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Book Synopsis The Duke of Havana by : Steve Fainaru
Download or read book The Duke of Havana written by Steve Fainaru and published by Villard. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from the ashes of the Cold War and helped lead the New York Yankees to a World Championship. His origins and even his age were uncertain. His name was Orlando El Duque Hernandez. He was a fallen hero of Fidel Castro's socialist revolution. The chronicle of El Duque's triumph is at once a window into the slow death of Cuban socialism and one of the most remarkable sports stories of all time. Once hailed as a paragon of Castro's revolution, the finest pitcher in modern Cuban history was banned from baseball for life for allegedly plotting to defect. Instead of accepting his punishment, he fearlessly fought back, defying the Communist party authorities, vowing to pitch again, and ultimately fleeing his country in the bowels of a thirty-foot fishing boat. Here, for the first time and in astonishing detail, the secrets behind El Duque's persecution and escape are revealed. Moving from the crumbling streets of post Cold War Havana to the polarized world of exile Miami, from the deadly Florida Straits to the hallowed grounds of Yankee Stadium, it is a story of cloak-and-dagger adventure, audacious secret plots, the pull of big money, and the historic collision of ideologies. Present throughout are the larger-than-life characters who converged at this bizarre intersection of baseball and politics: El Duque himself, Fidel Castro, the Miami sports agent Joe Cubas, the late John Cardinal O'Connor along with scouts, smugglers, and the Cuban ballplayers who gave up their lives as tools of socialism to test the free market and chase their major-league dreams. Reported in the United States and Cuba by two award-winning journalists who became part of the story they were covering, The Duke of Havana is a riveting saga of sports, politics, liberation, and greed.
Book Synopsis Baseball's Most Baffling MVP Ballots by : Jeremy Lehrman
Download or read book Baseball's Most Baffling MVP Ballots written by Jeremy Lehrman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its colorful beginnings more than a century ago, baseball's annual Most Valuable Player Award has become the most prestigious (and contentious) individual honor in the sport. No accolade means more to players, fans or the media. No other award can claim a voting history so rich in alleged snubs, grudges, conspiracies and incompetence. Examining the most controversial ballots, this book attempts to settle some arguments and answer some compelling questions: Which of the so-called "worst MVPs" holds up to modern statistical analysis? Who cast the single worst vote in MVP history? Does racial bias influence the vote? Who really deserved the award in a given year?
Download or read book 20-Game Losers written by Bill Nowlin and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have to be a very good pitcher to lose 20 games in one season. Why would a manager keep putting you out there to pitch, time after time, if you didn't have a chance to win the game? More than 25 percent of the pitchers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame are pitchers who lost 20 or more games in a single season. One of them even lost 20 or more games for 10 years in a row! The names in this book are often well-known names. Cy Young lost more than 20 games in three different seasons. Other 20-game losers were Steve Carlton, Walter Johnson, Phil Niekro, Robin Roberts, and Red Ruffing, to name a few. We've included here every one of the 23 Hall of Famers who are 20-game losers, as well as some lesser-known names, over sixty biographies in all. Mike Maroth and Brian Kingman, the two most recent pitchers to lose 20 games, are here. So is Jack Nabors thanks to his 1-20 season. You will find Guy Hecker, whose record of 52-20 constituted the best winning percentage of any 20-game loser. And we feature one woebegone pitching staff which had four 20-game losers in the same season. By our count 499 major-league pitchers have had seasons in which they lost 20 or more games. Only two of them had ERAs over 6.00. This take on pitching records offers plenty of quirks to explore. 