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Author : Sporting News
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892044542
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (445 download)
Download or read book The Complete Baseball Record Book, 1993 written by Sporting News and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sporting News Official Baseball Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sporting News
Publisher : Sporting News Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780892044689
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Pro Football Guide, 1993 written by Sporting News and published by Sporting News Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Deane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442244348
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Finding the Hidden Ball Trick written by Bill Deane and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dying art of the hidden-ball trick dates back to the early days of pro baseball, with seven successful executions documented in 1876 alone. This ruse occurs when a baseman conceals the ball instead of returning it to the pitcher. When the runner steps off the base, he is summarily tagged out with the hidden ball. The trick has been used some 264 times with success, a rarity roughly in the class of the no-hitter. The hidden-ball trick has produced many hilarious stories throughout the years, and even enjoyed a renaissance of sorts in 2013 when it was employed twice late in the season. In Finding the Hidden-Ball Trick: The Colorful History of Baseball’s Oldest Ruse, every known execution of the hidden-ball trick in the major leagues is documented, compiled from decades of research. This book recounts how the hidden-ball trick has completed triple plays, ended games, resulted in two arrests, cost a Hall of Famer a managing job, and even occurred in a World Series. Stories include how Fred Merkle gained revenge on Johnny Evers, how Gary Carter was caught to end a game—on his birthday—and how Lou Boudreau was nabbed the day after saying the play was obsolete. In addition to a complete chronological listing of every documented ruse, Finding the Hidden-Ball Trick also includes descriptions of tricks that went awry and a list of unsubstantiated accounts. This unique compilation of baseball stories will be of interest to baseball scholars and fans alike.
Author : David Nemec
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786468904
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball written by David Nemec and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this volume, David Nemec completes his remarkable trilogy of 19th-century baseball biographies, covering every major league player, manager, umpire, owner and league official. It provides in-depth information on many figures unknown to most historians. Each detailed entry includes vital statistics, peer-driven analysis of baseball-related skills, and an overview of the individual's role in the game. Also chronicled are players' first and last major league games, most important achievements, movements from team to team, and much more. By bringing attention to these overlooked baseball personalities, this reference work immeasurably enriches our knowledge of 19th century major league baseball.
Author : William C. Kashatus
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496214080
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Macho Row written by William C. Kashatus and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorful, shaggy, and unkempt, misfits and outlaws, the 1993 Phillies played hard and partied hard. Led by Darren Daulton, John Kruk, Lenny Dykstra, and Mitch Williams, it was a team the fans loved and continue to love today. Focusing on six key members of the team, Macho Row follows the remarkable season with an up-close look at the players’ lives, the team’s triumphs and failures, and what made this group so unique and so successful. With a throwback mentality, the team adhered to baseball’s Code. Designed to preserve the moral fabric of the game, the Code’s unwritten rules formed the bedrock of this diehard team whose players paid homage and respect to the game at all times. Trusting one another and avoiding any notions of superstardom, they consistently rubbed the opposition the wrong way and didn’t care. William C. Kashatus pulls back the covers on this old-school band of brothers, depicting the highs and lows and their brash style while also digging into the suspected steroid use of players on the team. Macho Row is a story of winning and losing, success and failure, and the emotional highs and lows that accompany them.
Author : Sporting News
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892046065
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Official Major League Baseball Fact Book (1999 Edition) written by Sporting News and published by . This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Official Major League Baseball Fact Book is the most complete and easy-to-digest look at baseball ever published. It offers a balance of baseball's past and present, with a unique blend of authority, comprehensiveness, and ease. It gives baseball fans a look: -- Ahead to the 1999 season, with team-by-team previews and rosters -- Back into the history of each team, with team records and highlights -- Back into baseball history, with lists of career, single-season, and single-game leaders and accomplishments
Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393073491
Total Pages : 1001 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition) written by Paul Dickson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.
Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1930 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 1930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892045709
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Official Major League Fact Book (1997 Edition) written by Ron Smith and published by . This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Official Major League Baseball Fact Book" offers a preview of the coming season, a look back at the previous season, and a history review. The guide offers a balance of baseball's past and present with a unique blend of authority, comprehensiveness, and ease. 32 photos. 28 charts & diagrams.
