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Book Synopsis Bill Mazer's Amazin' Baseball Book by : Bill Mazer
Download or read book Bill Mazer's Amazin' Baseball Book written by Bill Mazer and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive trivia tour through baseball by the popular sports commentator presents the 150-year history of the sport in an encyclopedic format
Book Synopsis Bill Mazer's Amazin' Baseball Book by : Bill Mazer
Download or read book Bill Mazer's Amazin' Baseball Book written by Bill Mazer and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1991-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in a convenient and reasonably priced trade paperback edition--and out just in time for the baseball season--Bill Mazer's Amazin' Baseball Book is an indispensable companion for baseball and trivia lovers of all ages. Mazer puts his information into a lively and original format, arranged chronologically by era to show how the game developed and changed over the decades.
Book Synopsis The Amazin' Bill Mazer's Football Trivia Book by : Bill Mazer
Download or read book The Amazin' Bill Mazer's Football Trivia Book written by Bill Mazer and published by Warner Books (NY). This book was released on 1981-04-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bill Mazer's Amazin' Baseball Book by : Bill Mazer
Download or read book Bill Mazer's Amazin' Baseball Book written by Bill Mazer and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1991-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in a convenient and reasonably priced trade paperback edition--and out just in time for the baseball season--Bill Mazer's Amazin' Baseball Book is an indispensable companion for baseball and trivia lovers of all ages. Mazer puts his information into a lively and original format, arranged chronologically by era to show how the game developed and changed over the decades.
Download or read book Stan the Man written by Wayne Stewart and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad in scope and deep in analysis, this biography of Stan Musial details not only the personality and the accomplishments of the man, but artfully examines his life against the backdrop of the Great Depression, which the already-impoverished Musial family endured. It looks at Stan’s support racial integration in baseball, as well as the tragedy that struck his hometown of Donora, Pennsylvania, and claimed many lives, including his father’s. The slew of never-before-published material and revealing anecdotes gained through numerous exclusive interviews with former classmates, relatives, friends, teammates, and contemporaries allow this book to shed fresh light on the legendary Musial while making the book a must-read for all baseball fans. This updated, paperback edition includes a new, commemorative section written after Musial’s passing.
Book Synopsis Maz to Yaz to Amazin' by : Thad Mumau
Download or read book Maz to Yaz to Amazin' written by Thad Mumau and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistics and stories about more than 400 players from the 1960's baseball era.
Download or read book Satchel written by Larry Tye and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige “Among the rare biographies of an athlete that transcend sports . . . gives us the man as well as the myth.”—The Boston Globe Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through dogged detective work, award-winning author and journalist Larry Tye has tracked down the truth about this majestic and enigmatic pitcher, interviewing more than two hundred Negro Leaguers and Major Leaguers, talking to family and friends who had never told their stories before, and retracing Paige’s steps across the continent. Here is the stirring account of the child born to an Alabama washerwoman with twelve young mouths to feed, the boy who earned the nickname “Satchel” from his enterprising work as a railroad porter, the young man who took up baseball on the streets and in reform school, inventing his trademark hesitation pitch while throwing bricks at rival gang members. Tye shows Paige barnstorming across America and growing into the superstar hurler of the Negro Leagues, a marvel who set records so eye-popping they seemed like misprints, spent as much money as he made, and left tickets for “Mrs. Paige” that were picked up by a different woman at each game. In unprecedented detail, Tye reveals how Paige, hurt and angry when Jackie Robinson beat him to the Majors, emerged at the age of forty-two to help propel the Cleveland Indians to the World Series. He threw his last pitch from a big-league mound at an improbable fifty-nine. (“Age is a case of mind over matter,” he said. “If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”) More than a fascinating account of a baseball odyssey, Satchel rewrites our history of the integration of the sport, with Satchel Paige in a starring role. This is a powerful portrait of an American hero who employed a shuffling stereotype to disarm critics and racists, floated comical legends about himself–including about his own age–to deflect inquiry and remain elusive, and in the process methodically built his own myth. “Don’t look back,” he famously said. “Something might be gaining on you.” Separating the truth from the legend, Satchel is a remarkable accomplishment, as large as this larger-than-life man.
Download or read book A Game of Inches written by Peter Morris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The scope of A Game of Inches is encyclopedic, with nearly a thousand entries that illuminate the origins of items ranging from catchers' masks to hook slides to intentional walks to cork-center baseballs. But this is much more than just a reference guide. Along the way, award-winning author Peter Morris has a sharp eye for the telling quote and the entertaining anecdote. He explains the context that led each new feature of the game to emerge when it did, and chronicles the often surprising responses to these innovations."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Dickson Baseball Dictionary 3e by : Paul Dickson
Download or read book The Dickson Baseball Dictionary 3e written by Paul Dickson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on extensive historical and contemporary sources to provide definitions for terms from their earliest appearances, in a latest edition that has been expanded to include more than 18,000 entries.