53 members of SABR combined their efforts to create this truly fascinating book. Contents: 20-GAME LOSER, PROFILES OF THE 20-LOSS SEASONS by David E. Skelton THE VANISHING 20-GAME LOSER by Barry Mednick PITCHERS: STEVE ARLIN by Gregory H. Wolf BILL BAILEY by Eric Frost GEORGE BAUMGARDNER by Joe Schuster BOOM-BOOM BECK by Paul E. Doutrich GEORGE BELL by John Struth BILL BONHAM by Joel Rippel ED BRANDT by C. Paul Rogers III BUSTER BROWN by Mark S. Sternman HARRY BYRD by Armand Peterson GEORGE CASTER by Chris Rainey JOHN COLEMAN by Justin Mckinney CLIFF CURTIS by Alan Drude ART DITMAR by David E. Skelton GUS DORNER by Paul Hofmann CECIL FERGUSON by Jeff Findley DANA FILLINGIM by Niall Adler SAM GRAY by Gregory H. Wolf DAN GRINER by Gregory H. Wolf GUY HECKER by Bob Bailey RANDY JONES by Alan Cohen VERN KENNEDY by Joel Rippel HENRY KEUPPER by Emmet R. Nowlin BRIAN KINGMAN by Chad Moody DON LARSEN by Charles F. Faber MIKE MAROTH by Barbara Mantegani and Dave Raglin AL MATTERN by Bob LeMoine JIM MCCORMICK by Chris Rainey STONEY MCGLYNN by Steve Schmitt HARRY MCINTIRE by John Struth JACK NABORS by Stephen V. Rice ROLLIE NAYLOR by Phil Williams SUNNY JIM PASTORIUS by Glen Sparks ORLANDO PENA by Joel Rippel SCOTT PERRY by Phil Williams FRED SANFORD by Warren Corbett JACK SCOTT by Skip Nipper GEORGE ALLEN SMITH by Jeff English JIM TOBIN by Gregory H. Wolf CLYDE WRIGHT by Paul E. Doutrich HALL OF FAMERS: 20-GAME LOSERS POPULATE THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME by Bill Nowlin STEVE CARLTON by Cosme Vivanco JACK CHESBRO by Wayne McElreavy JOHN CLARKSON by Brian McKenna CANDY CUMMINGS by David Fleitz PUD GALVIN by Charles Hausberg JESSE HAINES by Gregory H. Wolf WALTER JOHNSON by Charles Carey TIM KEEFE by Charlie Bevis TED LYONS by Warren Corbett RUBE MARQUARD by Joe Wancho JOE MCGINNITY by Don Doxsie PHIL NIEKRO by Tom Hufford HANK O'DAY by Dennis Bingham OLD HOSS RADBOURN by Brian McKenna EPPA RIXEY by Jan Finkel ROBIN ROBERTS by C. Paul Rogers III RED RUFFING by Warren Corbett AMOS RUSIE by Charles F. Faber ED WALSH by Stuart Schimler JOHN MONTGOMERY WARD by Bill Lamb MICKEY WELCH by Bill Lamb VIC WILLIS by Daniel R. Levitt CY YOUNG by Bill Nowlin and David Southwick A STAFF WITH FOUR 20-GAME LOSERS by Bill Nowlin CHICK FRASER by Mike Lynch KAISER WILHELM by Gregory H. Wolf VIC WILLIS by Daniel R. Levitt IRV YOUNG by Will Anderson and Bill Nowlin 20-GAME LOSERS IN THE MINOR LEAGUES by Bill Nowlin CHRIS ARCHER - NEARLY A 20-GAME LOSER IN 2016 by Bill Nowlin THE PROTECTION MYTH by Warren Corbett
Book Synopsis Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports by : Dave Zirin
Download or read book Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports written by Dave Zirin and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zirin widens his remit to take a hard look at the trends now shaping sports in the United States and abroad, including an analysis of the 2006 World Cup.
Book Synopsis Great Time Coming by : David Falkner
Download or read book Great Time Coming written by David Falkner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-02-06 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the African-American ball player who broke the practice of racial exclusion in the major leagues.
Book Synopsis HItting Low in the Zone by : Homer Bush
Download or read book HItting Low in the Zone written by Homer Bush and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former MLB player Homer Bush shares his observations and takeaways from behind the plate in his new book, "Hitting Low in the Zone". These formulas and the strategies therein can be applied to a batter's game for consistent hitting results.
Book Synopsis The Last Folk Hero by : Jeff Pearlman
Download or read book The Last Folk Hero written by Jeff Pearlman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • The ultimate gift for sports lovers By the author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson. “A legendary tome on a legendary athlete." —Chris Herring, author of Blood in the Garden From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed. His strength was legendary. His power unmatched. Video game makers turned him into an invincible character—and they were dead-on. He climbed (and walked across) walls, splintered baseball bats over his knee, turned oncoming tacklers into ground meat. He became the first person to simultaneously star in two major professional sports, and overtook Michael Jordan as America’s most recognizable pitchman. He was on our televisions, in our magazines, plastered across billboards. He was half man, half myth. Then, almost overnight, he was gone. He was Bo Jackson. Drawing on an astonishing 720 original interviews, New York Times bestselling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman captures as never before the elusive truth about Jackson, Auburn University’s transcendent Heisman Trophy winner, superstar of both the NFL and Major League Baseball and ubiquitous “Bo Knows” Nike pitchman. Did Bo really jump over a parked Volkswagen? (Yes.) Did he actually run a 4.13 40? (Yes.) During the 1991 flight that nearly killed every member of the Chicago White Sox, was he in the cockpit trying to help? (Oddly, yes. Or no. Or … maybe.) Bo Jackson isn’t Jim Thorpe. He’s not Deion Sanders, either. No, Bo Jackson is Paul Bunyan. The Last Folk Hero is the true tale of Bo Jackson that only “master storyteller” (NPR.org) Jeff Pearlman could tell.
