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Why Baseball Matters

Author : Susan Jacoby
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300235402
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Why Baseball Matters written by Susan Jacoby and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital distraction. These paradoxes are explored by the historian and passionate baseball fan Susan Jacoby in a book that is both a love letter to the game and a tough-minded analysis of the current challenges to its special position—in reality and myth—in American culture. The concise but wide-ranging analysis moves from the Civil War—when many soldiers played ball in northern and southern prisoner-of-war camps—to interviews with top baseball officials and young men who prefer playing online “fantasy baseball” to attending real games. Revisiting her youthful days of watching televised baseball in her grandfather’s bar, the author links her love of the game with the informal education she received in everything from baseball’s history of racial segregation to pitch location. Jacoby argues forcefully that the major challenge to baseball today is a shortened attention span at odds with a long game in which great hitters fail two out of three times. Without sanitizing this basic problem, Why Baseball Matters remind us that the game has retained its grip on our hearts precisely because it has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to reinvent itself in times of immense social change.

The Baseball Codes

Author : Jason Turbow
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030727862X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Baseball Codes written by Jason Turbow and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s look at baseball’s unwritten rules, explained with examples from the game’s most fascinating characters and wildest historical moments. Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. All aspects of baseball—hitting, pitching, and baserunning—are affected by the Code, a set of unwritten rules that governs the Major League game. Some of these rules are openly discussed (don’t steal a base with a big lead late in the game), while others are known only to a minority of players (don’t cross between the catcher and the pitcher on the way to the batter’s box). In The Baseball Codes, old-timers and all-time greats share their insights into the game’s most hallowed—and least known—traditions. For the learned and the casual baseball fan alike, the result is illuminating and thoroughly entertaining. At the heart of this book are incredible and often hilarious stories involving national heroes (like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays) and notorious headhunters (like Bob Gibson and Don Drysdale) in a century-long series of confrontations over respect, honor, and the soul of the game. With The Baseball Codes, we see for the first time the game as it’s actually played, through the eyes of the players on the field. With rollicking stories from the past and new perspectives on baseball’s informal rulebook, The Baseball Codes is a must for every fan.

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

Sliding Into Love

Author : Quinn Arthurs
Publisher : Quinn Arthurs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sliding Into Love written by Quinn Arthurs and published by Quinn Arthurs. This book was released on 2020-02-22 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After recently returning to her hometown, Emily—a thirty-something, divorced, mother-of-three—is determined to find some semblance of normalcy or happiness in her life. Her plans to spend the summer working and lazing with her sister are derailed as she meets her gorgeous neighbor, Alex, and his incredibly sexy friends, Troy and Max. A relationship that begins as a steamy summer fling is destined to end, but Emily wonders if they could end up as something more. However, not everyone is happy with their relationship in the small, Pennsylvania town. With jobs and children on the line, is Emily doomed to strike out in the romance department? Or will she be Sliding Into Love? **Please note this book has been republished with a new cover and title, though the content remains the same. The book was previously titled - "A Work in Progress" "18+ Why Choose Romance.*

Infinite Baseball

Author : Alva Noë
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190928190
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Infinite Baseball written by Alva Noë and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball is a strange sport: it consists of long periods in which little seems to be happening, punctuated by high-energy outbursts of rapid fire activity. Because of this, despite ever greater profits, Major League Baseball is bent on finding ways to shorten games, and to tailor baseball to today's shorter attention spans. But for the true fan, baseball is always compelling to watch -and intellectually fascinating. It's superficially slow-pace is an opportunity to participate in the distinctive thinking practice that defines the game. If baseball is boring, it's boring the way philosophy is boring: not because there isn't a lot going on, but because the challenge baseball poses is making sense of it all. In this deeply entertaining book, philosopher and baseball fan Alva Noë explores the many unexpected ways in which baseball is truly a philosophical kind of game. For example, he ponders how observers of baseball are less interested in what happens, than in who is responsible for what happens; every action receives praise or blame. To put it another way, in baseball - as in the law - we decide what happened based on who is responsible for what happened. Noe also explains the curious activity of keeping score: a score card is not merely a record of the game, like a video recording; it is an account of the game. Baseball requires that true fans try to tell the story of the game, in real time, as it unfolds, and thus actively participate in its creation. Some argue that baseball is fundamentally a game about numbers. Noe's wide-ranging, thoughtful observations show that, to the contrary, baseball is not only a window on language, culture, and the nature of human action, but is intertwined with deep and fundamental human truths. The book ranges from the nature of umpiring and the role of instant replay, to the nature of the strike zone, from the rampant use of surgery to controversy surrounding performance enhancing drugs. Throughout, Noe's observations are surprising and provocative. Infinite Baseball is a book for the true baseball fan.

