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The New Ballgame

Author : Russell A. Carleton
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN 13 : 9781637272275
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book The New Ballgame written by Russell A. Carleton and published by Triumph Books (IL). This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 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.

Baseball: Then and Now

Author : R. L. Van
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1098278658
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Baseball: Then and Now written by R. L. Van and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the ways baseball was established, how it evolved and expanded, and how baseball became part of the nation's identity. The text provides historical context and explores the social, economic, political, and technological frameworks that influenced or defined the popularity, growth, and modern advancements of baseball. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Baseball's Even Greater Insults:

Author : Kevin Nelson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439145156
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Even Greater Insults: written by Kevin Nelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grand slam of a book. The sequel to the bestselling Baseball’s Greatest Insults, with hilarious put-downs and outrageous wisecracks about America’s national pastime. There are no lyrical passages here, no fond reminiscences about childhood games, no tributes to "inspiring" players. Too much real stuff has happened since Kevin Nelson collected Baseball's Greatest Insults in 1984. This hilarious all-star review reveals how the players, managers, umpires, owners, and the sports media really feel about one another.

Now You Know Baseball

Author : Doug Lennox
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459704754
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Now You Know Baseball written by Doug Lennox and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While baseball is touted as America’s favourite pastime, everyone will know the score with this grand slam of Q&A that’s sure to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Doug Lennox hammers it out of the park by filling us in on who’s won the most Cy Young Awards, what the Green Monster is, and the five ways that a player can be called "out." In this treasure trove of baseball lore, you’ll learn all about the leagues and teams that have come and gone, the players who are legends, and the achievements and records that have become the stuff of myth and fable. Where and when did Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run? What major league team was known as the Blue Jays long before a team existed in Toronto? Who were the Bash Brothers? Where was baseball first played? Who wrote the song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"? Did Fidel Castro try out for the New York Yankees?

Harper's Weekly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Harper's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Baseball Yesterday & Today

Author : Josh Leventhal
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 0760326460
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Baseball Yesterday & Today written by Josh Leventhal and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of historical and modern photographs highlighting the baseball players and ballparks of the last 150 years, exploring how the game has changed and evolved throughout history and how it has impacted popular culture.

Character Is Not a Statistic: the Legacy and Wisdom of Baseball's Godfather Scout Bill Lajoie

Author : Bill Lajoie
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462825486
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Character Is Not a Statistic: the Legacy and Wisdom of Baseball's Godfather Scout Bill Lajoie written by Bill Lajoie and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Lajoie just had it. When it came to drafting ballplayers and building a World Series club, few in baseball history can match his extraordinary success. The lessons of Lajoies illustrious career and the brilliance of his philosophy are put to print in Character is Not a Statistic. After a playing career that fell achingly short of the major leagues, Lajoie returned to Detroit to become a teacher in the mid-1960s. But his unyielding passion for baseball and desire to atone for a broken dream pulled him back to the game as a scout. From there, hed go on to build World Series Championships from scratch by finding players who possessed the very character he lacked as a young athlete. Starting as an area scout for the Cincinnati Reds in 1965, Lajoie later moved up the ladder with the Detroit Tigers and was the architect and general manager of their 1984 World Series crowning. Lajoie would then be instrumental as an assistant GM for two more franchises who dominated their decades with championships and titles; the 1990s Atlanta Braves and the 2000s Boston Red Sox. Perhaps no one alive has scouted more baseball over the last 50 years or has better stories to tell about finding the greats. Though the modern era has seen the depersonalization of scouting via statistics and radar gun readings, Lajoie was immensely successful through five decades by emphasizing what a player had inside him. His belief in a players humanity and character persists to this day. This book is not only a biography, but a collection of great baseball stories and a manual for the next generation of fans and scouts alike. Lajoie tackles such controversial issues as the Moneyball movement, the importance of a strong manager, scouting for makeup, making trades, preventing pitching injuries, running a farm system, and ranking both the best general managers and scouting directors of the modern era.

Save Baseball

Author : Larry Hausner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476650667
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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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.

