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Ichiro's Art of Playing Baseball

Author : Jim Rosenthal
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 142996443X
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Ichiro's Art of Playing Baseball written by Jim Rosenthal and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ichiro's Art of Playing Baseball gives solid advice and instruction for young athletes around the world on how to play baseball. Ichiro Suzuki is one of the world's best known baseball superstars--a 10-time All-star, a rookie of the year and MVP award-winner, two-time batting champion and 10-time Gold Glove winner and holder of the single-season hits record. Now he offers unique views on hitting, bunting, playing the outfield, and lots more. With instructional photos throughout, easy how-to advice, and drills suitable for everyone, this book covers all the fundamentals: *reading pitchers and pitches *situational hitting and basic offensive strategy *sacrifice bunting and bunting for a base hit *stealing the perfect base *fielding and throwing fundamentals *mental preparation for the game *drills to improve your running, hitting, and throwing Whether you are young or old, professional or beginner, coach or parent, you will find the advice in this book an invaluable guide to improving your skills.

Ichiro's Art of Playing Baseball

Author : Ichirō Suzuki
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312358310
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Ichiro's Art of Playing Baseball written by Ichirō Suzuki and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to hit, steal, and field like an all-star. With instructional photos throughout, easy how-to advice, and drills suitable for everyone, this book cover all the fundamentals.

The Samurai Way of Baseball

Author : Robert Whiting
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780446694032
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Samurai Way of Baseball written by Robert Whiting and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ichiro...Nomo...Hasegawa...Hideki Matsui...one by one they have come to America and made their mark as incredibly gifted and popular ballplayers. But this new wave of athlete-led by the sensational Ichiro Suzuki, whom many refer to as the best all-around player-is just the tip of a fascinating iceberg. Illuminating a deep and very different tradition of baseball, Whiting shows why more Japanese players will be coming to America...and how they will forever transform the way our game is played. Grandly entertaining and deeply revealing, The Samurai Way of Baseball is a classic book about sports, business, and stardom-in a world that is changing before our eyes.

The Only Way Is the Steady Way: Essays on Baseball, Ichiro, and How We Watch the Game

Author : Andrew Forbes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781988784663
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book The Only Way Is the Steady Way: Essays on Baseball, Ichiro, and How We Watch the Game written by Andrew Forbes and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Essays. THE ONLY WAY IS THE STEADY WAY is a baseball memoir in scorecards and baseball cards, a recollection of the game's biggest stars and outlandish personalities, and introspective letters to a legendary player. These essays examine the meaning of baseball across international borders and at all levels of the game--from Little League diamonds to big league ballparks. Parents learn unexpected lessons at t-ball, cheap souvenirs reveal their hidden significance, and baseball's beating heart is exposed through sharply beautiful observations about the history of the game. Forbes locates peace, reassurance, and a way to measure the passage of time with home run bonanzas, old games on YouTube, and especially in the unique career of beloved outfielder Ichiro Suzuki. Just as he did in THE UTILITY OF BOREDOM, Forbes shows us how a summertime distraction might help us to make sense of the world, and how a certain enigmatic Japanese superstar offers a surprising ethos for living. You don't have to love (or even like) baseball to love THE ONLY WAY IS THE STEADY WAY. Forbes' writing about baseball, something he's loved his entire life, transcends statistics, standings, highlight reels, and hype, and captures soul--not the soul of the game, but the soul of fandom. If you do love baseball, or have had any fond feelings about the game at some point in your life, you will find your feelings put into writing in the pages of this book. Baseball may not save the world, but this book will remind you that it does indeed matter.--Brendan Leonard Andrew Forbes's love of baseball is the most honest and difficult kind: clear-eyed, thoughtful, willing to see the flaws along with the beauty. This book is a beauty. Through the lens of Ichiro Suzuki's magnificent career, Forbes examines our potential and our prejudices, helping us see the times that make the game and the game that makes the times.--Scott O'Connor Andrew Forbes writes so well about everything, with such a keen eye for detail and the texture of life, that you can sometimes forget that the occasion for these essays is baseball. And yet, there he always is, like a nimble infielder, with a fresh insight or deft turn on the game. There is no other writer working now whose baseball writing I admire more. This companion to THE UTILITY OF BOREDOM is a true gift.--Mark Kingwell

