It's a Numbers Game! Basketball

It's a Numbers Game! Basketball
Author: James Buckley (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2020
Genre: Basketball
ISBN: 1426336896

"Math information for kids while learning about basketball"--

It's a Numbers Game! Baseball

It's a Numbers Game! Baseball
Author: James Buckley, Jr.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021
Genre: Baseball
ISBN: 9781426371578

With every hit, ball, strike, and home run numbers are being calculated on the baseball field. Get ready to learn all the ways digits and math factor into the game, from the countless statistics used to measure an individual player's game to the exact timing used to steal a base. Read about all the greatest players from baseball history and get fun facts, like what the most retired jersey number is. Discover what countries dominate in the Little League World Series and check out cool graphics that show the frequency of hits to every part of the field. Jam-packed with sports trivia, awesome photos, and fun activities at the end of every chapter, this number-focused look at the game is the ultimate grand slam.

The Book of Basketball

The Book of Basketball
Author: Bill Simmons
Publisher: ESPN
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2010-12-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0345520106

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The wildly opinionated, thoroughly entertaining, and arguably definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA—from the founder of The Ringer and host of The Bill Simmons Podcast “Enough provocative arguments to fuel barstool arguments far into the future.”—The Wall Street Journal In The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major NBA debate, from the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball. Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.

The Numbers Game

The Numbers Game
Author: Chris Anderson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2013-07-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1101628871

Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understanding—and winning—the most popular sport on the planet. Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the center of it all are the numbers—a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favor of how things actually are. In The Numbers Game, Chris Anderson, a former professional goalkeeper turned soccer statistics guru, teams up with behavioral analyst David Sally to uncover the numbers that really matter when it comes to predicting a winner. Investigating basic but profound questions—How valuable are corners? Which goal matters most? Is possession really nine-tenths of the law? How should a player’s value be judged?—they deliver an incisive, revolutionary new way of watching and understanding soccer.

Play Basketball Like a Pro

Play Basketball Like a Pro
Author: Nate LeBoutillier
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1429648260

"Provides instructional tips on how to improve one's basketball skills, including quotes and advice from professional coaches and athletes"--Provided by publisher.

It's a Numbers Game! Football

It's a Numbers Game! Football
Author: Eric Zweig
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2022
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781426372902

"This next book in the It's a Numbers Game series explains the math behind football and highlights the game's greatest stats and numbers history from college ball, to the CFL, to the NFL"--

Bball Basics for Kids

Bball Basics for Kids
Author: Coach Bobby Kaplan
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2012-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1462043739

Provides instructions and skills for developing essential basketball skills, covering ball handling, shooting, passing, defense, and rebounding.

The Joy of Basketball

The Joy of Basketball
Author: Ben Detrick
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1647003008

A vibrant, unconventional, highly opinionated guide to the triumphs, joys, struggles, and heartbreaks of the modern era of the game, for every obsessive basketball fan who loves to hate hot takes The Joy of Basketball celebrates the meteoric rise of basketball over the last quarter century by ignoring the bland, traditionalist binary of wins or losses. Instead, the book's focus is on everything else. Using text, charts, and illustrations that upend conventional jock wisdom, the book details the most incredible players in history, draft flops, long-limbed oddballs, superteams, the international talent wave, brawls, scandals, the rapid evolution of contemporary gameplay, coaching, fashion, crime, positional erosion, tragic tales, memes, and the sacred Kardashian Blessing. Bouncing between witty graphics and keen sociopolitical observations, The Joy of Basketball is a subversive sports manifesto camouflaged as a colorful reference book for your coffee table.

It's a Numbers Game! Soccer

It's a Numbers Game! Soccer
Author: James Buckley Jr
Publisher: It's a Numbers Game!
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781426339240

"Information about soccer and soccer players incorporating math into the game, for children"--

The Secret Game

The Secret Game
Author: Scott Ellsworth
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0316244635

Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental change In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could catch. His Eagles would become the highest-scoring college team in America--a basketball juggernaut that shattered its opponents by as many as sixty points per game. Yet his players faced danger whenever they traveled backcountry roads. Across town, at Duke University, the best basketball squad on campus wasn't the Blue Devils, but an all-white military team from the Duke medical school. Composed of former college stars from across the country, the team dismantled everyone they faced, including the Duke varsity. They were prepared to take on anyone--until an audacious invitation arrived, one that was years ahead of anything the South had ever seen before. What happened next wasn't on anyone's schedule. Based on years of research, The Secret Game is a story of courage and determination, and of an incredible, long-buried moment in the nation's sporting past. The riveting, true account of a remarkable season, it is the story of how a group of forgotten college basketball players, aided by a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany and a group of daring student activists, not only blazed a trail for a new kind of America, but helped create one of the most meaningful moments in basketball history.