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Other preseason annuals cover all of baseball and never give the focus fans want on the team they love, but here’s a publication that goes beyond the basics and provides the thorough and intensive treatment that serious Yankees fans crave.
Bombers Broadside 2007 provides a report on the 2007 Yankees through scouting reports from active working major league scouts. This exclusive insider information will get fans up to speed on the new team quickly. Also included is an analysis of Chien-Ming Wang and his leap to Cy Young contention in 2006. Further, the book looks at the age factors on the 2007 roster and which Yankee stalwarts are likely to fade. Jason Giambi’s amazing comeback is also examined in detail, including the reasons that his batting average has not responded in the way his power and on-base ability have.
Fans will also get a dose of Yankees history, including a thirtieth-anniversary remembrance of Reggie Jackson’s arrival in the Bronx and the World Series championship he helped deliver. The book also evaluates the dynasties of 1947–64 as well as whether the 1955-64 Yankees were really in the same class as the dominating teams of 1947–53.
The book also reviews the entire organization, including the team’s top prospects, and looks at the production the Yankees have gotten out of their farm system in recent years. Within that discussion, the fallacy of the bankrupt Yankee farm system is explored, along with the emergence of young Yankee players like Robinson Cano and Melky Cabrera.
It’s all packed into more than a hundred pages of full-color, ad-free Yankees information that is unlike anything else available.
A publication of Maple Street Press, distributed by Potomac Books, Inc.
Customer Reviews:
Great as a gift........2007-06-18
I bought this as a gift for my Yankee's fan Grandfather. It's a really nice coffee table gift kind of book. It's not a statistical encyclopedia, and doesn't really try to be. If you want a nice gift, or a pretty book to put in your Pinstripe Shrine, this will do.
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This is an informal history of sensational, scientific, silly, satisfying, and startling attractions based on seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century broadsides from Ricky Jay's extraordinary collection. It includes observations on the convention of promoting such appearances, digressions on the manner and method of printing advertisements to do so, and insights into the psychology employed to that end. All are compiled in a monograph that is itself a shameless attempt to entertain and elucidate.
It is the contention of the author that neither the tongue of the most florid orator, nor pen of the most ingenious writer, can sufficiently describe the elegance, symmetry, and prodigious accomplishments of those who pass in review within these pages…
Included are broadsides advertising: an armless dulcimer player, a ghost showman, a singing mouse, a chess-playing automaton, a cannon ball juggler, an African hermaphrodite, a chicken incubator, a rabbi with prodigious memory, a ventriloquist, a spirit medium, a glass blower, a woman magician, a speaking machine, a mermaid, a bullet catcher, a flea circus, and an equestrian bee keeper.
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stage door history.......2007-03-08
This book is a fascinating collection of antique advertisements for entertainment acts ranging from the whimsical to the bizarre. The broadsides themselves are surprisingly readable and Jay's commentary illuminates the subject matter in a way that sheds light on multiple facets of the social context the broadsides existed within. It's an art book, an intriguing work of history, a compendium of the bizarre, a chronicle of advertising techniques, and a unique stage door view on just exactly what humans will define as "entertaining".
An Extraordinary Exhibition of Showbills.......2005-08-27
If you ever have a chance for a collector to show his collection, you run the risk of being terribly bored. Unless you yourself collect stamps, coins, thimbles, Hummel figurines, or Corvettes, you are unlikely to sympathize with the delight the collector takes in his hoard. Ricky Jay is a fascinating man; he is a master magician, a historian of show business (especially of novelty acts), and an actor in David Mamet's movies. He collects something few others do: showbills for the jugglers, magicians, animal acts, ventriloquists, and other eccentric and novelty performances through almost four centuries. Don't worry, it is far from boring. Around eighty of his specimens are on display in a large format book, _Extraordinary Exhibitions: The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, the Whimsiphusicon & Death to the Savage Unitarians_ (Quantuck Lane Press). The broadsides are funny and beautiful, and Jay's learned and enthusiastic commentary about each one is on the page facing each specimen. It is all thoroughly entertaining, and like any show advertising, the posters make you wonder if the acts are really as described. There is so much verbal and graphic hyperbole on display here that a bit of incredulity is only sensible, but still: who, if confronted by an announcement for Signor Cappelli and his Learned Cats, with assurances that after he introduces his cats to the audience, they will "beat a drum, turn a spit, grind knives, strike upon an anvil, roast coffee, ring bells, set a piece of Machinery in motion to grind rice in the Italian manner with many other astonishing exercises", who, I say, would let incredulity overcome a wish to get a peek at the show?
