Professor Baseball
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Professor Baseball
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Author : Edwin Amenta
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
Professor Baseball written by Edwin Amenta and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
It happens every summer: packs of beer-bellied men with gloves and aluminum bats, putting their middle-aged bodies to the test on the softball diamond. For some, this yearly ritual is driven by a simple desire to enjoy a good ballgame; for others, it’s a way to forge friendships—and rivalries. But for one short, wild-haired, bespectacled professor, playing softball in New York’s Central Park means a whole lot more. It's one last chance to heal the nagging wounds of Little League trauma before the rust of decline and the relentless responsibilities of fatherhood set in. Professor Baseball is the coming-of-middle-age story of New York University professor and Little League benchwarmer Edwin Amenta. As rookie manager of the Performing Arts Softball League’s doormat Sharkeys, he reverses softball’s usual brawn-over-brains formula. He coaxes his skeptical teammates to follow his sabermetric and sociological approach, based equally on Bill James and Max Weber, which in the heady days of early success he dubs “Eddy Ball.” But Amenta soon learns that his teammates’ attachments to favorite positions and time-honored (if ineffective) strategies are hard to break—especially when the team begins losing. And though he rejects the baseball-as-life metaphor, life keeps intruding on his softball season. Amenta here comes to grips with the humiliation of assisted reproduction, suffers mysterious ailments, and finds himself lingering at the sponsor’s bar, while his partner, a beautiful but baseball-challenged professor, second-guesses his book in the making. Can he turn his team—and his life—around? Packed with colorful personalities, dramatic games, and the bustle of New York life, Professor Baseball will charm anyone who has ever root, root, rooted for the underdog.
Understanding Baseball
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Author : Trey Strecker
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-01-09
Understanding Baseball written by Trey Strecker and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-09 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The study of baseball history and culture shows the national pastime to be a forum of debate where issues of sport, labor, race, character and the ethics of work and play are decided. An understanding of baseball calls for consideration of different perspectives. This very readable textbook offers insights into baseball history as a subject worthy of scholarly attention. Each chapter introduces a specific disciplinary approach--history, economics, media, law and fiction--and poses representative questions scholars from these fields would consider. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
The Cambridge Companion To Baseball
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Author : Leonard Cassuto
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-21
The Cambridge Companion To Baseball written by Leonard Cassuto and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-21 with History categories.
From Babe Ruth to the Black Sox scandal, this Companion examines baseball's history, global identity, current challenges and memorable personalities.
Shakespeare And Baseball
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Author : Samuel Crowl
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-19
Shakespeare And Baseball written by Samuel Crowl and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Shakespeare and baseball are monuments of high and popular culture: Shakespeare is the most widely read and staged playwright in the world, and baseball is America’s game. Professor Samuel Crowl, a prize-winning teacher and international scholar of Shakespeare on film, explores his life as a champion of the Bard and a fan of the Detroit Tigers. He saw his first Tigers game in the summer of 1950 (Hal Newhouser beat the Chicago White Sox) and his first Shakespeare play in 1953 (Alec Guinness as Richard III at Ontario’s Stratford Festival) and has spent almost seventy-five years enjoying and writing about the pleasures of play that each provides. Shakespeare and Baseball is an unusual hybrid combining Crowl’s education as a Shakespeare and baseball fan, the resonances he perceives between the playwright and the game, the unexpected pleasures both forms of play have afforded his extended family of children and grandchildren, and a selection from the seventy letters he has written to them about Tigers games he has seen, from old Tiger Stadium, Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, and ballparks in Cleveland. Crowl finds unexpected connections between his twin subjects, including beer, which funded and fueled both the establishment of Major League baseball clubs, like the Yankees and Cardinals, and the creation of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, visited by Shakespeare enthusiasts from around the world. A deeper linkage is that Shakespeare’s festive comedies kept the ideas, rituals, and customs of rural England alive in the dense urban world of Elizabethan London, just as baseball kept the image of the garden—the rural American past in which the game took shape—alive in the twentieth-century American city. The book is written in a style that captures what one reader has called Crowl’s “warm, rich midwestern voice” and will be of interest to fans of the game and of the Bard, from high schoolers on up.
