My Twenty Years In Baseball
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Author | : Ty Cobb |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0486471837 |
Cobb personally wrote the story of his life for a newspaper syndicate after his 20 record-setting years in baseball. This illustrated edition is the first commercial publication of his words in book form.
Author | : Ty Cobb |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780803263598 |
"Highly successful in knitting together this story of the life of a most remarkable and dedicated player--perhaps the most spirited baseball player ever to have graced the diamond."--Library Journal. "I find little comfort in the popular picture of Cobb as a spike-slashing demon of the diamond with a wide streak of cruelty in his nature. The fights and feuds I was in have been steadily slanted to put me in the wrong. . . . My critics have had their innings. I will have mine now."--Ty Cobb "Frank, bitter, trend-setting autobiography."--USA Today Baseball Weekly "One of the most remarkable sports books ever written."--Los Angeles Daily News "The old Tiger still spits and snarls off the pages."--Cooperstown Review "Of Ty Cobb let it be said simply that he was the world's greatest ballplayer."--New York Herald Tribune (1961 editorial on Cobb's death) This Bison Book edition of My Life in Baseball is introduced by Charles C. Alexander, a professor of history at Ohio University, Athens, and the author of a biogrpahy of Ty Cobb.
Author | : Babe Ruth |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0486476944 |
First serialized in 1920, the Sultan of Swat's breezy account of his early life is rich with recollections of his childhood, his transition from pitcher to outfielder, and the blockbuster trade that sent him from the Red Sox to the Yankees. This original edition features new notes and photographs plus an Introduction by sports historian Paul Dickson.
Author | : Tommy John |
Publisher | : Bantam Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1992-03-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780553295368 |
The major league pitcher whose career began in the 1950s and continued into the 1980s discusses his encounters with the greats, from Mickey Mantle to Jose Canseco, and describes his comeback from a serious arm injury. Reprint.
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 | : Armando Galarraga |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2011-06-02 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0802195598 |
The Detroit Tigers, an umpire, a pitcher, and a mistake—one of the “classic, human, baseball stories” (Ken Burns, creator of the PBS mini-series Baseball). The perfect game is one of the rarest accomplishments in sports. In nearly four hundred thousand contests in over 130 years, it has happened only twenty times. On June 2, 2010, Armando Galarraga threw baseball’s twenty-first. Except that’s not how it entered the record books. That’s because Jim Joyce, voted the best umpire in the game in 2010 and 2011, missed the call on the final out. But rather than throwing a tantrum, Galarraga simply turned and smiled, went back to the mound, and finished the game. “Nobody’s perfect,” he said later in the locker room. “You might think everything that could have been said, replayed, and revealed about that night has already been uttered, logged, and exposed. You would, however, be as wrong as the unfortunate Mr. Joyce” (The Detroit News). In Nobody’s Perfect, Galarraga and Joyce come together to tell the personal story of a remarkable game that will live forever in baseball lore, and to trace their fascinating lives in sports. The result is “a masterpiece”, an absorbing insider’s look at two careers in baseball, a tremendous achievement, and an enduring moment of pure grace and sportsmanship (The Huffington Post).
Author | : Brad Herzog |
Publisher | : Sleeping Bear Press |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2011-08-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1410308197 |
Now even the smallest of fans can enjoy a book about their favorite sport. Rhyming riddles accompanied by colorful artwork help introduce the game's simplest, most basic elements.
Author | : James Buckley, Jr. |
Publisher | : Triumph Books |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2012-04 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1600786766 |
Among baseball achievements, the perfect game--one in which no runners reach base--remains the greatest. Though many have come close, only 20 pitchers have achieved such perfection in more than a century of baseball. This exhaustive compendium examines the fascinating story behind every perfect game and uncovers details both great and small, illuminating the majesty of these titanic achievements. The faithfully narrated record of all 20 games--punctuated by statistics, trivia, little-known anecdotes, and personal memories from both witnesses and the pitchers themselves--gets inside the minds of the players who made baseball history. In addition to profiling some of the game's greatest pitchers, such as Cy Young, Sandy Koufax, and Randy Johnson, or others including Charley Robertson who had otherwise unremarkable careers, this updated edition features new chapters devoted to Dallas Braden, Mark Buehrle, and Roy Halladay, the three latest pitchers to throw a perfect game, and a comprehensive appendix profiles several pitchers who almost achieved perfection.
Author | : Jim Palmer |
Publisher | : Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780836207811 |
Author | : John Feinstein |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2015-03-17 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0307949583 |
Minor league baseball is quintessentially American: small towns, small stadiums, $5 tickets, $2 hot dogs, the never-ending possibility of making it big. But looming above it all is always the real deal: Major League Baseball. John Feinstein takes the reader behind the curtain into the guarded world of the minor leagues, like no other writer can. Where Nobody Knows Your Name explores the trials and travails of the inhabitants of Triple-A, focusing on nine men, including players, managers and umpires, among many colorful characters, living on the cusp of the dream. The book tells the stories of former World Series hero Scott Podsednik, giving it one more shot; Durham Bulls manager Charlie Montoya, shepherding generations across the line; and designated hitter Jon Lindsey, a lifelong minor leaguer, waiting for his day to come. From Raleigh to Pawtucket, from Lehigh Valley to Indianapolis and beyond, this is an intimate and exciting look at life in the minor leagues, where you’re either waiting for the call or just passing through.