Focus On: 100 Most Popular American League All-Stars

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 : 4057664106
Total Pages : 1452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular American League All-Stars written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Meaning of Ichiro

Author : Robert Whiting
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446565229
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Ichiro written by Robert Whiting and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matsui... Nomo... Sasaki... Ichiro... the so-called American "National Pastime" has developed a decidedly Japanese flair. Indeed, in this year's All-Star game, two of the starting American League outfielders were from Japan. And for the third straight year, Ichiro - the fleet-footed Seattle Mariner - received more votes for the All-Star game than any other player in the game today. Some 15 years ago, in the bestseller "You Gotta Have Wa," Robert Whiting examined how former American major league ballplayers tried to cope with a different culture while playing pro ball in Japan. Now, Whiting reverses his field and reveals how select Japanese stars have come across the Pacific to play in the big leagues. Not only have they had to deal with the American way of life, but they have individually changed the game in dramatic fashion.

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

8-Bit Baseball

Author : Brandon Terrell
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1434241645
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book 8-Bit Baseball written by Brandon Terrell and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jared Richards is great at baseball video games, but when he loses a bet to his best friend Jared is forced to tryout for his school's baseball team--and finds out that playing the game for real is very different from virtual reality.

The Utility of Boredom

Author : Andrew Forbes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781926743691
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book The Utility of Boredom written by Andrew Forbes and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spitball essays on the off-kilter joys, sorrows and wonder of North America's national pastime. A collection of essays for ardent seamheads and casual baseball fans alike, The Utility of Boredom is a book about finding respite and comfort in the order, traditions, and rituals of baseball. From learning about America through ball-diamond visits to the most famous triple play that never happened on Canadian soil, Forbes invites us to witness the adult conversing with the O-Pee-Chee baseball cards of his youth. Tender, insightful, and with the slow heartbreak familiar to anyone who's cheered on a losing team, The Utility of Boredom tells us a thing or two about the sport, and how a seemingly trivial game might help us make sense of our messy lives. "Baseball, like life, is getting flattened out these days, compressed to noisy highlight clips and shrill pontification. This book cures that flattening, reaching with grace and poetry past all the bludgeoning hot takes and arid statistical analyses to the kinds of absurd and beautiful details--a spectacular throw from deep right; a meandering spring training game; a foul grounder bounding up into the stands, right at you--that first made us all fall in love with the sport. If baseball, like heaven, is a mansion with many rooms, the essays in The Utility of Boredom are like a fat set of janitor's keys unlocking the wide open marvels of the game." -- Josh Wilker, Cardboard Gods and Benchwarmer: A Sports-Obsessed Memoir of Fatherhood "Baseball is a welcome obsession of mine, a comfort. Reading The Utility of Boredom by Andrew Forbes fed that obsession beautifully, warmly. It glows. He writes of baseball as sanctuary, baseball in both general terms and specifics--from the feeling of walking into a ballpark on a summer day to Vin Scully's perfect description of a cloud. He invites us to get on our tiptoes and peek over the fence, smell the grass, hear the crack of the bat. He respects the slow-glory of the game, he loves the game, he's really good at this, and I absolutely trust him with my baseball-heart." -- Leesa Cross-Smith, Every Kiss A War