Casey Stengel
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Author : David Cataneo
language : en
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Casey Stengel written by David Cataneo and has been published by Cumberland House Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Dozens of former players, friends, and associates recall the Stengel myth and the Stengel reality. They explore his managing style with great teams and with horrible teams, his pioneering techniques, his humor, his edginess, and his weaknesses. What emerges is a fascinating ride through baseball history. Photos.
Baseball In The Classroom
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Author : Edward J. Rielly
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2006-10-18
Baseball In The Classroom written by Edward J. Rielly and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-18 with Sports & Recreation categories.
As scholarly interest in baseball has increased in recent years, so too has the use of baseball both as subject and as teaching method in college courses. In addition to lecturing on baseball history, professors are more frequently using baseball as a pedagogical tool to teach other disciplines. Baseball's interdisciplinary appeal is evident in the myriad ways that diverse college faculty have made use of it in the classroom. In this collection of essays, professors from different disciplines explain how they have used baseball in higher education. Organized by academic field, essays offer insight into how baseball can help teach key issues in archival research, business, cultural studies, education, experiential learning, film, American history, labor relations, law, literature, Native American studies, philosophy, public speaking, race studies and social history.
Physics Of Baseball Softball
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Author : Rod Cross
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-02-22
Physics Of Baseball Softball written by Rod Cross and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-22 with Science categories.
This book describes the physics of baseball and softball, assuming that the reader has a basic background in both physics and mathematics. The physics will be explained in a conversational style, with words and illustrations, so that the explanations make sense. The book provides an excellent opportunity to explain physics at a relatively simple level, even though the primary objective is to explain the many subtle features concerning the physics of baseball. For those readers who already know quite a bit of physics and who will be comfortable with mathematical equations, additional material of this nature will be provided in appendices. The latest research findings and statistical data have been incorporated by the author. The book also contains many simple experiments that the reader can perform to convince themselves that the effects described do indeed exist.
The Baseball Economist
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Author : John Charles Bradbury
language : en
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Release Date : 2007
The Baseball Economist written by John Charles Bradbury and has been published by Dutton Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Business & Economics categories.
A survey of some of professional baseball's controversies and myths draws on the latest economic and statistical methods to discuss such topics as steroid use, the practice of lobbying for balls and strikes, and the over-valuing of specific players.
Baseball Cards And Professor Woodpecker
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Author : Inc. H & T Imaginations Unlimited
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2008-11
Baseball Cards And Professor Woodpecker written by Inc. H & T Imaginations Unlimited and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11 with categories.
Collecting baseball cards is nothing new, however, Professor Woodpecker reminds us of the fun kids can have playing with their cards. Professor Woodpecker in his book on Baseball Cards reminds us of one of the games involving "pitching" the cards. This is where the term "pitcher cards" came in the good old days. The game is simple, economical and loads of fun. Professor Woodpecker also directs us back to the creative fun kids had in placing the cards in their spokes of bicycle tires.
My Life In Baseball
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Author : Ty Cobb
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
My Life In Baseball written by Ty Cobb and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
"Highly successful in knitting together this story of the life of a most remarkable and dedicated player--perhaps the most spirited baseball player ever to have graced the diamond."--Library Journal. "I find little comfort in the popular picture of Cobb as a spike-slashing demon of the diamond with a wide streak of cruelty in his nature. The fights and feuds I was in have been steadily slanted to put me in the wrong. . . . My critics have had their innings. I will have mine now."--Ty Cobb "Frank, bitter, trend-setting autobiography."--USA Today Baseball Weekly "One of the most remarkable sports books ever written."--Los Angeles Daily News "The old Tiger still spits and snarls off the pages."--Cooperstown Review "Of Ty Cobb let it be said simply that he was the world's greatest ballplayer."--New York Herald Tribune (1961 editorial on Cobb's death) This Bison Book edition of My Life in Baseball is introduced by Charles C. Alexander, a professor of history at Ohio University, Athens, and the author of a biogrpahy of Ty Cobb.
