Pedro Moura

The inside story of how the Dodgers won their first championship in more than 30 years--but helped cripple the sport of baseball in the process. For most baseball teams, the 2020 season was a strange, short, fanless diversion--but not in Los Angeles. After years of frustrating playoff runs, they finally reclaimed the World Series trophy after more than 30 years, led by their star pitcher, Clayton Kershaw, their electric new outfielder, Mookie Betts, and a bevy of impressive young players assembled by their hard-charging, ingenious team President, Andrew Friedman. The collection of talent that took the field in 2020, and again in 2021, was nothing short of a superteam, on a par with the dynastic Yankees of the 1990s. Yet winning at modern baseball is nothing like it was even 20 years ago. In the years since Billy Beane's famous Moneyball teams, baseball has grown to look less like a sport and more like a Wall Street firm that traded its boiler room for a field. Teams relentlessly exploit inefficiencies, new innovations, and tiny advantages--sometimes without regard for the rules of the game. The result is a sport that has never been played at a higher level, yet has seen its TV ratings and attendance numbers in long, slow decline. And with the league's collective bargaining agreement set to expire at the end of 2021, a labor crisis looms. This fascinating book not only examines the remarkable Dodgers team that won it all, but offers a unique view inside a sport that can't seem to break its addiction to winning at all costs--even when those costs might be the future of the game. From Kershaw's late-career breakthrough to Friedman's machinations, it shows what it takes to win, and what it will take to save the sport.

The Rise of the Dodgers in a League on the Brink

How to Beat a Broken Game

Simon Roy

David Soares

Filipe Abranches

Ricardo Baptista

Bárbara Lopes

A UMBRA #3 é desta. Depois de atrasos e acidentes a edição reconfigurou-se e aqui está com os autores Simon Roy, Pedro Vieira de Moura, Bárbara Lopes, Ricardo Baptista, David Soares e Filipe Abranches. Junta-se a nós o ilustrador João Maio Pinto que nos traz a capa fantástica com que nos iremos forrar.

David Soares e Filipe Abranches, “Intenções Comestíveis; ou Nova Tábua de Cebes” – 32 páginas
Um cataclismo enigmático fez desaparecer as montanhas e impede a construção de estruturas elevadas. Um multimilionário obcecado pela esperança de encontrar a última montanha existente poderá ser a testemunha dos últimos dias de um mundo moribundo e unidimensional. Pesadelo surreal ou retrato da actualidade?

Pedro Moura e Ricardo Baptista, “Weep me not dead” – 20 páginas
A herança do Iluminismo é a razão. A civilização europeia, industrial e capitalista crê piamente no sempiterno progresso, cada vez mais justo e equilibrado. Organizar a sociedade e a vida de acordo com tal princípio levará seguramente a uma melhor realização do potencial social e moral humano. À felicidade, mesmo. Certo? Certo?

Bárbara Lopes, “Tens a certeza?” – 32 páginas
Após a longa viagem, aguarda-te um grande banquete e, do outro lado da mesa, um vulto estranho. Ele sabe tudo – foi por isso que vieste. Afinal, o que pesa mais? A dúvida ou a verdade? Se pudesses ter a resposta a qualquer questão, ias arriscar saber?

Simon Roy, “Naufragado com Dan, o gorila” – 25 páginas
Um náufrago e um gorila falante estão presos numa ilha. Mas há amizade, entretenimento, surpresas. Quem abdicaria disso? Simon Roy interroga a elasticidade dessas relações. O que é mais importante para o demonstrar: estreitar laços ou aceitar vontades diferentes?

Umbra #3

The inside story of how the Dodgers won their first championship in more than thirty years—but helped cripple the sport of baseball in the process After years of frustrating playoff runs, the Los Angeles Dodgers finally reclaimed the World Series trophy after more than thirty years, led by star pitcher Clayton Kershaw, electric outfielder Mookie Betts, and a bevy of impressive young players assembled by team president Andrew Friedman. No team is better positioned to win now and in the future. Yet winning at modern baseball is nothing like it was even twenty years ago. In the years since the famous Moneyball revolution, baseball has grown to look less like a sport than a Wall Street firm that traded its boiler room for a field. Teams relentlessly chase every tiny advantage to win games and make money, even as it hurts fans, TV ratings, and players, courting bigger problems in the long run. This dramatic and insightful book takes you into the clubhouse with the championship players, as well as into the offices where teams constantly seek new ways to win—even when it hurts the game. How to Beat a Broken Game shows not only what it takes to win, but what it will take to save the sport.

Cultural history of contemporary Portuguese comics and their creative responses to trauma Portugal's vibrant comics scene originated as early as the 19th century, bringing forth brilliant individual artists, but has remained mostly unknown beyond Portugal’s borders to this day. Now a new generation employs this medium to put into question hegemonic views on the economy, politics, and society. Following the experience of the financial crisis of the past decades and its impact on social policies, access to and rules of public discourse, and civil strife, comics have questioned what constitutes a traumatogenic situation and what can act as a creative response. By looking at established graphic novels by Marco Mendes and Miguel Rocha, fanzine-level, and even experimental productions, Visualising Small Traumas is the first English-language book that addresses Portuguese contemporary comics and investigates how trauma studies can both shed a light on comics making and be informed by that very same practice. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

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