Don Mattingly's Hitting Is Simple

Author : Don Mattingly
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466867752
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Don Mattingly's Hitting Is Simple written by Don Mattingly and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Mattingly's Hitting is Simple: The ABC's of Batting .300 presents an all-ages guide to hitting a baseball by one of the Yankee greats--which covers stance, proper balance and coverage of the strike zone to the mechanics of a fluid swing Don Mattingly was one of the greatest offensive ballplayers of his generation. In 1985 he was the American League MVP and Player of the Year--a nine-time gold glove winner, a batting champion, and six-time all-star. He remains today one of the most beloved Yankee first basemen of all-time. Now as manager for the Miami Marlins and former hitting instructor for the most successful sports franchise in history, he offers solid advice and instruction for young athletes around the world on how to hit a baseball. With instructional photos throughout, and careful step-by-step instruction, Don Mattingly's Hitting Is Simple: The ABC's of Batting .300 covers all the fundamentals: *proper balance and stance *the mechanics of a sound swing *reading pitchers and pitches *how to hit to all fields *drills to improve your timing This all-ages guide to hitting a baseball by one of the Yankee greats is sure to become one of the most definitive books on hitting in years.

Ichiro Suzuki

Author : Judith Levin
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438100477
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Ichiro Suzuki written by Judith Levin and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When right fielder Ichiro Suzuki signed a contract with the Seattle Mariners in 2000, he became the first everyday position player from Japan to enter Major League Baseball. Few people believed that the small, slender Suzuki, who wore his first name on th

The Baseball 100

Author : Joe Posnanski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982180609
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Baseball 100 written by Joe Posnanski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year “An instant sports classic.” —New York Post * “Stellar.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A true masterwork…880 pages of sheer baseball bliss.” —BookPage (starred review) * “This is a remarkable achievement.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singular, and masterly book that took a lifetime to write. The entire story of baseball rings through a countdown of the 100 greatest players in history, with a foreword by George Will. Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,? The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski. In the book’s introduction, Pulitzer Prize–winning commentator George F. Will marvels, “Posnanski must already have lived more than two hundred years. How else could he have acquired such a stock of illuminating facts and entertaining stories about the rich history of this endlessly fascinating sport?” Baseball’s legends come alive in these pages, which are not merely rankings but vibrant profiles of the game’s all-time greats. Posnanski dives into the biographies of iconic Hall of Famers, unfairly forgotten All-Stars, talents of today, and more. He doesn’t rely just on records and statistics—he lovingly retraces players’ origins, illuminates their characters, and places their accomplishments in the context of baseball’s past and present. Just how good a pitcher is Clayton Kershaw in the 21st-century game compared to Greg Maddux dueling with the juiced hitters of the nineties? How do the career and influence of Hank Aaron compare to Babe Ruth’s? Which player in the top ten most deserves to be resurrected from history? No compendium of baseball’s legendary geniuses could be complete without the players of the segregated Negro Leagues, men whose extraordinary careers were largely overlooked by sportswriters at the time and unjustly lost to history. Posnanski writes about the efforts of former Negro Leaguers to restore sidelined Black athletes to their due honor and draws upon the deep troves of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and extensive interviews with the likes of Buck O’Neil to illuminate the accomplishments of players such as pitchers Satchel Paige and Smokey Joe Williams; outfielders Oscar Charleston, Monte Irvin, and Cool Papa Bell; first baseman Buck Leonard; shortstop Pop Lloyd; catcher Josh Gibson; and many, many more. The Baseball 100 treats readers to the whole rich pageant of baseball history in a single volume. Engrossing, surprising, and heartfelt, it is a magisterial tribute to the game of baseball and the stars who have played it.

Flip Flop Fly Ball

Author : Craig Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608192695
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Flip Flop Fly Ball written by Craig Robinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively treasury of baseball trivia gleaned from the author's flipflopflyball.com website is comprised of 120 full-color graphics that share statistical, historical and cultural tidbits on everything from the miles traveled by a baseball team in one season to the height of A-Rod's annual salary in pennies. 35,000 first printing.

Off Speed

Author : Terry McDermott
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307908895
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Off Speed written by Terry McDermott and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The lively and fascinating story of baseball’s 150-year hunt for the perfect pitch In August 2012, Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners pitched a perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays in what Terry McDermott calls “one of the greatest exhibitions of off-speed pitches ever put on.” For McDermott, a lifelong fan and student of baseball, the extraordinary events of that afternoon inspired this incisive meditation on the art of pitching. Within the framework of Hernandez’s historic achievement, Off Speed provides a vibrant narrative of the history and evolution of pitching, combining baseball's rich tradition of folklore with the wealth of new metrics from a growing legion of statisticians who are transforming the way we think about the game. Off Speed is also the personal story of a fan’s steadfast devotion, first kindled in McDermott by his father at the local diamond in small-town Iowa and now carried forward with the same passion by his own daughters. Approaching his subject with the love every fan brings to the park and the expertise of a probing journalist, McDermott explores with irrepressible curiosity the science and the romance of baseball.

Wally Yonamine

Author : Robert K. Fitts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803213816
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Wally Yonamine written by Robert K. Fitts and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wally Yonamine was both the first Japanese American to play for an NFL franchise and the first American to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II. This is the unlikely story of how a shy young man from the sugar plantations of Maui overcame prejudice to integrate two professional sports in two countries. ø In 1951 the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants chose Yonamine as the first American to play in Japan during the Allied occupation. He entered Japanese baseball when mistrust of Americans was high?and higher still for Japanese Americans whose parents had left the country a generation earlier. Without speaking the language, he helped introduce a hustling style of base running, shaking up the game for both Japanese players and fans. Along the way, Yonamine endured insults, dodged rocks thrown by fans, initiated riots, and was threatened by yakuza (the Japanese mafia). He also won batting titles, was named the 1957 MVP, coached and managed for twenty-five years, and was honored by the emperor of Japan. Overcoming bigotry and hardship on and off the field, Yonamine became a true national hero and a member of Japan?s Baseball Hall of Fame.

Pitch Like a Pro

Author : Leo Mazzone
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466835508
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Pitch Like a Pro written by Leo Mazzone and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Mazzone was one of pro baseball's premier pitching coaches. In his years with the Atlanta Braves, he trained several Cy Young Award winners and helped lead his team to the World Series. In Pitch like a Pro, Mazzone and coauthor Jim Rosenthal offer step-by-step instructions for players and coaches in Little League through high school. They teach all of the pitching basics and give athletes advice on how they can use the right training techniques to grow stronger and stay healthier. Contents include: Mazzone's between-starts throwing program How to grip different pitches Proper mechanics and delivery technique Pitching strategies and tactics Field the position Pitch like a Pro offers contributions by such well known pitchers as Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smotz, and Denny Neagle, along with black-and-white instructional photographs.

Ahead of the Curve

Author : Brian Kenny
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501106368
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Ahead of the Curve written by Brian Kenny and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A delight for baseball lovers” (Kirkus Reviews) and “one of the most significant baseball books of the year” (Bob Costas) Ahead of the Curve uses stories from baseball’s present and past to examine why we sometimes choose ignorance over information, and how tradition can trump logic. Forget batting average. Kill the “Win.” Say goodbye to starting pitchers. And please, please stop bunting. MLB Network anchor and commentator Brian Kenny provides “an excellent, entertaining read for the all-around baseball fan” (Library Journal) and shows how baseball has been revolutionized—not destroyed—by analytical thinking. Most people who resist logical thought in baseball preach “tradition” and “respecting the game.” But many of baseball’s traditions go back to the nineteenth century, when the pitcher’s job was to provide the batter with a ball he could hit and fielders played without gloves. Instead of fearing change, Brian Kenny wants fans to think critically, reject outmoded groupthink, and embrace the changes that have come with the sabermetric era. In his entertaining and enlightening book, Kenny discusses why the pitching win-loss record, the Triple Crown, fielding errors, and so-called battling titles should be ignored. He also points out how fossilized sportswriters have been electing the wrong MVP’s and ignoring legitimate candidates for the Hall of Fame; why managers are hired based on their looks; and how the most important position in baseball may just be “Director of Decision Sciences.” “Prepare to have your brain and your assumptions challenged. Guided by data and a deep love of the game, Brian Kenny takes a cutting-edge look at where baseball is and where it is going” (Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated). Illustrated with unique anecdotes from those who have reshaped the game, Ahead of the Curve is “a great story about the game in the age of information and technology” (Billy Beane).