Robert Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3983759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Occupational Safety & Health Administration |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Only the Ball Was White
Early in the 1920s, the New York Giants sent a scout to watch a young Cuban play for Foster's American Giants, a baseball club in the Negro Leagues. The scout liked what he saw, but was disappointed in the player's appearance. "He was a light brown," recalled one of Torrienti's teammates, "and would have gone up to the major leagues, but he had real rough hair." Such was life behind the color line, the unofficial boundary that prevented hundreds …
Only the ball was white
Telling the forgotten story of black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball, this book reconstructs the old Negro Leagues from contemporary sports publications, accounts of games in the black press, and through interviews with men who actually played the game.
Rube From Texas
This chapter discusses the extremely talented Andrew (Rube) Foster who was a pitcher, a field manager, and the founder and stern administrator of the first viable Negro league. He was even deemed as the most impressive figure in black baseball history. The chapter discusses Rube's early childhood and the events that made Foster what he became, playing for one league to the other. The chapter also discusses his managerial career after playing for …
Don't mourn - organize
1989). “Don't mourn — organize”: Teachers take the offensive against basais. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 28, Perspectives On Basal Readers, pp. 295-299
Models for Innovation Diffusion
The diffusion of innovation has been defined traditionally as the process by which an innovation is communicated through a social system to its members. The 4 parts of the diffusion process are: 1) the innovation 2) channels of communication 3) time and 4) the social system. The diffusion process is one of the most widely studied of all social processes with research in all of the social sciences education geography and business. Such widespread …
Algorithm for investigation of outbreaks of occupational skin disease
1Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health Departments of Internal and Family and Community Medicine School of Medicine University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 2Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health University of Texas Houston, Texas 3OSHA Health Response Team Salt Lake City, Utah
Age Barriers to Employment
Don't mourn - organize
1989). “Don't mourn — organize”: Teachers take the offensive against basais. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 28, Perspectives On Basal Readers, pp. 295-299
Age Barriers to Employment
Algorithm for investigation of outbreaks of occupational skin disease
1Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health Departments of Internal and Family and Community Medicine School of Medicine University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 2Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health University of Texas Houston, Texas 3OSHA Health Response Team Salt Lake City, Utah
Models for Innovation Diffusion
The diffusion of innovation has been defined traditionally as the process by which an innovation is communicated through a social system to its members. The 4 parts of the diffusion process are: 1) the innovation 2) channels of communication 3) time and 4) the social system. The diffusion process is one of the most widely studied of all social processes with research in all of the social sciences education geography and business. Such widespread …
Don't mourn - organize
1989). “Don't mourn — organize”: Teachers take the offensive against basais. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 28, Perspectives On Basal Readers, pp. 295-299
Only the Ball Was White
Early in the 1920s, the New York Giants sent a scout to watch a young Cuban play for Foster's American Giants, a baseball club in the Negro Leagues. The scout liked what he saw, but was disappointed in the player's appearance. "He was a light brown," recalled one of Torrienti's teammates, "and would have gone up to the major leagues, but he had real rough hair." Such was life behind the color line, the unofficial boundary that prevented hundreds …
Only the ball was white
Telling the forgotten story of black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball, this book reconstructs the old Negro Leagues from contemporary sports publications, accounts of games in the black press, and through interviews with men who actually played the game.
Rube From Texas
This chapter discusses the extremely talented Andrew (Rube) Foster who was a pitcher, a field manager, and the founder and stern administrator of the first viable Negro league. He was even deemed as the most impressive figure in black baseball history. The chapter discusses Rube's early childhood and the events that made Foster what he became, playing for one league to the other. The chapter also discusses his managerial career after playing for …
Medicine (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · African American baseball players (1 work) · American Sports and Literature (1 work)