How to Watch Baseball

How to Watch Baseball
Author: Steve Fiffer
Publisher: Facts on File
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Baseball
ISBN: 9780816020010

A guide for spectators on how to enjoy the subtleties of baseball.

Watching Baseball

Watching Baseball
Author: Jerry Remy
Publisher: Insiders' Guide
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2005-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780762737499

A fascinating look at the game within the game by All-Star second baseman andRed Sox broadcaster Remy with professional journalist Sandler.

Watching Baseball

Watching Baseball
Author: Jerry Remy
Publisher: Lyons Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Baseball
ISBN: 9780762748013

Go inside the minds of the players and the coaches with beloved Red Sox broadcaster and former second baseman Jerry Remy as he opens your eyes to the game within the game. Whether readers are casual viewers or an armchair manager, Watching Baseball is the ticket to America's national pastime.

Watching Baseball Smarter

Watching Baseball Smarter
Author: Zack Hample
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2008-12-24
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0307498603

Zack Hample's bestselling, smart, and funny fan’s guide to baseball explains the ins and outs of pitching, hitting, running, and fielding, while offering insider trivia and anecdotes that will appeal to anyone—whether you're a major league couch potato, life-long season ticket-holder, or a beginner. • What is the difference between a slider and a curveball? • At which stadium did “The Wave” first make an appearance? • Which positions are never played by lefties? • Why do some players urinate on their hands? Combining the narrative voice and attitude of Michael Lewis with the compulsive brilliance of Schott’s Miscellany, Watching Baseball Smarter will increase your understanding and enjoyment of the sport—no matter what your level of expertise. Featuring a glossary of baseball slang, an appendix of important baseball stats, and an appendix of uniform numbers.

The United States of Soccer

The United States of Soccer
Author: Phil West
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1468314130

“A brisk and informative look at Major League Soccer’s first twenty years . . . West gives MLS fans a worthy chronicle.” (Booklist). In 1988, FIFA decreed that the 1994 World Cup would be played in the United States – with the condition that the U.S. would start a new professional league. The North American Soccer League had failed just four years prior, and the prospects of launching a new league for Americans, who didn’t share the rest of the world’s love for soccer, were both exciting and daunting. The United States of Soccer is the engaging history of Major League Soccer’s bootstrap origins prior to its 1996 launch, its near-demise in the early 2000s, and its surprising resilience and growth as it won recognition from soccer fans around the world. The book also explores the origin of MLS’s superfans who set the tone within MLS stadiums and defining what it is to be a North American soccer fan. Phil West chronicles those fans’ voices – intermingled with league officials, former players and coaches, journalists, and newspaper accounts – to detail MLS’s remarkable journey.

How Baseball Happened

How Baseball Happened
Author: Thomas W. Gilbert
Publisher: Godine+ORM
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1567926886

The untold story of baseball’s nineteenth-century origins: “a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat” (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal). You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. They didn’t. Perhaps you’ve read that baseball’s color line was first crossed by Jackie Robinson in 1947. Nope. Baseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. They were hundreds of uncredited, ordinary people who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They worked, built businesses, and fought against the South in the Civil War. In this myth-busting history, Thomas W. Gilbert reveals the true beginnings of baseball. Through newspaper accounts, diaries, and other accounts, he explains how it evolved through the mid-nineteenth century into a modern sport of championships, media coverage, and famous stars—all before the first professional league was formed in 1871. Winner of the Casey Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year

Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans

Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans
Author: Tim McCarver
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1999-03-16
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0375753400

From pitching to baserunning from defending the bunt to making a trip to the mound, the authors have every aspect of the game covered.

Baseball Saved Us

Baseball Saved Us
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

Why Baseball Matters

Why Baseball Matters
Author: Susan Jacoby
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0300235402

Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital distraction. These paradoxes are explored by the historian and passionate baseball fan Susan Jacoby in a book that is both a love letter to the game and a tough-minded analysis of the current challenges to its special position—in reality and myth—in American culture. The concise but wide-ranging analysis moves from the Civil War—when many soldiers played ball in northern and southern prisoner-of-war camps—to interviews with top baseball officials and young men who prefer playing online “fantasy baseball” to attending real games. Revisiting her youthful days of watching televised baseball in her grandfather’s bar, the author links her love of the game with the informal education she received in everything from baseball’s history of racial segregation to pitch location. Jacoby argues forcefully that the major challenge to baseball today is a shortened attention span at odds with a long game in which great hitters fail two out of three times. Without sanitizing this basic problem, Why Baseball Matters remind us that the game has retained its grip on our hearts precisely because it has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to reinvent itself in times of immense social change.

The Mental Game Of Baseball

The Mental Game Of Baseball
Author: H. A. Dorfman
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2002
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1888698543

In this book, authors H.A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl present their practical and proven strategy for developing the mental skills needed to achieve peack performance at every level of the game.