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Book Synopsis A History of the Baseball Fan by : Fred Stein
Download or read book A History of the Baseball Fan written by Fred Stein and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the genesis of baseball in the 1840s, when so-called “kranks” cheered the teams of their choice, fans have been an ever-present component of the sport. As the number of fans has increased over the years, their influence has increased proportionally. Following the evolution of the game and its fans over more than a century, this book examines the role fans have played in the formation of modern baseball and the part the sport has played in the lives of its devotees. How have fans influenced, reacted to, or been affected by baseball’s changes through history? How do fans determine player popularity? Are there famous fans—and how do they manifest that interest? How has the evolution of baseball in the media, including newspapers, radio, and television, affected the fan base? The answers to these questions and more give a lively feel to this baseball history from a fan’s perspective. The final chapter sums up the fan’s importance to the sport of baseball.
Book Synopsis More Than a Pastime by : William Freedman
Download or read book More Than a Pastime written by William Freedman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing his claims on more than 130 in-depth interviews with baseball fans from ages 10 to 80, the author arrives at some extraordinary conclusions about the prismatic richness of the fan's experience of baseball and its importance in his or her life. The responses, 40 of which are reproduced in this oral history, suggest three major hypotheses: that how the youthful fan regards the game is a resonant expression of his personality, his family and social situation, and his fundamental needs; that baseball, far more than a pastime or idle entertainment, serves a number of extremely important emotional and developmental functions--moral, social, aesthetic, and psychological--in the lives of its younger fans; and that one of baseball's less frequently heralded virtues is its extraordinary richness, its capacity to turn a different face to almost every fan and to satisfy that remarkably wide range of personalities, backgrounds, and needs. What these interviews suggest and what the author's introductory sections argue is that to its most ardent young fans, baseball is not only a source of great and lasting pleasure, but an important socializing agent and a vital expression and determinant of character.
Download or read book The 10th Man written by Donald Dewey and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of the fans of major league baseball -- the sport that engenders the most heated love/hate relationships among players, owners, & the paying public. Dewey writes about gamblers & groupies, the radio audiences of Red Barber & Vince Scully, obsessive collectors, even some of the executives & players themselves. Dewey profiles the aristocrats in 19th-century Troy, NY, to the thugs penned behind wire security fences in 20th-century Cincinnati to the poolside spectators in 21st-century Phoenix. Covers white baseball's reception of Jackie Robinson, baseball's continued alienation of black fans, the rise of rotisserie leagues & the statistician movement, & the growing internationalization of the game.
Book Synopsis The Baseball Fan's Bucket List by : Robert Santelli
Download or read book The Baseball Fan's Bucket List written by Robert Santelli and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No sports fans are more in touch with the history and ephemera of their game than baseball fans. Hitting the sweet spot of our national pastime, The Baseball Fans Bucket List presents a list of 162 absolute must things to do, see, get, and experience before you kick the bucket. Entries range from visiting Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ (site of the first pro baseball game), to starting a baseball card collection; experiencing Opening Day; attending your favorite teams Fantasy Camp; reading classic books like Ball Four, and much more! Each entry includes interesting facts, entertaining trivia, and practical information about the activity, item, or travel destination. Also included is a complete checklist so the reader can keep a running tally of their Bucket-List achievements. With todays tabloid stories of steroid abuse and off-the-field shenanigans encroaching on baseballs idyllic charm, this unique guidebook encourages readers to celebrate all thats good about being a fan.
Book Synopsis The Baseball Fan's Bucket List by : Jenna Santelli
Download or read book The Baseball Fan's Bucket List written by Jenna Santelli and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No sport's fans are more in touch with the history and ephemera of their game than baseball fans. Hitting the sweet spot of our national pastime, The Baseball Fan's Bucket List presents a list of 162 ''absolute must'' things to do, see, get, and experience before you kick the bucket. Entries range from visiting Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ (site of the first pro baseball game), to starting a baseball card collection; experiencing Opening Day; attending your favorite team's Fantasy Camp; reading classic books like Ball Four, and much more! Each entry includes interesting facts, entertaining trivia, and practical information about the activity, item, or travel destination. Also included is a complete checklist so the reader can keep a running tally of their Bucket-List achievements. With today's tabloid stories of steroid abuse and off-the-field shenanigans encroaching on baseball's idyllic charm, this unique guidebook encourages readers to celebrate all that's good about being a fan.
