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Author : Mark Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345359056
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Big League Break written by Mark Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The big call comes and the Rookies get set to burn up the majors!
Author : Al Goldis
Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Breaking Into the Big Leagues written by Al Goldis and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide for those fledgling baseball players with eyes on the major leagues.
Author : Dirk Hayhurst
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 0806536667
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Out of My League: written by Dirk Hayhurst and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Bullpen Gospels. “A humorous, candid and insightful memoir . . . Grade: Home Run.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer After six years in the minors, pitcher Dirk Hayhurst hopes 2008 is the year he breaks into the big leagues. But every time Dirk looks up, the bases are loaded with challenges—a wedding balancing on a blind hope, a family in chaos, and paychecks that beg Dirk to ask, “How long can I afford to keep doing this?” Then it finally happens—Dirk gets called up to the Majors, to play for the San Diego Padres. A dream comes true when he takes the mound against the San Francisco Giants, kicking off forty insane days and nights in the Bigs. Like the classic games of baseball’s history, Out of My League entertains from the first pitch to the last out, capturing the gritty realities of playing on the big stage, the comedy and camaraderie in the dugouts and locker rooms, and the hard-fought, personal journeys that drive our love of America’s favorite pastime. “A rare gem of a baseball book.”—Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated “Observant, insightful, human, and hilarious.”—Bob Costas “A fun read . . . This book shows why baseball is so often used as a metaphor for life.”—Keith Olbermann “Entertaining and engaging . . . reminiscent of Jim Bouton’s Ball Four.”—Booklist “The book is a terrific read. If you loved Bullpen Gospels (I’d have a hard time believing you are a baseball fan if you didn’t) you will love Out of My League too.”—Bluebird Banter
Author : Bill (William) Mullins
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804734
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Becoming Big League written by Bill (William) Mullins and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Big League is the story of Seattle's relationship with major league baseball from the 1962 World's Fair to the completion of the Kingdome in 1976 and beyond. Bill Mullins focuses on the acquisition and loss, after only one year, of the Seattle Pilots and documents their on-the-field exploits in lively play-by-play sections. The Pilots' underfunded ownership, led by Seattle's Dewey and Max Soriano and William Daley of Cleveland, struggled to make the team a success. They were savvy baseball men, but they made mistakes and wrangled with the city. By the end of the first season, the team was in bankruptcy. The Pilots were sold to a contingent from Milwaukee led by Bud Selig, who moved the franchise to Wisconsin and rechristened the team the Brewers. Becoming Big League describes the character of Seattle in the 1960s and 1970s, explains how the operation of a major league baseball franchise fits into the life of a city, charts Seattle's long history of fraught stadium politics, and examines the business of baseball. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hwhl5sLoQs&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw&index=1&feature=plcp
Author : Dirk Hayhurst
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 0806534877
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Bigger Than the Game written by Dirk Hayhurst and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best writer in a baseball uniform." --Tyler Kepner, The New York Times After nearly a decade in the minors, Dirk Hayhurst defied the odds to climb onto the pitcher's mound for the Toronto Blue Jays. Newly married, with a big league paycheck and a brand new house, Hayhurst was ready for a great season in the Bigs. Then fate delivered a crushing hit. Hayhurst blew out his pitching shoulder in an insane off-season workout program. After surgery, rehab, and more rehab, his major-league dreams seemed more distant than ever. From there things got worse, weirder, and funnier. In a crazy world of injured athletes, autograph-seeking nuns, angry wrestlers, and trainers with a taste for torture, Hayhurst learned lessons about the game--and himself--that were not in any rulebook. Honest, soul'searching, insightful, hilarious, and moving, Dirk Hayhurst's latest memoir is an indisputable baseball classic. Praise for The Bullpen Gospels and Out of My League "Dirk Hayhurst writes about baseball in a unique way. Observant, insightful, human, and hilarious." --Bob Costas "A fun read. . .This book shows why baseball is so often used as a metaphor for life." --Keith Olbermann "Entertaining and engaging. . .reminiscent of Jim Bouton's Ball Four." --Booklist "A rare gem of a baseball book." --Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated "A humorous, candid, and insightful memoir of Hayhurst's rookie season in the majors. . .Grade: Home Run." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
Author : Al Goldis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626369801
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)
Download or read book How to Make Pro Baseball Scouts Notice You written by Al Goldis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is twofold: one, to give ballplayers an inside look at just what scouts are really looking for in their search for professional ballplayers; and two, to help them market and sell themselves so that scouts will know they exist and see them put their best skills on display. This book has been written with the intent of helping ballplayers keep their dreams of playing pro ball alive and flourishing. All any ballplayer wants is a shot at playing pro ball, and by reading this book, they will be that much closer to having their dreams come true.
Author : Ty Cobb
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786415991
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Busting 'Em and Other Big League Stories written by Ty Cobb and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-02-07 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1914, Busting 'Em was the first of three books credited to Ty Cobb the author. Though in fact it was ghostwritten by John N. Wheeler, who also penned Mathewson's Pitching in a Pinch, the book fascinates with its insights into Cobb as a public figure. The reader is presented Cobb's explanation of the beating incident at Hilltop Park, the Baker spiking, and his contentious relationship with teammates. His thoughts--or those he sanctioned--of umpires, his contemporaries, crowds, and strategy are also shared. This book, long out of print and increasingly hard to find, is essential reading for those who would understand Cobb's awareness of and investment in the shape of his public image.
