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The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs

Author : Bill Jenkinson
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs written by Bill Jenkinson and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-02-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unprecedented look at Babe Ruth's amazing batting power, sure to inspire debate among baseball fans of every stripe, one of the country's most respected and trusted baseball historians reveals the amazing conclusions of more than twenty years of research. Jenkinson takes readers through Ruth's 1921 season, in which his pattern of battled balls would have accounted for more than 100 home runs in today's ballparks and under today's rules. Yet, 1921 is just tip of the iceberg, for Jenkinson's research reveals that during an era of mammoth field dimensions Ruth hit more 450-plus-feet shots than anybody in history, and the conclusions one can draw are mind boggling.

Baseball's Ultimate Power

Author : Bill Jenkinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762762470
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Ultimate Power written by Bill Jenkinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tape measure home run is the greatest single act of power in the game of baseball, and the tales of these homers are the most cherished legacies players and fans hand down through the generations. Fully illustrated with photos of the players and aerial ballpark photos showing the landing spots of each stadium's longest homers.

Roger Maris

Author : Tom Clavin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416596820
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Roger Maris written by Tom Clavin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Clavin and Danny Peary chronicle the life and career of baseball’s “natural home run king” in the first definitive biography of Roger Maris—including a brand-new chapter to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his record breaking season. Roger Maris may be the greatest ballplayer no one really knows. In 1961, the soft-spoken man from the frozen plains of North Dakota enjoyed one of the most amazing seasons in baseball history, when he outslugged his teammate Mickey Mantle to become the game’s natural home-run king. It was Mantle himself who said, "Roger was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was." Yet Maris was vilified by fans and the press and has never received his due from biographers—until now. Tom Clavin and Danny Peary trace the dramatic arc of Maris’s life, from his boyhood in Fargo through his early pro career in the Cleveland Indians farm program, to his World Series championship years in New York and beyond. At the center is the exciting story of the 1961 season and the ordeal Maris endured as an outsider in Yankee pinstripes, unloved by fans who compared him unfavorably to their heroes Ruth and Mantle, relentlessly attacked by an aggressive press corps who found him cold and inaccessible, and treated miserably by the organization. After the tremendous challenge of breaking Ruth’s record was behind him, Maris ultimately regained his love of baseball as a member of the world champion St. Louis Cardinals. And over time, he gained redemption in the eyes of the Yankee faithful. With research drawn from more than 130 interviews with Maris’s teammates, opponents, family, and friends, as well as 16 pages of photos, some of which have never before been seen, this timely and poignant biography sheds light on an iconic figure from baseball’s golden era—and establishes the importance of his role in the game’s history.

Home Run

Author : Robert Burleigh
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152045999
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Home Run written by Robert Burleigh and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic account of the legendary Babe Ruth as he prepares to make a home run.

Babe Ruth

Author : Bill Gilbert
Publisher : Chartwell
ISBN 13 : 0785843728
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Babe Ruth written by Bill Gilbert and published by Chartwell. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get to know the Bambino like never before in this heartfelt tribute written by his daughter--includes 200+ photos from the Ruth family collection and removable memorabilia. Babe Ruth was one of the most celebrated athletes of the twentieth century. Known as the Sultan of Swat, the Bambino, and a host of other nicknames, Ruth broke records and boundaries in America's favorite sport. In this personal reflection on his life and career, his daughter Julia Ruth Stevens shares with fans an up-close look at the man who changed the game of baseball forever. In this moving memoir, you'll find: Over 200 photos from the Ruth family collection A pocket in the back with removable reproductions of ephemera from Babe's career, including tickets from major games, programs, and a player contract Behind-the-scenes commentary on famous moments from Babe's life A nostalgic record of an important part of American history Baseball fans and history buffs will love this different angle on Ruth, revealing the man behind the legend. It's a perfect gift for dads, grads, and sports fans.

Babe & the Kid

Author : Charlie Poekel
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161423096X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Babe & the Kid written by Charlie Poekel and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-19 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most famous home run in baseball history: “The go-to book for an accurate portrayal of the story” (Sports Collectors Digest). On the eve of game four of the 1926 World Series, Babe Ruth heard that a young New Jersey boy, Johnny Sylvester, was laid up with a deadly illness. Ruth autographed a ball for Johnny, inscribing it, “I’ll knock a homer for you in Wednesday’s game—Babe Ruth.” The rest was history. Ruth delivered on his promise, and Johnny made a miraculous recovery. In Babe & the Kid, author Charlie Poekel traces the story behind the sensational headlines, and follows Johnny’s remarkable life in the aftermath of Ruth’s incredible feat. Includes photos!

