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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 | : 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Deborah V. Tudor |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780815329077 |
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Mike Wayne Hester |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2010-10-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1452084564 |
In the early 1900's Rufus Epps, a son of an ex-slave, acquires land in the Deep South from a dying man. On the land he builds a gigantic barn, which every year on his wedding anniversary becomes the site for a celebration called the night of the blues. Bluesmen come from across the south to compete for the prize money. After Rufus Epps' death, the barn becomes deserted and the night of the blues is forgotten. Years after Rufus Epps' death, two bluesmen return to the barn. Cyril Dutty, who is dying, comes to search for his soul, which was taken from him by his father, a voodoo priest. John Leaks, an heroin addict, comes to find redemption from a life of hate and violence. Blues Power is a fast paced novel that chronicles the power and magic of the blues.
Author | : Wesley Chu |
Publisher | : Watkins Media Limited |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2015-07-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0857665243 |
In a future when Earth is a toxic, abandoned world and humanity has spread into the outer solar system to survive, the tightly controlled use of time travel holds the key to maintaining a fragile existence among the other planets and their moons. James Griffin-Mars is a chronman – a convicted criminal recruited for his unique psychological makeup to undertake the most dangerous job there is: missions into Earth’s past to recover resources and treasure without altering the timeline. Most chronmen never reach old age, and James is reaching his breaking point. On his final mission, James meets scientist Elise Kim, who is fated to die during the destruction of an oceanic rig. Against his training and common sense, James brings her back to the future with him, saving her life, but turning them both into fugitives. Remaining free means losing themselves in the wild and poisonous wastes of Earth, and discovering what hope may yet remain for humanity’s home world. File Under: Science Fiction
Author | : Paul Dickson |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 1001 |
Release | : 2011-06-13 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0393073491 |
The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.