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An Inning at a Time

Author : Mel Machuca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592995530
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book An Inning at a Time written by Mel Machuca and published by . This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Inning at a Time is about a small-town Indiana baseball team that won the American Legion Baseball National Championship in 1977. It chronicles the improbable path of one team's journey that changed ordinary into extraordinary. It's an account of a group of young athletes coming of age - who dared to be winners and for one glorious season to live a dream by substituting passion for lack of size and who had the heart to overcome their fear of failure and outplay teams with bigger, stronger and more exceptional athletes. Our story is a message to coaches, players and parents that any team that is willing to do the work and play for today can win this tournament. It doesn't take superstars; it takes consistency and coaches trusting each player to reach his full potential: the same today as it was then. This team remains the only National Champion from Indiana in the 83-year history of American Legion Baseball.

Supersquad

Author : Triumph Books
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN 13 : 9781572435636
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Supersquad written by Triumph Books and published by Triumph Books (IL). This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baseball as a Road to God

Author : John Sexton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101609737
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Baseball as a Road to God written by John Sexton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Ten Innings at Wrigley

Author : Kevin Cook
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250182034
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Ten Innings at Wrigley written by Kevin Cook and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, full of runs, hits, and subplots, at the tipping point of a new era in baseball history It was a Thursday at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, mostly sunny with the wind blowing out. Nobody expected an afternoon game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs on May 17, 1979, to be much more than a lazy early-season contest matching two teams heading in opposite directions—the first-place Phillies and the Cubs, those lovable losers—until they combined for thirteen runs in the first inning. “The craziest game ever,” one player called it. “And then the second inning started.” Ten Innings at Wrigley is Kevin Cook’s vivid account of a game that could only have happened at this ballpark, in this era, with this colorful cast of heroes and heels: Hall of Famers Mike Schmidt and Bruce Sutter, surly slugger Dave Kingman, hustler Pete Rose, unlucky Bill Buckner, scarred Vietnam vet Garry Maddox, troubled relief pitcher Donnie Moore, clubhouse jester Tug McGraw, and two managers pulling out what was left of their hair. It was the highest-scoring ballgame in a century, and much more than that. Bringing to life the run-up and aftermath of a contest The New York Times called “the wildest in modern history,” Cook reveals the human stories behind the game—and how money, muscles and modern statistics were about to change baseball forever.

Late Innings

Author : Roger Angell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504081668
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Late Innings written by Roger Angell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Six Innings

Author : James Preller
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 142994045X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Six Innings written by James Preller and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year A game in the life of a Little League team playing their championship game – and two best friends whose bond is put to the test. Two teams, six innings, one game. A lively cast of characters—baseball-loving boys between the ages of eleven to thirteen—are playing the biggest game of their lives. With acrobatic catches, clutch hits, dramatic whiffs, and costly errors, this game is full of action. But as the book unfolds, pitch by pitch, a deeper story emerges, with far more at stake: Sam and Mike, best friends, are trying to come to terms with Sam's newly diagnosed cancer. And this baseball diamond becomes the ultimate testing ground of Sam and Mike's remarkable friendship as they strive to find a way to both come out winners. This is for the championship. This is for life.

A Pitcher's Story

Author : Roger Angell
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446554227
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book A Pitcher's Story written by Roger Angell and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball's best writer offers an extraordinarily candid and thorough exploration of the inner craft of pitching from one of the game's best, David Cone. There is no big league pitcher who is more respected for his skill than David Cone. In his stellar career Cone has won multiple championships andcountless professional accolades. Along the way, the perennial all-star has had to adjust to five different ballclubs, recover from a career-threatening arm aneurysm, cope with the lofty expectations that are standard for the games highest paid players, and overcome a humbling three-month, eight-game losing streak in the summer of 2000. Cone granted exclusive and unlimited access to baseballs most respected writer Roger Angell of the New Yorker. The result is just what baseball fans everywhere would expect from Angell: an extraordinary inside account of a superstar.