Tales from the Deadball Era

Author : Mark S. Halfon
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612346499
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Deadball Era written by Mark S. Halfon and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Deadball Era (1901û1920) is a baseball fanÆs dream. Hope and despair, innocence and cynicism, and levity and hostility blended then to create an air of excitement, anticipation, and concern for all who entered the confines of a major league ballpark. Cheating for the sake of victory earned respect, corrupt ballplayers fixed games with impunity, and violence plagued the sport. Spectators stormed the field to attack players and umpires, ballplayers charged the stands to pummel hecklers, and physical battles between opposing clubs occurred regularly in a phenomenon known as ôrowdyism.ö At the same time, endearing practices infused baseball with lightheartedness, kindness, and laughter. Fans ran onto the field with baskets of flowers, loving cups, diamond jewelry, gold watches, and cash for their favorite players in the middle of games. Ballplayers volunteered for ôbenefit contestsö to aid fellow big leaguers and the country in times of need. ôJoke gamesö reduced sport to pure theater as outfielders intentionally dropped fly balls, infielders happily booted easy grounders, hurlers tossed soft pitches over the middle of the plate, and umpires ignored the rules. Winning meant nothing, amusement meant everything, and league officials looked the other way. Mark Halfon looks at life in the major leagues in the early 1900s, the careers of John McGraw, Ty Cobb, and Walter Johnson, and the events that brought about the end of the Deadball Era. He highlights the strategies, underhanded tactics, and bitter battles that defined this storied time in baseball history, while providing detailed insights into the players and teams involved in bringing to a conclusion this remarkable period in baseball history.

Understanding Sabermetrics

Author : Gabriel B. Costa
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476667667
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Sabermetrics written by Gabriel B. Costa and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in Sabermetrics has increased dramatically in recent years as the need to better compare baseball players has intensified among managers, agents and fans, and even other players. The authors explain how traditional measures--such as Earned Run Average, Slugging Percentage, and Fielding Percentage--along with new statistics--Wins Above Average, Fielding Independent Pitching, Wins Above Replacement, the Equivalence Coefficient and others--define the value of players. Actual player statistics are used in developing models, while examples and exercises are provided in each chapter. This book serves as a guide for both beginners and those who wish to be successful in fantasy leagues.

War Fever

Author : Randy Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781541672680
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book War Fever written by Randy Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard law student Charles Whittlesey In the fall of 1918, a fever gripped Boston. The streets emptied as paranoia about the deadly Spanish flu spread. Newspapermen and vigilante investigators aggressively sought to discredit anyone who looked or sounded German. And as the war raged on, the enemy seemed to be lurking everywhere: prowling in submarines off the coast of Cape Cod, arriving on passenger ships in the harbor, or disguised as the radicals lecturing workers about the injustice of a sixty-hour workweek. War Fever explores this delirious moment in American history through the stories of three men: Karl Muck, the German conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, accused of being an enemy spy; Charles Whittlesey, a Harvard law graduate who became an unlikely hero in Europe; and the most famous baseball player of all time, Babe Ruth, poised to revolutionize the game he loved. Together, they offer a gripping narrative of America at war and American culture in upheaval.

Hank Greenberg

Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300175140
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Hank Greenberg written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the Jewish-American baseball player who, in 1934, risked his chance to beat Babe Ruth's home run record by sitting out a game on Yom Kippur, and describes his impact on Jewish-American history.

Gotham Baseball

Author : Mark C Healey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439669562
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Gotham Baseball written by Mark C Healey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Big Apple’s greatest squad . . . Selecting either a Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, New York Yankees or New York Mets player for each position.” —Long Island Herald Baseball may be the great American pastime, but in New York, it is a religion. Names like Ruth, Mays, Gehrig, Wright and Robinson live in the hearts and minds of New York fans like apostles. From the street corner to the subway car, debates about which Yankee, Giant, Dodger or Met is better than another have raged on for more than one hundred years. Now, the best of the best are chosen for each position as New York’s all-time greatest team is imagined. Shoo-ins like the Babe and Jackie have their stories told with a fresh perspective. The compelling case for Mike Piazza, not Yogi Berra, as catcher is sure to spark arguments. Sportswriter Mark Healey crafts the Gotham baseball team through captivating tales of the legends of the New York game. “One of the best Baseball Teams books of all time.” —BookAuthority “Many a sportswriter in a column and many a baseball fan in a New York City sports bar have tried to say that their guys were the best; but what if you could put the greatest in Gotham’s rich baseball history—the very, very best—on one team? . . . Mark C. Healey endeavors to do just that—and start a few more arguments along the way.” —Queens Chronicle