Download or read book Holy Cow! written by Harry Caray and published by Villard. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing with Chicago Tribune sports columnist Verdi, Harry Caray recaps his decades in the booth, paying special attention to the owners he has dealt with, particularly Gussie Busch, Charley Finley and Bill Veeck. He also explains his philosophy of success in the booth, which is to think of himself primarily as a fan explaining the game to his fellow fans and pointing out players' failures as well as strengths. In this memoir, he recalls players he has admired, beginning with his all-time favorite, Stan Musial, and including Reggie Jackson, Richie Allen, and Ryne Sandberg.
Download or read book Into the Storm written by Tom Clancy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his brilliant, bestselling novels, Tom Clancy has explored the most timely military and security issues of our generation. Now he takes readers deep into the operational art of war with this insightful look at one of the greatest American military triumphs since World War II: the Gulf War.
Download or read book Sport Marketing written by Windy Dees and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book helps students prepare for careers in the fast-paced world of sport marketing, as well as provides a resource for practitioners looking for the latest information in the field. The book offers abundant examples of the latest issues in the competitive marketplace"--
Download or read book In the Game written by Amy Bass and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-08-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking about race and sports almost always leads to trouble. Rush Limbaugh's stint as an NFL commentator came to an abrupt end when he made off-handed comments about black quarterback Donovan McNabb. Cincinnati Reds' owner Marge Schott and CBS commentator Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder also landed in hot water for public remarks that most people construed as racist. Ask a simple question along these lines--"Why do African Americans dominate the NBA?"--and watch the sparks fly. It is precisely this flashpoint that Amy Bass seeks to explore. Sports wield a tremendous amount of cultural power in the United States and around the world, and often influence our ideas about race. In the Game is a collection of essays by top thinkers on race that survey this treacherous terrain. They engage topics like boxer Joe Louis's iconic status during the Jim Crow era, how blacks shaped the NFL in the 1970s, American Indian sports team mascots, and soccer in Argentina.
Book Synopsis The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers by : Bill James
Download or read book The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers written by Bill James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer compile information on pitches and their origins, nearly two thousand pitchers, and more in this comprehensive guide. Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them—they’re the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a comprehensive source for such information…until now. Bill James and Rob Neyer spent over a decade compiling the centerpiece of this book, the Pitcher Census, which lists specific information for nearly two thousand pitchers, ranging throughout the history of professional baseball. Their guide also includes a dictionary describing virtually every known pitch, biographies of great pitchers who have been overlooked, and top ten lists for fastballs, spitballs, and everything in between. James and Neyer also weigh in on the debate over pitcher abuse and durability, offer a formula for predicting the Cy Young Award winner, and reveal James’s Pitcher Codes. Learn about the origins and development of baseball’s most important pitches and more knuckleballers and submariners than you ever thought existed! Baseball’s action always starts with the pitchers. Begin to understand them and join in on entertaining debates while having a great deal of fun with the history of the game that captivates so many with this one-of-a-kind guide.
Book Synopsis The Tropic of Baseball by : Rob Ruck
Download or read book The Tropic of Baseball written by Rob Ruck and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of baseball in the Dominican Republic and looks at the most prominent Dominicans to reach the Major Leagues
Book Synopsis Fair and Foul by : D. Stanley Eitzen
Download or read book Fair and Foul written by D. Stanley Eitzen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains America's love of sport just as it reveals sport's darker side--the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, and media grandstanding. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Book Synopsis Historic Santa Maria Valley by : Lucinda K. Ransick
Download or read book Historic Santa Maria Valley written by Lucinda K. Ransick and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of California's Santa Maria Valley, paired with the histories of the companies and organizations that helped shape the region.
Download or read book Virginia Hospitality written by and published by Favorite Recipes Press (FRP). This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience a culinary tour of Virginia through the recipes in this classic cookbook. Warm hospitality is cherished and continued by today's Virginia hostesses. Includes illustrations of famous Virginia homes by regional artists. Inducted into the McIlhenny Hall of Fame, an award given for book sales that exceed 100,000 copies.
Book Synopsis Beckett Vintage Almanac #7 by : Beckett Media
Download or read book Beckett Vintage Almanac #7 written by Beckett Media and published by Beckett Media. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
