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The Team (Hollis #2)
by K. M. PeytonRuth Hollis and three friends who love to ride join a Pony Club team in this fast-paced sequel to Fly-by-Night. At fourteen Ruth is the youngest and least experienced member. She must cope not only with her handsome but difficult new pony, Toadhill Flax--bought on an impulse at an auction--but with her parents' disapproval and the discipline of teamwork. Along with the more expert riders on the team--Thea, Peter, and Jonathan, who is the son of the team's indefatigable head- Ruth enters cross-country races and competitive pony shows as she struggles to win her coveted place. Details of the exciting horsey world, which K. M. Peyton knows well, are skillfully interwoven with perceptive insights into the lives of Ruth and her friends as they grow through shared experience. This story will delight young equestrians and prove absorbing for the uninitiated, too. When she is older, Ruth's involvement with fiery Patrick Pennington is described in The Beethoven Medal and Pennington's Heir. In The Team the reader will enjoy seeing her when her main passion was ponies.
Team Canada 1972: The Official 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Summit Series
by Andrew PodnieksIt was called the "series of the century" and out of it came the greatest goal ever scored. Incredibly, the Summit Series, featuring Canada and the Soviet Union in a hockey showdown, is now 40 years old, but time has only strengthened and immortalized those eight games that changed the game. No moment has faded, and no series of games since has had the same profound effect on a country, a culture and a sport. Using its best NHL stars, Canada was supposed to win all eight games, but the Soviets won the first, in Montreal, by a whopping 7-3 score, and from then on fans were witness to the greatest matchup ever. It featured the leadership of Phil Esposito and the skill of Yvan Cournoyer, the goaltending of Vladislav Tretiak, and the speed of Valeri Kharlamov. And in the end, it featured the heroics of Paul Henderson, who scored the winning goal in each of the final three games to give Canada the series victory, the final of those goals coming with just 34 seconds remaining in game eight, September 28, 1972. Complete with in-depth interviews of every surviving player and a remarkable cache of colour photographs, Team Canada 1972, is the definitive look at the Summit Series 40 years later, still powerful, still resonating, still remarkable. With every living player contributing to the book with personal memories and thoughts of the series, this official publication provides fans with the most detailed and exciting picture of the series.
Team Chemistry: The History of Drugs and Alcohol in Major League Baseball (Sport and Society)
by Nathan Michael CorzineIn 2007, the Mitchell Report shocked traditionalists who were appalled that drugs had corrupted the "pure" game of baseball. Nathan Corzine rescues the story of baseball's relationship with drugs from the sepia-toned tyranny of such myths. In Team Chemistry , he reveals a game splashed with spilled whiskey and tobacco stains from the day the first pitch was thrown. Indeed, throughout the game's history, stars and scrubs alike partook of a pharmacopeia that helped them stay on the field and cope off of it: In 1889, Pud Galvin tried a testosterone-derived "elixir" to help him pile up some of his 646 complete games. Sandy Koufax needed Codeine and an anti-inflammatory used on horses to pitch through his late-career elbow woes. Players returning from World War II mainstreamed the use of the amphetamines they had used as servicemen. Vida Blue invited teammates to cocaine parties, Tim Raines used it to stay awake on the bench, and Will McEnaney snorted it between innings. Corzine also ventures outside the lines to show how authorities handled--or failed to handle--drug and alcohol problems, and how those problems both shaped and scarred the game. The result is an eye-opening look at what baseball's relationship with substances legal and otherwise tells us about culture, society, and masculinity in America.
The Team Curse (League of the Paranormal)
by Israel KeatsFor as long as Isaac could remember, the Middleton High baseball team hasn't won a single game. So when he tries out as a sophomore and makes the team, he's excited but not surprised. After the first pathetic losses of the season, Isaac starts to get frustrated—why aren't any of his teammates even trying to win? When he confronts them and threatens to quit, they let him in on the secret: the team has been trapped in a curse for generations. Isaac decides to do whatever it takes to put an end to the curse.
