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Author | : Keith Hernandez |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
Keith Hernandez, former superstar, teaches how to watch a baseball game by focusing on each pitch and each play in two games in June, 1993.
Author | : Joe Posnanski |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 2021-09-28 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1982180609 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year “An instant sports classic.” —New York Post * “Stellar.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A true masterwork…880 pages of sheer baseball bliss.” —BookPage (starred review) * “This is a remarkable achievement.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singular, and masterly book that took a lifetime to write. The entire story of baseball rings through a countdown of the 100 greatest players in history, with a foreword by George Will. Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,? The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski. In the book’s introduction, Pulitzer Prize–winning commentator George F. Will marvels, “Posnanski must already have lived more than two hundred years. How else could he have acquired such a stock of illuminating facts and entertaining stories about the rich history of this endlessly fascinating sport?” Baseball’s legends come alive in these pages, which are not merely rankings but vibrant profiles of the game’s all-time greats. Posnanski dives into the biographies of iconic Hall of Famers, unfairly forgotten All-Stars, talents of today, and more. He doesn’t rely just on records and statistics—he lovingly retraces players’ origins, illuminates their characters, and places their accomplishments in the context of baseball’s past and present. Just how good a pitcher is Clayton Kershaw in the 21st-century game compared to Greg Maddux dueling with the juiced hitters of the nineties? How do the career and influence of Hank Aaron compare to Babe Ruth’s? Which player in the top ten most deserves to be resurrected from history? No compendium of baseball’s legendary geniuses could be complete without the players of the segregated Negro Leagues, men whose extraordinary careers were largely overlooked by sportswriters at the time and unjustly lost to history. Posnanski writes about the efforts of former Negro Leaguers to restore sidelined Black athletes to their due honor and draws upon the deep troves of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and extensive interviews with the likes of Buck O’Neil to illuminate the accomplishments of players such as pitchers Satchel Paige and Smokey Joe Williams; outfielders Oscar Charleston, Monte Irvin, and Cool Papa Bell; first baseman Buck Leonard; shortstop Pop Lloyd; catcher Josh Gibson; and many, many more. The Baseball 100 treats readers to the whole rich pageant of baseball history in a single volume. Engrossing, surprising, and heartfelt, it is a magisterial tribute to the game of baseball and the stars who have played it.
Author | : Paul Martino |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Baseball |
ISBN | : 9780980091717 |
"The book's objective is to define, implement and enforce a working model for the business of baseball management discipline and classic baseball philosophy that is supported by economics, finance, and baseball sabermetrics instead of the currently popular replacement of the discipline and philosophy with rotisserie-like use of sabermetrics." - p.8
Author | : Leonard Cassuto |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2011-02-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521761824 |
From Babe Ruth to the Black Sox scandal, this Companion examines baseball's history, global identity, current challenges and memorable personalities.
Author | : Noel Schraufnagel |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2008-08-29 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0786435577 |
This annotated bibliography covers approximately 400 novels published from 1838 through 2007. A substantial introduction to the history and development of the genre precedes the chronologically arranged entries, which provide bibliographic details and extensive annotations on plot, themes, and compositional strengths and weaknesses. Mainstream novels by writers such as Hemingway, Wolfe, Roth, and DeLillo are included. Appendices provide historical overviews for the primary baseball subgenres, including mystery, fantasy, and science-fiction; lists for novels that foreground issues of race or ethnicity (or both, as in Winegardner's Vera Cruz Blues), gender (Gilbert's A League of Their Own), and class (Hay's The Dixie Association); and the author's rankings of great baseball novels overall and by subgenre.
Author | : Dusty Baker |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Companies |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
A guide for parents and baseball coaches that offers instructions on teaching players how to hit a baseball; includes information on selecting a bat, using the right pitch, avoiding the ten most common mistakes, and learning how to work with a team.
Author | : Jennifer Ring |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252032829 |
A revealing look at the history of women's exclusion from America's national pastime
Author | : Ira Rosen |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2006-09-26 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0060897791 |
The author of "Blue Skies, Green Fields" offers a wonderfully illustrated look at the scrappy, quirky, and always popular world of the minor leagues. 200 full-color photos.
Author | : Paul Scimonelli |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2018-01-13 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476630240 |
Few players in the history of baseball suffered as many professional setbacks as Roy Sievers (1926-2017). After an award winning rookie season in 1949, he endured a year and a half-long slump, a nearly career-ending injury and a major position change--all from 1950 through 1953. Traded in 1954, he prevailed and became one of the most feared hitters of the decade, the Washington Senators' home run leader and the biggest gate attraction since Walter Johnson. Drawing on original interviews with Sievers and teammates, this first full-length biography covers the life and career of a first baseman who overcame adversity to restore a dispirited franchise.
Author | : Jennifer Ring |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0803244800 |
A Game of Their Own chronicles the largely invisible history of women in baseball and offers an account of the 2010 Women's World Cup tournament. Jennifer Ring includes oral histories of eleven members of the U.S. Women's National Team, from the moment each player picked up a bat and ball as a young girl to her selection for Team USA. Each story is unique, but they share common themes that will resonate with young female players and fans alike: facing skepticism and taunts from players and parents when taking the batter's box or the pitcher's mound, self-doubt, the unceasing pressure to switch to softball, and eventual acceptance by their baseball teammates as they prove themselves as ballplayers. These racially, culturally, and economically diverse players from across the country have ignored the message that their love of the national pastime is "wrong." Their stories come alive as they recount their battles and most memorable moments playing baseball - the joys of exceeding expectations and the pleasure of honing baseball skills and talent despite the lack of support.