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U.S. Army Air Forces, World War Ii, Pacific Ocean Area, Special Services Division - Scrapbook (Sc 1529), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1529. Scrapbook (bound volume; unpaged) related to AAFPAO Special Services Division's activities in 1944-1945, chiefly concerning sports. Contains limited information about entertainers.

The Fall Of The 1977 Phillies: How A Baseball Team's Collapse Sank A City's Spirit, Mitchell J. Nathanson

Mitchell J Nathanson

Too often, the Philadelphia sports fan has been dismissed as a lout, a boorish dolt immune to reason, his vocabulary whittled down to a singular “boo.” This is particularly true when it comes to Phillies fans, who are more likely to turn on their team than any other in the city. Although the Eagles, Sixers and Flyers may hear it from the rafters when they’re not going well, only the Phils will hear it when they are. The strained relationship between the city and the Phillies, however, has deep historical and sociological roots; roots that directly correlate with the city’s …

The Grizzly, April 12, 2007, Kerri Landis, Marlena M. Mcmahon-Purk, Erica Kehler, Katie Ringler, Sarah Keck, Erin Padovani, Salia Zouande, Lane Taylor, Tiffany Friedman, Heather Turnbach, Jon Gagas, Brandon Brown, Alex Ernst, Matthew Pastor, Danielle Langdon

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Project Pericles Continues to Succeed in Community Service • Macs Lag in Environmental Friendliness According to Greenpeace • New Dorm Progress • Ursinus Freshmen Fall Behind in Collegiate Learning Assessment • Spread Your Legs and Turn Your Head and Cough • Relay for Life Fast Approaching • Ursinus, Break the Silence! • Nutrition Tips: Veggie Report • Opinions: Dear Mahmoud • Bears Terrorize McDaniel, Sit Atop CC Standings • Bears Finish Second at NCGA Championships

The Grizzly, March 22, 2007, Kerri Landis, Marlena M. Mcmahon-Purk, Ashley Higgins, Sarah Keck, Salia Zouande, Lane Taylor, Amanda Bryman, Corinne Liccketto, Jon Gagas, Brandon Brown, Alex Ernst, Matthew Pastor, Danielle Langdon

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Speaker on Ethics in the Pharmaceutical Industry • New Plans for the Field House • Potential Carcinogen Found Abundant in Collegeville • WeCAN Button and T-Shirt Campaign Successful • Scientific Sexual Healing • Nutrition Tips: Atkins in the News • Brief History of St. Patrick's Day • Spotlight on Professor Laurian Bowles • Opinions: Obama-mania! • Bears Hungry for CC Crown • Longball Key to Bears Victory

Umaine Black Bear Baseball Media Guide, 2007, University Of Maine Athletic Media Relations

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine Black Bears Baseball media guide for the 2007 season.

2007 Ruby Yearbook, Ursinus College Senior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 2007 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

This Sporting Life: Sports And Body Culture In Modern Japan, William W. Kelly, Atsuo Sugimoto

CEAS Occasional Publication Series

Yale CEAS Occasional Publication Series - Volume 1

Sports in Japan have long been embedded in community life, the educational system, the mass media, the corporate structures, and the nationalist sentiments of modern Japan. For over a century, they have been a crucial intersection of school pedagogy, corporate aims, media constructions, gender relations, and patriotic feelings. The chapters in this book highlight a wide range of sports, and together, they offer a significant window on to the ways that the sporting life animates the institutions of modern Japan.