Circular

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Around the Horn

Author : Emil Mihelich
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469776162
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Around the Horn written by Emil Mihelich and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-03-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1949 in the mining city of Butte, Montana, a world unto itself sitting a mile above sea level in the southwestern corner of the state, Around the Horn takes its readers on a journey into the world that was with the hope of discovering what could be-both now and in the decades and centuries to come. After World War II baseball was king in America as well as in Butte. As result, it can serve as a metaphor for life, holding out infinite possibilites because of its freedom from the ticking of the clock. To score a run the ballplayer must return to home plate, the place from which he started. Similarly, to complete our own journey "around the horn," we must, as T. S. Eliot reminds us, return to the point from which we started and know the place for the first time. Around the Horn celebrates the adventure and shows us the way.

Satchel

Author : Larry Tye
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812977971
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Satchel written by Larry Tye and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige “Among the rare biographies of an athlete that transcend sports . . . gives us the man as well as the myth.”—The Boston Globe Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through dogged detective work, award-winning author and journalist Larry Tye has tracked down the truth about this majestic and enigmatic pitcher, interviewing more than two hundred Negro Leaguers and Major Leaguers, talking to family and friends who had never told their stories before, and retracing Paige’s steps across the continent. Here is the stirring account of the child born to an Alabama washerwoman with twelve young mouths to feed, the boy who earned the nickname “Satchel” from his enterprising work as a railroad porter, the young man who took up baseball on the streets and in reform school, inventing his trademark hesitation pitch while throwing bricks at rival gang members. Tye shows Paige barnstorming across America and growing into the superstar hurler of the Negro Leagues, a marvel who set records so eye-popping they seemed like misprints, spent as much money as he made, and left tickets for “Mrs. Paige” that were picked up by a different woman at each game. In unprecedented detail, Tye reveals how Paige, hurt and angry when Jackie Robinson beat him to the Majors, emerged at the age of forty-two to help propel the Cleveland Indians to the World Series. He threw his last pitch from a big-league mound at an improbable fifty-nine. (“Age is a case of mind over matter,” he said. “If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”) More than a fascinating account of a baseball odyssey, Satchel rewrites our history of the integration of the sport, with Satchel Paige in a starring role. This is a powerful portrait of an American hero who employed a shuffling stereotype to disarm critics and racists, floated comical legends about himself–including about his own age–to deflect inquiry and remain elusive, and in the process methodically built his own myth. “Don’t look back,” he famously said. “Something might be gaining on you.” Separating the truth from the legend, Satchel is a remarkable accomplishment, as large as this larger-than-life man.

The Cleveland Indian

Author : Luke Salisbury
Publisher : Black Heron Press
ISBN 13 : 9780930773823
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Cleveland Indian written by Luke Salisbury and published by Black Heron Press. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the end of the 19th century and the basepaths are alive with legendary players such as John McGraw and Honus Wagner. Cy Young is on the mound and King Saturday (the Cleveland Indian) is at bat. The kranks, or fans, are rooting for action. The Cleveland Indian brings to life the bawdy, often sinister, final days of the Gay Nineties. Against this panorama, the author fields an authentic 1897 Cleveland Spiders lineup, a team as colorful as its era. King Saturday, modeled on real-life baseball legend Sockalexis, the Indian outfielder who gave the Cleveland ball club its name, is a con man, a drunk, a brawler, a hero, a schemer, a murderer, and possessor of the most talent any baseball man ever saw.

