American City Business Journals' corporate office is in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company's major divisions are metropolitan weekly publications and sports publications.^[1]

American City Business Journals is an American newspaper chain based in Charlotte, North Carolina owned by Advance Publications. It has a range of media including 40 primary metropolitan weekly publications, which reach 4 million readers with business community related news, and The Business Journals, which has daily news from those newspapers and other business news and information. It also controls the Street & Smith's Sports Group, which publishes motorsports periodicals, including SportsBusiness Journal, Sports Business Daily, five sports annuals, and The Sporting News. The company is the United States' leading publisher of NASCAR magazines, which includes NASCAR Illustrated and Scenedaily.com

American City also publishes specialty publications, which include a high-tech business newspaper, a law journal, and Hemmings Motor News. In 2009, ACBJ took over management of Portfolio.com, a website formerly associated with the now-defunct Condé Nast Portfolio.^[2]

Mike Russell founded American City Business Journals. The President and CEO of American City is Whitney Shaw. Shaw was previously senior vice president of ACBJ and president of its sports-publishing division. He succeeds his father, Ray Shaw, who was chairman and CEO of ACBJ for 25 years. Ray Shaw, the company's chairman from 1989 until his 2009 death, bought a controlling interest along with a partner in 1989, selling to Advance Publications in 1995. It was Russell who suggested Shaw buy the entire company rather than just a few journals. Under Ray Shaw's leadership, the company moved from Kansas City, Missouri to Charlotte, North Carolina and greatly increased the number of its publications.^[3]

Newspapers[link]

The Business Journals[link]

The Business Journals is the online media division of American City Business Journals which operates websites for each of the company's 40 print business journals as well as its first web-only local business news and information site for Los Angeles, California.

The site contains local business news from around the nation, updated throughout the day, along with an archive that contains more than 2 million business news articles published since 1996. The Business Journals' sites have more than four million unique visitors each month.

Forty under 40 Award[link]

The Business Journal's Forty Under 40 is an annual list compiled and published by the Business Journal newspapers since 1992.^[7][8] The purpose is to list the 40 most successful entrepreneurs under the age of 40. The 40 are usually nominated from within individual areas in range of the local business journal's publication.

Book of Lists[link]

A Subscription to a Business Journal includes a yearly Book of Lists. The Book of Lists gives you essential information on the leading buyers, businesses and employers in over 60 of the U.S.'s most dynamic markets; a snapshot of local economies. You can receive lists of companies from around the country, sorted by industry. The Book of lists also includes names of key decision makers, along with their titles and complete contact information. Printed and electronic lists from the Book of Lists can be purchased through The Business Journals website.

Available lists include:^[9]

• General Contractors
• Homebuilders
• Largest Employers
• Law Firms
• Private Companies
• Public Companies

References[link]

External links[link]

	North Carolina portal
	Companies portal
	Journalism portal

• American City Business Journals corporate website
• The Business Journals
• The Business Journals mobile
• Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal
• Hemmings Motor News

James Anthony Tobin, known as Abba Dabba, (December 27, 1912, Oakland, California—May 19, 1969, Oakland) was a right-handed major league baseball pitcher with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Bees/Braves and Detroit Tigers from 1937 to 1945. In 1944 with the Boston Braves he pitched two no-hitters (one a five-inning game).

Tobin was born in Oakland, California, where the hometown Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League picked him up. They sent him to their Bisbee-Douglas farm team in the Arizona-Texas League. The New York Yankees signed him shortly thereafter. He played for them in Binghamton and Wheeling in 1933 and 1934. The Yankees sent him back to Oakland in 1935, where he compiled an 11-8 record before tearing the cartilage in his left knee. Appendicitis kept him off the Yankee roster the following year, and he went 16-8 for the Oaks.

Rather than return to the Oaks in 1937, he arranged a deal with the Pittsburgh Pirates, with whom he made his major league debut on April 30, 1937.

In 1940, Tobin joined the Boston Braves, where manager Casey Stengel made him a relief pitcher. On May 13, 1942, by then a starter, Tobin became the only pitcher in modern major-league history to hit three home runs in one game (Guy Hecker hit three homers in a game in the nineteenth century).

Still with the Braves in 1944, Tobin began throwing a knuckleball, and that season he his two no-hitters. The first was April 27, 1944, when he beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0. The second was a five-inning game on June 22, 1944, in which the Philadelphia Phillies fell 7-0 (officially, this game is no longer considered a true no-hitter, as it lasted fewer than nine innings).

In another interesting event in 1944, Tobin drew a walk against Cincinnati Reds pitcher Clyde Shoun in the third inning of what would otherwise have been a perfect game for Shoun (who settled instead for a no-hitter).

Tobin was with the Tigers in 1945, when they won the American League pennant, but he did not appear in the World Series. He played his final major league game on September 23, 1945.

He was back in the Pacific Coast League the following year, pitching for the Seattle Rainiers and the San Francisco Seals. He was released in 1947, but the Oaks re-signed him in August 1948. That year he pitched the last out against the Sacramento Solons in a game that clinched the pennant for the Oaks.

Tobin was the brother of Boston Red Sox third baseman Johnny Tobin.

Career stats[link]

While Tobin played only one major league game at a position other than pitcher, he pinch-hit over 100 times in his major league career. The fine-hitting hurler batted .230/.303/.345 in the majors. He totaled 35 doubles, 17 homers and 102 RBI in 796 at-bats.

Jim went 105-112 in the majors with a 3.44 ERA. He completed 156 of 227 career starts.