Author : R. Todd Jewell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441966307
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Violence and Aggression in Sporting Contests written by R. Todd Jewell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sporting contests have provided mass entertainment throughout history, and today generate revenues of approximately $200 billion annually in the US alone. Like in the entertainment industry, the modern sports industry’s revenues are based on the entertainment value of output and more entertaining sporting contests imply greater game-day attendance, television revenues and sales of merchandise. Research by economists has attempted to understand and explain behavior as it relates to sporting contests, showing that standard microeconomic theory used to explain consumer and producer behavior can also be applied to the behavior of fans, team owners, league executives and players. One commonality among many ancient and modern sports is the existence of violence and aggression in contests. Compare, for example, a modern NASCAR race with a Roman chariot race: Only the technology has changed. From the perspective of an economist, violence in sporting contests is an outcome of the forces of supply and demand, and the phenomenon exists because fans respond to it. Spectator preferences for violence bid up the monetary return to this behavior, and the rational response is a more violent or aggressive output. The optimum level of violent or aggressive play in sporting contests is an empirical issue and this book contains chapters on violence and aggression in sports, concentrating on the reasons for the existence and persistence of such behavior. Following a chapter devoted to the history of violence and aggression in sports, subsequent chapters are designed to cover the breadth of international professional sports including American football, soccer, ice hockey, basketball, baseball, auto racing, and fighting sports. Each chapter will contain econometric analysis of violence and aggressive play in a given sport. The individual chapters will examine whether or not a given sports league or governing body should intervene to reduce violence, and where intervention is warranted, extent of appropriate interventions is evaluated. In addition to academics and students concerned with the economics and history of sport, the book’s emphasis on policies at the league and governing-body levels means this book will also be of interest representatives of those institutions. .
Author : Dennis Thiessen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476672903
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Tip O'Neill and the St. Louis Browns of 1887 written by Dennis Thiessen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1887, Tip O'Neill, left fielder for the St. Louis Browns, won the American Association batting championship with a .492 average--the highest ever for a single season in the Major Leagues. Yet his record was set during a season when a base on balls counted as a hit and a time at bat. Over the next 130 years, the debate about O'Neill's "correct" average diverted attention from the other batting feats of his record-breaking season, including numerous multi-hit games, streaks and long hits, as well as two cycles and the triple crown. The Browns entered 1887 as the champions of St. Louis, the American Association and the world. Following the lead set by their manager, Charles Comiskey, the Browns did "anything to win," combining skill with an aggressive style of play that included noisy coaching, incessant kicking, trickery and rough play. O'Neill did "everything to win" at the plate, leaving the no-holds-barred tactics to his rowdier teammates.
Author : Bill Deane
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476642419
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Baseball's Who's Who of What Ifs written by Bill Deane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest players in baseball history are honored in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Fans and sports journalists often lament about players who might have joined the immortal ranks, if only fate--circumstances, injury or even death--hadn't intervened. Presenting a "who's who of what-ifs," this book focuses on 40 well known non-inductees, such as Tony Conigliaro, Denny McLain and Jose Fernandez, along with many others all but lost to history, such as Ross Barnes, Charlie Ferguson and Hal Trosky. Also included are more than 100 "honorable mentions" covering all of pro baseball history, from the 1860s to the 2010s.
Author : Trey Strecker
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476618895
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Understanding Baseball written by Trey Strecker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of baseball history and culture shows the national pastime to be a forum of debate where issues of sport, labor, race, character and the ethics of work and play are decided. An understanding of baseball calls for consideration of different perspectives. This very readable textbook offers insights into baseball history as a subject worthy of scholarly attention. Each chapter introduces a specific disciplinary approach--history, economics, media, law and fiction--and poses representative questions scholars from these fields would consider. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476617449
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed. written by Jonathan Fraser Light and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America's culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues' decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.
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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271038711
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Play Ball!: The Story of Little League Baseball¨ written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 4 million people participating in Little League games every year, Little League is the rite of passage into the quintessential American pastime. "Play Ball!" charts Little League's history from its earliest days and shows how, in many respects, its history parallels America's history. 140 illustrations.
Author : David L. Fleitz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486848
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Silver Bats and Automobiles written by David L. Fleitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost from professional baseball's birth more than 130 years ago, the batting championship has been one of the sport's most highly coveted awards. Since 1949, the Louisville Slugger company has presented the man with the highest batting average at season's end with the Silver Bat Award, a regulation-sized metal bat plated in sterling silver with the winner's name and average engraved upon it. Throughout the years, heated battles for the Silver Bat Award have featured unusual machinations by players, managers, and entire teams, including allegations of cheating, bribery, deliberate misplays, and questionable strategies, and, in one especially bitter campaign, charges of racism. Here are the stories behind these races.
