Frank Russo

Gene Racz

For casual and hardcore baseball fans as well as readers of offbeat facts and trivia, an entertaining and colorful look at the untimely, unusual, and sometimes touching final at-bats of hundreds of baseball players includes stories about players such as James Phelps, who made a running catch in the outfield during a 1909 Louisiana game, was bitten by a poisonous snake, finished the game, and then died.

Salacious, Sad, and Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball

Bury My Heart at Cooperstown

Annabel J. Cohen

Beatriz Ilari

The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, Volume I: Development introduces the many voices necessary to better understand the act of singing—a complex human behaviour that emerges without deliberate training. Presenting research from the social sciences and humanities alongside that of the natural sciences and medicine alike, this companion explores the relationship between hearing sensitivity and vocal production, in turn identifying how singing is integrated with sensory and cognitive systems while investigating the ways we test and measure singing ability and development. Contributors consider the development of singing within the context of the entire lifespan, focusing on its cognitive, social, and emotional significance in four parts: Musical, historical and scientific foundations Perception and production Multimodality Assessment In 2009, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded a seven-year major collaborative research initiative known as Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS). Together, global researchers from a broad range of disciplines addressed three challenging questions: How does singing develop in every human being? How should singing be taught and used to teach? How does singing impact wellbeing? Across three volumes, The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing consolidates the findings of each of these three questions, defining the current state of theory and research in the field. Volume I: Development tackles the first of these three questions, tracking development from infancy through childhood to adult years.

Frank Russo

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