Let me just take the three displays mentioned in the subtitle. "Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head" were on display in London around 1840, and it was, if the description is to be believed, truly enormous, eighteen by seven feet, and weighing 1,700 pounds. What the head was, we do not know; one observer said it was likely that of a whale, and another said it was an obviously gigantic bird, fish, or lizard. The Whimsiphusicon had one of those fanciful names showmen of the 19th century enjoyed. It is advertised on a playbill for the ventriloquist Christopher Lee Sugg in 1816. Jay says, "Sugg, like a number of early magicians, was a proponent of theatrical neologism used to entice, or more likely confuse, the public." Indeed, Sugg explained on the playbill that the device was also dubbed "The Wandering Melodistical" and was a "Pill to Banish Melancholy," but it is safe to say he didn't give any secrets away until the performance. "Death to the Savage Unitarians" is on an Argentinean bill from 1842, and does not refer to the members of the religious sect, but to the country's Unitarian political group who favored a liberal rule of law and a strong central Argentinean government. They opposed the dictator Juan Manuel Rosas, and probably the phrase was included by the publicist who had drawn up the bill to ensure it would not offend the dictator. It caps an ad for "Robert and His Wife" who did magic and juggling, including "the new trick of the ceramic plates that will very much please the spectators" and "the lovely balancing act of the two dogs dressed as a Marquesa and a Marquis."
There are scores of other playbills for acts in this beautifully produced book that shows some astonishing curiosities, well annotated by the erudite collector himself. It is full of jolly whimsy, for every act depicted is shown at its best, even though it might be promising more than it could actually produce. There is a taint of regret, here, though, on every page. As the playbills frequently remind us, the like of these productions will never be seen again. Oh, how I would love to see Daniel Wildman, for instance, the first and foremost equestrian apiarist of two hundred years ago, who rode his horse standing up while five swarms of bees covered his face, swarms which would thereupon alight on specific locations the performer designated by his command.
Extraordinary Exhibitions - A wonderful book!.......2005-08-15
This is a wonderful book by a truly genius author. Also, make sure you put Ricky Jay's other books on your list. He has a great mind and his books are phenomenal!
Harry Monti
Society of American Magicians
National President 1999-2000
This latest Jay offering is a must-buy.......2005-07-24
Ricky Jay is a national treasure. He's the head curator of a continuing collection of the curious, marginal, sometimes macabre but always compelling congregation of entertainers who have slipped through the trapdoor of time's stage. His newest masterpiece, Extraordinary Exhibitions, is a catalogue of broadsides heralding some of the strangest performers that ever graced an auditorium or a sidewalk. You'll meet Pietro Stadelmann, a seventeenth century armless dulcimer player. As well as the nameless 27 year-old Angolan "Famous African Hermaphrodite". And a South American trio whose huge excrescences extruding from their chins gave them their stage moniker "The Monstrous Craws". You can sit at the feet of Joice Heth, the 161 year-old former nursemaid of Little Georgie Washington, the marvelous showman P. T. Barnum's first client. There's singing mice, educated fleas and a Rabbi whose demonstrations of his prodigious memory were endorsed by the Pope himself. To paraphrase the immortal Charles Fort, you'll see a procession of the damned of showbiz. And thanks to the wonderful Mr. Jay, they'll walk (and bark, tumble, juggle, catch bullets, arm wrestle, rope dance and eat stones) again.
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Language, Print and Electoral Politics, 1790-1832: Newcastle-under-Lyme Broadsides (Parliamentary History Record Series)
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In the half century before 1790, there had been only one contested election in Newcastle, but between 1790 and 1832 there were a dozen. This new and heated political climate prompted the production of a vast array of printed propaganda and political commentary, aimed at voters and non-voters alike. Most of this material took the form of single printed sheets, or broadsides, produced in great numbers and distributed amongst the town's inhabitants for free. This volume reproduces just over three hundred Newcastle broadsides published during this time; they constitute an important and unique collection, for though such material was produced in many constituencies in Hanoverian England, rarely has it survived in such a complete form. Material comes from Keele University Library, the Sutherland papers at the Staffordshire Record Office, and Newcastle Museum. A representative selection of reproductions of original broadsides is included to give the reader an idea of how contemporaries would have seen the texts and an introduction explains their context.Dr HANNAH BARKER is Lecturer in History at the University of Manchester; Dr DAVID VINCENT is Professor of Social History at the University of Keele.