Cutter

Author : Matthew Zeleznik
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300989254
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Cutter written by Matthew Zeleznik and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutter is the story of a young boy, Jimmy Russell, who lives on a farm in Pennsylvania with his father where baseball is their bond. When Jimmy stumbles upon a ticket to a Phillies game, he discovers a family secret that literally shapes the course of their lives.

Be Sweet

Author : Roy Blount, Jr.
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307829715
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Be Sweet written by Roy Blount, Jr. and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book his laughing and loving readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of full-hearted humor lays open the soul of his life story. Roy Blount Jr.--Georgia boy turned New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, literary lion, salty-limerick virtuoso and impassioned father--journeys into the past and his psyche (also all the way to China, sixty feet underwater and to various Manhattan hot spots) in search of the answers to three riddles that have haunted him intimately: One: the riddle of "the family curse." Two: the riddle of what drives him (or anyone) to be funny. Three: the riddle of what so cruelly tangled his unseverable bond with the beguiling, beaten orphan girl who became the impossible mother who raised him to Be Sweet. Roy Blount's memoir is sardonic and sentimental, hilarious and grieving, brazen and bashful, tough and tender--sometimes by turns and sometimes all at once. Almost harshly honest, yet sportively wayward, Be Sweet resonates with the complex but bouncy chords of a whole man singing, clinkers and all.

Max and the Gatekeeper FREE

Author : James Todd Cochrane
Publisher : Dark Moon Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0988211017
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Max and the Gatekeeper FREE written by James Todd Cochrane and published by Dark Moon Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A war has been waging for centuries; a magical and technological battle between good and evil. This conflict will affect life everywhere, but not everyone is aware it exists. When twelve-year old Max Rigdon is sent to stay with his grandfather for the summer, he unwillingly enters the fight. The day Max steps off the bus he is marked with an evil curse and immediately becomes the target of evil men and creatures with designs on ruling the universe. Not only does this curse cause Max physical pain but it allows his enemies to track and find him. He soon learns that the reason for this unwanted attention is because his grandfather is the keeper of a gateway; a powerful machine that makes travel to hundreds of strange unknown worlds possible. The enemy will do anything to gain possession of this power in their quest to control all worlds. With the help of his friend Cindy and others, Max must quickly learn the necessary skills to survive if he is to avoid the deadly trap that has been planned for him and his grandfather. A trap that has been decades in the making with Max as the missing piece. If successful it will change life as we know it

Who Was That Masked Kid?

Author : Dan Neiser
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1512775770
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Who Was That Masked Kid? written by Dan Neiser and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralphie might have wanted a Red Ryder B B gun in Jean Shepherds A Christmas Story, but the kid in this story wants a lot more. He fantasizes about becoming the Lone Ranger, the Masked Man himself, but is thwarted at every turn. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when the Masked Kid tries to realize his dreams, only to discover they may be harder than he thought.

Tall, Dark & Reckless

Author : Heather Macallister
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373796994
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (737 download)

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Download or read book Tall, Dark & Reckless written by Heather Macallister and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Foreign journalist Mark Banning needs a partner--now. After refusing to work with a female journalist and with a reputation for being reckless, Mark is running out of options. That's where compatibility expert Penelope 'Piper' Scott comes in. Mark both infuriates and frustrates Piper. He claims her 'theories' are ridiculous, and every potential candidate she finds is scoffed at and rejected. It's worse for him, since Mark now finds himself hearing Piper's voice in his head. And the thought of his lips--and his touch--on her skin is tempting enough to push Mark into making his most reckless move yet!"--Publisher.