Book Synopsis What Makes an Elite Pitcher? by : Warren N. Wilbert
Download or read book What Makes an Elite Pitcher? written by Warren N. Wilbert and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite baseball pitchers are elite for a reason. They seem to have it all: a variety of pitches that no one can lay a bat to; cool heads and confidence in their "stuff" when they get in a jam; and the kind of dexterity that makes difficult plays seem easy. Is elite status revealed through statistics? Though the author of this book considers statistics of both the traditional and sabermetric sort, he argues that the greats are proved not by broad statistical comparison with all other pitchers, but by their record against one another. In a thoughtful discussion of the evidence of head-to-head matchups, he finds the nine pitchers who make up the true elite: Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander, Lefty Grove, Warren Spahn, Tom Seaver, Roger Clemens, and Greg Maddux. For each pitcher the book provides biographical information, career highlights, and a list of the feats that put him in the record books.
Download or read book Amazin' written by Peter Golenbock and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2002-04-06 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Still Standing After All These Years by : Vic Debs
Download or read book Still Standing After All These Years written by Vic Debs and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1997 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak may be baseball's best-known feat, but how many people are aware of Paul Waner's 14-game, extra-base hitting streak, a record which has stood much longer? Koufax and Gibson threw many shutouts, but Grover Alexander threw the most in one season. Walter Johnson was famous for his K's, but did you know he was the hurler who fanned the most batters in a game as a reliever? These are among baseball's longest-standing records, still unbroken after more than half a century. Through interviews with numerous stars of the past as well as extensive original research, Victor Debs examines how these and other spectacular marks were achieved, and why they are still standing after so many years. Combining numbers with nostalgia, statistics with stories, Debs celebrates the remarkable players who have proved that records are not always made to be broken.
Author :Matthew Silverman Publisher :Society for American Baseball Research ISBN 13 :9781970159097 Total Pages :422 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (59 download)
Book Synopsis The Miracle Has Landed: The Amazin' Story of How the 1969 Mets Shocked the World by : Matthew Silverman
Download or read book The Miracle Has Landed: The Amazin' Story of How the 1969 Mets Shocked the World written by Matthew Silverman and published by Society for American Baseball Research. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the 1969 Miracle Mets in this new, updated SABR edition of The Miracle Has Landed. including updated bios of every player on the roster including Tom Seaver, Ed Kranepool, and more.
Book Synopsis Baseball History 4 by : Peter Levine
Download or read book Baseball History 4 written by Peter Levine and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Baseball and American Society series, this text publishes original contributions related to the history of baseball.
Book Synopsis Once Around the Bases by : Richard Tellis
Download or read book Once Around the Bases written by Richard Tellis and published by Triumph Books (IL). This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The stories of forty ballplayers, men who made it to the big leagues for just one game."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis The Dark Sides of Baseball by : Bill Hongach
Download or read book The Dark Sides of Baseball written by Bill Hongach and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Yankee batboy, Bill "Hondo" Hongach, who had his first book published while still in high school at age 18, takes the reader on a journey of what goes on behind the scenes of America's National Pastime.The book opens with the author being beaten so badly by Pete Rose's right-hand man, ironically, with a Pete Rose bat, that he ends up in a coma for four days. Jack Lang, who was in charge of the Baseball Writers Assoc. and wrote dozens of baseball books himself before being put into the Hall of Fame, wrote that this was the best baseball book he ever read! He simply put it "...I could not put it down until I had finished reading the entire book." For one to see and know the "The Dark Sides of Baseball" is, in essence, to have the perspective that very few baseball fans get to experience. To become close on a personal basis with some of the greats of the game is rare and unique. "The Dark Sides of Baseball" is a glimpse that the public is not privy to or ever get to encounter.The book tells a tale of how a teenage boy chased his love of baseball, from interviewing sports greats, becoming a Yankee batboy the last two years at the original Yankee Stadium in 1972 & 1973, at the age of 18 having his first baseball book published while still a batboy and leading to the end of the Topps' Baseball Card monopoly, while still going to school.His close relationship with Mickey Mantle and Pete Rose would show him the troubled and positive sides of the game, that the public were never shown. The stories are endless as to what goes on in a clubhouse and what it is like to have these great athletes together for a baseball card show.Every baseball fan can watch a game and look up the stats. "The Dark Sides of Baseball" lets you see what goes on in the dugout, the clubhouse and off the field.
Download or read book Baseball and American Culture written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1995 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other sport, baseball has become a ubiquitous part of popular culture in the United States. Even nonfans can be heard using the game's terminology to describe everyday situations. Writings on the sport reflect the nature of society, from sobering statistical studies to business analyses, from acclaimed novels on the sport to poetry about the game. The 4,500 works here are arranged by 25 broad categories, such as art, commercialization, drug use and abuse, ethnic diversity, heroic images, humor, innovation and change, songs, American values, and women in baseball. Compiled from a wide range of magazines, journals, newspapers, and books, the work gives full bibliographic information for each entry. Comprehensive author and subject indexes are provided for further ease of use.