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José Guadalupe Posada (1851–1913), one of Mexico’s most important graphic artists, influenced the generation who lived through and pictured the Mexican Revolution. His powerful and visually arresting newspaper illustrations and woodcut broadsides––whose subjects range from news to religion, from corridos (escapades of bandits and heroes) to calveras (skeletal figures associated with the Day of the Dead)––reflect indigenous folk-art traditions. In these graphically powerful penny handbills, Posada responded to the political and social issues of his day, addressed cultural ills, and spread moral ideas.
Focusing on the Art Institute of Chicago’s impressive and previously unpublished collection of prints by Posada, this handsome book examines his work and places it in the larger context of Mexican printmaking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With beautiful reproductions of Posada’s forceful and lively prints, as well as fascinating technical analyses of these works, the book is essential to anyone interested in the graphic arts of Latin America.
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A Nearly Lost Little Volume That Roars.......2005-03-25
I PROTEST is a small book of photographs taken by veteran combat photographer David Douglas Duncan during eight days in February, 1968 in Khe Sahn, Vietnam. Just the name of the combat zone has become a pillar of focus for those who protest the greed and absurdity of war. It was a battle during which the American troops, the invincible ones, took a deafening beating by the Viet Cong and for many it remains the turning point or GI commitment to the war they were forced to fight.
These photographs are like snapshots, so immediate is their sting. There are cycles of views of individual Marines, fields of bodies, fires, bunkers, destruction of land and life that are difficult to view, but so necessary that we know about them. In Duncan's own words "In these pages, if a man lies uncovered upon the ground he is a North Vietnamese soldier, just fallen, soon to be buried by the Marines. If a man on the ground or a litter has been covered with a poncho, he is a Marine killed in action, awaiting evacuation to the rear and the journey to his family. Not much more can be done, in war, for the dead of either side."
Upon Duncan's return to the States he published this book, bravely, in protest to the Vietnam War. For everyone who was touched in some way by that regrettable mistake on the part of the US, this little book should be in your possession. Grady Harp, March 05
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In the late 18th century, it was widely thought that to be a sailor was little better than to be a slave. "No man will be a sailor," wrote Samuel Johnson, "who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail. A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."
If that were true, historian Nathan Miller suggests, then the record of sailing in the age of tall ships would likely be distinguished by few heroes and fewer grand narratives. He counters that in the regular navies of England, the fledgling United States, and most other nations, brutal captains and thuggish crewmen were rare, and professionalism was the order of the day. It was their high standard of service that made those naval forces such powerful, even indispensable arms of the land-based military. Miller's great hero throughout this fine history is Horatio Nelson, whose valor was exemplary throughout countless battles around the world. But he writes with equal admiration of lesser-known figures, such as Lambert Wickes, Pierre de Villeneuve, Juan de Cordova, and "Foul Weather Jack" Byron, who served their nations and fellow sailors well, and often heroically.
Broadsides is an entertaining, illuminating history sure to please fans of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester. --Gregory McNamee
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"Pace the pitching black deck with a sleepless Admiral Nelson the night before battle bestows eternal rest and peerless immortality upon him; envision with Mahan the storm-tossed and ever-watchful ships-of-the-line that kept England secure from invasion; wonder in awe at Collingwood's dedication in working himself to death after Trafalgar elevated him to primary responsibility for England's imperial safety in the Mediterranean. All of this and more awaits the reader who will sail through these pages, every one of which is etched with the indelible expertise and boundless enthusiasm of Nathan Miller, master of naval history."--Kenneth J. Hagan, Professor of History and Museum Director Emeritus, U.S. Naval Academy, Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College
"This is not just inspired naval history--the personal lives of the seafarers themselves, from cabin boy to admiral, are given generous treatment."--The Times (London)
"A wealth of detail...Descriptions of dreadful living conditions aboard cramped wooden vessels give way to bloody decks after close combat....A solid introduction to a turbulent era at sea."--Publishers Weekly
"[As] a companion to the popular nautical novels of C. S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian--it succeeds brilliantly."--Daily Telegraph (London)
"The descriptions of the great sea commanders and their battles display all the craft of the gifted writer....Read Broadsides for enjoyment as a well-informed, action-packed naval narrative."--The Christ Church Press
Customer Reviews:
Reasonable Popular Survey, but Has a Few Holes Below the Waterline.......2005-07-18
I'll say from the outset that this is a perfectly reasonable survey of a forty-year period of the fighting exploits of the British and American Navies, and as such I'd recommend it as decent armchair reading. However, I knock a couple of stars off in my rating for what, in my view, is a fatal flaw for a book that focusses dually on ship and fleet actions and the strategic contexts of naval combat: there are utterly no diagrams of ship or fleet manuevers, and the few maps at the end are so utterly general and on such a large scale, and without pinpointing the location of a single action, as to make them useless.
