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Author : Bruce Reaves Coleman
Publisher : Circuit Clout Press Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book True Stars of the Major Leagues written by Bruce Reaves Coleman and published by Circuit Clout Press Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Gutelle
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0394809831
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Baseball's Best: Five True Stories written by Andrew Gutelle and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1990-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, and Hank Aaron—five amazing baseball legends. From the first black man to play major-league ball to the longest hitting streak ever, these are some of the game’s most inspiring stories. Find out what unforgettable feats won each player a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Author : Bob Motley
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1613210590
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Ruling Over Monarchs, Giants, and Stars written by Bob Motley and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a decade, umpire Bob Motley called balls and strikes for the Negro Baseball League, earning the opportunity to work with such legends as Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and Willie Mays. "Ruling Over Monarchs, Giants & Stars" is his revealing, humorous memoir.
Author : Dirk Hayhurst
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 0806535539
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Out Of My League: A Rookie's Survival in the Bigs written by Dirk Hayhurst and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a follow up to "The Bullpen Gospels," the author details his major league rookie season, revealing that for him, it isn't just about the game, but about the people and events in it.
Author : Wayne Moody
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1638148554
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Real Story of The Negro Leagues written by Wayne Moody and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Story of the Negro Leagues is an account that has needed to be told since before 1920. With the new revelation of Major League Baseball accepting Negro League statistics, it makes this book even more relevant today. There are a multitude of players who toiled in anonymity simply because of the color of their skin. This book brings to light the people who made the Negro Leagues happen, as well as the players and executives who allowed it to flourish. There are Negro League players who have become household names, while others, who had a major influence in its success, have gotten ignored over time. Most people believe that Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League Baseball. He wasn’t. Jackie actually signaled the end of Negro League baseball. Jackie’s accomplishments were monumental, but there is a rich history that led up to that moment. That rich history is where we will begin. The struggles these great players faced and degradation they had to endure is a testament to the resolve of these individuals. Their love and desire for the great game of baseball made them tackle obstacles others would never attempt. This is a story of triumph over all odds. This is “the real story of the Negro Leagues.”
Author : Major League Baseball
Publisher : FENN-M&S
ISBN 13 : 0771057350
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records written by Major League Baseball and published by FENN-M&S. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first pitch was thrown, MLB has tracked the performance of every team and player, documented every hit and measured every home run. And while some plays are part of the everyday game, there are moments in baseball when a player's performance reaches a new level of greatness and new records are made. The Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records catalogs the game's most remarkable achievements, as well as some of the less traditional and quirky stats that all play a part in the game. MLB's team of in-house writers, researchers and historians have scoured the history of the game and written the most accurate, complete and definitive record of baseball stats and achievements. Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records documents the absolute best of the best and packs each achievement into this lavishly illustrated book where fans will be treated to never-before-seen photographs of their favourite players. Double-page spreads will show Henderson racing to second base to claim the stolen base record, while another full color spread celebrates Bond's crushing hit that set a new threshold for most home-runs. All the records are here, each with an account of events and spectacular photographs that make this truly the most spectacular baseball book ever published.
Author : Christine Dzidrums
Publisher : Creative Media Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1938438264
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Matt Kemp: True Blue Baseball Star written by Christine Dzidrums and published by Creative Media Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All-Star, Gold Glove Winner and Silver Slugger! Outfielder Matt Kemp is one of the most successful players in Los Angeles Dodgers history. A five-tool player, the star athlete excels at hitting for average, power, base-running, throwing, and fielding. He is also one of the most respected and beloved athletes of his generation. A children’s biography, Matt Kemp: True Blue Baseball Star chronicles the life story of the baseball superstar. Young readers will be inspired to read the tale of how the talented kid from Oklahoma overcame family struggles to become an upstanding role model and All-Star slugger. The King of Chavez Ravine, Matt Kemp will inspire young readers of all ages!
Author : David Pietrusza
Publisher : Church & Reid
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Major Leagues written by David Pietrusza and published by Church & Reid. This book was released on 1991 with total page 404 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. “This is a first class work in the comprehensive baseball history category and belongs on the shelf along with those impressive volumes of Harold Seymour and David Voigt.”— Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Bibliography Committee Newsletter “Well-researched . . . worthy” — Library Journal
Author : Robert K. Fitts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803269811
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Mashi written by Robert K. Fitts and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1964, the Nankai Hawks of Japan's Pacific League sent nineteen-year-old Masanori Murakami to the Class A Fresno Giants to improve his skills. To nearly everyone's surprise, Murakami, known as Mashi, dominated the American hitters. With the San Francisco Giants caught in a close pennant race and desperate for a left-handed reliever, Masanori was called up to join the big league club, becoming the first Japanese player in the Major Leagues. Featuring pinpoint control, a devastating curveball, and a friendly smile, Mashi became the Giants' top lefty reliever and one of the team's most popular players--as well as a national hero in Japan. Not surprisingly, the Giants offered him a contract for the 1965 season. Murakami signed, announcing that he would be thrilled to stay in San Francisco. There was just one problem: the Nankai Hawks still owned his contract. The dispute over Murakami's contract would ignite an international incident that ultimately prevented other Japanese players from joining the Majors for thirty years. Mashi is the story of an unlikely hero who gets caught up in an American and Japanese baseball dispute and is forced to choose between his dreams in the United States and his duty in Japan.
