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The Road To Cooperstown
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Author : Tom Stanton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Road To Cooperstown written by Tom Stanton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Baseball categories.
The Road To Cooperstown
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Author : James F. Vail
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-07-06
The Road To Cooperstown written by James F. Vail and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The selection process for the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York, has been the same for sixty years. Two sets of electors are used, both of which vote each year using subjective criteria that inevitably cause errors of selection and omission. One group, the Baseball Writers Association of America, votes by mail using a pre-selected list of retired players that meet eligibility requirements. The second group of electors is the Veterans Committee, comprised of former players who are Hall of Fame members plus retired baseball executives and sportswriters who meet in Florida during spring training and base their votes on the merits of candidates no longer eligible for the BBWAA ballot. In this work the author combines an irreverent critique of the voting process with an analysis of the biases that have fostered questionable choices in Hall of Fame voting. The result is a comprehensive, statistically founded survey of the factors which influence election.
Nolan Ryan The Road To Cooperstown
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Author : Nolan Ryan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Nolan Ryan The Road To Cooperstown written by Nolan Ryan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
Nolan Ryan details his life from his beginnings in a sandlot in Texas to his Hall of Fame induction.
Nolan Ryan
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Author : Nolan Ryan
language : en
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Release Date : 1999
Nolan Ryan written by Nolan Ryan and has been published by Taylor Trade Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Nolan Ryan: The Road to Cooperstown is a 112-page pictorial autobiography of Nolan Ryan's rise from the sandlot baseball fields of Alvin, Texas, through his unforgettable career in pro baseball with the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros and Texas Rangers and his enshrinement into baseball's Hall of Fame. Co-written with Johnny Paul and T.R. Sullivan of The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and packed with photos from the personal archives of Nolan Ryan and The Star-Telegram, Nolan Ryan: The Road to Cooperstown is a sentimental trip down memory lane with pro baseball's greatest strikeout king.
Ozzie Smith
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Author : Ozzie Smith
language : en
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2002-04
Ozzie Smith written by Ozzie Smith and has been published by Sports Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Limited Leatherbound Edition. Limited to 1000 copies. Signed by Ozzie Smith and Rob Rains. Includes certificate of authenticity. Ozzie Smith has lived a legendary life of baseball, capped by the ultimate honor - induction into Cooperstown. The Wizard of Oz, best known for his on-field acrobatics and his ability to make the impossible play from shortstop, played in the major leagues for 19 years, the final 15 in St. Louis. He retired in 1996, was voted into the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, ans was named to the All-Century team as one of the 100 best players in the 20th century. The brilliant, full-color photography in this book is the perfect complement to Ozzie Smith's sensational and colorful career.
The Road To Cooperstown
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Author : Tom Stanton
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2003-06-01
The Road To Cooperstown written by Tom Stanton and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Every true baseball fan dreams of visiting Cooperstown. Some make the trip as boys, when the promise of a spot in the lineup with the Yankees or Red Sox or Tigers glows on the horizon, as certain as the sunrise. Some go later in life, long after their Little League years, to glimpse the past, not the future. And still others talk of somedays and of pilgrimages that await. For Tom Stanton, the trip took nearly three decades. The dream first grabbed hold of him in 1972, in the era of Vietnam and Watergate and Johnny Bench and the Oakland Athletics. Stanton, then an eleven-year-old Michigan boy who lived for the game, became fascinated by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the sport's spiritual home, the place to which great players aspire. He plotted ways to convince his father to take him to the famous village along Lake Otsego. But his plans for that season never materialized. They disappeared in the turmoil caused by his mother's life-threatening illness and his brother's antiwar activities. Still, the dream lingered through the summers that followed. Twenty-nine years later, he invited the two men who had introduced him to the sport, his elderly father and his older brother, to join him on a trip to the Hall. Finally, they embarked on their long-delayed adventure. The Road to Cooperstown is a true story populated with colorful characters: a philanthropic family that launched the museum and uses its wealth to, among other things, ensure that McDonald's stays out of the turn-of-the-century downtown; the devoted fan who wrote a book to get his hero into the Hall of Fame; the Guyana native who grew up without baseball but comes to the induction ceremony every year; the librarian on a mission to preserve his great-grandfather's memory; the baseball legends who appear suddenly along Main Street; and the dying man who fulfills one of his last wishes on a warm day in spring. As he did with his award-winning book, The Final Season, Tom Stanton again tells a magical tale of fathers, brothers, and baseball heroes certain to resonate with sports fans everywhere. This adventure, though brief, provides a true bonding experience that is the heart of a sweet, one-of-a-kind book about baseball, family, the Hall of Fame, and the town with which it shares a rich heritage.
