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Tampa Bay Rays, The
Author | : Mark Stewart |
Publisher | : Norwood House Press |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1599534983 |
A revised Team Spirit Baseball edition featuring the Tampa Bay Rays that chronicles the history and accomplishments of the team. The Team Spirit series paints an engaging, detailed yet accessible picture of professional sports teams. By focusing on the history, great victories and memorable personalities, the books have an enduring quality that will not go out of date quickly. The text is enhanced with plenty of full color photographs as well as reproductions of vintage trading cards and team memorabilia.
The Extra 2%
Author | : Jonah Keri |
Publisher | : ESPN |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2011-03-08 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0345517652 |
What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team’s Cinderella journey from divisional doormat to World Series contender. When former Goldman Sachs colleagues Stuart Sternberg and Matthew Silverman assumed control of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2005, it looked as if they were buying the baseball equivalent of a penny stock. But the incoming regime came armed with a master plan: to leverage their skill at trading, valuation, and management to build a model twenty-first-century franchise that could compete with their bigger, stronger, richer rivals—and prevail. Together with “boy genius” general manager Andrew Friedman, the new Rays owners jettisoned the old ways of doing things, substituting their own innovative ideas about employee development, marketing and public relations, and personnel management. They exorcized the “devil” from the team’s nickname, developed metrics that let them take advantage of undervalued aspects of the game, like defense, and hired a forward-thinking field manager as dedicated to unconventional strategy as they were. By quantifying the game’s intangibles—that extra 2% that separates a winning organization from a losing one—they were able to deliver to Tampa Bay something that Billy Beane’s “Moneyball” had never brought to Oakland: an American League pennant. A book about what happens when you apply your business skills to your life’s passion, The Extra 2% is an informative and entertaining case study for any organization that wants to go from worst to first.
The Tampa Bay Rays
Author | : Mark Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781599531755 |
"Presents the history, accomplishments and key personalities of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team. Includes timelines, quotes, maps, glossary and website"--Provided by publisher.
The Story of the Tampa Bay Rays
Author | : Nate LeBoutillier |
Publisher | : Creative Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780898126556 |
The history of the Tampa Bay Rays professional baseball team from its inaugural 1998 season to today, spotlighting the team's greatest players and most memorable moments.
Tampa Bay Rays
Author | : Luke Hanlon |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2022-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1098275543 |
This title introduces baseball fans to the history of the Tampa Bay Rays MLB franchise. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a timeline, team facts, trivia, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Tampa Bay Rays IQ
Author | : Tucker Elliot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2011-04 |
Genre | : Baseball |
ISBN | : 9780982675977 |
Think you know Rays baseball? Think again ... you're about to find out how smart you really are about the Tampa Bay Rays. You know that in 1998 the Tampa Bay Devil Rays were an expansion franchise playing its first official, painful season. You know that in 2008, minus the Devil, the Rays were the best team in the American League. But if you think you know everything that transpired as Tampa went from "worst to first" and made itself into one of the elite franchises in professional sports ... well, it's time to prove it. Co-authored by Rays' pitcher Andy Sonnanstine, Tampa Bay Rays IQ contains ten chapters of Rays' history and offers up 200 brand-new trivia questions that will, in fact, reveal the true level of your fandom.
Tampa Bay Rays
Author | : Jim Whiting |
Publisher | : Creative Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-08-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781628328523 |
"The history of the Tampa Bay Rays professional baseball team from its inaugural 1998 season to today, spotlighting the team's greatest players and most memorable moments"--Provided by publisher.
Tampa Bay Rays
Author | : Paul Bowker |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1629688398 |
Inside MLB profiles each of the 30 franchises in Major League Baseball. Tampa Bay Rays is a beginner's history of the Rays, covering the beginnings of the franchise, the greatest and lowest moments of the team, and the best players and managers. Fun facts, anecdotes, and sidebars round out the story of each club, allowing your readers to get Inside MLB! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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.