Baseball

Author : Robert Lockwood Mills
Publisher : Infinity Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780741454195
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book Baseball written by Robert Lockwood Mills and published by Infinity Pub. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball---Then and Now is at once a memoir, history lesson, and opinion piece about the Great American Pastime. The author's only source material was his memory of past events.

Baseball...then And Now

Author : John Shiffert
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781413742770
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Baseball...then And Now written by John Shiffert and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-12-18 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball is a game of people. And while managers, owners, lawyers, umpires and statistics sometimes claim center stage, it's the players who make baseball what it is...The Great American Game. Over the course of the past 150 years, thousands of great, and not-so-great, players have left their mark on the game. And, as anyone who knows history can tell you, there's very little new under the sun...even when most baseball games are either played indoors or at night. Baseball...Then and Now takes a look at the players of the game, comparing yesterday's players with the headliners and bottom feeders of today. Ty Cobb and Pete Rose. Honus Wagner and Alex Rodriguez. Dazzy Vance and Curt Schilling. Mario Mendoza and Rey Ordonez. Steve Blass and Rick Ankiel. Pete Reiser and Ken Griffey, Jr. In all 25 chapters, we'll see how events from baseball's past resonate today.

Baseball Now!

Author : Dan Bortolotti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781554073375
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Baseball Now! written by Dan Bortolotti and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the top players in professional baseball, highlighting the careers and accomplishments of seventy players who are making baseball history.

For the Good of the Game

Author : Bud Selig
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006290597X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book For the Good of the Game written by Bud Selig and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin The longtime Commissioner of Major League Baseball provides an unprecedented look inside professional baseball today, focusing on how he helped bring the game into the modern age and revealing his interactions with players, managers, fellow owners, and fans nationwide. More than a century old, the game of baseball is resistant to change—owners, managers, players, and fans all hate it. Yet, now more than ever, baseball needs to evolve—to compete with other professional sports, stay relevant, and remain America’s Pastime it must adapt. Perhaps no one knows this better than Bud Selig who, as the head of MLB for more than twenty years, ushered in some of the most important, and controversial, changes in the game’s history—modernizing a sport that had remained unchanged since the 1960s. In this enlightening and surprising book, Selig goes inside the most difficult decisions and moments of his career, looking at how he worked to balance baseball’s storied history with the pressures of the twenty-first century to ensure its future. Part baseball story, part business saga, and part memoir, For the Good of the Game chronicles Selig’s career, takes fans inside locker rooms and board rooms, and offers an intimate, fascinating account of the frequently messy process involved in transforming an American institution. Featuring an all-star lineup of the biggest names from the last forty years of baseball, Selig recalls the vital games, private moments, and tense conversations he’s shared with Hall of Fame players and managers and the contentious calls he’s made. He also speaks candidly about hot-button issues the steroid scandal that threatened to destroy the game, telling his side of the story in full and for the first time. As he looks back and forward, Selig outlines the stakes for baseball’s continued transformation—and why the changes he helped usher in must only be the beginning. Illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs.

Baseball and the Media

Author : George Castle
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803264690
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Baseball and the Media written by George Castle and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s look at baseball media, its competence, and its increasingly strained relationship with the people it covers and how it affects the dissemination of news about the game.

State of Play

Author : Bill Ripken
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1635766605
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book State of Play written by Bill Ripken and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced statistics and new terminology have taken hold of baseball today, but do they accurately reflect the reality of the game? A baseball lifer states his case. America’s favorite pastime is enduring an assault of new thoughts and ideas. In recent years, the sabermetrics and analytics craze has infiltrated Major League Baseball—from its front offices to dugouts to clubhouses to media covering both, inciting a baseball culture war. New phrases like “launch angle,” “spin rate,” and “pitch framing” have entered the vocabulary, often with little real meaning when it comes to how the game is actually played on the field. No more. In State of Play, twelve-year Major League veteran, Emmy Award–winning MLB Network analyst, and bestselling author Bill Ripken breaks down these modern statistical methods to explain which ones make sense in the game’s historical context, bringing them together with proven old-school strategies. He simplifies those sabermetric terms hastily added to the baseball lexicon without being fully realized, taking new-school confusion out of old-school baseball’s tried-and-true common sense. In the end, he unites the teachings of each school to show fans of both how to listen to and understand the game as it’s played today and how it should be played moving forward. From a true baseball lifer and member of baseball’s first family, State of Play offers a fascinating insider’s look at how to reconcile years of historical tradition with the rules and trends of the new millennium. As Ripken sees it: the game inside the game cannot be measured by a spreadsheet—but it can be measured by a qualified, crusty baseball man. Play ball.