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cooperstown
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Author : Mickey McDermott
language : en
Publisher: Triumph Books
Release Date : 2003-04
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cooperstown written by Mickey McDermott and has been published by Triumph Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A memoir by the 1940s pitching sensation looks back at a career playing for thirteen teams in four countries from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Stanley Sandlot Baseball Teams
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Author : Jennings Painter
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-07-21
Stanley Sandlot Baseball Teams written by Jennings Painter and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-21 with Baseball categories.
Before technology, cell phones, and the internet stole our attention away from the simpler things in life, kids spent their days outside, running around, hanging out with friends, and playing ball. Kids would end up in one person's yard, field, or pasture, and pick up a game using whatever was available for bats, balls, and bases. The shrill of laughter, raised voices, and excitement would echo throughout the neighborhood. Kids just being themselves and hoping-dreaming-of what was to come. A time when it was okay to kick back, participate in a leisurely game... and just be. Baseball. America's past time for a reason. A simple game of runs and hits. Of strikeouts and swings. Of statistics and averages. Of laughter, fun, camaraderie, and friendship. Such was the case in Stanley, Virginia, a sleepy mountain town a hundred miles from our nation's capital, in the summer days of 1955 and 1956, when the local kids gathered together and formed a baseball league of their own to pass the time. Not just that, but they kept diligent notes and records of each players' statistics - runs, hits, errors, strikeouts. A simple enough task, but one that-over sixty years later-would land them in a place of history and lore: as a part of the Baseball Hall of Fame. In this true-life story, journey along with the kids from the Stanley Sandlot, sliding down memory lane, and learning of their passion for the game of baseball and how it influenced their lives.
Cooperstown
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Author : Eugena Pilek
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2005-07-05
Cooperstown written by Eugena Pilek and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-05 with Fiction categories.
An exceptional debut novel lovingly probes the values of faith, family, community, and America's favorite pastime, baseball -- from a captivating new voice in contemporary fiction. Cooperstown, New York, in 1979 (the year Willie Mays was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame), is a close-knit community where gossip is sovereign and baseball is the great American religion. Seen through the eyes of Dr. Kerwin Chylak, a psychiatrist who has recently moved to town with his family, the citizens of Cooperstown are a wildly eclectic team of players that includes an alcohol-befuddled mayor determined to be more than a footnote to history; the town busybody who pitches missiles of miscommunication; a disillusioned ex-ball player turned warrior; and a sports writer who detests baseball. Little do these ordinary people know that they are about to be thrust into an extraordinary situation as the construction of a baseball theme park threatens their quaint way of life. Teetering on the cusp of a decade in which commercialism could swallow them whole, they are spurred to action -- with unexpected, poignant, often hilarious results. Full of baseball legend and lore and featuring an unforgettable cast of unconventional characters, Cooperstown probes the hearts and minds of small-town America. It is a celebration of life in all its struggles, sorrows, and sudden slides into victory.
The Story Of Cooperstown
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Author : Ralph Birdsall
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-10
The Story Of Cooperstown written by Ralph Birdsall and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-10 with Fiction categories.
The ensuing narrative is a faithful record of life in Cooperstown from the earliest times, except that the persons and events to be described have been selected for their story-interest, to the exclusion of much that a history is expected to contain. The dull thread of village history has been followed only in such directions as served for stringing upon it and holding to the light the more shining gems of incident and personality to which it led. Trivial happenings have been included for the sake of some quaint, picturesque, or romantic quality. Much of importance has been omitted that declined to yield to such treatment as the writer had in view. The effort has been made to exclude everything that seemed unlikely to be of interest to the general reader.