Between Innings

Between Innings
Author: Mark Tannenbaum
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2005-06
Genre:
ISBN: 0595356494

During August of 2001 and 2002, a father and son took a baseball trip to the Midwest and West Coast, respectively. As they traveled, they wrote of baseball, the country and its people. While visits to the major league ballparks created the roadmap for the trips, the journey described in Between Innings was always about their time together. They traveled by plane, train, bus, and automobile, logged about 10,000 miles, met a few old friends, and made some new ones. Their travels took them to places as diverse as the ravines of West Virginia, the Midwest industrial belt, and the vast terrain of the Mojave Desert and Grand Canyon. The people they met came from all walks of life, many representing an astounding number of new immigrants to this country. They observed baseball packaged as mass entertainment, yet felt privileged to still witness the purity of the game in some special places. In all, they learned about each other, about the country and its people, and reaffirmed their love for the game and the lessons it passes on from one generation to another.

Extra Innings

Extra Innings
Author: The Baseball Prospectus
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0465029183

In 1996, a brassy young team of fansproduced a guide to baseball statistics.Printed on a photocopier, its distribution,which was in the low hundreds, was limited tofriends, family, and die-hard stat heads. Sixteenyears later, the Baseball Prospectus annualregularly hits best-seller lists and has becomean indispensable guide for the serious fan. In Extra Innings, the team at Baseball Prospectusintegrates statistics, interviews, and analysis todeliver twenty arguments about today's game.In the tradition of their seminal book, BaseballBetween the Numbers, they take on everything fromsteroids to the amateur draft. They probe theimpact of managers on the game. They explainthe critical art of building a bullpen. In an erawhen statistics matter more than ever, Extra Inningsis an essential volume for every baseball fan.

Between Overs

Between Overs
Author: Michele Savidge
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2022-03-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1801502315

The 1970s in the East Midlands was a decade of mediocrity. As a young girl growing up there, Michele Savidge seemed destined for a prosaic life. But everything changed when as a 12-year-old she saw Viv Richards bat. At that moment, she fell in love with Richards and with West Indies cricket. She set her sights on becoming a cricket journalist and realised that dream in spite of the obstacles in her way. Between Overs is an elegiac, often comedic, romp through the trials Michele faced. It includes outrageous 'Me Too' incidents, in-depth appraisals of her hero Viv Richards and a close encounter with actor Peter O'Toole. Births, life, bereavement and depression took her away from the sport she loved. But the 2019 Cricket World Cup, a purple and green polyester tracksuit and the intense climax of the final at Lord's saw the old flame rekindled and taught Michele how to love life - and cricket - again.

Battle Innings

Battle Innings
Author: Philip V. Stephens
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2010-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453573097

In the future the outcome of baseball games means everything... Mysterious aliens have visited human worlds and now they too request to play. The rules have changed, the stakes have increased. Americans have but one last hope to save their country from falling.

Six Innings

Six Innings
Author: James Preller
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2010-03-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 142994045X

A Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year A game in the life of a Little League team playing their championship game – and two best friends whose bond is put to the test. Two teams, six innings, one game. A lively cast of characters—baseball-loving boys between the ages of eleven to thirteen—are playing the biggest game of their lives. With acrobatic catches, clutch hits, dramatic whiffs, and costly errors, this game is full of action. But as the book unfolds, pitch by pitch, a deeper story emerges, with far more at stake: Sam and Mike, best friends, are trying to come to terms with Sam's newly diagnosed cancer. And this baseball diamond becomes the ultimate testing ground of Sam and Mike's remarkable friendship as they strive to find a way to both come out winners. This is for the championship. This is for life.

Score by Innings

Score by Innings
Author: Charles Emmett Van Loan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1919
Genre: Baseball stories
ISBN:

The View from the Stands

The View from the Stands
Author: Johanna Wagner
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2005-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0595334814

The View from the Stands is both the story of one fan's love of the game and an examination of the effect baseball has had on fans everywhere throughout its history. A collection of stories and insights compiled during the summer of 2002 in each of MLB's thirty parks, The View from the Stands provides us with the fans' perspective on every team and stadium in the league, and on the most important issues currently affecting the game. It gives a voice to the masses of people who fill our stadiums, and it explains how a child's game became the business it is today. This book examines the entire experience of live baseball, from the uncomfortable seats to the misplaced marketing ventures to the incredible feeling of seeing Bonds circle the bases. Baseball touches our lives in so many unexpected ways. By introducing us to the little boys who rush to the edge of the stands in Wrigley, the recovering alcoholic who found a new family at the Metrodome, and many others from all walks of life, The View from the Stands tells the story of our love of the game--what draws us in and what keeps us coming back for more.

Twilight Innings

Twilight Innings
Author: Robert Adon Fink
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780896725843

A collection of essays by the West Texas poet.

Late Innings

Late Innings
Author: Dean A. Sullivan
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780803292857

The third volume in this exciting, well-researched history of America's pastime retraces some of the most important people and events in the game, from Jackie Robinson's shattering of the race barrier to the labor unrest of the 1970s.

Late Innings

Late Innings
Author: Roger Angell
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2023-01-24
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1504081668

The acclaimed New Yorker sportswriter examines the inner working of professional baseball, in these essays from the spring of 1977 to the summer of 1981. Late Innings takes fans far beyond the stadium view of the field and into the substrata of baseball as it is experienced by the people who make it happen. Celebrated as one of the game’s finest chroniclers, Roger Angell shares his commentary on the money, fame, power, traditions, and social aspects of baseball during the late seventies and early eighties. Covering monumental events such as Reggie Jackson’s three World Series home runs and the bitter ordeal of the 1981 players’ strike, Angell offers a timeless perspective on the world of baseball to be enjoyed by fans of all ages.