Baseball And Cricket
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Right Off The Bat
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Author : Evander Lomke & Martin Rowe
language : en
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Release Date :
Right Off The Bat written by Evander Lomke & Martin Rowe and has been published by Paul Dry Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Sports & Recreation categories.
"Looking over the legends and stars of both sports, explaining the rules, complete with glossary, Right Off the Bat is a fine assortment of knowledge, very much recommended for any curious sports fan."—Midwest Book Review It's been said that baseball and cricket are two sports divided by a common language. Both employ bats, balls, innings, and umpires. Fans of both steep themselves in statistics, revel in nostalgia, and toss around baffling jargon. In Right Off the Bat, baseball nut Evander Lomke and cricket buff Martin Rowe explain "their" sport—and their love of it—to the other sport's fans. You'll come away finding yourself as fascinated by legbreaks and inswingers as you are by knuckleballs and sliders (or vice versa). Are you a dyed-in-the-wool baseball fan who nevertheless harbors a nagging doubt as to whether Babe Ruth was, in fact, the greatest athlete ever to swing a bat? When you think of cricket, is what comes to mind stuffy Victorians standing around in a field, twirling their mustaches and saying silly things like "Howzat" or "googly"? Or are you a staunch cricket fan who sometimes wonders whether a screwball is really as difficult to execute as a doosra? Do you ask yourself where the thrill is in watching a ball sail 400 feet over a wall and just past the outstretched fingers of a fielder wearing a glove (and all for a paltry one run)? Well, step right up and take a seat—you've got a lot to learn (for example, the very first international cricket match was played in the United States). And Right Off the Bat is just the book for you.
The Creation Of American Team Sports
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Author : George B. Kirsch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Creation Of American Team Sports written by George B. Kirsch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
What role did team sports play in the social and urban history of mid-nineteenth-century America? And why did Americans choose baseball over its early rival, cricket, as the national pastime? George Kirsch takes us back to the amateur playing fields to observe the players, the clubs, and their fans from 1838 to 1872. Drawing upon contemporary sporting sheets and newspaper accounts, Kirsch re-creates the excitement of early baseball and cricket matches. He discusses the competition between the two sports to determine which would become the favored game in America. He also examines the experiences of the artisans, factory workers, shopkeepers, clerks, managers, and professionals who played ball either informally or on organized teams. "The Creation of American Team Sports" is a comprehensive narrative history that places the growing popularity of baseball and cricket within the social context of mid-nineteenth-century American cities. -- From publisher's description.
Playing Hard Ball
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Author : E.T. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-09-04
Playing Hard Ball written by E.T. Smith and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-04 with Sports & Recreation categories.
PLAYING HARD BALL is a unique sports book, a cultural comparison of two national games - cricket, English in origin and American baseball - written from the viewpoint of a top-class practitioner of both codes. Ed Smith - the young Cambridge University and Kent batsman - has spent the winters since 1998 in Spring Training with the New York Mets baseball team. It has enabled Ed to contrast and compare arguably the two most iconic of sports from the inside. In fact, baseball had a thriving following in Britain until the Great War: Derby County's former stadium was called the Baseball Ground; Tottenham Hotspur was at first a baseball club. Apart from learning two very different techniques, Ed learned that the sports' ultimate heroes, the Babe and the Don - Babe Ruth and Don Bradman - might as well have come from different planets, whilst baseball's pristine Hall of Fame in Cooperstown is a far cry from the ramshackle cricket museum at Lord's. Ed Smith's PLAYING HARD BALL draws on these intriguing comparisons to paint a two-sided portrait of sports most illustrous 'hitting games'.
Right Off The Bat
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Author : Evander Lomke
language : en
Publisher: Paul Dry Books Incorporated
Release Date : 2011
Right Off The Bat written by Evander Lomke and has been published by Paul Dry Books Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Are baseball and cricket two sports divided by a common language? Both employ bats, balls, and innings. Fans of both love statistics, revel in nostalgia, and use baffling jargon. In Right Off the Bat, baseball nut Evander Lomke and cricket buff Martin Rowe explain "their" sport to the other sport's fans?through anecdotes, diagrams, photographs, and a curve (or dipper) or two. Cricket and baseball share a parallel and occasionally intertwined history (the first international cricket match was played in the United States). Indeed, they have mirrored their countries' struggles with identity and race, and have expanded beyond the shores of their founding countries to become multinational sports commanding global followings that are, even now, challenging the future of both sports. Right off the Bat is the perfect present for fans of either sport, as well as a handy introduction to those who want to divine the deeper rhythms of play. Evander Lomke has worked in book publishing for over thirty years and is the executive director of the American Mental Health Foundation. A lifelong Yankees fan, it's only right and proper that he lives in the Bronx, New York. Martin Rowe is the co-founder of Lantern, a book publishing and media company, and author of Nicaea: A Book of Correspondences. A long-suffering supporter of the England cricket team, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Baseball And Cricket
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Author : George B. Kirsch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Baseball And Cricket written by George B. Kirsch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Sports & Recreation categories.
'Baseball and Cricket' places the growing popularity of the two sports within the social context of mid 19th century American cities. The text follows baseball's transition from a leisure sport to a commercialised, professional enterprise and offers a discussion of the early American cricket clubs.
Lvl 25 Cricket V Baseball
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Author : Robert MacDowell
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Education AU
Release Date : 2009
Lvl 25 Cricket V Baseball written by Robert MacDowell and has been published by Macmillan Education AU this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Baseball categories.
Cricket and Baseball are two very similar sports. They both use bats and balls but they still have many differences...Lets have a look at someContents:IntroductionSports GearBattersGetting Past the BatterThe FieldScoring RunsGoing OutPopular GamesGlossaryIndexComprehension Skill: Compare and ContrastText Type: Factual Description
The Tented Field
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Author : Tom Melville
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1998
The Tented Field written by Tom Melville and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Presents an analytical explanation of why cricket failed as an American sporting institution. Devotes much attention to the rise of organized American sports immediately before and after the Civil War and interprets this phenomenon in the context of both its premodern American history as well as its development up to the First World War. The geographical focus is on the larger urban areas of the Atlantic seaboard, but other urban and rural areas are also discussed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Playing Hard Ball
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Author : E. T. Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Playing Hard Ball written by E. T. Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
This title gives an informed insider's account of the cultural comparisons between cricket and baseball by a writer who has played at the highest level.
Baseball
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Author : Francis Gladstone
language : en
Publisher: Kingswood Books
Release Date : 1987
Baseball written by Francis Gladstone and has been published by Kingswood Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Swinging Away
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Author : Beth Hise
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Swinging Away written by Beth Hise and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Baseball categories.
This book explores these two great bat and ball sports side by side, comparing their origins, equipment, rules and key moments in their histories. Along the way it reveals some remarkable surprises and helps us to understand why baseball is America's game and cricket England's summer pastime.