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Author : Aubrey Huff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998440705
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Baseball Junkie written by Aubrey Huff and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Whiting
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611729491
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Tokyo Junkie written by Robert Whiting and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world. Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation. A colorful social history of what Anthony Bourdain dubbed, “the greatest city in the world,” Tokyo Junkie is a revealing account by an accomplished journalist who witnessed it all firsthand and, in the process, had his own dramatic personal transformation.
Author : Harvey Frommer
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146162603X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Sports Junkie's Book of Trivia, Terms, and Lingo written by Harvey Frommer and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-26 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the content of two of Frommer's previous books, Sports Roots and Sports Lingo, this book not only explains how nicknames, namesakes, trophies, competitions, and expressions in the world of sports came to be, but also serves as a useful dictionary of the language of sports-both technical and slang.
Author : Art Rust
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Recollections of a Baseball Junkie written by Art Rust and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1985 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Chad
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 9780871135841
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Hold On, Honey, I'll Take You to the Hospital at Halftime written by Norman Chad and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started 50 years ago with a few TV baseball games. Now, every man who's not out in the woods finding his inner wild man is plunked down in front of a 27-inch diagonal screen watching football, basketball, hockey, darts, the Olympics--anything that even faintly resembles a "sport". This hilarious, biting, incisive book takes a look at the hugely popular phenomenon of television sports.
Author : Ron Kaplan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496209885
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die written by Ron Kaplan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Propounding his "small ball theory" of sports literature, George Plimpton proposed that "the smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature." Of course he had the relatively small baseball in mind, because its literature is formidable--vast and varied, instructive, often wildly entertaining, and occasionally brilliant. From this bewildering array of baseball books, Ron Kaplan has chosen 501 of the best, making it easier for fans to find just the books to suit them (or to know what they're missing). From biography, history, fiction, and instruction to books about ballparks, business, and rules, anyone who loves to read about baseball will find in this book a companionable guide, far more fun than a reference work has any right to be.
Author : Tony Salin
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 : 9780809226030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Baseball's Forgotten Heroes written by Tony Salin and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on such athletes as Art Pennington, Bruno Haas, and Bill Lange, Salin presents the stories of more than a dozen former players, many in his own words. 15 photos.
Author : Chris Herren
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429924144
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Basketball Junkie written by Chris Herren and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his own words, former NBA and overseas pro Chris Herren tells how he nearly lost everything and everyone he loved, and how he found a way back to life. Powerful, honest, and dramatic, this remarkable memoir,Basketball Junkie, is harrowing in its descent, and heartening in its return. I was dead for thirty seconds. That's what the cop in Fall River told me. When the EMTs found me, there was a needle in my arm and a packet of heroin in the front seat. At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, junior guard Chris Herren carried his family's and the city's dreams on his skinny frame. His grandfather, father, and older brother had created their own sports legends in a declining city; he was the last, best hope for a career beyond the shuttered mills and factories. Herren was heavily recruited by major universities, chosen as a McDonald's All-American, featured in a Sports Illustrated cover story, and at just seventeen years old became the central figure in Fall River Dreams, an acclaimed book about the 1994 Durfee team's quest for the state championship. Leaving Fall River for college, Herren starred on Jerry Tarkanian's Fresno State Bulldogs team of talented misfits, which included future NBA players as well as future convicted felons. His gritty, tattooed, hip-hop persona drew the ire of rival fans and more national attention: Rolling Stone profiled him, 60 Minutes interviewed him, and the Denver Nuggets drafted him. When the Boston Celtics acquired his contract, he lived the dream of every Massachusetts kid—but off the court Herren was secretly crumbling, as his alcohol and drug use escalated and his life spiraled out of control. Twenty years later, Chris Herren was married to his high-school sweetheart, the father of three young children, and a heroin junkie. His basketball career was over, consumed by addictions; he had no job, no skills, and was a sadly familiar figure to those in Fall River who remembered him as a boy, now prowling the streets he once ruled, looking for a fix. One day, for a time he cannot remember, he would die.
Author : Larry Hausner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476650667
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Save Baseball written by Larry Hausner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major League Baseball has been in crisis in recent years. Game attendance is down by millions and fan interest is in free fall. The future of the game is in jeopardy. While the League acknowledges the issues, many are stumped as to how to address them. This book explores in detail the critical challenges facing MLB, and their ramifications, along with some potential solutions. Interviews with baseball insiders, players to executives, give a perspective on baseball's struggle to reinvent itself for future generations.
