“Here is the only official, comprehensive list of all verified authentic Major Leaguer Baseball players on Twitter”–From the Web site.
Baseball Resources at the Library of Congress October 6, 2009
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/baseball/features.html#al
Much information, from the Library of Congress, including essays, photographs, exhibition pages, and more, on the game of baseball.
University of Memphis Public Infractions Report, August 20, 2009 August 23, 2009
This is the full text of the 26-page report released by the NCAA that stripped the University of Memphis of its 38 victories during the 2007-2008 college basketball season and its 2008 Final Four appearance.
Find Your Summer Camp 2009 May 14, 2009
http://www.commercialappeal.com/SummerCamps2009/search/
The Memphis Commercial Appeal provides this online search tool to help you find summer camps in the Memphis Area. There are ways to narrow your search, including by camp type: Arts/Hobbies, Day Camps, Educational, Residential, Specialty, and Sports.
The National Parks : Lesser Known Areas October 30, 2008
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/travel/natpark/natpark.htm
“Few travelers are familiar with most parks described here. Many are located away from principal highways or are relatively new to the National Park System. And most, but not all, are smaller than the more popular parks. Yet these sites contain nationally significant scenic and cultural resources, many of comparable quality to the more famous parks.”–From the web site. And these parks are searchable by state on this site.
2008 World Series — Facts For Features — United States Census Bureau October 23, 2008
The United States Census Bureau offers some statistics on Major League baseball, and Tampa Bay, FL, home of the Tampa Bay Rays, and Philadelphia, PA, the home of the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies and the Rays are of course the two teams playing each other in the 2008 series.
Free Movies & TV on IMDB September 17, 2008
Thanks to Christina Barnes (Sciences) for passing this along!
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is now offering free movies, shorts, and new & classic TV on their site. So if you’ve been dying to watch “The Love Boat,” “24″ or Some Like it Hot, here’s your chance!
Shelby Farms Park — Master Plan Executive Summary August 13, 2008
http://www.shelbyfarmspark.org/sfpc/files/MasterPlanExecutiveSummary.pdf
The executive summary of the Master Plan for the development of Shelby Farms is available on the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy website.
2008 Summer Olympics — International Olympic Committee July 30, 2008
http://www.olympic.org/uk/index_uk.asp
This is the official website of the International Olympic Committee for the 2008 Summer Olympics that will begin in Beijing on August 8, 2008. Much helpful information is found here and results of competitions will be found on the site after the Games begin. An FAQ is also included where the most commonly asked questions about the Olympics are found and filed by theme.
Sharing our national past time worldwide July 30, 2008
This is a non-profit organization relying on donations of “gently used” baseball uniforms and equipment so underprivilege children may enjoy America’s national past time across the world. The website addresses the organization’s four goals:
• To support the growth of baseball in the U.S. and internationally.
• To give kids equipment so they can get out, have fun and stay healthy.
• To teach kids important lessons through baseball, like teamwork and sportsmanship.
• To make friends across the world through America’s past time.
Being a fan of the game of baseball, I personally liked and approved what the organization is doing. Enjoy the site!
Major League Baseball Media Guides For All Thirty Teams June 26, 2008
http://pressbox.mlb.com/pressbox/media_guides/index.jsp
Media guides for each Major League Baseball team are found here.
Major League Baseball : American League Red Book and the National League Green Book June 20, 2008
http://pressbox.mlb.com/pressbox/downloads/y2008/red_book.pdf
http://pressbox.mlb.com/pressbox/downloads/y2008/green_book.pdf
Major League Baseball offers its American League Red Book and National League Green Book online here. Both offer statistics, facts, and information on baseball and all of its major league teams.
Memphis Zoo Projects and the Citizens To Preserve Overton Park June 16, 2008
http://www.memphiszoo.org/membership.aspx?pid=173
The Fred and Diane Smith Family Teton Trek is a four-acre exhibit opening at the Memphis Zoo in 2009 that will take people on a journey through the culture, history and wildlife of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
http://www.memphiszoo.org/membership.aspx?pid=175
The Memphis Zoo also has a project planned, Chickasaw Bluffs, that involves 17 acres of forest in Overton Park and includes a low-impact forest trail.
http://www.overtonparkforever.blogspot.com/
The Citizens To Preserve Oveton Park opposes these projects because it wants to preserve the forest in Overton Park and does not want to see the implementation of any new projects that will shrink the existing forest; and it wants to stop the construction of Chickasaw Bluffs before it begins.
A fun site for Midsouth kids and their parents June 13, 2008
This is a fun, informative site that is “the must-have website for Midsouth moms and dads.”
American College of Sports Medicine Database June 2, 2008
http://www.acsm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home_Page&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=6117
“The American College of Sports Medicine Office of Museum, History, and Archives is pleased to provide the Health and Physical Activity Reference Database of articles and books published over the past 200 years or more related generally, to the connection between health and physical exercise and the early history of the physiology of exercise.”–From the website. You can search the database by subject or keyword or you can do a chronological search by author.