A Team For America: The Army–Navy Game That Rallied a Nation at War
by Randy Roberts"A rousing celebration of a moment in history when college football was more than metaphor and entertainment, it was a gritty sidebar to real war.&” — Robert Lipsyte, author of An Accidental SportswriterEach year the Army and Navy football teams meet for one epic game. Across the nation, fans tune in to see who will emerge victorious. But no game will ever match the one that was played on December 2, 1944. America was in the midst of World War II: soldiers and sailors were dying around the globe, and the home front suffered through shortages. But for one day, all that was forgotten.Navy&’s team was ranked number two, Army&’s number one and on the verge of becoming national champions. Everywhere, the war stopped as soldiers listened to the broadcast. Randy Roberts has interviewed the surviving players and coaches, bringing their stories to life. For three years, military upperclassmen graduated and joined the fight. For three hours, their alma mater gave them back one unforgettable performance.&“The story of Army&’s celebrated 1944 national championship team is a fascinating one, and its victory over Navy that year is remembered as one of college football&’s greatest games. But Randy Roberts&’s A Team for America tells an even greater story. It is a story of our country. Of a time when college football — and this remarkable Army team — helped rekindle hope and confidence throughout the land.&” — Brigadier General Peter M. Dawkins, U.S. Army (Ret.), 1958 Heisman Trophy winner, West Point"Roberts brings a historian&’s thoroughness to the subject . . . A fascinating time in American collegiate sports history." — Kirkus Reviews
Team Fugee (Soccer United: Team Refugee)
by Dirk McLeanTwo years after his birth parents disappeared from their home in Nigeria, newly adopted Ozzie moves to Canada. At his new school, Ozzie and the other Nigerian kids compete for time on the soccer field with a team of Syrian refugees—led by Victor. But then they are asked to combine their teams to challenge the division champions. A school soccer program for all the students is on the line. Can Ozzie and Victor unite to make two groups of resilient refugees into one team? Team Fugee is one of four new books that offer readers insight into the experiences of refugee youth as they adjust to life in North America. Distributed in the U.S by Lerner Publishing Group.
Team Magic: Book 4 (Tilly's Horse, Magic #4)
by Pippa FunnellTilly Redbrow doesn't just love horses - she lives, breathes and dreams them too!Tilly's over the moon when she's picked for the Novice Championships. She and Magic are perfect together. But the pressures take their toll and her dreams die when Fred Webb takes Magic away from her. Will Tilly ever be reunited with the horse she can't bear to live without?Packed with expert advice from champion rider and Grand Slam winner, Pippa Funnell, on everything you ever wanted to know about horses, and perfect for all fans of NATIONAL VELVET and Lauren St John's One Dollar Horse trilogy.
Team-Mind und Teamleistung: Teamarbeit zwischen Managementmärchen und Arbeitswirklichkeit
by Joachim Hasebrook Benedikt Hackl Sibyll RoddeWie können Teams den Erfolg von Organisationen steigern?Wann schaffen Mitarbeiter in Teams wirklich mehr als alleine? Entscheiden Teams ausgewogener als Einzelne?Führt eine gute Teamatmosphäre wirklich zu mehr Leistung?Können Roboter und Künstliche Intelligenz zu Teamkollegen werden?Aus der Wissenschaft für die Praxis gibt dieses inhaltlich breit aufgestellte Buch fundierte, richtungsweisende und praxisnahe Antworten auf Fragen zum Thema „Team“. Basierend auf aktuellen Erkenntnissen der Sozial-, Arbeits- und Neuropsychologie zeigen die Autoren an vielen praxisrelevanten Beispielen und anhand von Interviews mit erfahrenen Managern aus Spitzensport, Wirtschaft, Militär und Wissenschaft, wie Teamführung in Organisationen sinnvoll umgesetzt wird und Teams erfolgreich agieren können.Erfahren Sie, wie auch Sie in Ihrer Organisation oder in Ihrem Team die gesamte Teamleistung dauerhaft steigern können.Zielgruppen:Alle, die selbst in Teams arbeiten, z. B. Teamleiter in Dienstleistung, Verwaltung oder IndustrieMitarbeiter in teamorientierten Organisationen Vorstände und AufsichtsräteManager und TeamverantwortlicheAlle, die Voraussetzungen für Teamarbeit verbessern wollen, z. B. Strategie- und ManagementberaterIngenieure für im Team verwendete MaschinenArchitekten von ArbeitsräumenDesigner von ArbeitsumgebungenForscher an Hochschulen und in Unternehmen
Team-Mind und Teamleistung: Teamarbeit zwischen Managementmärchen und Arbeitswirklichkeit
by Joachim Hasebrook Benedikt Hackl Sibyll RoddeWie erfolgreich eine Organisation ist, wird dadurch bestimmt, wie gut die Mitarbeitenden in ihr zusammenarbeiten. Krisenzeiten machen das besonders deutlich und stellen zugleich besondere Anforderungen an die Zusammenarbeit: Krisenstäbe werden gebildet, Teammitglieder arbeiten plötzlich getrennt und virtuell, Unsicherheit durch psychische Belastungen und Cyberattacken wächst. Jenseits von Binsenwahrheiten und simplen Erfolgsrezepten gibt dieses Managementbuch psychologisch und betriebswirtschaftlich fundiert Antworten, wie erfolgreiche Teamarbeit auch in Krisenzeiten funktioniert. Sie erfahren, wie Sie Teamleistungen fördern und was Sie von Hochleistungsteams lernen können. Mit zahlreichen Beispielen aus der Praxis und in Interviews führender Expertinnen und Experten aus Industrie, Wissenschaft, Medizin, Militär und Spitzensport wird leicht verständlich und unterhaltsam erläutert, wie man Trendsetter für bessere Teamleistung wird. Das Buch ist von einem Organisationspsychologen, einem Betriebswirt und einer klinischen Psychologin verfasst und daher interdisziplinär und breit anwendbar angelegt. Es beruht auf über 15 Jahren Praxis- und Forschungserfahrung sowie topaktuellen Erkenntnissen der Sozial-, Arbeits- und Neuropsychologie. Das Buch wendet sich an alle, die in Entscheidungsgremien, Entwicklungs- und Produktionsteams oder in der Teamleitung arbeiten. Es ist auch wertvoll für Teamtrainer, Coaches, Berater sowie Designer und Architekten, die Teamarbeitsplätze entwickeln.