Book Synopsis Baseball, It's More Than Just a Game by : Greg Lucas
Download or read book Baseball, It's More Than Just a Game written by Greg Lucas and published by Chart House Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball fans everywhere will enjoy a new perspective on the game with this collection of stories which span the history of the game. From the author himself: Throughout my baseball announcing career I collected an enormous amount of written material on the game including a personal library of more than 400 volumes on baseball. But I had never seen one book easy to read and easy to use that had everything. This book comes very close. Its not a record book full of stats. It is a book that traces the beginnings of baseball while also bringing to light some of the background stories along with baseball's unusual feats and firsts. I have included a few personal memories from my life and the game, too. Everything from where the game has been played on the major league level to the top stars from the Negro leagues and minor leagues are remembered. In my opinion it is a book perfect for the long time baseball fan to the newcomer to the game. It should be on every fan's book shelf. I know if the same book had been written by someone else in the past it would have been on mine for years.
Book Synopsis The Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League by : Merrie A. Fidler
Download or read book The Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League written by Merrie A. Fidler and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth treatment of the organization and operation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League draws on primary documents from league owner Arthur Meyerhoff and others for a unique perspective inside the AAGPBL. The study begins with a brief history of women's softball, an important precursor to, and talent pool for, women's professional baseball. Next the book investigates league administration and organization as well as publicity and promotion. Later chapters cover team administrative structures, managers, chaperones, player backgrounds, and league policies. Finally, discussion focuses on the activities of the AAGPBL Players' Association from 1980 onward. Informed by many years of research and insights from former players, this exhaustive history contains 149 photographs.
Book Synopsis The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by : Bill James
Download or read book The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract written by Bill James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball's beloved “Sultan of Stats” (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the new millennium. Like the original, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is really several books in one. The Game provides a century's worth of American baseball history, told one decade at a time, with energetic facts and figures about How, Where, and by Whom the game was played. In The Players, you'll find listings of the top 100 players at each position in the major leagues, along with James's signature stats-based ratings method called “Win Shares,” a way of quantifying individual performance and calculating the offensive and defensive contributions of catchers, pitchers, infielders, and outfielders. And there's more: the Reference section covers Win Shares for each season and each player, and even offers a Win Share team comparison. A must-have for baseball fans and historians alike, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is as essential, entertaining, and enlightening as the sport itself.
Book Synopsis America's Game by : Bryan Soderholm-Difatte
Download or read book America's Game written by Bryan Soderholm-Difatte and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of major league baseball looks at the national pastime’s legendary figures, major innovations, and pivotal moments, from the beginning of the twentieth century through World War II. In America's Game: A History of Major League Baseball through World War II, Bryan Soderholm-Difatte provides a comprehensive narrative of the major developments and key figures in Major League Baseball, during a time when the sport was still truly the national pastime. Soderholm-Difatte details pivotal moments—including the founding of the American League, the 1919 Black Sox scandal, and navigating the Great Depression and two World Wars—and concludes with a chapter examining the exclusion of black ballplayers from the major leagues. Central personalities covered in this book include baseball executives Judge Landis and Branch Rickey, managers John McGraw and Joe McCarthy, and iconic players such as Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. America’s Game isn’t simply about celebrating the exploits of great players and teams; it is just as much about the history of Major League Baseball as an institution and the evolution of the game itself. With significant changes taking place in baseball in recent times, this book will remind baseball fans young and old of the rich history of the game.
