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Ballplayer

Author : Chipper Jones
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101984422
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Ballplayer written by Chipper Jones and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlanta Braves third baseman and National Hall of Famer Chipper Jones—one of the greatest switch-hitters in baseball history—shares his remarkable story, while capturing the magic nostalgia that sets baseball apart from every other sport. Before Chipper Jones became an eight-time All-Star who amassed Hall of Fame–worthy statistics during a nineteen-year career with the Atlanta Braves, he was just a country kid from small town Pierson, Florida. A kid who grew up playing baseball in the backyard with his dad dreaming that one day he’d be a major league ballplayer. With his trademark candor and astonishing recall, Chipper Jones tells the story of his rise to the MLB ranks and what it took to stay with one organization his entire career in an era of booming free agency. His journey begins with learning the art of switch-hitting and takes off after the Braves make him the number one overall pick in the 1990 draft, setting him on course to become the linchpin of their lineup at the height of their fourteen-straight division-title run. Ballplayer takes readers into the clubhouse of the Braves’ extraordinary dynasty, from the climax of the World Series championship in 1995 to the last-gasp division win by the 2005 “Baby Braves”; all the while sharing pitch-by-pitch dissections of clashes at the plate with some of the all-time great starters, such as Clemens and Johnson, as well as closers such as Wagner and Papelbon. He delves into his relationships with Bobby Cox and his famous Braves brothers—Maddux, Glavine, and Smoltz, among them—and opponents from Cal Ripken Jr. to Barry Bonds. The National League MVP also opens up about his overnight rise to superstardom and the personal pitfalls that came with fame; his spirited rivalry with the New York Mets; his reflections on baseball in the modern era—outrageous money, steroids, and all—and his special last season in 2012. Ballplayer immerses us in the best of baseball, as if we’re sitting next to Chipper in the dugout on an endless spring day.

The Ball Player

Author : Bill Whittington
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 169871274X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Ball Player written by Bill Whittington and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about my father and his peers who grew up poor in rural North Carolina from the early to the late 1900s. The backdrop of these stories is the Carolina Textile Baseball League where James M. Whittington, Sr played from 1926 to 1954 and then further umpired, coached, and mentored many individual ball-players for another 40 years. He became a local legend in North and South Carolina, specifically the Piedmont Region. James Whittington circumstances molded him and his friends as rough men. He lived his life as a tough man but eventually found God and salvation later in life.

Make-believe Ball Player

Author : Alfred Slote
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780064404259
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Make-believe Ball Player written by Alfred Slote and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade Level 3.8, Book # 5373, Points 2.

Base Ball Founders

Author : Peter Morris
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786474300
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Base Ball Founders written by Peter Morris and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870 (McFarland 2011). Forty clubs and hundreds of pioneer players from the first hotbeds of New York City, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts are profiled by leading experts on baseball's early years. The subjects include legendary clubs such as the Knickerbockers of New York, the Eckfords and Atlantics of Brooklyn, the Athletics of Philadelphia, and Harvard's first baseball clubs, and fabled players like Jim Creighton, Dickey Pearce, and Daniel Adams, but space is also given to less well remembered clubs such as the Champion Club of Jersey City and the Cummaquids of Barnstable, Massachusetts. What united all of these founders of the game was that their love of baseball during its earliest years helped to make it the national pastime.

Only the Ball was White

Author : Robert Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195076370
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (763 download)

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Download or read book Only the Ball was White written by Robert Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the forgotten story of Black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball because of the big league's color line.

Roberto Clemente

Author : Jennifer Strand
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1680794213
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Roberto Clemente written by Jennifer Strand and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first Latin Americans to play Major League Baseball, Roberto Clemente was a true trailblazer. Historic photos and easy-to-read text take readers into the athlete’s life. Zoom in even deeper with quick stats, a timeline, and bolded glossary terms. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Zoom is a division of ABDO.

Memories of a Ballplayer

Author : Bill Werber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Memories of a Ballplayer written by Bill Werber and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Werber's claim to fame is unique: he is the last living person to have a direct connection to the 1927 Yankees, "Murderers' Row," a team hailed by many as the best of all time. Signed by the Yankees while still a freshman at Duke University, Werber spent two weeks that summer of '27 on the Yankee bench to "gain experience"--and was miserable and lonely, ignored by everyone. After graduating in 1930 Werber was back with the Yankees, but he was soon sent to the minors for seasoning (including a stretch with Casey Stengel). He returned to the big leagues in 1933 and was promptly traded to the Red Sox. A fleet-footed third baseman, Werber also played for the Athletics, Reds, and Giants, leading the league three times in stolen bases and once in runs scored. He was with the Reds when they won the pennant in 1939 and 1940. Werber played with or against some of the most productive hitters of all time, including Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio. Rich in anecdotes and humor, Memories of a Ballplayer is a clear-eyed memoir of the world of big-league baseball in the 1930s.

