who didn’t like Bouton's plan were the mayor, the mayor's hand-picked Parks Commissioners, a majority of the City Council, the only daily newspaper, the city’s largest bank, its most powerful law firm, and a guy from General Electric. Everyone elseーor approximately 98% of the citizens of Pittsfieldーloved it. But the “good old boys” hated Bouton’s plan because it would put a stake in the heart of a proposed $18.5 million baseball stadiumーa new stadium that the citizens of Pittsfield had voted against three different times. In this riveting account, Bouton unmasks a mayor who brags that “the fix is in,” a newspaper that lies to its readers, and a government that operates out of a bar.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But maybe the most incredible story is what happened after ＜em＞Foul Ball＜/em＞ was publishedーa story in itself. Invited back by a new mayor, Bouton and his partner raise $1.2 million, help discover a document dating Pittsfield’s baseball origins to 1791, and stage a vintage game that’s broadcast live by ESPN-TV.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Who could have guessed what would happen next? And that this time it would involve the Massachusetts Attorney General?＜/p＞ ＜p＞“An irresistible story whose outcome remains in doubt until the very end. Not just a funny book, but a patriotic one.”ー＜em＞San Francisco Chronicle＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Bouton proves that a badly run city government can be just as dangerousーand just as hilariousーas a badly run baseball team.”ーKeith Olbermann＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Civil War and Reconstruction Writings of Charles Nordhoff【電子書籍】[ Charles Nordhoff ]

＜p＞This volume is a collection of Charles Nordhoff's essays and journalism on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Nordhoff was a vocal supporter of Lincoln's theory of the perpetual union of the Constitution and the impossibility of secession. His liberal sensibilities made him interested, like his fellow German-American Carl Schurz, in idealistic schemes of racial integration and efforts to reform Democrat-run city machines. His most important work from the period is his remarkable series of reports, full of eyewitness testimony, of the late stages of Reconstruction in the Deep South. His judgement on Reconstruction policies and their effects on racial relations were surprising to his readers and colleagues in the North and controversial at the time.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Here are collected:＜/p＞ ＜ol＞ ＜li＞＜em＞The Freedmen of South Carolina: Some Account of their Appearance, Character, Condition, and Customs＜/em＞ (1863)＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜em＞America for Free Working Men!＜/em＞ (1865)＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜em＞The Misgovernment of New York: A Remedy (1871)＜/em＞＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜em＞The Cotton States in the Spring and Summer of 1875＜/em＞ (1876)＜/li＞ ＜/ol＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。