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The Right Call: Baseball Coaches' Attempts To Influence Umpires, Kevin Warneke, David C. Ogden

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

On-field conversations and confrontations between baseball coaches and umpires have long been a part of the game. An umpire's decision can alter the course of the game, but little has been written about the exchanges between a coach or manager and umpire, especially in relation to theoretical considerations. This study applies management and leadership theories in exploring the strategies baseball coaches use to contest an umpire's decision. By using leadership scholar John E. Barbuto's concept of influence tactics and the various types of social power discussed by sociologists John R. French and Bertram Raven, the study also tests the congruence …

Image Restoration In Major League Baseball: An Analysis Of Apologia Strategies During The Steroid Era, Shareef C. Stratton

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.

Take Me Out To The Metaphor, Parker B. Potter Jr.

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] “In the fall of 2003, Judge Smith of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island wrote that “[c]ases examining the issue of workplace sexual harassment by women against women are about as common as a baseball post-season that includes the Cubs and the Red Sox . . . .

Judge Smith’s observation was, of course, rooted in the perception among baseball fans, and in the popular culture, that nothing says “futility” quite like a reference to the Chicago Cubs or the Boston Red Sox. Conversely, there can be little doubt that for one in search …

Ua97/7 The Cardinal, Vol. Iv, No. 13, Ogden College

WKU Archives Records

Newspaper created by the students of Ogden College a prep school for boys in Bowling Green which operated from 1877 to 1927.

Ua97/7 The Cardinal, Vol. 3, No. 12, Ogden College

WKU Archives Records

Newspaper created by the students of Ogden College a prep school for boys in Bowling Green which operated from 1877 to 1927.

Ua97/7 The Cardinal, Vol. 3, No. 10, Ogden College

WKU Archives Records

Newspaper created by the students of Ogden College a prep school for boys in Bowling Green which operated from 1877 to 1927.

Ua97/7 The Cardinal, Vol. 1, No. 7, Ogden College

WKU Archives Records

Newspaper created by the students of Ogden College a prep school for boys in Bowling Green which operated from 1877 to 1927.