Power Ball

Author : Rob Neyer
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062853635
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Power Ball written by Rob Neyer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Winner of the 2018 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year.” The former ESPN columnist and analytics pioneer dramatically recreates an action-packed 2017 game between the Oakland A’s and eventual World Series Champion Houston Astros to reveal the myriad ways in which Major League Baseball has changed over the last few decades. On September 8, 2017, the Oakland A’s faced off against the Houston Astros in a game that would signal the passing of the Moneyball mantle. Though this was only one regular season game, the match-up of these two teams demonstrated how Major League Baseball has changed since the early days of Athletics general manager Billy Beane and the publication of Michael Lewis’ classic book. Over the past twenty years, power and analytics have taken over the game, driving carefully calibrated teams like the Astros to victory. Seemingly every pitcher now throws mid-90s heat and studiously compares their mechanics against the ideal. Every batter in the lineup can crack homers and knows their launch angles. Teams are relying on unorthodox strategies, including using power-losing—purposely tanking a few seasons to get the best players in the draft. As he chronicles each inning and the unfolding drama as these two teams continually trade the lead—culminating in a 9-8 Oakland victory in the bottom of the ninth—Neyer considers the players and managers, the front office machinations, the role of sabermetrics, and the current thinking about what it takes to build a great team, to answer the most pressing questions fans have about the sport today.

The Everything Kids' Baseball Book, 11th Edition

Author : Greg Jacobs
Publisher : Everything
ISBN 13 : 1507212682
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Everything Kids' Baseball Book, 11th Edition written by Greg Jacobs and published by Everything. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newest edition to the long-running Everything Kids’ Baseball series updated with current information on the 2018 and 2019 baseball seasons, refreshed bios, and an expanded look at fantasy baseball is “everything you want in a kid’s book” (Associated Press). Now you can introduce young fans to the fun, action, and excitement of America’s favorite pastime with this all-inclusive, updated edition of The Everything Kids’ Baseball Book. Featuring dozens of puzzles and games, this edition has up-to-date stats for all of your favorite players and teams. Get to know the best star players today, learn the rules and history of the game, and start to develop your own baseball skills—from t-ball to the World Series—with this comprehensive guide to the entertaining world of baseball. Covering everything you need to know, this book is sure to be a grand slam for kids and parents alike!

Now Pitching for the Yankees

Author : Marty Appel
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1626811210
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Now Pitching for the Yankees written by Marty Appel and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legendary New York Yankees PR man offers readers an inside look at one of baseball’s greatest teams. Starting as a college student sorting Mickey Mantle’s fan mail and rising to become the youngest director of public relations in baseball history, Marty Appel offers a unique behind-the-scenes memoir of life with the New York Yankees from 1968 to 1977. Appel stood shoulder-to-shoulder with both the benchwarmers and the superstars of the past and present, from tempestuous owner George Steinbrenner and his equally tempestuous manager Billy Martin (whom Howard Cosell once called “a beleaguered little pepperpot”) to Hall of Famers like Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, and Reggie Jackson. With a new chapter bringing the story up-to-date, as well as changes and milestones in the game he loves, Marty Appel paints a hilarious and poignant portrait of the Yankees. “[Appel’s] love of baseball shines through here, and Yankee fans will lap up his humorous stories of Yankee greats and not-so-greats.” —Library Journal “A poignant account of a fan turned public relations executive working for baseball’s most glamorized team.” —Baseball America