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Baseball in Montgomery

Author : Clarence Watkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439659427
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Baseball in Montgomery written by Clarence Watkins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, Riverwalk Stadium ushered in a new era of professional baseball in Montgomery. After a more-than-20-year absence, the new ballpark became a catalyst for the revitalization of downtown Montgomery. Biscuit baseball and Riverwalk Stadium have given citizens something to be proud of. The stadium is nestled between the Alabama River and railroad tracks and incorporates the old Western Railroad building as part of the ballpark. This has made Riverwalk an example for other cities looking to keep their identity and add something new and exciting. Montgomery’s rich baseball history includes hall of fame players like Fred Clarke, Joe McGinnity, Casey Stengel, and Turkey Stearnes. There is also the forgotten history of an Alabama native, Roy “Goat” Walker, a fan favorite of Montgomery baseball for two generations.

Baseball in Montgomery

Author : Clarence Watkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467124834
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Baseball in Montgomery written by Clarence Watkins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, Riverwalk Stadium ushered in a new era of professional baseball in Montgomery. After a more-than-20-year absence, the new ballpark became a catalyst for the revitalization of downtown Montgomery. Biscuit baseball and Riverwalk Stadium have given citizens something to be proud of. The stadium is nestled between the Alabama River and railroad tracks and incorporates the old Western Railroad building as part of the ballpark. This has made Riverwalk an example for other cities looking to keep their identity and add something new and exciting. Montgomery's rich baseball history includes hall of fame players like Fred Clarke, Joe McGinnity, Casey Stengel, and Turkey Stearnes. There is also the forgotten history of an Alabama native, Roy "Goat" Walker, a fan favorite of Montgomery baseball for two generations.

Baseball's Radical for All Seasons

Author : David Stevens
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810834545
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Radical for All Seasons written by David Stevens and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of one of the most adventurous and influential figures in baseball history.

Max and Ollie's Guide to Baseball

Author : Stephanie Duchaine Montgomery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578667140
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Max and Ollie's Guide to Baseball written by Stephanie Duchaine Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's picture book for young baseball lovers, and soon to be baseball lovers!

Base-Ball

Author : John Montgomery Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781409906810
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Base-Ball written by John Montgomery Ward and published by . This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Montgomery Ward (1860-1925) was a 19th century Major League Baseball star pitcher, shortstop and manager. At 13 years of age, he was sent to Penn State University. In his short time there, he helped jump start a baseball program and is often credited for developing the first curve ball. As a 19 year old pitcher, he won 47 games and led the 1879 Providence Grays to a first place finish. In 1880, he began to play other positions and also expanded his leadership role to include managing then became a player-manager for 32 games, winning 18 of them. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1885. Together with the other players, he formed the first baseball players union, The Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players. He also successfully challenged the player reserve clause, leading the formation of a new baseball league, the Players League. He retired from baseball at age 34 in order to enter the legal profession. As a successful lawyer he represented baseball players against the National League. In the last quarter century of his life, Ward's real sporting passion became golf.

The Negro Southern League

Author : William J. Plott
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786475447
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Negro Southern League written by William J. Plott and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Negro Southern League was a baseball minor league that operated off and on from 1920 to 1951. It served as a valuable feeder system to the Negro National League and the Negro American League. A number of NNL and NAL stars got their start in the NSL, among them five Hall of Famers including Satchel Paige and Willie Mays. During its history, more than 80 teams were members of the league, representing 40 cities in a dozen states. In the end only four teams remained, operating more as semipro than professional teams. This book is a narrative history of the league from its inception with eight teams in major Southern cities until its demise three decades later.

Baseball's Great Expectations

Author : Patrick Montgomery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781538181812
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Great Expectations written by Patrick Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Baseball's Great Expectations features the fascinating stories of baseball players who were on the cusp of greatness, who everyone expected to be the next superstar, but never quite lived up to the hype-or through tragic circumstances, never had the chance"--

Triple Play

Author : Robert Montgomery
Publisher : Troll Communications
ISBN 13 : 9780816719907
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Triple Play written by Robert Montgomery and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen-year-old Robbie Belmont's final year as catcher for Riverton High's baseball team holds many distractions, as he finds himself torn between two girls and must decide whether to attend college or go directly into the major leagues.

A Clever Base-ballist

Author : Bryan Di Salvatore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801865626
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book A Clever Base-ballist written by Bryan Di Salvatore and published by . This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of baseball's earliest stars, John Montgomery Ward (1860-1925) was a formidable talent. Today, he stands alone as the only player with more than 100 wins as a pitcher and 2,000 hits as a batter. Ward played at a time when baseball was evolving from a pastime into a business, and his most important legacy may have been his role "in establishing modern organized baseball" (as his plaque in the Baseball Hall of Fame reads). He organized the sport's first union, the Brotherhood of Professional Ball Players, and in 1890 led a revolt against National League owners by creating a third major league--The Players' League--presaging a century of bitter conflict between players and owners. In this engaging biography, Bryan Di Salvatore captures the brash energy of this larger-than-life sports figure and offers a keenly observed narrative about baseball's often troubled coming of age.

