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Baseball in Nashville

Author : Skip Nipper
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738543918
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Baseball in Nashville written by Skip Nipper and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nashville's first professional baseball team was organized in 1885, but the city's baseball roots can be traced to 1862, as Union soldiers camped along the Cumberland River taught the Northern game to the citizens. The Seraphs, Blues, Tigers, Americans, and Volunteers made their home in Athletic Park, later renamed Sulphur Dell by Grantland Rice during his tenure as a local sportswriter. Including the Negro League Elite Giants and a two-year existence by the Nashville Xpress in the 1990s, Baseball in Nashville traces those roots from the early teams to Herschel Greer Stadium and the Nashville Sounds' Pacific Coast League Championship in 2005.

Nashville Baseball History

Author : Bill Traughber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938545832
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Nashville Baseball History written by Bill Traughber and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of baseball in Nashville stretches back over 130 years, as home to great minor league teams, a Negro Leagues hub, and host of star-studded exhibitions that involved some of the greatest players in baseball history. The book features 32 essays, player profiles and stats, and over 80 photos, many previously unpublished.

Vol Feats

Author : Fred Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Vol Feats written by Fred Russell and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Timeline History of Baseball

Author : Don Jensen
Publisher : Thunder Bay Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Timeline History of Baseball written by Don Jensen and published by Thunder Bay Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Take me out to the ballgame, take me out to the crowd!" Baseball is an integral part of American popular culture. In fact, baseball offers a form of social currency by which many people relate. Its stars--King Kelly, Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio--have often transcended the game. Discover the amazing development of baseball in The Timeline History of Baseball.- Lavishly illustrated and colorfully designed throughout, The Timeline History of Baseball presents hundreds of fascinating details about the development of baseball in a fun, easy-to-use format.- This unique book brings together a comprehensive history of the sport along with a separate pull-out timeline that offers an at-a-glance view of baseball from 1601 to 2009.- Get some peanuts and Cracker Jacks! You're about to meet some of the greatest players and teams ever to play the game, and venture to some of baseball's hallowed grounds and legendary stadiums.- Did you know that the spit ball was outlawed in 1920, but pitchers who already threw it were permitted to continue using it until they retired? Filled with fun and fascinating facts about the game and all of its organized leagues throughout history, including the major and minor leagues, negro leagues, women's leagues, little league and leagues around the world.- This engaging compendium also includes a giant, colorfully-illustrated gate-fold timeline that offers a unique way of looking at the history of baseball. The timeline integrates world events with major moments in baseball for a unique overview of social history.

The College World Series

Author : W.C. Madden
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439615268
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book The College World Series written by W.C. Madden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1950, Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium (formerly Municipal Stadium) has hosted the nation's top college baseball programs in the College World Series. Baseball fans from every corner of the country have taken the annual "Road to Omaha" and packed the seats to see championship baseball at its best. In 1954 thousands saw Jim Ehrler of Texas toss the tourney's first no-hitter en route to the Longhorns winning back-to-back CWS championships. Fans at the 1970 tournament saw Southern Cal defeat Florida State in the midst of their unmatched five-year championship run. In 1996 Rosenblatt's faithful took in the dramatic bottom-of-the-ninth, two-out, two-run homer by Louisiana State's Warren Morris, giving his team a 9-8 upset victory over powerhouse Miami.

"The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie"

Author : John A. Simpson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476611084
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book "The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie" written by John A. Simpson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1908 baseball was the only game that mattered in the South. With no major league team in the region, rivalries between Southern Association cities such as Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans were heated. This season, however, no city was as baseball-crazed as Nashville, whose Vols had been league doormat in 1907. After an unpromising start, the Nashville club clawed its way into contention during the month of July, rising into the upper division, then into a battle for first. Local interest intensified, as the competitive fire of Nashville fans was stoked by sharp-tongued columnist Grantland Rice and the city's three daily newspapers. By the time the Vols met the New Orleans Pelicans for a season-ending series, and the championship, the city was gripped by a pennant fever that shut down the commercial district. Nearly 13,000 people thronged the Nashville ballpark, Sulphur Dell, for the third and deciding contest. What they saw was described by Rice as "the greatest game ever played in Dixie."

Nobody's Perfect

Author : Armando Galarraga
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802195598
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Nobody's Perfect written by Armando Galarraga and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Detroit Tigers, an umpire, a pitcher, and a mistake—one of the “classic, human, baseball stories” (Ken Burns, creator of the PBS mini-series Baseball). The perfect game is one of the rarest accomplishments in sports. In nearly four hundred thousand contests in over 130 years, it has happened only twenty times. On June 2, 2010, Armando Galarraga threw baseball’s twenty-first. Except that’s not how it entered the record books. That’s because Jim Joyce, voted the best umpire in the game in 2010 and 2011, missed the call on the final out. But rather than throwing a tantrum, Galarraga simply turned and smiled, went back to the mound, and finished the game. “Nobody’s perfect,” he said later in the locker room. “You might think everything that could have been said, replayed, and revealed about that night has already been uttered, logged, and exposed. You would, however, be as wrong as the unfortunate Mr. Joyce” (The Detroit News). In Nobody’s Perfect, Galarraga and Joyce come together to tell the personal story of a remarkable game that will live forever in baseball lore, and to trace their fascinating lives in sports. The result is “a masterpiece”, an absorbing insider’s look at two careers in baseball, a tremendous achievement, and an enduring moment of pure grace and sportsmanship (The Huffington Post).