Ball Four

Author : Jim Bouton
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795323247
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Ball Four written by Jim Bouton and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 50th Anniversary edition of “the book that changed baseball” (NPR), chosen by Time magazine as one of the “100 Greatest Non-Fiction” books. When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold, and a “social leper” for having violated the “sanctity of the clubhouse.” Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force Bouton to sign a statement saying the book wasn’t true. Ballplayers, most of whom hadn’t read it, denounced the book. It was even banned by a few libraries. Almost everyone else, however, loved Ball Four. Fans liked discovering that athletes were real people—often wildly funny people. David Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer for his reporting on Vietnam, wrote a piece in Harper’s that said of Bouton: “He has written . . . a book deep in the American vein, so deep in fact that it is by no means a sports book.” Today Ball Four has taken on another role—as a time capsule of life in the sixties. “It is not just a diary of Bouton’s 1969 season with the Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros,” says sportswriter Jim Caple. “It’s a vibrant, funny, telling history of an era that seems even further away than four decades. To call it simply a ‘tell all book’ is like describing The Grapes of Wrath as a book about harvesting peaches in California.” Includes a new foreword by Jim Bouton's wife, Paula Kurman “An irreverent, best-selling book that angered baseball’s hierarchy and changed the way journalists and fans viewed the sports world.” —The Washington Post

Baseball Just for Kids

Author : Jerry Kasoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964582675
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Baseball Just for Kids written by Jerry Kasoff and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for 8-12 year olds, this book covers basic rules plus and strategies to make you a better player.

Late to the Ball

Author : Gerald Marzorati
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147673741X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Late to the Ball written by Gerald Marzorati and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An award-winning author shares the inspiring and entertaining account of his pursuit to become a nationally competitive tennis player--at the age of sixty. Being a man or a woman in your early sixties is different than it was a generation or two ago, at least for the more fortunate of us. We aren't old.

A Ball Player's Career

Author : Adrian Constantine Anson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Ball Player's Career written by Adrian Constantine Anson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Confessions of a Dirty Ballplayer

Author : Johnny Sample
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Dirty Ballplayer written by Johnny Sample and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soccer Skills and Drills

Author : James W. Lennox
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 9780736056298
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Soccer Skills and Drills written by James W. Lennox and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dribbling -- Receiving -- Passing -- Shooting -- Heading -- Tackling -- Goalkeeping -- Applying techniques tactically -- Developing positional tactics -- Coaching techniques and tactics.

The Soccer Handbook for Players, Coaches and Parents

Author : Albert M. Luongo
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602581
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Soccer Handbook for Players, Coaches and Parents written by Albert M. Luongo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soccer, long the world's most played sport, is now undergoing a phenomenal popularity spurt among youth in North America. This book, the complete amateur soccer handbook for all ages, is indispensable for players, coaches, managers, league officials, referees and parents. Rules of the game, conditioning methods, basic and advanced skills, positional play, team formations, defensive techniques--and much more--are covered. The Laws of the Game, a publication of the Federation Internationale de Football Associations publication is reprinted in full. The modern "short-ball" soccer concept is explained. Ball control skills are stressed for both developing and advanced players, along with self-discipline and a strong defense. With this handbook, championship teams and successful players can be built on these principles. In addition to technical skills, the important principles of leadership, self-control, sportsmanship, team play, fairness, and self-confidence are also promoted.

Player Development

Author : John Cone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000622053
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Player Development written by John Cone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Player Development: The Holistic Method provides the first holistic, evidence-based performance development method in sport. Focusing on the world’s largest sport, soccer, this book weaves together the interconnected layers driving player performance development to define a novel training method. In performance sport, narratives defining success or failure are steeped with stories of chance. The reality is that player performance and athlete development leading to career success is the byproduct of optimizing interconnected experiences toward maximizing the likelihood of individual success. It is the application of a holistic method that reduces the influence of luck and increases the likelihood of individual and team success. This book is the pathway to understanding and facilitating individual player development leading to elite performance success. This book reveals not only a holistic method, but also a universal method breaking down perceived and real barriers to provide a method transcending domains and specializations – a unified approach. The book introduces an evidence-based method toward performance development in soccer. It is key reading for students of coaching, talent development, sport performance and ancillary specializations, and practicing professionals in the field of player and performance development and coaching.

RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V

Author : Andreas Birk
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540456031
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V written by Andreas Birk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-02 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the fifth official archival publication devoted to RoboCup. It documents the achievements presented at the 5th Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences held in Seattle, Washington, USA, in August 2001.The book contains the following parts: introduction, champion teams, challenge award finalists, technical papers, poster presentations, and team descriptions (arranged according to various leagues).This book is mandatory reading for the rapidly growing RoboCup community as well as a valuable source of references and inspiration for R&D professionals interested in multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and intelligent robotics.

RoboCup 2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV

Author : Peter Stone
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540421858
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book RoboCup 2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV written by Peter Stone and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-05-23 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the fourth offical archival publication devoted to RoboCup and documents the achievements presented at the Fourth Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, RoboCup 2000, held in Melbourne, Australia, in August/September 2000. The book presents the following parts: introductory overview and survey, championship papers by the winners of the competitions, finalist papers for the RoboCup challenge awards, papers and posters presented at the workshop, team description of a large number of participating teams. This book is mandatory reading for the rapidly growing RoboCup community as well as a valuable source of reference and inspiration for R & D professionals interested in multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and intelligent robotics.