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Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597973653
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)
Download or read book The Book written by and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball "by The Book."
Author : Russell A. Carleton
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1637272286
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (372 download)
Download or read book The New Ballgame written by Russell A. Carleton and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watching a game of baseball today means witnessing phenomena that would have been novel, if not completely unheard of, not so long ago. Starting pitchers sling 100 mile-per-hour heat for just four or five innings before departing; third basemen often station themselves much closer to second (to say nothing of the shortstop's whereabouts); home runs and strikeouts dominate at-bats; all while the length of contest tips toward the four-hour mark. There's no getting around it: the game looks different now. And as Major League Baseball scrambles with rule changes, equipment modifications, labor negotiations, and more, fans are left grasping for the true essence of this beloved pastime among the moving pieces. In The New Ballgame, Russell Carleton (The Shift) deftly indentifies and examines the many levers and inflection points that have shaped the game into what we see on the field today. Through a singular blend of statistical analysis, history, and cognitive science, readers will trace the rapid evolution of the modern game while contemplating the sport in an entirely new way. Blending incisive research with affable storytelling, Russell Carleton delivers a kaleidoscopic view on modern baseball in this welcome, revelatory work.
Author : Harvey Frommer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781589792555
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Sports Junkie's Book of Trivia, Terms, and Lingo written by Harvey Frommer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conbining two of Frommer's previous successes, Sports Lingo and Sports Roots, and supplemented with new material, this book will prove to be indispensable to nay sports enthusiast wishing to settle an argument, decipher a mysterious call, or simply persue for his or her enjoyment.
Author : Vinny Micucci
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456745506
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)
Download or read book From Sports Fan to Sportscaster written by Vinny Micucci and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Sports Fan to Sportscaster" is written as if told to you over dinner. The stories are first-hand accounts of working as a Sportscaster at various sporting events. You will feel what it is like to be in the winning clubhouse of a playoff baseball team. You will learn what goes on when covering a sport and how headlines are made. For the sports fan who always dreamed of meeting athletes, announcing the big game or hosting a radio show...allow the author to show you what it would be like.
Author : Jace Frederick
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1634940644
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Baseball’s New Wave written by Jace Frederick and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball’s New Wave gives readers a front-row seat to this transition from one generation to the next, with pages full of information about these players, where they came from, and what makes them stand out.
Author : Christy Mathewson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101614390
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Pitching in a Pinch written by Christy Mathewson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside baseball memoir from the game’s first superstar, with a foreword by Chad Harbach Christy Mathewson was one of the most dominant pitchers ever to play baseball. Posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of the “Five Immortals,” he was an unstoppable force on the mound, winning at least twenty-two games for twelve straight seasons and pitching three complete-game shutouts in the 1905 World Series. Pitching in a Pinch, his witty and digestible book of baseball insights, stories, and wisdom, was first published over a hundred years ago and presents readers with Mathewson’s plainspoken perspective on the diamond of yore—on the players, the chances they took, the jinxes they believed in, and, most of all, their love of the game. Baseball fans will love to read first-hand accounts of the infamous Merkle’s Boner incident, Giants manager John McGraw, and the unstoppable Johnny Evers and to learn how much—and just how little—has really changed in a hundred years. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : The Baseball Guys
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9781932855739
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Obsessed With...Baseball written by The Baseball Guys and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes multiple choice questions about baseball. Embedded in the book is a special computerized quiz module that lets you compete against yourself or a friend.
Author : Scott Simkus
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613748167
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Outsider Baseball written by Scott Simkus and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outsider Baseball is the story of a forgotten world, where independent professional ball clubs zig-zagged across America, plying their trade in big cities and small villages alike. Included among the former and future major leaguers were mercenaries, scalawags, and outcasts. This is where Babe Ruth, Rube Waddell, and John McGraw crossed bats with the Cuban Stars, Tokyo Giants, Brooklyn Bushwicks, dozens of famous Negro league teams, and novelty acts such as the House of David and Bloomer Girls. Legends emerged in this alternate baseball universe and author Scott Simkus sets out to share their stories and use a critical lens to separate fact from fiction. Written in a gritty prose style, Outsider Baseball combines meticulous research with modern analytics, opening the door to an unforgettable funhouse of baseball history. Scott Simkus is the founder and editor of the Outsider Baseball Bulletin. He is the winner of a research award from the Society of American Baseball Research for his work on the Negro League Database.