In the minors, Tobin won 81 games and lost 51.

See also[link]

• 1945 Detroit Tigers season

• MLB all-time leaders in home runs by pitchers
• List of Major League Baseball no-hitters

External links[link]

• Brief biography
• His stats at Baseball-Reference.com
• Baseball-Reference Bullpen

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Medal record
Women's triathlon
Competitor for  United States
Ironman World Championship
Silver	1981	Individual
Bronze	1982 (Oct)	Individual

Sally Edwards (born September 10, 1947) is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, professional triathlete, professional speaker, and iphone app developer. She is one of the pioneers in the Olympic sport of triathlon. Sally resides in Sacramento, California. Edwards has helped to organize both the national and international governing body for the sport triathlon and was just inducted into the Triathlon Hall of Fame. She also wrote the first book on triathlons, and 6 subsequent books on the sport.^[1]

Career[link]

Edwards is an entrepreneur, who has founded six companies including:

• Upbeat Workouts, the new iPhone App that matches your music to your steps for runners, walkers, cyclists.
• ZONING Fitness, a patented and branded cardio exercise program using the Blink flashing zones heart rate monitor,
• Fleet Feet Sports (a chain of franchise retail sports stores);
• Yuba Snowshoes (sports-performance snowshoes); ^[2] and most recently,
• Heart Zones USA an international fitness and health training and education company,
• The Sally Edwards Company, a professional speaking businness.^[3]

She is also a professional motivational speaker, who has advised thousands on how to run a successful business and on how to find and live the fitness lifestyle.

Sports career[link]

Sally Edwards has completed over 150 races including more than 75 Danskin Triathlons and 16 Ironman Triathlons. She is a former holder of the master's world record in the Ironman, and the national spokesperson for the Danskin series of women-only sprint triathlons. Her background in multi-sport competition is extensive. She has won the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run, the 100 mile Iditashoe Snowshoe Race, Race Across America Relay division, and numerous marathons. She has also participated in adventure races around the world.

Edwards is currently represented by The Buzz Truitt Group, Vancouver, Washington.

Works[link]

Books[link]

• Triathlon (1982), Fleet Feet Press
• Triathlon: A Triple Fitness Sport: The first complete guide to challenge you to a new total fitness (1982)
• The Woman Runner's Training Diary (1984)
• The Triathlon Training and Racing Book (1985)
• The Equilibrium Plan: Balancing Diet and Exercise for Lifetime Fitness (1987)
• Triathlons for Kids (1992)
• The Heart Rate Monitor Book (1992)
• Heart Rate Monitor Book (1993)
• Heart Zone Training: Exercise Smart, Stay Fit, and Live Longer (1996) [4]
• Smart Heart: High Performance Heart Zone Training (1997)
• Caterpillars to Butterflies by Triathletes (from the Danskin Women's Triathlon Series) (1997). Coauthored by Maggie Sullivan
• The Heart Rate Monitor Guidebook to Heart Zone Training (revised 2010)
• The Heart Rate Monitor Log (2000)
• The Triathlon Log (2000)
• The Complete Book of Triathlons (2001)
• The Heart Rate Monitor Workbook for Indoor Cyclists (2001) co authored by Sally Reed [5]
• The Heart Rate Monitor Book for Outdoor and Indoor Cyclists: A Heart Zone Training Program (2002) co authored by Sally Reed [6]
• Triathlons for Women: Training Plans, Equipment, Nutrition (2002)
• Triathlons for Women: Revised 2010
• Be a Better Runner: 2011
• ZONING, Fitness in a Blink 2012

• Swaim, Deve; Sally Edwards (February 2002). Middle School Healthy Hearts in the Zone: Heart Rate Monitoring Program for Lifelong Fitness. Idaho: Human Kinetics Publishers. p. 121 pages. ISBN 0-7360-4176-1. 

• Swaim, Deve; Sally Edwards (2002-09-17). High School Healthy Hearts in the Zone: A Heart Rate Monitoring Program for Lifelong Fitness. Idaho: Human Kinetics Publishers. p. 328 pages. ISBN 0-7360-4177-X. 
• Edwards, Sally; Lorraine Brown (2003-05-06). fit AND fat: The 8-Week Heart Zones Program. Indianapolis, Indiana: Alpha Books. p. 304 pages. ISBN 0-02-864423-9. 
• Rudd, Dan; Sally Edwards (September 2004). Health in a Heartbeat. Heart Zones. p. 138 pages. ISBN 0-9700130-5-1. 
• Edwards, Sally; Sally Reed (2006). Heart Zones Cycling: The Avid Cyclist's Guide to Riding Faster and Farther. Boulder, Colorado: VeloPress. p. 296 pages. ISBN 1-931382-84-0.  [7]

References[link]

1. ^ Profile of Sally Edwards, Sacramento Business Journal; Danielle Starkey; May 2, 2003.
2. ^ High-tech snowshoes blaze new paths, San Francisco Chronicle; Paul Kilduff; Friday, December 30, 2005.
3. ^ 1999 Triathlon Hall of Fame Inductees
4. ^ Heart Zones(R) Partners - Sally Edwards

External links[link]

• The Sally Edwards Company Official Web Site of Sally Edwards
• Heartzones USA
• Upbeat Workouts App created by Sally Edwards
• Zoning Fitness Co-founder
• Danskin Triathlon
• Trek Women's Triathlon Sally Edwards is their spokesperson.
• Fleet feet Sports