Won't Back Down

Author : Shelli Stevens
Publisher : Tule Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1957748974
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Won't Back Down written by Shelli Stevens and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thou shalt not fall for the girl thy cousin wants… James Watson is at a breaking point. The last year has put him on rocky grounds with his friends, and now he just bombed the bar exam. He pins the blame on one person: Tori Brown. She’s not only his sister’s best friend, but an undeniably sexy goddess who chaos seems to follow. Tori is tired of men seeing her as nothing more than a conquest. She’s particularly tired of James Watson, her friend’s hot older brother and the man who can’t give her a break. Now that Tori’s finally landed the human resources job she’s been working toward, she knows she won’t have time to think about him anymore. Until it becomes clear that the up-and-coming lawyer at her new workplace is none other than James. Beyond working at the same firm, James’s desire is kept in check by the bro code rule: Don’t date the girl your cousin likes—especially when he’s the attorney who invited you to join the firm. With the lines between lust and hate getting blurry, can they help but be crossed?

Make My Heart Malt: A Romantic Comedy Sports Romance

Author : Gia Stevens
Publisher : Wild Clover Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make My Heart Malt: A Romantic Comedy Sports Romance written by Gia Stevens and published by Wild Clover Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2024-10-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sizzling hate to lovers, unrequited crush, standalone sports romance by romantic comedy author Gia Stevens… Dessa should have been mine... until my brother kissed her first. Ten years is a long time to be infatuated with your former best friend, especially when she’s dating your brother. So, when I receive a wedding invitation with his name embossed on the front, it feels like a fastball to the heart. But it turns out, my unrequited crush isn’t the blushing bride after all. Now’s my only chance to make amends for my past mistakes and give her the kiss I’ve desperately been holding onto. Unfortunately, she thwarts my efforts with each drink she throws at me. When we find ourselves locked in a storage room, we’re forced to hash out the real reason I left town—and it wasn’t for baseball. Turns out, there’s a fine line between anger and passion and it doesn’t take long for her to scream my name. Even after hitting third base, she still hates me. However, I’m determined to prove I’m not the man who ghosted her all those years ago. This time I’m not walking away. My last game ended in a devastating miss—costing us the world championship, but this is one game I refuse to lose. Because when it comes to Dessa… I’m playing for keeps. Make My Heart Malt is an unrequited crush, former best friend turned enemies, sports romance. Be prepared to laugh-out-loud one minute and swoon the next in this steamy standalone romcom. The Brews and Flings series is a spin-off of the Harbor Highlands series. You’ll see a lot of familiar characters but also new ones. Each book in the Brews and Flings series is set in the same world, and delivers a guaranteed happily ever after.

Five Stethoscopes 6 Secrets

Author : Rose Mary Stiffin
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 164952126X
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book Five Stethoscopes 6 Secrets written by Rose Mary Stiffin and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis for Five Stethoscopes, 6 Secrets by Rose Mary Stiffin, PhD Six women's paths cross in medical school as five of them strive to become medical doctors, sometimes against all odds. Each one must succeed, and their mentor must ensure their success. But each one of them carries a secret. Everyone has a secret. Some are innocuous; others are far-reaching and can cross both moral and ethical lines. Meet six women living in Lincoln, Nebraska, five of whom are attending a new medical program. Their mentor, Dr. Elizabeth Hoslin, encourages them and loves them as if they were her little chicks under her wings. But she has a secret that even she is reluctant to admit. Connie keeps her secret hidden in a drawer. Glory's past shaped her dark secret. Candi's secret is haunting and unbelievable, crossing both ethical and moral lines. Amaryllis has a secret that could eat at her like a cancer. Will true friendship and love enable her to share her secret? Jo doesn't even know she has a secret. When she discovers it, will it destroy or strengthen her? Five Stethoscopes, 6 Secrets is Stiffin's sixth novel. If you like discovering secrets that are both warmhearted and frightening, getting to know characters you will not soon forget, then you will love this saga.