Book Synopsis Baseball for Kids by : Adam C. MacKinnon
Download or read book Baseball for Kids written by Adam C. MacKinnon and published by Rockridge Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Batter up! A complete history of baseball for kids 5 to 7 Who invented baseball? How long has it been around? Who was the Great Bambino? Baseball for Kids answers all those burning questions and more as kids (ages 5-7) weave their way through the history of America’s national sport through fun facts, stories, and legends. Your child will journey back to the beginnings of the game from the invention of the strikeout and foul ball to the integration of African-American ballplayers and the construction of iconic ballparks. They’ll also learn about the sport’s most famous personalities from big hitters like Lou Gehrig to heat-throwing pitchers like Bob Gibson. Baseball for Kids includes: Packed with fun―Children will revel in the cool information, trivia subjects, true or false challenges, and other tantalizing tidbits about the sport. From past to present―Baseball for Kids covers changes to the rules as well as adaptations to uniforms, mitts, bats, and other equipment. Get out there!―Use the Future Stars section to inspire your child to pick up a bat and a ball and swing for the fences. Hit a home run with your little one when you introduce them to our national pastime with Baseball for Kids.
Book Synopsis Baseball in Crisis by : Frank P. Jozsa, Jr.
Download or read book Baseball in Crisis written by Frank P. Jozsa, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent polls have placed football ahead of baseball in popularity. Does this reflect football’s rise or baseball’s decline? Why has the national pastime—a title perhaps becoming inaccurate—fallen behind other major sports? Is the trend reversible? This book identifies the most substantial and persistent issues that have impaired Major League Baseball’s development. Chapters cover inflationary player, team and game costs; changes in baseball’s fan base; congestion in urban areas that host big league ballclubs; the negligent and irrational actions (some of it criminal) of players, owners, league officials, and the players’ union; and the maldistribution of power among the major league franchises. Six major reforms needed to boost the popularity of baseball are identified.
Download or read book The Aäó»s written by David M. Jordan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a straightforward history of the Athletics franchise, from its Connie Mack years in Philadelphia with teams featuring Eddie Collins, Chief Bender, Jimmy Foxx, Mickey Cochrane and Lefty Grove, through its 13 years in Kansas City, under Arnold Johnson and Charles O. Finley, and on to its great years in Oakland—with the three World Series wins featuring Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando and Vida Blue, and the conflicts with Finley—as well as the less successful seasons that followed, then the Series sweep in 1989, and ending up with the unusual operation of the club by Billy Beane.
Download or read book The Fan written by Peter Abrahams and published by Warner Books (NY). This book was released on 1996 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Edgar Award-winning author of Lights Out pitches his latest thriller, an apocalyptic tale of a baseball fan's adoration-turned-obsession. Gil Renard is a salesman who has lost everything--except for his fanatic, all-consuming passion for baseball. Bobby Rayburn is a baseball superstar in a demoralizing slump who is about to find himself the maniacal fixation of "the fan".
Book Synopsis The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip, 2nd by : Josh Pahigian
Download or read book The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip, 2nd written by Josh Pahigian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most entertaining and comprehensive guide to every baseball fan’s dream road trip—including every new ballpark since the 2004 edition—revised and completely updated!
Book Synopsis The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1999 by : Peter M. Rutkoff
Download or read book The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1999 written by Peter M. Rutkoff and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2000-06-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of 23 papers that were presented at the Eleventh Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held June 9-11, 1999, and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The papers focus on the antecedents of baseball and the early history of America's national pastime and are divided into five parts: "Baseball and the American Imagination," "Baseball and American Culture," "Baseball and American Society," "Baseball and American Business" and "Baseball and the Fan." The preface is by series editor Alvin L. Hall, and an introduction is provided by the editor of the volume, Peter M. Rutkoff.
Book Synopsis Society of American Baseball Research by :
Download or read book Society of American Baseball Research written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000-06-23 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does that endless supply of facts, figures, statistics and trivia that braodcasters spout actually come from? SABR takes the inside story of the development of baseball research, its resources, techniques and fascinating anecdotes by the folks who dig it up.
Book Synopsis Babe Ruth Saves Baseball! by : Frank Murphy
Download or read book Babe Ruth Saves Baseball! written by Frank Murphy and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All across the country in 1919, people are throwing down their bats, and giving up America's national pastime, so it is up to Babe Ruth to win back fans and save baseball.