There's a certain conceit here by author Miller, who has previously written decent naval histories focussing primarily on the US Navy. He starts out in 1775, so as to capture the battles of the nascent American Navy during the revolution and the instrumental Battle of Chesapeake Bay, which enabled the victory at Yorktown which in turn sealed US independence. But that of course ignores the significant naval actions between the French and British in the Seven Years War and the various continental and colonial conflicts leading up to it. The battles of the US Navy in the Pseudo-War with the French from 1798-1800, with the Barbary states in the 1800s, and with Britain in the War of 1812 take up a half dozen rather short chapters. The bulk of the rest of the book, from the framing prologue up through Trafalgar, is more of a history of the British Navy through the filter of the life of Admiral Horatio Nelson than a true survey of the 'age of fighting sail.' I got the feeling after a while that what Miller really wanted to do was write a biography of Nelson, but couldn't sell the idea, so had to expand it out to cover enough American material to make it more appealing to his usual audience.
To be a true survey, the "starting point" should have gone back to at least the Anglo-Dutch naval wars of the 17th century, or to be an honest assessment of the Napoleonic wars, the American Revolution ought to have been skipped and a little more attention paid to the use of naval support after the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. As it is, Nelson checks in on page 1, checks out on page 300, and the next ten years of warfare are covered in 58 pages. The point of view is squarely in the Anglo and American camps: while some perspectives from the French side and to a much lesser extent that of one of the Dutch fleets are given, that's about it as far as examining the naval actions. This has all the bias of the usual admiring-the-winners history; we expect a little more at this point given the events are 200 years in the past and more scholarship and reflection might've been drawn together in a modern survey.
This is not a scholarly book, in that it has no detailed footnotes and secondary surverys far outnumber the primary sources. But it's not intended to be one, I don't think, and as a popular survey it's better-researched and put together than most similar volumes. As history, while I quibbled with the choice of details here and there (such as glossing over John Paul Jones' time serving on a slaver), it's decent and not uncritical of the men and governments of the age. Some attention is paid to the mechanics of navies and warfare, without distracting from moving from battle to battle. Miller does quite a good job of spending just enough time explaining the overall political and military context of the major fleet actions and individual ship battles.
Nevertheless, the focus on Nelson serves to make it somewhat less interesting than, say, Lambert's "War at Sea in the Age of Sail" (which, I hasten to add, is a slimmer volume but which is amply illustrated with diagrams and maps.) I didn't find Miller's prose particularly gripping, but neither was it distracting. Because he feels it necessary to cover the most exciting bits of history from the era, the chapters don't really flow from one the next, but have the feel of isolated episodes occasionally wrapped up by the "strategy" chapters. For instance, the career of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, the swashbuckling model for Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower by varying degrees, is inserted between chapters on the "big picture" battles; it could've appeared at random nearly anywhere in the book and read just the same. It's as if Miller was at the point in writing this out that he said, "well, Nelson's dead now, now I'll go to the next most compelling figure of the age." In fact, I'd go so far as to say that aside from where Nelson appears, the rest of the book reads more like a series of magazine articles than a cohesive book. Not that there's anything wrong with that if that's what you're looking for.
So in the end I enjoyed reading it simply because it was zippy and got from swash to buckle quickly with a detour to the situation room to explain it all from time to time, but I can't say as I feel likely to bother to re-read it in future years. So take this for what it's worth: a mildly warm recommendation for some armchair reading, but one which will probably leave the enthusiast for naval history in the age of fighting sail wanting more details in other volumes.
