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Author | : Kevin Mulroy |
Publisher | : National Geographic |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2005-04 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780792238980 |
The official companion, filled with stunning original and archival photographs, to the National Baseball Hall of Fame's groundbreaking four-year travelling exhibition pays tribute to America's favorite national pasttime by featuring more than thirty essays by writers, players, scholars, and fans, revealing how baseball has had a profound impact on the evolution of American culture. Reprint.
Author | : Donald Honig |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2001-02-25 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 074322275X |
From Simon & Schuster comes Donald Honig's Baseball America where he shares the stories of the heroes of the beloved game of baseball and the times of their glory. The New York Times sports columnist, Ira Berkow, describes Baseball America as "part history, part biography, part drama, and a complete pleasure."
Author | : Adrian Burgos |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2007-06-04 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0520940776 |
Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in organized baseball from the beginning. In this benchmark study on Latinos and professional baseball from the 1880s to the present, Adrian Burgos tells a compelling story of the men who negotiated the color line at every turn—passing as "Spanish" in the major leagues or seeking respect and acceptance in the Negro leagues. Burgos draws on archival materials from the U.S., Cuba, and Puerto Rico, as well as Spanish- and English-language publications and interviews with Negro league and major league players. He demonstrates how the manipulation of racial distinctions that allowed management to recruit and sign Latino players provided a template for Brooklyn Dodgers’ general manager Branch Rickey when he initiated the dismantling of the color line by signing Jackie Robinson in 1947. Burgos's extensive examination of Latino participation before and after Robinson's debut documents the ways in which inclusion did not signify equality and shows how notions of racialized difference have persisted for darker-skinned Latinos like Orestes ("Minnie") Miñoso, Roberto Clemente, and Sammy Sosa.
Author | : George Vecsey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
One of the great bards of America's Grand Old Game gives a rousing account ofbaseball, from its pre-Republic roots to the present day.
Author | : Ken Mochizuki |
Publisher | : Lerner Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1430129824 |
"Author Ken Mochizuki reads his award-winning book. There is some soft background music, and a few gentle sound effects, but the power of the words need little embellishment...This treasure of a book is well-treated in this format." - School Library Journal
Author | : Nathan Rueckert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Baseball |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Goldberger |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2019-05-14 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0307701549 |
An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic. From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union Grounds in Brooklyn was a "saloon in the open air"), to the much mourned parks of the early 1900s (Detroit's Tiger Stadium, Cincinnati's Palace of the Fans), to the stadiums we fill today, Paul Goldberger makes clear the inextricable bond between the American city and America's favorite pastime. In the changing locations and architecture of our ballparks, Goldberger reveals the manifestations of a changing society: the earliest ballparks evoked the Victorian age in their accommodations--bleachers for the riffraff, grandstands for the middle-class; the "concrete donuts" of the 1950s and '60s made plain television's grip on the public's attention; and more recent ballparks, like Baltimore's Camden Yards, signal a new way forward for stadium design and for baseball's role in urban development. Throughout, Goldberger shows us the way in which baseball's history is concurrent with our cultural history: the rise of urban parks and public transportation; the development of new building materials and engineering and design skills. And how the site details and the requirements of the game--the diamond, the outfields, the walls, the grandstands--shaped our most beloved ballparks. A fascinating, exuberant ode to the Edens at the heart of our cities--where dreams are as limitless as the outfields.
Author | : Allan Simpson |
Publisher | : Baseball America |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-10-11 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781932391657 |
Baseball America invented coverage of the baseball draft. So who better than Baseball America to chronicle 50 years of draft history? As the baseball draft grows in prominence and more and more fans connect winning on draft day to winning in the major leagues, the BA draft book takes you through 50 years of great draft stories and the biggest hits and misses in draft history. The Baseball America 50th Anniversary Draft Book combines all the information of a great reference title with all the great stories that make draft history so rich. For every year of the draft, from 1965-2015, you'll get a complete team by team draft list, with who signed and who didn't, who reached the big leagues and who washed out. And the draft lists are more than just lists; they also feature interesting tidbits on people who became prominent baseball or in other sports or other careers altogether. You'll get the story of the most prominent storylines and people for every year of the draft, as well as plenty of charts and photos to take you in-depth on every year. This book will feature lots of information that has never been publicly available before, especially with signing bonuses from the early days of the draft. It goes without saying that anyone who has an interest in the baseball draft will have to have this book, but anyone who loves good stories (longshots that became major league stars, touted phenoms who washed out) will find fun on every page of this book.
Author | : Tim Wendel |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0306820188 |
In a year shaped by national tragedy, baseball was shaped by amazing pitching--culminating in a victory by a Detroit Tigers team that faced off against Bob Gibson's St. Louis Cardinals, the 1967 World Series defending champions.
Author | : David Quentin Voigt |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publications |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780882292724 |
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