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Gold Glove Baseball

Author : American Baseball Coaches Association
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 9780736062633
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Gold Glove Baseball written by American Baseball Coaches Association and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solid defense begins before the first pitch is thrown. From player placement to situational awareness, the nuances of superior fielding are vast and varied. That's why the American Baseball Coaches Association's top defensive minds have compiled Gold Glove Baseball--to give you an all-encompassing resource to help turn your team into a stellar defensive unit. The all-star lineup of coaches provide in-depth instruction, special insights, and practice drills on every aspect of defensive play. The book's scope ranges from fundamentals to advanced tactics for those who have mastered the basics. Coaches at all levels and serious players will find great tips and new techniques for executing specific fielding maneuvers and complex plays involving several players. A sample defensive signals system will explain how to coordinate the positioning and movements of all nine fielders on every pitch. Winning baseball requires smart and steady defensive play every bit as much as solid hitting and strong pitching. In fact, many top baseball coaches say that the foundation of championship teams is defense because it makes pitchers' jobs easier and takes pressure off the offense. Gold Glove Baseball provides a complete plan for playing championship-caliber defense.

The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading, and Bubble Gum Book

Author : Brendan C. Boyd
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780316104296
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading, and Bubble Gum Book written by Brendan C. Boyd and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 1973 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on collecting baseball cards in childhood accompany remarks on the skills and achievements of players whose pictures were found in bubble gum packages

The Major League Baseball Book of Fabulous Facts and Awesome Trivia

Author : Ken Shouler
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061073733
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Major League Baseball Book of Fabulous Facts and Awesome Trivia written by Ken Shouler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-04-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This homer of a book is filled with knuckleballs and curves guaranteed to delight baseball fans. Author Shouler includes more than 500 Q&A's that cover the game's all-time greats and no-so-great players, teams past and present, and the colorful personalities that play ball.

Mr. Redlegs and His Great Adventure

Author : Joel Altman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937406363
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Redlegs and His Great Adventure written by Joel Altman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Extra 2%

Author : Jonah Keri
Publisher : ESPN
ISBN 13 : 0345517652
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Extra 2% written by Jonah Keri and published by ESPN. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team’s Cinderella journey from divisional doormat to World Series contender. When former Goldman Sachs colleagues Stuart Sternberg and Matthew Silverman assumed control of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2005, it looked as if they were buying the baseball equivalent of a penny stock. But the incoming regime came armed with a master plan: to leverage their skill at trading, valuation, and management to build a model twenty-first-century franchise that could compete with their bigger, stronger, richer rivals—and prevail. Together with “boy genius” general manager Andrew Friedman, the new Rays owners jettisoned the old ways of doing things, substituting their own innovative ideas about employee development, marketing and public relations, and personnel management. They exorcized the “devil” from the team’s nickname, developed metrics that let them take advantage of undervalued aspects of the game, like defense, and hired a forward-thinking field manager as dedicated to unconventional strategy as they were. By quantifying the game’s intangibles—that extra 2% that separates a winning organization from a losing one—they were able to deliver to Tampa Bay something that Billy Beane’s “Moneyball” had never brought to Oakland: an American League pennant. A book about what happens when you apply your business skills to your life’s passion, The Extra 2% is an informative and entertaining case study for any organization that wants to go from worst to first.

The Story of the Cincinnati Reds

Author : Michael E. Goodman
Publisher : Creative Educ
ISBN 13 : 9781608180370
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Cincinnati Reds written by Michael E. Goodman and published by Creative Educ. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The history of the Cincinnati Reds professional baseball team from its inaugural 1869 season to today, spotlighting the team's greatest players and most memorable moments"--Provided by publisher.

The Great American Baseball Team Book

Author : David Nemec
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 : 9780452267817
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book The Great American Baseball Team Book written by David Nemec and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a compact source of information and a rich source of entertainment, this volume reveals nearly anything one could want to know about America's major league teams from 1876 right up to the present. The book presents charts on the individual record holders of every club as well as overviews that detail the best and worst seasons, trades, players, and more.