That said: I just can't get over the lack of diagrams and real maps in this book. What on earth were the editors and author thinking?!?
Good history, mediocre writing.......2003-02-17
I had to labor through this book, rather than devour it. Still and all, I gained quite a bit of history. It was worth the effort.
A good book, with some weird flaws.......2002-09-10
Nathan Miller is one of those authors who is immediately believable as an historian due to the detail and care with which he writes his books. At the same time, his books are emminently readable because he cuts through to the heart of the matter and has a concise, exciting style. This book is a nice addition to my naval library, and I anticipate referring to it often.
The writing style is definitely the highlight of the book, although there are other items to recommend it. First is the inclusion of a number of lesser-known naval battles that are often omitted. Everyone does Trafalgar and the Nile, but few general histories include the U.S.'s war with Tripoli or pre-Nelsonian battles in the Napoleonic Wars (because most were inconclusive). Because of the short time frame of the book - a mere 40 years - these lesser-known actions are covered. At the same time, this book does not read as a catalogue of battles, but a smooth narrative in which these battles naturally occur. Additionally, there is enough detail about the background story (land battles, politics, etc.) that each battle is firmly placed in context. Finally, the personalities of the men (and even some women) that did the fighting comes through, not just the admirals but occasionally the ordinary crewmembers as well.
Unfortunately, there are some problems with the book, starting with the time frame. The first few chapters, detailing the Continental Navy and the American Revolution, are not good. They seem tacked on (possibly to sell more books in the U.S.?), and do not have the same flow as subsequent chapters. It should have started later (perhaps the French revolution?), or a lot earlier (although then it would be a different book). Secondly, Miller has a grating habit of rooting for one side - either the U.S. or Britain, as the case may be. Since history is written by the victor, there is a natural pro-British bias in the details of Napoleonic naval battles, for example, but Miller's style gives the appearance that he's rooting for the British at the same time. An example: "The British and French ships had the same number of cannon, but fortunately the British had better training." This is only "fortunate" if you were on the British ship! This kind of insidious cheerleading is especially bad at the beginning of the book, in the aforementioned "tacked-on" chapters, where the pro-U.S. bias is very irritating.
Therefore, I recommend this book as a detailed and very readable account of the Napoleonic (and conincident) Wars, as long as you can get through the less well-written early chapters.
I was born 200 years too late.......2002-03-05
and if I was born in 1759, would I have joined the Royal Navy? Probably, yes. I loved the book. Nathan Miller's excellent research is inspiring. He covers the period from
the American Revolution to the War of 1812 in a fast, concise, manner. I learned things about John Paul Jones that weren't mentioned in JOHN PAUL JONES, FIGHTING
SAILOR. Any Hornblower and Aubrey-Maturin fans here?
Thomas Lord Cochrane was the inspiration for both Hornblower and Jack Aubrey. Sir Edward Pellew, a captain in the Royal Navy during the Wars of the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars, is mentioned in the Hornblower
books. It mentions the Barbary Pirates too and the George
Washington Incident.
This book ROCKS! like the discovery channel in depth times 5.......2002-01-10
I love this book. Quick read and a bit dry with assumptions that Americans know the relevant names scattered within the book. Many interesting facts and detailed layout of the battles that shaped the caribbean and the americas.
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20 Years of Broadside is a collection of two decades' worth of cartoon favorites by Jeff Bacon. His panel "Broadside" has appeared weekly in Navy Times since 1986 and has been embraced by a whole generation of those in uniform to the point that "having a Broadside moment" has become part of the popular lexicon. This book is a collection of those "Broadside moments" experienced by those who serve at sea. This book contains the most popular cartoons from his two previous books (The Best of Broadside, The Rest of Broadside) and tons of new favorites from 1997 forward. Anyone who has ever served in the Navy, Coast Guard, Marine Corps or any other maritime service will love this classic edition of Bacon's light-hearted humor.
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On The Money.......2007-01-04
During and after my 28 years in the Navy, I find Jeff Bacon's snapshots of Navy life refreshing and hilarious. He captures the day to day situations that we all survived and softens them with humor. Ted Salmons PHCM (AW) USN Ret.
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