Author : Kelly J. Pfaff
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488069
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Mental Road to the Major Leagues written by Kelly J. Pfaff and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating sport psychology with the personal testimonies of baseball players, this helpful guide offers a step-by-step overview of what it takes for a boy playing little league baseball to work his way to college ball, the minor leagues, and beyond. Throughout, emphasis remains on the mental challenges players face and ways players can prepare for these challenges, both on and off the field. From college scholarships to meager minor league salaries, from getting traded to getting injured, this handbook will help athletes and parents navigate choices while illuminating the mental aspects that give the game its unpredictability and vitality.
Author : Stephen R. Fox
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803268968
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (689 download)
Download or read book Big Leagues written by Stephen R. Fox and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the evolution of baseball, football, and basketball and offers new perspectives on established legends
Author : Ron LeFlore
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Breakout written by Ron LeFlore and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of Ron LeFlore, who played on a prison baseball team while serving a sentence for armed robbery and later became a star player for the Detroit Tigers.
Author : Grant Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195304470
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang written by Grant Barrett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as Beltway bandit and boondoggle, angry white male and leg treasurer, juice bill and Joe Citizen, banana superpower and the Big Fix. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. (We learn, for instance, that a term as seemingly current as political football actually dates back to before the Civil War.) Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.
Author : Tom Gamboa
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476667411
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Tom Gamboa written by Tom Gamboa and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Gamboa played baseball professionally, coached, scouted, managed in the minors and in Puerto Rico and coached in the majors with the Cubs and Royals. Scouring the country for talent, he discovered Jesse Orosco and helped develop Doug Glanville and Jose Hernandez in Puerto Rico and in the Cubs organization. Before Jim "The Rookie" Morris made it to the majors, Gamboa coached him on a title team in the Brewers organization. Sammy Sosa promised him a fist-bump for each home run Sosa hit--Tom didn't suspect he was due 60 of them over each of the next two seasons. With a lot of humor, Gamboa takes his readers well inside the dugouts and clubhouses.
Author : Peter J. De Kever
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491816031
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)
Download or read book Freddie Fitzsimmons written by Peter J. De Kever and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freddie Fitzsimmons was among baseball's top pitchers during his 19-year career with the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. Famed for his knuckleball, Fitz also had the reputation as the game's best fielding pitcher. Fitzsimmons was both a fierce competitor and one of the most admired players of baseball's Golden Age. When discovered by Giants' manager John McGraw in 1925, Fitzsimmons became a household name to baseball fans around the country. A mainstay of the New York rotations of the 1920s and 1930s, Fitzsimmons pitched in the 1933 and 1936 World Series, where he suffered painful losses. Being traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1937 rejuvenated Fitzsimmons and brought him back to the World Series one last fateful time in 1941. When his playing days ended, Fitzsimmons managed the Philadelphia Phillies and later coached for the Giants and several other teams. In Freddie Fitzsimmons: A Baseball Life, Peter J. De Kever brings to life Fitzsimmons's colorful character and most memorable games. Fitz's life in baseball spanned nearly half a century and brought him into contact with many of the game's luminaries, such as Babe Ruth, Bill Terry, Leo Durocher, and Willie Mays. A central player in the great 1941 pennant race, Fitzsimmons also witnessed Bobby Thomson's shot heard 'round the world a decade later. These and other stories figure prominently in this first biography of Freddie Fitzsimmons.
Author : William J. Ryczek
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616736
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Yankees in the Early 1960s written by William J. Ryczek and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of the New York Yankees over a decade which saw them at the top of the American League and at the bottom. Based upon thorough background research and interviews with over 100 former players, the book covers the major stories of the period as well as some not seen elsewhere. The seventh games of the 1960 and 1962 World Series are described in detail, replete with the remembrances of many of the participants. The infamous Phil Linz harmonica incident, the fruitless search for another Mickey Mantle and the surprising emergence of Mel Stottlemyre are some of the stories that make the early '60s such a fascinating era in Yankee lore.
Author : Burt L. Standish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lefty O' the Big League written by Burt L. Standish and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zane Grey
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781595405432
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Redheaded Outfield written by Zane Grey and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - There was Delaney's red-haired trio - Red Gilbat, left fielder; Reddy Clammer, right fielder, and Reddie Ray, center fielder, composing the most remarkable outfield ever developed in minor league baseball. It was Delaney's pride, as it was also his trouble. Red Gilbat was nutty - and his batting average was .371. Any student of baseball could weigh these two facts against each other and understand something of Delaney's trouble. It was not possible to camp on Red Gilbat's trail. The man was a jack-o'-lantern, a will-o'-the-wisp, a weird, long-legged, long-armed, red-haired illusive phantom. When the gong rang at the ball grounds there were ten chances to one that Red would not be present. He had been discovered with small boys peeping through knotholes at the vacant left field he was supposed to inhabit during play. Of course what Red did off the ball grounds was not so important as what he did on. And there was absolutely no telling what under the sun he might do then except once out of every three times at bat he could be counted on to knock the cover off the ball.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1684 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