The Art of Fielding

Author : Chad Harbach
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316192163
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Fielding written by Chad Harbach and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this widely acclaimed tale about love, life, and baseball, praised by the New York Times as "wonderful...a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting." Named one of the year's best books by the New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Bloomberg, Kansas City Star, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Time Out New York. At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, The Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment -- to oneself and to others. "First novels this complete and consuming come along very, very seldom." --Jonathan Franzen

The Story of the Tampa Bay Rays

Author : Nate LeBoutillier
Publisher : Creative Educ
ISBN 13 : 9781608180578
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Tampa Bay Rays written by Nate LeBoutillier and published by Creative Educ. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The history of the Tampa Bay Rays professional baseball team from its inaugural 1998 season to today, spotlighting the team's greatest players and most memorable moments"--Provided by publisher.

The Great Baseball Revolt

Author : Robert B. Ross
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803249411
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Great Baseball Revolt written by Robert B. Ross and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a response to the National League’s salary cap and “reserve rule,” which bound players for life to one particular team. Led by John Montgomery Ward, the Players League was a star-studded group that included most of the best players of the National League, who bolted not only to gain control of their wages but also to share ownership of the teams. Lasting only a year, the league impacted both the professional sports and the labor politics of athletes and nonathletes alike. The Great Baseball Revolt is a historic overview of the rise and fall of the Players League, which fielded teams in Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. Though it marketed itself as a working-class league, the players were underfunded and had to turn to wealthy capitalists for much of their startup costs, including the new ballparks. It was in this context that the league intersected with the organized labor movement, and in many ways challenged by organized labor to be by and for the people. In its only season, the Players League outdrew the National League in fan attendance. But when the National League overinflated its numbers and profits, the Players League backers pulled out. The Great Baseball Revolt brings to life a compelling cast of characters and a mostly forgotten but important time in professional sports when labor politics affected both athletes and nonathletes. Purchase the audio edition.

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

SABR 50 at 50

Author : Bill Nowlin
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496222687
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book SABR 50 at 50 written by Bill Nowlin and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SABR 50 at 50 celebrates and highlights the Society for American Baseball Research’s wide-ranging contributions to baseball history. Established in 1971 in Cooperstown, New York, SABR has sought to foster and disseminate the research of baseball—with groundbreaking work from statisticians, historians, and independent researchers—and has published dozens of articles with far-reaching and long-lasting impact on the game. Among its current membership are many Major and Minor League Baseball officials, broadcasters, and writers as well as numerous former players. The diversity of SABR members’ interests is reflected in this fiftieth-anniversary volume—from baseball and the arts to statistical analysis to the Deadball Era to women in baseball. SABR 50 at 50 includes the most important and influential research published by members across a multitude of topics, including the sabermetric work of Dick Cramer, Pete Palmer, and Bill James, along with Jerry Malloy on the Negro Leagues, Keith Olbermann on why the shortstop position is number 6, John Thorn and Jules Tygiel on the untold story behind Jackie Robinson’s signing with the Dodgers, and Gai Berlage on the Colorado Silver Bullets women’s team in the 1990s. To provide history and context, each notable research article is accompanied by a short introduction. As SABR celebrates fifty years this collection gathers the organization’s most notable research and baseball history for the serious baseball reader.

Shades of Glory

Author : Lawrence D. Hogan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780792253068
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Shades of Glory written by Lawrence D. Hogan and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of a study commissioned by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and funded by a grant from Major League Baseball(, this richly illustrated, comprehensive history combines vivid narrative, visual impact, and a unique statistical component to re-create the excitement and passion of the Negro Leagues. 75 photos.