Baseball in New Orleans

Author : S. Derby Gisclair
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738516141
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Baseball in New Orleans written by S. Derby Gisclair and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July of 1859, seventy-five young New Orleanians came together to form the seven teams that comprised the Louisiana Base Ball Club. They played their games in the fields of the de la Chaise estate on the outskirts of New Orleans near present-day Louisiana Avenue. As America's population grew through immigration, so did the popularity of what the largest newspaper in New Orleans, the Daily Picayune, called in November of 1860 "the National Game." Baseball quickly replaced cricket as the city's most popular participant sport. In 1887, local businessmen and promoters secured a minor league franchise for the city of New Orleans in the newly formed Southern League, beginning the city's 73-year love affair with the New Orleans Pelicans. From Shoeless Joe Jackson, to Hall of Famers Dazzy Vance, Joe Sewell, Bob Lemon, and Earl Weaver, to today's stars such as Jeff Cirillo and Lance Berkman, the road to the majors brought many notable players through New Orleans. From these early beginnings to the present-day New Orleans Zephyrs of the AAA Pacific Coast League, local fans have continued the tradition of baseball in New Orleans.

Black Baseball

Author : Kyle McNary
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781856487764
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Black Baseball written by Kyle McNary and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-03-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first Black amateur players before the Civil War through to the last barnstorming Negro League teams in the 1960s, here is the complete and utterly fascinating history of segregated baseball in the United States. Thanks to photographs of the major players and many first-hand accounts, baseball fans will get the full story of this tumultuous time, behind the scenes and out in the ballparks. Every detail is revealed, starting with that sad day in 1911 when the governing body of the National Association of Baseball Players voted unanimously to bar any club that signed an African-American. Meet the many players, including George Stovey, Sol White, and Welday Walker, who blazed the way for Jackie Robinson to integrate major league baseball in 1947. Feel the frustration felt by the players when they were denied hotel rooms and restaurant service while on the road. Every image and tale also conveys the joy of the game and the pride these men felt in playing professional baseball.

The Baseball 100

Author : Joe Posnanski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982180609
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Baseball 100 written by Joe Posnanski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year “An instant sports classic.” —New York Post * “Stellar.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A true masterwork…880 pages of sheer baseball bliss.” —BookPage (starred review) * “This is a remarkable achievement.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singular, and masterly book that took a lifetime to write. The entire story of baseball rings through a countdown of the 100 greatest players in history, with a foreword by George Will. Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,? The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski. In the book’s introduction, Pulitzer Prize–winning commentator George F. Will marvels, “Posnanski must already have lived more than two hundred years. How else could he have acquired such a stock of illuminating facts and entertaining stories about the rich history of this endlessly fascinating sport?” Baseball’s legends come alive in these pages, which are not merely rankings but vibrant profiles of the game’s all-time greats. Posnanski dives into the biographies of iconic Hall of Famers, unfairly forgotten All-Stars, talents of today, and more. He doesn’t rely just on records and statistics—he lovingly retraces players’ origins, illuminates their characters, and places their accomplishments in the context of baseball’s past and present. Just how good a pitcher is Clayton Kershaw in the 21st-century game compared to Greg Maddux dueling with the juiced hitters of the nineties? How do the career and influence of Hank Aaron compare to Babe Ruth’s? Which player in the top ten most deserves to be resurrected from history? No compendium of baseball’s legendary geniuses could be complete without the players of the segregated Negro Leagues, men whose extraordinary careers were largely overlooked by sportswriters at the time and unjustly lost to history. Posnanski writes about the efforts of former Negro Leaguers to restore sidelined Black athletes to their due honor and draws upon the deep troves of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and extensive interviews with the likes of Buck O’Neil to illuminate the accomplishments of players such as pitchers Satchel Paige and Smokey Joe Williams; outfielders Oscar Charleston, Monte Irvin, and Cool Papa Bell; first baseman Buck Leonard; shortstop Pop Lloyd; catcher Josh Gibson; and many, many more. The Baseball 100 treats readers to the whole rich pageant of baseball history in a single volume. Engrossing, surprising, and heartfelt, it is a magisterial tribute to the game of baseball and the stars who have played it.

Big Hair and Plastic Grass

Author : Dan Epstein
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250007240
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Big Hair and Plastic Grass written by Dan Epstein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epstein takes readers on a funky ride through baseball and America in the swinging '70s in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade. Includes 8-page photo insert.

