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J.D. Cotter-Howells, L.S. Campbell, E. Valsami-Jones and M. Batchelder (Eds.) Environmental Mineralogy: Microbial Interactions, Anthropogenic Influences, Contaminated Land and Waste Management. London (Mineralogical Society Series, Vol. 9), 2000, xii + 414 pp. £50 (US $55)). ISBN 0-903056-20-8. - Volume 65 Issue 3

Studies in Church History, III. Edited by G. J. Cuming. (Papers read at the third winter and summer meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society). Pp. viii + 290. Leiden: Brill, 1966. Fl. 45.00. - Volume 19 Issue 2

Abstracts of the Belgian Society of Fundamental and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology (Winter Meeting), 19 February 1994, Antwerp, Belgium

Reviewed by: Split Season, 1981 by Jeff Katz Michael Haupert Jeff Katz. Split Season, 1981. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2015. 326 pp. Cloth, $27.99. As Jeff Katz delightfully reminds us, 1981 was a special year in baseball for many reasons. We saw the debut of Hall of Famers Cal Ripken and Rickey Henderson, Pete Rose broke Stan Musial's NL hit record, Nolan Ryan threw his record-setting fifth no-hitter, Len Barker tossed the first perfect game in more than a decade, and the Yankees and Dodgers squared off in a classic [End Page 208] World Series. But the most memorable event of the year was what didn't happen: midseason baseball. More than 700 games were lost to a strike that ran from mid-June through July, leading to MLB's only split-season schedule. Split Season is a well written, comprehensive review of the 1981 season. Katz covers all the relevant topics from Rose to Reggie to Bowie and Marvin. He delves deeply into the labor relations that led to the mid-season work stoppage but never bogs down in legal quagmires, as it would have been so easy to do. He nicely mixes the important business issues with on field action, and for those of us who lived through the season, he brings back many pleasant memories. For those too young to remember that infamous season, Katz will take you on a wonderful tour through the craziness that was the Bronx zoo, the original Billyball (yes, before Billy Beane, there was another Billy doing maverick things in Oakland), Fernandomania, and the controversial split season that left baseball's winningest team on the sideline for the postseason. Katz cannot be accused of driving his book down the middle of the road. He lands firmly on the side of Marvin Miller and the players in the labor dispute and passes up no chance to bash the ownership, coming down particularly hard on Bowie Kuhn and Ray Grebey. He paints the owners as obtuse, clinging to antiquated ideas, and badly outmaneuvered by Miller and the players. Kuhn comes off as clueless, hapless, and disrespected by just about everyone involved with the business of baseball. I don't say this as a criticism, since history suggests such castigation is not misplaced. Being a competitive labor market fan myself, I rather enjoyed reading about the owner's gaffes and chuckled at the descriptions of Kuhn, such as "The Dodgers had … only enough time to get from Montreal to New York [which] was enough time for Kuhn to make another poor decision" (261). Katz sets up the story with a prologue detailing the end of the 1980 season, then takes us into the off season free agent signings, winter meetings, and early labor negotiations. He provides just the right amount of background to set up the story, introducing the issues and foreshadowing the problems that ultimately led to the work stoppage. The opening chapters will assure the reader that this is going to be a pleasant journey focused on baseball, but yet covering the important labor issues that made 1981 a noteworthy year in baseball history. The book then proceeds in chronological order through the season. It ranges from MLB action to significant minor league issues, but always present in the background are the labor negotiations. As entertaining as the on-field action was, it was the labor negotiations and the resulting split season that make 1981 stand out in baseball history. Katz never lets us forget that, but also never strays far from the exciting baseball action. [End Page 209] The final chapter serves as a nice epilogue, bringing closure to the major stories Katz followed through 1981, including Valenzuela's career after his dual Cy Young-Rookie of the Year season, Pete Rose and his quest for Ty Cobb's MLB hit record and then sad fall from grace, Reggie Jackson who spent 1981 battling a horrific slump and the mercurial Steinbrenner, and Bowie Kuhn and the Player's Association. It was a satisfying ending for a reader who remembers the season but didn't quite remember every detail, and it will be a perfect wrap up for...

Introduction presentation for the session entitled Community resilience for Earth Science data institutions and place-based communities hosted at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Winter Meeting in January 2019.