A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History
by Seth BerkmanA December Stephen Curry Book Club PickOne of ESPN’s 25 Can’t Miss Books of 2019“A feel-good story.”—New York Times Book Review“This isn’t simply a sports book. Rather, it’s a book about inspiring and courageous women who just happened to be hockey players.”—Korea TimesThe inspiring, unlikely story of the American, Canadian, South Korean and even North Korean women who joined together to form Korea’s first Olympic ice hockey team.Two weeks before the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, South Korea’s women’s hockey team was forced into a predicament that no president, ambassador or general had been able to resolve in the sixty-five years since the end of the Korean War. Against all odds, the group of young women were able to bring North and South Korea closer than ever before.The team was built for this moment. They had been brought together from across the globe and from a wide variety of backgrounds—concert pianist, actress, high school student, convenience store worker—to make history. Now the special kinship they had developed would guide them through the biggest challenge of their careers. Suddenly thrust into an international spotlight, they showed the powerful meaning of what a unified Korea could resemble.In A Team of Their Own, Seth Berkman goes behind the scenes to tell the story of these young women as they became a team amid immense political pressure and personal turmoil, and ultimately gained worldwide acceptance on a journey that encapsulates the truest meanings of sport and family.
Team Physician Manual: International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS)
by Lyle J. Micheli Fabio Pigozzi Kai-Ming Chan Walter R. Frontera Norbert Bachl Angela D. Smith S. Talia AlenabiThe FIMS Team Physician Manual is the official sports medicine handbook of the International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS), the world’s oldest sports medicine organization. Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, the book offers a complete guide to the background knowledge, practical techniques and professional skills required to become a successful medical practitioner working in sport. Well illustrated, with clear step-by-step guidance, plus text boxes and checklists for quick reference, the Team Physician Manual covers every key area of activity and intervention, from the preparticipation examination to rehabilitation. The book surveys every classification of sports injury, offering clear advice on fieldside assessment, diagnosis and treatment, as well as examining best practice in general aspects of sports medicine, such as prevention and the psychology of injury. Written by a team of world-leading physicians from North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, this book is a ‘must have’ reference for any doctor, physical therapist, or medical professional working in sport.
Team Picture
by Dean HughesTrying to hold onto the newfound stability of his life in a foster home, thirteen-year-old David worries about the growing moodiness of his guardian Paul and the fluctuating fortunes of his Pony League baseball team.
Team Player (Wondergirls #2)
by Jillian BrooksME, competitive? Can I help it if I score the MOST goals, wear the COOLEST clothes, and throw the best PARTIES? I'm not competitive... that's just who I am. And I'm definitely not SELFISH. So how come certain people—like my BEST friends—keep telling ME that I am? I can be NICE... When I feel like it. RL 4 Ages 8-12 Look for the other books in the wondergirls series about the friendship of four girls at home and at middle school including: #1 The New Girl, #3 Troublemaker, #4 "And The Winner Is...", #5 Perfect Harmony, and #7 Birthday Blues, with more on the way
Team Player (Scrappers #3)
by Dean HughesTrent Lubak: Left Field Trent knows he isn't as talented a player as his best friend, Robbie, or loudmouthed Gloria -- but he's content being a solid, reliable member of the team. So why does Robbie's and Gloria's constant bragging upset him so much? Is it really just because their hot dogging is beginning to undermine the team spirit the Scrappers have finally started to build -- or does he secretly wish he had something to brag about, too? The Scrappers: nine kids fighting for a shot at the championship. Don't miss any of their stories or the exciting baseball action in this series, which is sure to hit a home run with baseball fans everywhere.
