Principles and Practice of Sport Management

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Smart Baseball: Inside the Mind of Baseball's Top Players

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What goes on in a baseball player's mind is critical to the outcome of the game. Since most major leaguers are in peak physical condition, the difference between success and failure on the field often depends on a player's mental approach.

Looking at everything from a player's confidence to his leadership skills, instincts, and hunches, Smart Baseball uses entertaining anecdotes to get inside the mind of baseball's greats and show fans what goes through a player's head when he steps onto the field.

Smart Baseball presents the knowledge and accumulated experience of one of the few three-generation baseball families---the Bells. In addition, this book is full of insights from more than one hundred of Major League Baseball's greatest players---from Willie Mays to Barry Bonds to Ferguson Jenkins.

A fascinating and informative look at what goes on in the psyche of professional baseball players as they play the game, Smart Baseball is a unique chance for baseball fans to see what it takes for ballplayers to succeed at the Major League level.

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Crowning the Kansas City Royals: Remembering the 1985 World Series Champs

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Dane Iorg stepped back into the batter’s box. "Look for the ball down," he told himself. Pitcher Todd Worrell of the St. Louis Cardinals wound up and released the pitch – low, at the thighs. Iorg whipped around his lumberjack-like arms. The bat met the ball. The bat broke. Radio announcer Denny Matthews suddenly raised his voice: "Little looping fly ball..." And with that, the Kansas City Royals were on the way to their one and only World Series championship. Crowning the Kansas City Royals: Remembering the 1985 World Series Champs revisits the greatest sporting event in Kansas City history, when the Royals rallied from a 3-1 deficit in games, their morbid luck finally turned and the cross-state rivalry between Kansas City and St. Louis was irreparably altered. Written in an engaging and absorbing story-telling style by Jeffrey Spivak of The Kansas City Star, it is the first book of its kind. It recounts how few expected the I-70 series clash to be much of a contest, least of all Cardinals fans. It journeys through the anguish and ecstasy of all seven World Series games, with tales of resiliency and redemption about such players as George Brett, Frank White, Willie Wilson, Bret Saberhagen, Buddy Biancalana, and Charlie Leibrandt. Crowning the Kansas City Royals: Remembering the 1985 World Series Champs also catches up with some of those players today, including World Series star Saberhagen, the light-hitting hero Biancalana, Royals icon Brett, and umpire Don Denkinger, whose infamous call in Game 6 swung the momentum in the Royals favor. Crowning the Kansas City Royals is a memorable retrospective of the "Miracle Royals" on their 20th anniversary.

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Sports Coaching & Performance Hull Bundle 2011: The Essentials of Performance Analysis: An Introduction

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What is performance analysis and how does its use benefit sports performance?

How can you use performance analysis in your sport?

The Essentials of Performance Analysis answers your questions, providing a complete guide to the foundational elements of match and performance analysis for new students and beginners.

As well as a basic introduction to the sport science and theory that underlies performance analysis, the book contains many practical examples to show performance analysis in its applied context. It includes discussion of:

• approaches to analyzing sport performance
• the use of feedback technologies
• the use of video and biomechanical analysis
• interpreting data
• coaching with notational analysis.

The Essentials of Performance Analysis is a straightforward, concise and authoritative guide for students of sport science and sports coaching, as well as for coaches and athletes looking to develop their insight into sports performance analysis.

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Behavioral Sport Psychology: Evidence-Based Approaches to Performance Enhancement

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Sport psychology is a topic of growing interest. Many professionals read journals such as The International Journal of Sports, Journal of Sport Behavior, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, and The Sport Psychologist. In August 2008, Monitor on Psychology, the monthly publication of the American Psychological Association (APA), featured a special issue on sport psychology. Indeed, Division 47 of APA is devoted to "the scientific, educational, and clinical foundations of exercise and sport psychology." The North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA) and the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP) convene conferences each year to present scientific findings and new developments in a rapidly expanding field. The AAASP and other organizations also qualify professionals as certified sport and exercise psychology consultants. Finally, a visit to any bookstore will reveal the lay public’s fascination with sports, as revealed in numerous self-help books and guides to perfecting athletic performance. Behavioral psychologists have studied sport psychology for more than three decades (Martin, Thompson, & Regehr, 2004). Applied behavior analysis (ABA), in particular, has been an instrumental approach to behavioral coaching in many sports, including baseball (Osborne, Rudrud, & Zezoney, 1990), basketball (Pates, Cummings, & Maynard, 2002), figure skating (Ming & Martin, 1996), football (Ward & Carnes, 2002), golf (Pates, Oliver, & Maynard, 2001), ice hockey (Rogerson & Hrycaiko, 2002), soccer (Brobst & Ward, 2002), swimming (Hume & Crossman, 1992), and tennis (Allison & Ayllon, 1980). ABA stresses the application of learning theory principles, objective measurement of athletic skills, controlled outcome evaluation, and socially significant behavior-change. Cognitive behavior therapy, or CBT, also has been a dominant approach to psychological intervention in sports (Meyers, Whelan, & Murphy, 1996; Weinberg & Comar, 1994). CBT addresses athletic performance through cognitive-change methods combined with behavioral practice and environmental modifications. The purpose of the book described in this proposal is to compile the most recent experimental and applied research in behavioral sport psychology. Several journal articles have reviewed critical dimensions of behavioral sport psychology (Martin et al., 2004; Martin, Vause, & Schwartzman, 2005) but no book has covered the topic with an emphasis on ABA and CBT methodology and practice. Accordingly, Behavioral Sport Psychology: Evidence-Based Approaches to Performance Enhancement is a first of its kind volume.

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Girls in Ponytails Chasing a Ball: The Rise of Women's Intercollegiate Soccer, 1972-2006

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This book will explore the evolution of women's soccer at the intercollegiate level and the various factors that lead to its emergence. It will also examine what the sport has become today for both players and coaches.

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You Can Write!: The Inside Scoop on Publishing Your Nonfiction Book

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“Your advice is great!”—Kristine M. Clerkin, Vice President, Houghton Mifflin

“What a great resource this is. May you reach out and touch all those aspiring writers out there who need a good reality check!”—Caroline Pincus, freelance editor and former senior editor, HarperSanFrancisco

What does it REALLY take to get published?

This comprehensive, no-nonsense guide written by the founders of the award-winning website, YouCanWrite.com, gives you the inside scoop on everything you need to know to move your book from idea to publishable project.

Filled with practical, realistic yet compassionate advice and insights, You Can Write! illuminates the secrets of:

• The publishing business: How agents and editors make decisions, what they’re looking for, and how you can learn to deal with them successfully.
• Query letters: Why first impressions are supremely important, and what your query letter must do to attract enthusiastic literary agent and editor attention.
• Book proposals: Why they are essential, and what it takes to create a compelling proposal that sells your book idea. Includes one full model proposal of a published book to help you create yours.
• Literary agents: Why you do or do not need one, what they do, what you can expect, and how to approach them successfully.
• Your author résumé: Why your profile as an author—your expertise, your experience, and your track record—is more important than ever, and how you can enhance yours.

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