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| Author | : William J. Ryczek |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2014-11-29 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0786482834 |
This history of America's pastime describes the evolution of baseball from early bat and ball games to its growth and acceptance in different regions of the country. Such New York clubs as the Atlantics, Excelsiors and Mutuals are a primary focus, serving as examples of how the sport became more sophisticated and popular. The author compares theories about many of baseball's "inventors," exploring the often fascinating stories of several of baseball's oldest founding myths. The impact of the Civil War on the sport is discussed and baseball's unsteady path to becoming America's national game is analyzed at length.
| Author | : Dean A. Sullivan |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 20 |
| Release | : 1995-01-01 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9780803242371 |
This compilation of 120 primary writings documents baseball’s first century, from a loosely organized village social event to the arrival of the National League. Collecting from a wide range of sources—including newspaper accounts, letters, folk poetry, songs, and annual guides—Dean A. Sullivan of Fairfax, Virginia, progresses chronologically from the earliest known baseball reference (1825) to the creation of the Doubleday Myth (1908).
| Author | : John Sexton |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2013-03-07 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1101609737 |
The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other. Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others. Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.
| Author | : Roger Angell |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 495 |
| Release | : 2023-01-24 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1504081668 |
The acclaimed New Yorker sportswriter examines the inner working of professional baseball, in these essays from the spring of 1977 to the summer of 1981. Late Innings takes fans far beyond the stadium view of the field and into the substrata of baseball as it is experienced by the people who make it happen. Celebrated as one of the game’s finest chroniclers, Roger Angell shares his commentary on the money, fame, power, traditions, and social aspects of baseball during the late seventies and early eighties. Covering monumental events such as Reggie Jackson’s three World Series home runs and the bitter ordeal of the 1981 players’ strike, Angell offers a timeless perspective on the world of baseball to be enjoyed by fans of all ages.
| Author | : Peter Morris |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2013-07-15 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0786474300 |
This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870 (McFarland 2011). Forty clubs and hundreds of pioneer players from the first hotbeds of New York City, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts are profiled by leading experts on baseball's early years. The subjects include legendary clubs such as the Knickerbockers of New York, the Eckfords and Atlantics of Brooklyn, the Athletics of Philadelphia, and Harvard's first baseball clubs, and fabled players like Jim Creighton, Dickey Pearce, and Daniel Adams, but space is also given to less well remembered clubs such as the Champion Club of Jersey City and the Cummaquids of Barnstable, Massachusetts. What united all of these founders of the game was that their love of baseball during its earliest years helped to make it the national pastime.
| Author | : Tanner Ryan |
| Publisher | : Little Genius Books |
| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 2021-09-21 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781953344250 |
Take kids out to their very first ballgame in this adorable storybook for our youngest fans! The bases are loaded as two more Cows get on base. It’s the clean-up hitter against the Bears’ pitching ace! This charming, illustrated sports book for toddlers features the game of the year: the Cows vs. the Bears! Each spread introduces baseball terms, gear, players, and umps within the context of the story of a nine-inning game between all-animal teams. Read along as the Cow shortstop leaps for an inning-ending catch, a Bear runner slides home . . . “Safe!” . . . all culminating in a bottom-of-the-ninth showdown that is the epitome of a never-to-be-forgotten baseball classic!
| Author | : The Baseball Prospectus |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 466 |
| Release | : 2012-04-03 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0465029183 |
In 1996, a brassy young team of fansproduced a guide to baseball statistics.Printed on a photocopier, its distribution,which was in the low hundreds, was limited tofriends, family, and die-hard stat heads. Sixteenyears later, the Baseball Prospectus annualregularly hits best-seller lists and has becomean indispensable guide for the serious fan. In Extra Innings, the team at Baseball Prospectusintegrates statistics, interviews, and analysis todeliver twenty arguments about today's game.In the tradition of their seminal book, BaseballBetween the Numbers, they take on everything fromsteroids to the amateur draft. They probe theimpact of managers on the game. They explainthe critical art of building a bullpen. In an erawhen statistics matter more than ever, Extra Inningsis an essential volume for every baseball fan.
| Author | : Alan Gratz |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780803732247 |
Follows the fortunes of a German immigrant family through nine generations, beginning in 1845, as they experience American life and play baseball.
| Author | : Geoffrey C. Ward |
| Publisher | : Knopf |
| Total Pages | : 514 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Baseball |
| ISBN | : 0679765417 |
With more than 500 photographs -- Introduction by Roger Angell -- Essays by Thomas Boswell, Robert W. Creamer, Gerald Early, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bill James, David Lamb, Daniel Okrent, John Thorn, George E Will -- And featuring an interview with Buck O'Neil
| Author | : Justin Toole |
| Publisher | : Booklocker.com |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013-10 |
| Genre | : Baseball |
| ISBN | : 9781626466906 |
Nine innings, nine different positions, nine life lessons.