Heat

Author : Mike Lupica
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142407578
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Heat written by Mike Lupica and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 Bestseller! Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat along with aspirations of leading his team all the way to the Little League World Series. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family’s escape from Cuba, Michael’s only family is his seventeen-yearold brother Carlos. If Social Services hears of their situation, they will be separated in the foster-care system—or worse, sent back to Cuba. Together, the boys carry on alone, dodging bills and anyone who asks too many questions. But then someone wonders how a twelve-year-old boy could possibly throw with as much power as Michael Arroyo throws. With no way to prove his age, no birth certificate, and no parent to fight for his cause, Michael’s secret world is blown wide open, and he discovers that family can come from the most unexpected sources. Perfect for any Little Leaguer with dreams of making it big--as well as for fans of Mike Lupica's other New York Times bestsellers Travel Team, The Big Field, The Underdogs, Million-Dollar Throw, and The Game Changers series, this cheer-worthy baseball story shows that when the game knocks you down, champions stand tall.

Becoming Mr. October

Author : Reggie Jackson
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307476804
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Mr. October written by Reggie Jackson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soul-baring, brutally candid, and highly colorful memoir of the two years--1977 and 1978--when Reggie Jackson went from being an outcast to a Yankee legend. In the spring of 1977 Reggie Jackson should have been on top of the world. The best player on the Oakland A's dynasty teams, he was the first big-money free agent wooed by George Steinbrenner into coming to the New York Yankees. But, as Reggie writes in this vivid and surprising memoir, until his initial experience with the Yankees, "I didn't know what alone meant." Persevering against an alcoholic manager, ostracism from teammates, and negative stereotypes in the New York City press, Jackson fought against the odds to become "Mr. October." Filled with revealing anecdotes about the notorious "Bronx Zoo" Yankees of the late 1970s, bluntly honest portrayals of his teammates and competitors, and especially of manager Billy Martin, Becoming Mr. October is a revelatory self-portrait of a baseball icon at the height of his public fame and private anguish.

Baseball Between the Numbers

Author : Jonah Keri
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465003737
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Baseball Between the Numbers written by Jonah Keri and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers, and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams we root for could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, and win more games. The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport, no one has written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of statistical analysis in baseball-people like Bill James, Billy Beane, and Theo Epstein-think about numbers and the game. Baseball Between the Numbers is that book. In separate chapters covering every aspect of the game, from hitting, pitching, and fielding to roster construction and the scouting and drafting of players, the experts at Baseball Prospectus examine the subtle, hidden aspects of the game, bring them out into the open, and show us how our favorite teams could win more games. This is a book that every fan, every follower of sports radio, every fantasy player, every coach, and every player, at every level, can learn from and enjoy.

The Big Bam

Author : Leigh Montville
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0767919718
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book The Big Bam written by Leigh Montville and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. Babe Ruth was more than baseball’s original superstar. For eighty-five years, he has remained the sport’s reigning titan. He has been named Athlete of the Century . . . more than once. But who was this large, loud, enigmatic man? Why is so little known about his childhood, his private life, and his inner thoughts? In The Big Bam, Leigh Montville, whose recent New York Times bestselling biography of Ted Williams garnered glowing reviews and offered an exceptionally intimate look at Williams’s life, brings his trademark touch to this groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the Babe. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of the largest legend ever to loom in baseball—and in the history of organized sports. Based on newly discovered documents and interviews—including pages from Ruth’s personal scrapbooks —The Big Bam traces Ruth’s life from his bleak childhood in Baltimore to his brash entrance into professional baseball, from Boston to New York and into the record books as the world’s most explosive slugger and cultural luminary.

The Wednesday Wars

Author : Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618724834
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book The Wednesday Wars written by Gary D. Schmidt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns muchof value about the world he lives in.

Baseball's Top 100

Author : Kerry Banks
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1553655079
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Top 100 written by Kerry Banks and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the one hundred greatest records in the history of Major League Baseball, including such records as most steals of home, longest game, and most games managed.