Extra Innings

Author : The Baseball Prospectus
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465029183
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Extra Innings written by The Baseball Prospectus and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Bottom of the 33rd

Author : Dan Barry
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062079026
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Bottom of the 33rd written by Dan Barry and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In “a worthy companion to . . . Boys of Summer,” a Pulitzer prize winning journalist “exploits the power of memory and nostalgia with literary grace” (New York Times). From award-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball history—a tale celebrating not only the robust intensity of baseball, but the aspirational ideal epitomized by the hard-fighting players of the minor leagues. On April 18, 1981, a ball game sprang eternal. For eight hours, the night seemed to suspend a town and two teams between their collective pasts and futures, between their collective sorrows and joys—the shivering fans; their wives at home; the umpires; the batboys approaching manhood; the ejected manager, peering through a hole in the backstop; the sportswriters and broadcasters; and the players themselves—two destined for the Hall of Fame (Cal Ripken and Wade Boggs), the few to play only briefly or forgettably in the big leagues, and the many stuck in minor-league purgatory, duty bound and loyal forever to the game. With Bottom of the 33rd, Barry delivers a lyrical meditation on small-town lives, minor-league dreams, and the elements of time and community that conspired one fateful night to produce a baseball game seemingly without end. An unforgettable portrait of ambition and endurance, Bottom of the 33rd is the rare sports book that changes the way we perceive America’s pastime—and America’s past. “Destined to take its place among the classics of baseball literature.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough.” —Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax

In the Big Inning

Author : Compiled By Barbour Staff
Publisher : Shiloh Kidz
ISBN 13 : 9781643524863
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book In the Big Inning written by Compiled By Barbour Staff and published by Shiloh Kidz. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the baseball player go to jail? Because he was caught trying to steal second base He did, however, properly purchase his copy of In the Big Inning: Good, Clean Sports Jokes for Kids This hilarious collection of jokes, funny stories, riddles, and one-liners is sure to make anyone laugh. . .even you kids who hate gym class Perfect for 8-12-year-olds, In the Big Inning: Good, Clean Sports Jokes for Kids features chapters on more than 15 different sports, from baseball, basketball, and bowling fishing, football, and golf soccer, swimming, track and field and many more There are hundreds of jokes in all, plus each chapter introduction brings in some light biblical and inspirational thought. If you're looking for clean, good-humored, often laugh-out-loud entertainment, this is the book for you. Don't strike out--get In the Big Inning: Good, Clean Sports Jokes for Kids

The Brooklyn Nine

Author : Alan M. Gratz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101014806
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Brooklyn Nine written by Alan M. Gratz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1845: Felix Schneider, an immigrant from Germany, cheers the New York Knickerbockers as they play Three-Out, All-Out. 1908: Walter Snider, batboy for the Brooklyn Superbas, arranges a team tryout for a black pitcher by pretending he is Cuban. 1945: Kat Snider of Brooklyn plays for the Grand Rapids Chicks in the All-American Girls Baseball League. 1981: Michael Flint fi nds himself pitching a perfect game during the Little League season at Prospect Park. And there are fi ve more Schneiders to meet. In nine innings, this novel tells the stories of nine successive Schneider kids and their connection to Brooklyn and baseball. As in all family histories and all baseball games, there is glory and heartache, triumph and sacrifi ce. And it ain?t over till it?s over.

I Should Have Quit This Morning

Author : Kathy Diekroeger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781093282610
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book I Should Have Quit This Morning written by Kathy Diekroeger and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The road to Major League baseball goes through the minor leagues. Every year there are over 5,500 players trying to work their way to the top of the tiered minor league system. Very few people know what life is really like for these aspiring players -- until now. This collection of stories from actual minor league players is a hilarious, heartbreaking and honest account of the struggle to make it to the big leagues. In this book, you will learn: * How it feels to be the first pick in the MLB draft ("everyone started screaming") and how it feels for a player to not hear his name called at all ("Three days came and went and I didn't get picked.") * Why some players don't sign a minor league contract ("It was an unbelievably tough decision.") * Who the players meet when they show up as a rookie on day one ("It's a very rude awakening.") * Where players go in the off season ("You can make some serious dough in the Dominican and Venezuelan leagues.") *What Spring Training is like for minor leaguers ("The difference between big league camp and minor league camp is night and day.") * Where players live and how they eat ("I became a pro at cooking in the 'kitchen bathroom' in the hotel.") * Which minor league ballpark promotions the players enjoy the most ("It's time for Cowboy Monkey Rodeo!") * What really happens during road trips ("It was straight out of a horror movie.") * Why crazy things happen on the field ("Our manager stormed out there and just started unloading on the umpire.") * What it's like to get promoted, demoted and traded ("It was the first time I actually cried when someone got moved or traded.") * How players get released and how they make the decision to retire ("I remember everything about that last game.") * What it's like when players get the ultimate call up to the Major Leagues ("It was still during the game and everyone was like, 'Dude, go call your parents or something.")And so much more! Kathy Diekroeger has watched her three sons play over 2,100 baseball games. She stopped counting when two of them made it to professional baseball. After hearing stories about minor league life for four years, she felt compelled to document and share those experiences with anyone who considers themselves a fan of baseball. This is her first book