West Virginia Baseball

Author : William E. Akin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786425709
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book West Virginia Baseball written by William E. Akin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Virginia sprang into existence as a state in the midst of the Civil War, and "base ball," as it was called then, was close on the heels of statehood. A game in 1866 hosted by the Hunkidori Base Ball Club in Wheeling, is considered the first "match game of Base Ball." Some historians contend the game spread via the movement of soldiers who were from urban areas. The real roots of baseball are not the romantic image of rural boys in sandlots or lazy father-son afternoons. It was born and came of age as an urban sport, a social pursuit of well-heeled young men that in the early days often involved banquets and shows following each game. The author traces the history of minor league and independent league baseball in West Virginia. Baseball below the minor leagues has a rich and comparatively unexplored history, and West Virginia has made substantial contributions to this legacy. Chapters examine the chronological history of baseball and the larger economic and cultural changes that have influenced it. Eras include baseball as a social game (through 1873); the emergence of professional baseball (through 1895); its second boom (through 1905); the deadball era (through 1920); the Martinsburg dynasty (1914 to 1934); as a miners' sport (1920 to 1941); the Middle Atlantic League (1925-1942); the Mountain State League (1937-1942); the postwar years (1945-1955); the nadir (1955-1985); and "A Minor Miracle" (1985-2000), a chapter that heralds a comeback in the popularity of professional baseball.

Base Ball

Author : John Montgomery Ward
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781507621356
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Base Ball written by John Montgomery Ward and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Base Ball, by John Montgomery Ward. John Montgomery Ward was american Major League Baseball pitcher, shortstop and manager (1860-1925).

A Clever Base-ballist

Author : Bryan Di Salvatore
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Clever Base-ballist written by Bryan Di Salvatore and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1999 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Baseball is not a Summer snap, but a business.... A player is not a sporting man. He is hired to do certain work and do it as well as he possibly can." John Montgomery Ward, nineteenth-century America's most-talked-about (both reviled and applauded) baseball player, spoke these words shortly after the failure of the great player rebellion of 1890, a revolution Ward almost singlehandedly fomented. That year, four out of every five National Leaguers, taking great economic risk, deserted professional baseball's establishment to create an "outlaw" rival organization: The Players' League. Team owners, the players felt, treated them like chattel: they "dished saltpeter in their sidemeat and gave them shameful financial beatings if they misbehaved," writes Bryan Di Salvatore in this fascinating, rigorous, and brisk biography. A Clever Base-Ballist is also a keenly observant narrative of late nineteenth-century America. In it can be found the likes of Mark Twain, Hawaii's King Kalakuau, and Moses Fleetwood Walker, the major league's first black player. It travels from the groaning boards of Delmonico's restaurant to the boisterous pages of the 1880s entertainment press to the Egyptian desert, where the target of one thrown baseball was the Sphinx's right eye. Handsome, erudite, and brilliantly talented, Ward made front-page headlines across the country when he married New York actress Helen Dauvray. And when they weren't branding him a terrorist, owners trumpeted the college-educated Ward as the sport's premier role model. An unblinking antidote to "good-old-days" syndrome, A Clever Base-Ballist is an accessible, compelling, and unconventional biography of anunconventional and, until now, obscure American.

Buzz Saw

Author : Jesse Dougherty
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982152273
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Buzz Saw written by Jesse Dougherty and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the 2019 World Series champion Washington Nationals told by the Washington Post writer who followed the team most closely. By May 2019, the Washington Nationals—owners of baseball’s oldest roster—had one of the worst records in the majors and just a 1.5 percent chance of winning the World Series. Yet by blending an old-school brand of baseball with modern analytics, they managed to sneak into the playoffs and put together the most unlikely postseason run in baseball history. Not only did they beat the Houston Astros, the team with the best regular-season record, to claim the franchise’s first championship—they won all four games in Houston, making them the first club to ever win four road games in a World Series. “You have a great year, and you can run into a buzz saw,” Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg told Washington Post beat writer Jesse Dougherty after the team advanced to the World Series. “Maybe this year we’re the buzz saw.” Dougherty followed the Nationals more closely than any other writer in America, and in Buzz Saw he recounts the dramatic year in vivid detail, taking readers inside the dugout, the clubhouse, the front office, and ultimately the championship parade. Yet he does something more than provide a riveting retelling of the season: he makes the case that while there is indisputable value to Moneyball-style metrics, baseball isn’t just a numbers game. Intangibles like team chemistry, veteran experience, and childlike joy are equally essential to winning. Certainly, no team seemed to have more fun than the Nationals, who adopted the kids’ song “Baby Shark” as their anthem and regularly broke into dugout dance parties. Buzz Saw is just as lively and rollicking—a fitting tribute to one of the most exciting, inspiring teams to ever take the field.

The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed.

Author : Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476617449
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed. written by Jonathan Fraser Light and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America’s culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues’ decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.

Base-Ball

Author : John Montgomery Ward
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Base-Ball written by John Montgomery Ward and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By John Montgomery Ward is a narrative that delves into the world of baseball and leisure. Ward's storytelling captures the essence of America's favorite pastime, providing an enjoyable and informative read.

The Baseball Thesaurus 2e

Author : Jesse Goldberg-Strassler
Publisher : Lineup Books
ISBN 13 : 9781938532122
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Baseball Thesaurus 2e written by Jesse Goldberg-Strassler and published by Lineup Books. This book was released on 2014-04-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Baseball is a sport with its own lingo and jargon, a colorful patois that developed over decades and millions of games. Jesse Goldberg-Strassler, storyteller, commentator, voice - delves into the language of the national pastime: from Vin Scully's philosophy on no-hitters to Red Barber's classic turns of phrase to a definitive listing of broadcasters' trademark home run call." -- Back cover.

The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues

Author : James A. Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780780813434
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues written by James A. Riley and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive biographical encyclopedia that includes entries on those involved with the Negro Baseball Leagues, including players, managers, umpires, owners, and other executives, as well as several historical essays related to the sport.