"The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie"

Author : John A. Simpson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476611084
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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A People's History of Baseball

Author : Mitchell Nathanson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252093925
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A People's History of Baseball written by Mitchell Nathanson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball is much more than the national pastime. It has become an emblem of America itself. From its initial popularity in the mid-nineteenth century, the game has reflected national values and beliefs and promoted what it means to be an American. Stories abound that illustrate baseball's significance in eradicating racial barriers, bringing neighborhoods together, building civic pride, and creating on the field of play an instructive civics lesson for immigrants on the national character. In A People's History of Baseball, Mitchell Nathanson probes the less well-known but no less meaningful other side of baseball: episodes not involving equality, patriotism, heroism, and virtuous capitalism, but power--how it is obtained, and how it perpetuates itself. Through the growth and development of baseball Nathanson shows that, if only we choose to look for it, we can see the petty power struggles as well as the large and consequential ones that have likewise defined our nation. By offering a fresh perspective on the firmly embedded tales of baseball as America, a new and unexpected story emerges of both the game and what it represents. Exploring the founding of the National League, Nathanson focuses on the newer Americans who sought club ownership to promote their own social status in the increasingly closed caste of nineteenth-century America. His perspective on the rise and public rebuke of the Players Association shows that these baseball events reflect both the collective spirit of working and middle-class America in the mid-twentieth century as well as the countervailing forces that sought to beat back this emerging movement that threatened the status quo. And his take on baseball’s racial integration that began with Branch Rickey’s “Great Experiment” reveals the debilitating effects of the harsh double standard that resulted, requiring a black player to have unimpeachable character merely to take the field in a Major League game, a standard no white player was required to meet. Told with passion and occasional outrage, A People's History of Baseball challenges the perspective of the well-known, deeply entrenched, hyper-patriotic stories of baseball and offers an incisive alternative history of America's much-loved national pastime.

Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Author : Anika Orrock
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452174261
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League written by Anika Orrock and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the history of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and the stories of the first women to play professional baseball in a league of their own. In 1941, the world was at war, and with able-bodied American men fighting overseas, professional baseball was in danger of becoming a quaint relic—until women stepped up to the plate. In this heartwarming illustrated history, the League's story is told by the ones who know it best: the players. Author Anika Orrock collects a variety of funny, charming, wince-worthy, and powerful vignettes told by the players themselves about their time playing the American pastime. • Features stories of grit and perseverance against all odds, told by the players themselves • Filled with player statistics, historical beats, headlines, and more; and fully illustrated in Anika's vibrant style • A visually engaging, readable women-led history book Written in an approachable manner and beautifully illustrated, The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League is a one-of-a-kind story told through the women's own voices and their own perspectives. This book ultimately proves that the incredible women of the AAGPBL truly were in a league of their own. • A unique celebration of a specific moment in women's and sports history • A great read for experienced and new sports fans alike, readers young and old, baseball fans • Perfect accompaniment to books like Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky, Strong is the New Pretty by Kate T. Parker, and Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future! by Kate Schatz

Major Leagues

Author : David Pietrusza
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786425303
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Major Leagues written by David Pietrusza and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New major leagues have sprung up throughout the history of baseball, both long-term successes (the American and National leagues) and the transitory, of which the Federal League (1914-15) and the Mexican League (1946) were two. Some leagues were born of noble motives (the Union Association, 1884, to abolish the reserve clause); others, farcical (the Global League, 1969). And many were stillborn, never playing that first inning (such as the Continental League, 1959-60). Here is their history and an analysis of the conditions that determined success or failure.

Nashville Sports History

Author : Bill Traughber
Publisher : Sports
ISBN 13 : 9781596298200
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Nashville Sports History written by Bill Traughber and published by Sports. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this all-access pass to more than a century of sports in the Music City packed into one exciting volume Watch from the bleachers as Ty Cobb practices with the Vanderbilt football team and Babe Ruth blasts home runs out of the old Sulphur Dell Ball Park, or go all the way back to 1843 and witness what was then the richest horse race in the world at the Nashville Race Course. These are but a few of the stories compiled by local award-winning sportswriter Bill Traughber in this one-of-a-kind collection no sports fan should be without. Included are excerpts from local sportswriters like the legendary Grantland Rice and over forty historic photographs from the playing field.

Home Plate

Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Home Plate written by Patrick Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book for Middle/High School students and adults, you see a shared celebration of Henry Kimbro and other Negro Leaguers at the 1993 Major League Baseball All-Stars Game through the eyes of grandson Patrick Hamilton. Great-granddaughter Jada Scott reflects on the Negro League story in the foreword. A history of the Negro Leagues are given, and you meet all the Negro League heroes from Nashville. The book shares how the city celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Negro League year of 2020 with community partners like Belmont University, and the Board of Parks. It also shows a direct link of the local Negro Leaguers and those Major League Baseball players they played with in the Negro Leagues. The last chapter is a scavenger hunt for local students. A reference book for Negro League baseball in Nashville, Tennessee is a must have for baseball, and sport fans everywhere.