Last Time Out

Author : John Nogowski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493068474
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Last Time Out written by John Nogowski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most sports fans know that Ted Williams ended his major league career with style, swatting a home run in his final at bat. But what about Babe Ruth? Ty Cobb? Joe DiMaggio? Willie Mays? How did some of baseball's greatest players bow out of The Game? Last Time Out answers that question as it examines how the greatest players in baseball history left the game they once ruled. The stories of these men and how they finished their careers, never collected anywhere before now, show another side of the men whose achievements on the field made them legends. After hours and hours of research, through biographies, microfilm, magazines, and memories, award-winning sportswriter John Nogowski culled the stories of the final games of 25 of The Game's greatest athletes-Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson, Dizzy Dean, Satchel Paige, Carlton Fisk, Bob Feller, Joe Morgan, and Carl Yastrzemski are among those featured. This impressive work recounts the circumstances surrounding these final games and puts you in a box seat to witness and sense the moment as these glorious careers ceased, most often with little fanfare. Whether it be Shoeless Joe Jackson, Lou Gehrig, Pete Rose, or Cal Ripken, Jr., Last Time Out beautifully captures in words and photographs the essence of these players' last time in uniform and celebrates the magic of the game these famed players mastered and loved.

The Ultimate Baseball Book

Author : Daniel Okrent
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618056682
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Baseball Book written by Daniel Okrent and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ULTIMATE BASEBALL BOOK has more than lived up to its name. Spanning the complete history of the sport from the fledgling leagues in the late 1870s to the powerhouses of the 1990s and revealing in the process what a remarkable effect baseball has had on our collective experience, this is THE book for any and all baseball fans, certain to grace coffee and bedside tables alike. Designed with that wonderful nostalgia that the sport itself so often evokes, THE ULTIMATE BASEBALL BOOK combines timeless images with a sweeping narrative history as well as essays on various idols and icons by such heavy hitters as Red Smith, Wilfrid Sheed, Roy Blount, Jr., Tom Wicker, and Geoge Will. This new edition covers baseball through the nineties, the decade when home run records fell and the sport reclaimed its hold on America, and celebrates the national game in ultimate style.

It's Time to Fight Dirty

Author : David Faris
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612196969
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book It's Time to Fight Dirty written by David Faris and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time to do more than protest The American electoral system is clearly falling apart—as evidenced by the 2016 presidential election. In It’s Time to Fight Dirty, David Faris offers accessible, actionable strategies for American institutional reform which don’t require a constitutional amendment, and would have a lasting impact on our future. With equal amounts of playful irreverence and persuasive reasoning, Faris describes how the Constitution’s deep democratic flaws constantly put progressives at a disadvantage, and lays out strategies for “fighting dirty” though obstructionism and procedural warfare: establishing statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico; breaking California into several states; creating a larger House of Representatives; passing a new voting rights act; and expanding the Supreme Court. The Constitution may be the world’s most difficult document to amend, but David Faris argues that many of America’s democratic failures can be fixed within its rigid confines—and, at a time when the stakes have never been higher, he outlines a path for long-term, progressive change in the United States.

Extra Innings

Author : Tiki Barber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442457287
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Extra Innings written by Tiki Barber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Batter up! Football, basketball, and now baseball—is there anything the Barber brothers won’t try their best to do? The Barbers join the baseball team in this home-run adventure from NFL superstars and bestselling authors Tiki and Ronde Barber. Tiki and Ronde have their sights set on a big diamond—a baseball diamond! Sure, they’re experienced athletes, but they’ve never played baseball before. Do they have what it takes to make the team?

Japan Times. Weekly Edition

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1178 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan Times. Weekly Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: