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The Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records

Author : Major League Baseball
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771057350
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis The Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records by : Major League Baseball

Download or read book The Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records written by Major League Baseball and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 258 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.

Growing the Game

Author : Alan M. Klein
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300135122
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Growing the Game written by Alan M. Klein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-18 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sociologist and anthropologist scientifically examines the worldwide growth of MLB and America’s favorite pastime. Baseball fans understand the game has become increasingly international. Major league rosters include players from no fewer than fourteen countries, and more than one-fourth of all players are foreign born. Here, Alan Klein offers the first full-length study of a sport in the process of globalizing. Looking at the international activities of big-market and small-market baseball teams, as well as the Commissioner’s Office, he examines the ways in which Major League Baseball operates on a world stage that reaches from the Dominican Republic to South Africa to Japan. The origins of baseball’s efforts to globalize are complex, stemming as much from decreasing opportunities at home as from promise abroad. Klein chronicles attempts to develop the game outside the United States, the strategies that teams such as the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Kansas City Royals have devised to recruit international talent, and the ways baseball has been growing in other countries. He concludes with an assessment of the obstacles that may inhibit or promote baseball’s progress toward globalization, offering thoughtful proposals to ensure the health and growth of the game in the United States and abroad. “A superb inside look at how the national pastime has reinvented itself . . . Klein’s writing is engaging, and his research is top-notch.” —Tim Wendel, author of The New Face of Baseball: The One-Hundred-Year Rise and Triumph of Latinos in America’s Favorite Sport “A timely contribution to our understanding of baseball in our contemporary age.” —Michael L. Butterworth, Sociology of Sport Journal

Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut

Author : David Arcidiacono
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786436778
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut written by David Arcidiacono and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been more than a century since Connecticut had big league baseball, but in the 1870s, Middletown, Hartford, and New Haven fielded professional teams that competed at the highest level. By the end of the decade, when the state's final big league team, Mark Twain's beloved Hartford Dark Blues, left the National League, baseball's transition from amateur pastime to major league sport had been accomplished. And Connecticut had played a significant role in its development. The history of the Nutmeg State's three major league teams is described here in full, and the author thoughtfully examines their influence within the regional baseball scene.

For the Good of the Game

Author : Bud Selig
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006290597X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book For the Good of the Game written by Bud Selig and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin The longtime Commissioner of Major League Baseball provides an unprecedented look inside professional baseball today, focusing on how he helped bring the game into the modern age and revealing his interactions with players, managers, fellow owners, and fans nationwide. More than a century old, the game of baseball is resistant to change—owners, managers, players, and fans all hate it. Yet, now more than ever, baseball needs to evolve—to compete with other professional sports, stay relevant, and remain America’s Pastime it must adapt. Perhaps no one knows this better than Bud Selig who, as the head of MLB for more than twenty years, ushered in some of the most important, and controversial, changes in the game’s history—modernizing a sport that had remained unchanged since the 1960s. In this enlightening and surprising book, Selig goes inside the most difficult decisions and moments of his career, looking at how he worked to balance baseball’s storied history with the pressures of the twenty-first century to ensure its future. Part baseball story, part business saga, and part memoir, For the Good of the Game chronicles Selig’s career, takes fans inside locker rooms and board rooms, and offers an intimate, fascinating account of the frequently messy process involved in transforming an American institution. Featuring an all-star lineup of the biggest names from the last forty years of baseball, Selig recalls the vital games, private moments, and tense conversations he’s shared with Hall of Fame players and managers and the contentious calls he’s made. He also speaks candidly about hot-button issues the steroid scandal that threatened to destroy the game, telling his side of the story in full and for the first time. As he looks back and forward, Selig outlines the stakes for baseball’s continued transformation—and why the changes he helped usher in must only be the beginning. Illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs.

100 Years of Major League Baseball

Author : David Nemec
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780785343950
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book 100 Years of Major League Baseball written by David Nemec and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, historical tribute to America's favorite pastime highlights baseball's compelling dramas, legendary heroes, its cultural impact throughout the years, and more. The game is chronicled decade-by-decade, with over 500 pages packed with: - Full-color photographs - At-a-glance, important facts on each playing season - Detailed information about legendary players, important records, and more. A remarkable and informative salute to America's favorite pastime. 650 4.

Koppett's Concise History of Major League Baseball

Author : Leonard Koppett
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780786712861
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Koppett's Concise History of Major League Baseball written by Leonard Koppett and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball's greatest asset is the richness of its lore, and Leonard Koppett has made the entire treasure of the game's history accessible in one enjoyable volume. In his lively narratives on the shape and significance of each season from baseball's nineteenth-century beginnings to the updated and expanded sections on the last decade, Koppett explains the changes in baseball-the-game and baseball-the-business that forged the major leagues we know today. Each chapter recounts trends, players, and events during different eras; offers succinct seasonal recaps, and summarizes how the consequences of that particular baseball era set the stage for the next. On the origins and evolution of on-the-field play—from the 1880s origin of pitching high and tight then low and away, to modern-day use of body armor at bat—plus statistics and record-breaking achievements, Koppett's got it covered. On business and organizational controversies, such as the introduction of night baseball, radio and TV broadcasting, free agency, strike actions, divisional play-offs, and the policies of owners and commissioners, Koppett's got it covered. One-stop reading for the most essential stories, statistics, and opinions on the major leagues, Koppett's Concise History of Major League Baseball is the most original baseball reference available.

The Game

Author : Jon Pessah
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316242217
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Game written by Jon Pessah and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty years. In the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their decades-long battle with the players has turned America against both sides, and the players' growing addiction to steroids will threaten the game's very foundation. It is a tipping point for baseball, a crucial moment in the game's history that catalyzes a struggle for power by three strong-willed men: Commissioner Bud Selig, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and union leader Don Fehr. It's their uneasy alliance at the end of decades of struggle that pulls the game back from the brink and turns it into a money-making powerhouse that enriches them all. This is the real story of baseball, played out against a tableau of stunning athletic feats, high-stakes public battles, and backroom political deals -- with a supporting cast that includes Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, Joe Torre and Derek Jeter, George Bush and George Mitchell, and many more. Drawing from hundreds of extensive, exclusive interviews throughout baseball, The Game is a stunning achievement: a rigorously reported book and the must-read, fly-on-the-wall, definitive account of how an enormous struggle for power turns disaster into baseball's Golden Age.

The Making of Major League

Author : Jonathan Knight
Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1938441656
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (384 download)

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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 281 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.

2022 Official Rules of Major League Baseball

Author : Triumph Books
Publisher : Official Rules
ISBN 13 : 9781637270608
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book 2022 Official Rules of Major League Baseball written by Triumph Books and published by Official Rules. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important resource for umpires, coaches, leagues, and serious fans of Major League Baseball (MLB), this handbook lists the dos and don'ts of the national pastime. Fully up-to-date, this book contains the official and sanctioned MLB rules and their interpretations per the Playing Rules Committee, the sole group that determines baseball's regulations.

Deaf Players in Major League Baseball

Author : R.A.R. Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147667017X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis Deaf Players in Major League Baseball by : R.A.R. Edwards

Download or read book Deaf Players in Major League Baseball written by R.A.R. Edwards and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first deaf baseball player joined the pro ranks in 1883. By 1901, four played in the major leagues, most notably outfielder William "Dummy" Hoy and pitcher Luther "Dummy" Taylor. Along the way, deaf players developed a distinctive approach, bringing visual acuity and sign language to the sport. They crossed paths with other pioneers, including Moses Fleetwood Walker and Jackie Robinson. This book recounts their great moments in the game, from the first all-deaf barnstorming team to the only meeting of a deaf batter and a deaf pitcher in a major league game. The true story--often dismissed as legend--of Hoy, together with umpire "Silk" O'Loughlin, bringing hand signals to baseball is told.

Baseball Field Guide, Fourth Edition: An In-Depth Illustrated Guide to the Complete Rules of Baseball (Fourth)

Author : Dan Formosa
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1615199551
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)

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Book Synopsis Baseball Field Guide, Fourth Edition: An In-Depth Illustrated Guide to the Complete Rules of Baseball (Fourth) by : Dan Formosa

Download or read book Baseball Field Guide, Fourth Edition: An In-Depth Illustrated Guide to the Complete Rules of Baseball (Fourth) written by Dan Formosa and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great overview for novices and a precise reference guide for devoted fans! Admit it: Even if you’re a die-hard fan of our national pastime, sometimes an umpire’s call can be baffling. And for newer fans, Major League Baseball’s nuanced rules—developed and revised over many decades—can be downright perplexing. Now updated throughout with the latest changes, including specifications about the universal designated hitter and limits on defensive shifts, the Baseball Field Guide lays out every rule in plain English. You’ll learn to answer all these questions and more: Do you know the twenty-two ways a pitcher can be charged with a balk? Can you list all seven ways a batter can safely get to first base? Obstruction or interference—who’s at fault when things get rough? What are the rules that apply before and after a game? What happens when spectators are the ones who misbehave? How well do you understand the infamous Infield Fly Rule (and why does it exist)? This is the clearest explanation anywhere of the rules of baseball. Designed for quick and intuitive searches, this entertaining reference will help you understand every aspect of the game and add to your enjoyment of the sport.

Total Baseball

Author : Pete Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892129031
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Total Baseball written by Pete Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Total Baseball VI is a complete baseball library in a single book. World famous for its originality and comprehensive reference value, this encyclopedia inspired the formation of Total Sports, Inc., and the publication of Total Hockey and Total Football. Now updated with the latest stats, records, rosters, registers, histories, and insightful essays, it makes a great gift for any baseball fan. This latest edition includes Bob Creamer's special commemorative tribute to Casey Stengle and a special section on the history of the home run.

Major League Baseball ABC

Author : Brad M. Epstein
Publisher : ABC Book
ISBN 13 : 9781607300496
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Major League Baseball ABC written by Brad M. Epstein and published by ABC Book. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major League Baseball ABC is the ultimate alphabet book for every young baseball fan. The book features all the teams, legendary players and baseball symbols of America's favorite pastime. Young fans will learn their letters with their favorite team symbols. Officially licensed by Major League Baseball.

The Treasures of Major League Baseball

Author : Major League Baseball (Organization)
Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 : 9781847329271
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book The Treasures of Major League Baseball written by Major League Baseball (Organization) and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Official Treasures of Major League Baseball tells the rich and fascinating history of baseball through hundreds of photographs and an exhaustively researched and lucid text.

Official Major League Baseball Opus

Author : Dan Rosen
Publisher : Kraken Sports & Media
ISBN 13 : 9781905794270
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book Official Major League Baseball Opus written by Dan Rosen and published by Kraken Sports & Media. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initial print run of 5k, contains over 400 images, each individually spot varnished, complemented by over 60k words. Contains features from writers such as Roger Kahn, Robert Creamer, Tim Kurkjian & Jayson Stark. Weighing 26lbs(12kg) its 428 pages & bookbound in leather, with metallic lettering and comes in a silk clamshell case. Pages are 18 x 13 inches wide.

Major League Baseball Expansions and Relocations

Author : Frank P. Jozsa, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786457236
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Major League Baseball Expansions and Relocations written by Frank P. Jozsa, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study considers the importance of location for new and relocated major league franchises in the more than 130 years since the National League was founded. Included are an analysis of market differences and similarities, team performances and demographics and area economic comparisons. Market data are used to predict future expansions and relocations of major league teams.

THE HISTORY OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Author : James Bren
Publisher : James Bren
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE HISTORY OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL written by James Bren and published by James Bren. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on an enthralling journey through the captivating history of America's cherished pastime with "The History of Major League Baseball" by James Bren. This meticulously researched and eloquently written chronicle offers readers an immersive exploration of the evolution, iconic moments, and enduring legacy of Major League Baseball (MLB). From its humble beginnings in the mid-19th century to the contemporary spectacle we know today, Bren unravels the rich tapestry of baseball's history. Delve into the early days of the sport, the formation of the first professional teams, and the emergence of baseball as a cultural phenomenon that would come to define the nation. Bren skillfully navigates through pivotal moments that shaped MLB, from landmark rule changes that revolutionized gameplay to the gripping narratives of legendary World Series matchups. The book meticulously examines the rise of iconic teams, the triumphs of unforgettable players, and the profound impact of historical events on the sport's trajectory. No exploration of baseball's history is complete without a focus on the extraordinary individuals who became legends. Bren brings to life the stories of baseball's most iconic figures, from the unparalleled achievements of Babe Ruth to the groundbreaking journey of Jackie Robinson, and the modern-day excellence of players like Derek Jeter. These narratives provide a comprehensive understanding of how these players not only influenced the game but also left an indelible mark on American culture. As Bren takes readers through the pages of history, he addresses the challenges that baseball confronted during pivotal moments in time. From the repercussions of the Black Sox Scandal to navigating the adversities of the Great Depression and the impact of World War II, the narrative underscores baseball's resilience and its ability to mirror the societal landscape. Beyond the diamond, the book explores the strategic shifts in gameplay, the evolution of team dynamics, and the enduring passion of fans that have made baseball a cultural touchstone. The narrative captures the essence of the sport's ability to captivate generations, fostering a sense of unity and shared identity among fans. "The History of Major League Baseball" is not just a recounting of scores and statistics; it's a compelling exploration of a sport that has become synonymous with the American experience. Whether you're a seasoned baseball aficionado or a newcomer to the game, Bren's masterful storytelling and comprehensive research make this book an indispensable guide to understanding the unparalleled legacy of Major League Baseball.