Team Player (AI High)
by Jeffrey PrattWhen android teens join humans in high school, nothing will ever be the same. After years of hard work, Danny is finally the starting quarterback for the Fitzgerald Flash. But his senior year takes a turn when an android—Alice—joins the football team. With her advanced physical skills and quick mind, Alice soon shows up nearly every player on the team. If the human players can't figure out how to work with Alice, they may lose their chance at the state championship. Can Danny find a way to bring his team together?
Team Players: The Only Game; The Extra Yard; Point Guard; Team Players (Home Team)
by Mike LupicaCassie must learn that you can’t “fix” someone else after a girl with Aspergers joins her softball team in the fourth and final book of the Home Team series from New York Times bestselling author and sports-writing legend Mike Lupica.Cassie Bennett is great at being in charge. She always knows what to do to lead her teams to victory, keep her many groups of friends together, or fix any problem that comes her way. So when Sarah Milligan, an autistic girl with unreal softball skills, joins Cassie’s team, Cassie’s sure she can help her fit in with the team. But before long it’s obvious that being around so many people is really hard for Sarah, and the more Cassie tries to reach out and involve her, the more Sarah pushes her away, sometimes literally. It doesn’t help that Cassie’s teammates aren’t as interested in helping Sarah as they are in making sure they make it to the new softball All-Star Tournament that’ll be televised just like the Little League World Series. Soon no one seems to even want Sarah on the team anymore besides Cassie, and the harder Cassie tries to bring everyone together, the worse things seem to get. Cassie Bennett never backs down from a challenge, but can she realize that maybe the challenge isn’t fixing a problem in someone else, but in herself? Or will her stubbornness lead her to lose more than just softball games?
Team Psychology in Sports: Theory and Practice
by Stewart CotterillThe ability to mould a group of talented individual athletes into an effective team takes effort and skill. Team Psychology in Sports examines the crucial factors in the development of an effective team, introducing important psychological and organizational concepts and offering evidence-based interventions for enhancing the performance of any sports team. The book neatly bridges the gap between theory and practice, with real sporting case studies, examples and practical tools included in each chapter. It covers the full range of issues in team sport, including: planning communication cohesion motivation emotions momentum leadership recovery. No other book offers such an up-to-date, relevant and applied guide to working with sports teams. It is essential reading for all students and practitioners working in sport psychology or sports coaching.
Team Spirit: Book 1 (Tilly's Horse, Magic #1)
by Pippa FunnellTilly Redbrow doesn't just love horses - she lives, breathes and dreams them too!Tilly is fourteen now and has had her beautiful grey, Magic Spirit, for over three years and they're inseparable. She's thrilled they've been chosen for the Pony Club Eventing Championship team. Together with Ben, Kya and Anna - they face the challenges of dressage, cross country and show jumping against tough competition. And they learn that good teamwork is not always as easy as it looks.Packed with expert advice from champion rider and Grand Slam winner, Pippa Funnell, on everything you ever wanted to know about horses.
Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy
by Charles Freuhling Springwood C. KingA growing controversy in recent years has arisen around the use and abuse of Native American team mascots. The Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs, Florida State Seminoles, and so forth--these are just a few of the images and names popularly associated with Native Americans that are still used as mascots by professional sports teams, dozens of universities, and countless high schools. This practice, a troubling legacy of Native-Euro-American relations in the United States, has sparked heated debates and intense protests that continue to escalate. Team Spirits is the first comprehensive look at the Native American mascots controversy. In this work activists and academics explore the origins of Native American mascots, the messages they convey, and the reasons for their persistence into the twenty-first century. The essays examine hotly contested uses of mascots, including the Washington Redskins, the Cleveland Indians, and the University of Illinois's Chief Illiniwek, as well as equally problematic but more complicated examples such as the Florida State Seminoles and the multitude of Native mascots at Marquette University. Also showcased are examples of successful opposition, including an end to Native American mascots at Springfield College and in Los Angeles public schools. C. Richard King is an assistant professor of anthropology at Drake University, and Charles Fruehling Springwood is an assistant professor of anthropology at Illinois Wesleyan University. King and Springwood are coauthors of the forthcoming book Beyond the Cheers: Race As Spectacle in College Sport.