Author : John McCollister
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1572439823
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (724 download)
Download or read book The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Pittsburgh Pirates written by John McCollister and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Pittsburgh Pirates documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertaining—and unsparing—fashion, this book sparkles with Pirates highlights and lowlights, from wonderful and wacky memories to the famous and infamous. Such moments include the final homerun hits of the 1960 World Series by Hal Smith and Bill Mazeroski as well as the drug scandal of the early 1980s. Whether providing fond memories, goose bumps, or laughs, this portrait of the team is sure to appeal to the fan who has been through it all.
Author : William E. Akin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786425709
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book West Virginia Baseball written by William E. Akin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Virginia sprang into existence as a state in the midst of the Civil War, and "base ball," as it was called then, was close on the heels of statehood. A game in 1866 hosted by the Hunkidori Base Ball Club in Wheeling, is considered the first "match game of Base Ball." Some historians contend the game spread via the movement of soldiers who were from urban areas. The real roots of baseball are not the romantic image of rural boys in sandlots or lazy father-son afternoons. It was born and came of age as an urban sport, a social pursuit of well-heeled young men that in the early days often involved banquets and shows following each game. The author traces the history of minor league and independent league baseball in West Virginia. Baseball below the minor leagues has a rich and comparatively unexplored history, and West Virginia has made substantial contributions to this legacy. Chapters examine the chronological history of baseball and the larger economic and cultural changes that have influenced it. Eras include baseball as a social game (through 1873); the emergence of professional baseball (through 1895); its second boom (through 1905); the deadball era (through 1920); the Martinsburg dynasty (1914 to 1934); as a miners' sport (1920 to 1941); the Middle Atlantic League (1925-1942); the Mountain State League (1937-1942); the postwar years (1945-1955); the nadir (1955-1985); and "A Minor Miracle" (1985-2000), a chapter that heralds a comeback in the popularity of professional baseball.
Author : Jonathan Knight
Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1938441656
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Making of Major League written by Jonathan Knight and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes look at one of the greatest baseball movies ever. If you love watching "Major League," you’ll be fascinated by this inside story. Based on interviews with all major cast members plus crew and producers, it tells how writer/director David S. Ward battled the Hollywood system to turn his own love of the underdog Cleveland Indians into a classic screwball comedy. Learn how a tight-knit group of rising young stars (and a few wily veterans) had a blast pretending to play ball while creating several iconic characters. Filled with little-known facts and personal recollections about outtakes and inside jokes, batting practice and script changes, all-night location shoots, bar hopping and more, this is the ultimate guide to the film that reinvented the baseball movie and inspired a generation of belly laughs. Includes rare photos, storyboard illustrations, script excerpts, and more. With a foreword by Charlie Sheen.
Author : Dennis Purdy
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0761139435
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)
Download or read book The Team by Team Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball written by Dennis Purdy and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of every existing major league baseball team and provides a variety of team and player statistics.
Author : Dave Klein
Publisher : Random House Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780394827629
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Stars of the Major Leagues written by Dave Klein and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1974 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of nine major league baseball stars: Johnny Bench, Cesar Cedeno, Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Bobby Murcer, Nate Colbert, John Mayberry, Carlton Fisk, Bobby Bonds, and Ferguson Jenkins.
Author : Steven R. Greenes
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476641110
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Negro Leaguers and the Hall of Fame written by Steven R. Greenes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1971, 35 Negro League baseball players and executives have been admitted to the Hall of Fame. The Negro League Hall of Fame admissions process, which has now been conducted in four phases over a 50-year period, can be characterized as idiosyncratic at best. Drawing on baseball analytics and surveys of both Negro League historians and veterans, this book presents an historical overview of NLHOF voting, with an evaluation of whether the 35 NL players selected were the best choices. Using modern metrics such as Wins Above Replacement (WAR), 24 additional Negro Leaguers are identified who have Hall of Fame qualifications. Brief biographies are included for HOF-quality players and executives who have been passed over, along with reasons why they may have been excluded. A proposal is set forth for a consistent and orderly HOF voting process for the Negro Leagues.
Author : Jeff Wallenfeldt Manager, Geography and History
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1615301461
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)
Download or read book The Black Experience in America written by Jeff Wallenfeldt Manager, Geography and History and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of African Americans, the triumphs and tragedies from civil rights to the present.
Author : Jeff Wing
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595188095
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Major League Baseball's Greatest 150 Individual Pitching Seasons written by Jeff Wing and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pedro Martinez won his first Cy Young Award with the Boston Red Sox in 1999 many people in the baseball world claimed it to be one of, if not, the greatest pitching achievement of all-time. Though a remarkable campaign it hardly ranks as the greatest ever. This book lists in order the top 150 pitching performances for a single season between the years 1900-1999. Based on the grading system developed for this book Pedro’s season ranks as the 45th best season for a pitcher. Who is the greatest pitcher in the history of baseball? Is it Walter Johnson or Christy Mathewson? Some may argue for Roger Clemens or Nolan Ryan. The debate as to the best ever will continue but the chapter comparing pitchers of today and yesteryear will offer some new insights. This book will truly interest the baseball enthusiast because it offers clear and interesting data. Plus the measuring stick used for the rankings is not based on opinion, potential or favoritism but rather on fair and unbiased criteria. Eighty-seven pitchers (biographies included), from the famous to the one season wonders, make up the list of the greatest 150 pitching seasons. Included as well are brief summaries of an additional 130 pitchers.
