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Author | : Dan Barry |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2011-04-12 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0062079026 |
In “a worthy companion to . . . Boys of Summer,” a Pulitzer prize winning journalist “exploits the power of memory and nostalgia with literary grace” (New York Times). From award-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball history—a tale celebrating not only the robust intensity of baseball, but the aspirational ideal epitomized by the hard-fighting players of the minor leagues. On April 18, 1981, a ball game sprang eternal. For eight hours, the night seemed to suspend a town and two teams between their collective pasts and futures, between their collective sorrows and joys—the shivering fans; their wives at home; the umpires; the batboys approaching manhood; the ejected manager, peering through a hole in the backstop; the sportswriters and broadcasters; and the players themselves—two destined for the Hall of Fame (Cal Ripken and Wade Boggs), the few to play only briefly or forgettably in the big leagues, and the many stuck in minor-league purgatory, duty bound and loyal forever to the game. With Bottom of the 33rd, Barry delivers a lyrical meditation on small-town lives, minor-league dreams, and the elements of time and community that conspired one fateful night to produce a baseball game seemingly without end. An unforgettable portrait of ambition and endurance, Bottom of the 33rd is the rare sports book that changes the way we perceive America’s pastime—and America’s past. “Destined to take its place among the classics of baseball literature.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough.” —Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax
Author | : Philip J. Lowry |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2010-04-23 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0786457341 |
Baseball is the only major team sport that doesn't feature a clock, and there's a familiar saying among fans that as long as outs remain, the game can, theoretically, go on forever. Every now and again, it nearly does, as author Phil Lowry demonstrates. The product of more than four decades of research, this book catalogs baseball games from around the world and throughout history that lasted 20 or more innings, stretched five or more hours, or ended after 1:00 am. Lowry also examines probability models to predict how often games of unusual length will occur.
Author | : Philip J. Lowry |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2010-03-30 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780786442638 |
Baseball is the only major team sport that doesn’t feature a clock, and there’s a familiar saying among fans that as long as outs remain, the game can, theoretically, go on forever. Every now and again, it nearly does, as author Phil Lowry demonstrates. The product of more than four decades of research, this book catalogs baseball games from around the world and throughout history that lasted 20 or more innings, stretched five or more hours, or ended after 1:00 am. Lowry also examines probability models to predict how often games of unusual length will occur.
Author | : Bill Jenkinson |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2007-02-09 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
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In an unprecedented look at Babe Ruth's amazing batting power, sure to inspire debate among baseball fans of every stripe, one of the country's most respected and trusted baseball historians reveals the amazing conclusions of more than twenty years of research. Jenkinson takes readers through Ruth's 1921 season, in which his pattern of battled balls would have accounted for more than 100 home runs in today's ballparks and under today's rules. Yet, 1921 is just tip of the iceberg, for Jenkinson's research reveals that during an era of mammoth field dimensions Ruth hit more 450-plus-feet shots than anybody in history, and the conclusions one can draw are mind boggling.
Author | : Gaylord Perry |
Publisher | : Scarborough, Ont. : New american Library of Canada |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Baseball |
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Author | : Steven Krasner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Baseball |
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Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Baseball |
ISBN | : 1597973653 |
Author | : Jim Kaplan |
Publisher | : Triumph Books (IL) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Baseball players |
ISBN | : 9781600783418 |
Intertwines the personal histories of baseball Hall of Famers Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn with the events of their sixteen-inning pitching duel at San Francisco's Candlestick Park in the summer of 1963.
Author | : Mike Piazza |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2014-02-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1439150230 |
The twelve-time All-Star catcher describes the inspiration he gleaned from his self-made father, his early career with the Dodgers, his memorable 2000 World Series with the Mets, and the controversies that have marked his career.
Author | : Dennis D'Agostino |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1597976911 |
The inside stories from baseball's legendary beat writers