The History of the Cincinnati Reds

Author : Michael E. Goodman
Publisher : Child's World
ISBN 13 : 9780886829056
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Cincinnati Reds written by Michael E. Goodman and published by Child's World. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the key personalities and memorable games in the history of the team that is the oldest professional club, formed in 1876.

How Baseball Happened

Author : Thomas W. Gilbert
Publisher : Godine+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1567926886
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book How Baseball Happened written by Thomas W. Gilbert and published by Godine+ORM. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of baseball’s nineteenth-century origins: “a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat” (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal). You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. They didn’t. Perhaps you’ve read that baseball’s color line was first crossed by Jackie Robinson in 1947. Nope. Baseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. They were hundreds of uncredited, ordinary people who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They worked, built businesses, and fought against the South in the Civil War. In this myth-busting history, Thomas W. Gilbert reveals the true beginnings of baseball. Through newspaper accounts, diaries, and other accounts, he explains how it evolved through the mid-nineteenth century into a modern sport of championships, media coverage, and famous stars—all before the first professional league was formed in 1871. Winner of the Casey Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year

Cincinnati Reds Legends

Author : Mike Shannon
Publisher : Kent State University Press / Black Squirrel Books
ISBN 13 : 9781606352311
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Cincinnati Reds Legends written by Mike Shannon and published by Kent State University Press / Black Squirrel Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest players of all time Few Major League Baseball teams have a history as glorious and as interesting as the Cincinnati Reds. From the earliest days of baseball's first professional team, skillful and colorful players have worn the Cincinnati uniform. The greatest and most famous of these players have attained legendary status, and in this book they are given their due. Best-selling baseball author Mike Shannon brings to bear his expertise on the Reds in selecting and profiling the forty Reds who best fit the definition of "legend." From the Wright Brothers and Edd Roush to Johnny Vander Meer and Ted Kluszewski, from Frank Robinson and Pete Rose to Barry Larkin and Joey Votto--athletes who by their stellar play, unique personalities, and uncommon achievements have made themselves unforgettable--they are all here in Cincinnati Reds Legends. Shannon encapsulates the greatness of each player in deft vignettes that are remarkable as much for their insight as their interest. Even veteran Reds fans will get to know and appreciate these legends better through the book's lively and informative text. What truly sets this book apart is the stunning original artwork that supplements the text. Three of today's most gifted baseball artists provide full-color, full-page images of the forty Legends that are invariably beautiful, arresting, and joyful to behold. Chris Felix's exquisitely executed portraits have the dignified look and feel of an old master, capturing the essence of his subjects. With rigorous attention to detail, an ebullient palette, and his unerring sense of composition, Scott Hannig dramatizes a lifelong devotion to the Reds. The digitally created showstoppers of the brilliant Donnie Pollard simply mesmerize the eye. Here are the Reds' greatest players as they have never before been presented. The talented trio of Felix, Hannig, and Pollard is a diamond act that no self-respecting baseball fan can afford to miss. Miniature portraits, playing statistics, and stunning paintings of Palace of the Fans, Crosley Field, Riverfront Stadium, and Great American Ball Park round out this beautiful book that will be treasured by baseball fans everywhere.

The Great American Whatever

Author : Tim Federle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481404113
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Great American Whatever written by Tim Federle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Five, Six, Seven, Nate! and Better Nate Than Ever comes “a Holden Caulfield for a new generation” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Quinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful whose only worry used to be writing convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth. Of course, that was all before—before Quinn stopped going to school, before his mom started sleeping on the sofa…and before the car accident that changed everything. Enter: Geoff, Quinn’s best friend who insists it’s time that Quinn came out—at least from hibernation. One haircut later, Geoff drags Quinn to his first college party, where instead of nursing his pain, he meets a guy—okay, a hot guy—and falls, hard. What follows is an upside-down week in which Quinn begins imagining his future as a screenplay that might actually have a happily-ever-after ending—if, that is, he can finally step back into the starring role of his own life story.