Team Sports Marketing
by Kirk WakelandSome might argue that sports marketing is a mere subfield of marketing, meaning that there are theoretical and practical dimensions that apply only to sports marketing and are only of interest to those involved in sports. In Team Sports Marketing, author Kirk Wakefield dispels this argument by demonstrating that effective sports marketing epitomizes the science and art of marketing across any context. At the core of sports marketing is the creation and enhancement of fan identification, where consumers are not just loyal customers, but have become brand fanatics.Team Sports Marketing shows that while many aspects of sports marketing are thought to be unique to the field, other product and service sectors would do well to learn from teams in the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL that have transformed customers into fans. Moving beyond principles of marketing, Team Sports Marketing is packed with examples of best practices and covering subjects as diverse as sponsorships, season ticket sales, venue management and all topics in between. Team Sports Marketing is a must read text for students and managers in professional and collegiate sports. Support materials for professors and students are available at www.teamsportsmarketing.com.
Team Sports Training: The Complexity Model (Routledge Research in Sports Coaching #10)
by Javier MalloTeam Sports Training: The Complexity Model presents a novel approach to team sports training, examining football (soccer), rugby, field hockey, basketball, handball and futsal through the paradigm of complexity. Under a traditional prism, these sports have been analyzed using a deterministic perspective, where the constituent dimensions of the sportsmen were independently examined and treated in isolation. It was expected that the body worked as a perfect machine and, once all the components were maximized, the sportsmen improved their performance. If the same closed recipe was applied to all the players that formed part of the squad, the global team performance was expected to be enhanced. As much as these reductionistic models seem coherent, when contrasted in practice we see that the reality of team sports is far more different from the closed conditions in which they were idealized. Team sports contain variable, heterogeneous and non-linear constrains which require the development of a different logic to organize their training. During the last years, ecological psychology, the dynamical systems theory or the constraints-led approach have opened interesting fields of research from which many conceptual foundations can be applied to team sports. Based in this contemporary framework, the current book presents the study of the players and the teams as complex systems, using coordination dynamics to explain the emergence of the self-organisation episodes that characterize them. In addition, this thinking line provides the reader with the ability to apply all these innovative concepts to their practical training scenarios. Altogether, it is intended to challenge the reader to re-think their training strategy and to develop an original theory and practice of training specific to team sports.
Team Sports Training: The Complexity Model (Routledge Research in Sports Coaching #10)
by Javier MalloTeam Sports Training: The Complexity Model presents a novel approach to team sports training, examining football (soccer), rugby, field hockey, basketball, handball and futsal through the paradigm of complexity. Under a traditional prism, these sports have been analyzed using a deterministic perspective, where the constituent dimensions of the sportsmen were independently examined and treated in isolation. It was expected that the body worked as a perfect machine and, once all the components were maximized, the sportsmen improved their performance. If the same closed recipe was applied to all the players that formed part of the squad, the global team performance was expected to be enhanced.As much as these reductionistic models seem coherent, when contrasted in practice we see that the reality of team sports is far more different from the closed conditions in which they were idealized. Team sports contain variable, heterogeneous and non-linear constrains which require the development of a different logic to organize their training.During the last years, ecological psychology, the dynamical systems theory or the constraints-led approach have opened interesting fields of research from which many conceptual foundations can be applied to team sports. Based in this contemporary framework, the current book presents the study of the players and the teams as complex systems, using coordination dynamics to explain the emergence of the self-organisation episodes that characterize them. In addition, this thinking line provides the reader with the ability to apply all these innovative concepts to their practical training scenarios. Altogether, it is intended to challenge the reader to re-think their training strategy and to develop an original theory and practice of training specific to team sports.
Team T. Rex: Book 14 (Frankie's Magic Football #14)
by Frank LampardFrankie and his team love playing football. There's always time for a game. And now that they have their magical football they're playing against teams they never imagined!While on holiday at a summer camp, Frankie, Charlie, Louise and Max the dog are transported to a prehistoric land of dinosaurs. Can they reunite a baby pterodactyl with its mum, and avoid being eaten by a hungry T-Rex? The friends will need to use all their football skills to get home in one piece!
Team Talk
by Julian WalkerHave you ever wondered why we talk about a handicap in sport, why boxing is so named, or whether a dumbbell ever rang? It was during the nineteenth century that hitherto local games with relaxed and varying rules were formalized. During this process terminologies developed to refer to these new standardized sports, borrowing, modifying and redefining words from all walks of life in sometimes strange and unexpected ways. Considering such subjects as why sport shares so many words with the fields of hunting and conflict, and how English sports terms have been both adopted from and given to other languages, this book looks at how words have come into the field of sport and how they have developed and changed.
The Team That Couldn't Lose: Who is Sending the Plays That Make the Team Unstoppable? (Sports)
by Matt ChristopherA young, inexperienced football team discovers that its beginner's luck is due to a series of mysterious but successful plays anonymously sent to the coach.