The Winter Meetings, the King of Baseball, and the Conscience of the Game

Abstracts of papers read at the Winter Meeting, 1961

When Baseball America's bimonthly newspaper polled its readers in 1999 to select the Minor League legend of the twentieth century, Joe Bauman was chosen as the number one legend. (1) If I had voted I would have stuffed the ballot box for Joe because he is my number one baseball hero. To boys like me who grew up in the late 1940s and early 1950s in western Oklahoma, he took on almost mythical status from the moment he arrived in my hometown to play baseball for three glorious semipro seasons. Like Paul Bunyan of the north woods, he seemed to be at least ten feet tall although he stood only six feet four and one-half inches and weighed 230 pounds. Bauman's legend lives in anyone who ever saw him swat a ball. You couldn't put a fence out there that he couldn't knock over. And he did it all without steroids, other muscle-enhancing drugs, or weight machines. (2) I was one of the lucky ones who got to watch him play for free, selling pop at the ballpark. When a panel of Baseball America experts in 1999 were asked to name the significant or spectacular feats in 100 years of Minor League Bauman's hitting 72 homers in 1954 for the Roswell, New Mexico, Rockets of the class C Longhorn League was second behind Robinson signing a minor league contract with the Dodgers on October 3, 1945. (3) I've got a lot of respect for Jackie Robinson, but come on now--signing a contract to begin playing for Montreal, Quebec, way north of the Mason-Dixon line in the International League is simply nothing compared to hitting 72 dingers in a 138-game season in the hot dust storm fields of southeastern New Mexico and the panhandle of Texas. was a sad day for me when Barry Bonds hit his 73rd home run of the season in 2001. Sitting before a television set in his Roswell home as Bonds hit number 73, Bauman watched the hit and later said, It didn't bother me or anything. I just thought, 'There goes my record.' (4) I gave a little cheer when I learned that Minor League baseball at its winter meetings in December 2004 had given its first Joe Bauman Award to Philadelphia Phillie prospect Ryan Howard, who led all Minor Leaguers during the 2004 season with 38 home runs. This award is to be given annually to the leading home run hitter each year in the minors and will be accompanied by a check for the handsome sum of $200 per homer. (5) Many authors have penned well-written articles about Bauman hitting those 72 homers in 1954 and his hitting 337 home runs during his nine seasons in the Minor Leagues. (6) However, only brief comments appeared in those articles about Bauman's baseball exploits during his lost his eight seasons outside the Minor Leagues when he played sandlot, semipro, or service baseball. CAPITOL HILL Joe Bauman was born on April 17, 1922, in Welch, a tiny northeast Oklahoma community twenty-one miles down the road from Mickey Mantle's mining hometown of Commerce. Moving from Welch at a very young age, Joe grew up in the Capitol Hill area of southern Oklahoma City in a strictly run home with his mom, dad, and an older brother. Joe was raised by his dad to play baseball, but he also starred in basketball and football. He was a natural right-hander. His dad helped him learn to both hit and field as a lefty. Jack Baer, later a semipro teammate of Bauman's and the University of Oklahoma's baseball coach for many years, described Bauman's switch from right to left hand as one of the most amazing changes he had ever seen. (7) In the spring of 1939 Bauman was a sophomore and the starting first baseman for the Redskins of Oklahoma City's Capitol Hill High School, the leading athletic school in Oklahoma in that prewar era. In early May the team went to Stillwater, the home of Oklahoma A & M College, now Oklahoma State University. There the Redskins won the state's class A Interscholastic baseball title, the equivalent of a state championship since there were no statewide playoffs. …

Abstracts of Papers Read at the Winter Meeting at The university of Bristol, 6–8 January 1986

This report covers a range of communications delivered at the Winter Meeting of the British Pharmacology Society, held at the Brighton Metropole Hotel on the 15–17th December 2008, which reported new findings in basic and clinical neuropharmacology. The report is subdivided into aspects of analgesia, neurological and psychological disorders.

At this the close of the XXX International Physiological Congress and the second to be held in Canada, the Organizing Committee felt that it might be appropriate to look back in history to the beginnings of biological research in this country, to the man whom the Canadian Physiological Society regards as the father of Canadian physiology. Indeed the Society sponsors an annual lecture at its winter meetings which is named for him, and in 1985 I had the honour to present the lecture from which my remarks today are culled.

The Location Index (Loc-I) project (http://locationindex.org) aims to enable government agencies to geospatially-integrate and analyse data reliably, effectively and efficiently across portfolios and information domains. Loc-I is part of the Data Integration Partnership for Australia (DIPA) initiative, which seeks to maximise government data to improve policy advice. This poster presents the current Linked Data approaches that provide general solutions for data integration of location-based data and its application in the Australian context. This poster was presented at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Winter Meeting in January 2020 in Bethesda, MD.

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2025 AAPT Awards at the Winter Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri

VIIIth Meeting of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) Clonal Evolution of Tumors (BACR/RSM Winter Meeting) Invitation for Fellowships from FOCA