Why Another Book About Baseball
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Why Another Book About Baseball
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Author : L Chadwick Bowman
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2020-07-09
Why Another Book About Baseball written by L Chadwick Bowman and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-09 with Sports & Recreation categories.
It was this love for baseball that I decided to write this book. Things I learned, remembered, saw, heard, and read. I want to share with other baseball fans and drive an interest to those who don’t share my love for the game. My dream was to one day play in the majors, but I accepted that I wasn’t good enough. I also wanted to be an announcer and sports reporter. I finally got to be a reporter at Konawa, Oklahoma for their football and basketball teams. Coleman, Oklahoma baseball and basketball too.
The Baseball Book Of Why
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Author : John McCollister
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-04-01
The Baseball Book Of Why written by John McCollister and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Why do we sometimes refer to a left-handed pitcher as a “southpaw?” Why are major league pitchers normally limited to 100 pitches per game? Why was Jack Roosevelt Robinson the first African-American ever to play as part of an official lineup for a team in Major League Baseball? Why is a baseball field sometimes referred to as a diamond? This book provides over 100 questions and detailed answers concerning the traditions, rules, and history of the national pastime. Organized by the sport’s five eras—Dead Ball, Live Ball, Golden Age, Expansion, and Steroid Era—it answers questions about hitting, pitching, fielding, base running, managing, scouting and ownership that vex even the most ardent fans of the game. Moreover, this book is an appreciation of how baseball’s traditions began.
The Man With Two Arms
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Author : Billy Lombardo
language : en
Publisher: ABRAMS
Release Date : 2010-02-04
The Man With Two Arms written by Billy Lombardo and has been published by ABRAMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-04 with Fiction categories.
“Undoubtedly modern America’s finest literary tribute to the baseball since Bernard Malamud’s novel The Natural” (Chicago Tribune). Henry Granville, a baseball fanatic and high school teacher, spends hours in the basement with his young son Danny, introducing him to balls of all shapes and sizes. He even turns the basement into an indoor stadium. Danny quickly distinguishes himself from his peers, most conspicuously by his ability to throw perfectly with either arm—a feat virtually unheard of in baseball. But he also possesses a visionary gift that not even he understands. Danny becomes a superior athlete, skyrocketing through the minor leagues and into the majors where he experiences immediate success, breaking records held for decades. When a journalist, a former student of Henry’s and hungry for a national breakout story, exaggerates the teacher’s obsession and exposes him to the world as a monster, all hell breaks loose and the pressures of media and celebrity threaten to disrupt the world that Henry and Danny have created. A baseball novel—and much more—The Man with Two Arms is a story of the ways in which we protect, betray, forgive, love, and shape each other as we attempt to find our way through life. “Magical realism meets baseball in [this] debut novel . . . [A] Roy Hobbs-like narrative.” —Chicago Magazine “Sings with joy and tragedy . . . An amazing debut, as a lyrical paean to the national pastime and as a touching exploration of the life of a boy becoming a man both blessed and burdened with a unique and extraordinary talent.” —Flagpole
The Everything Kids Baseball Book
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Author : Greg Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-02-12
The Everything Kids Baseball Book written by Greg Jacobs 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 2016-02-12 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Play ball! From the backyard to the ballpark, The Everything Kids' Baseball Book, 9th Edition captures all the action, fun, and excitement of America's favorite pastime! Sports reporter Greg Jacobs gives you all the know-how you need to bat a thousand--from learning how to keep score on a scorecard to tips on developing your fielding and hitting skills. You'll learn all about: The history of baseball Your favorite American and National League teams Stats and records Fantasy baseball teams Baseball legends and current players Ballparks around the country And much, much more! With more than 30 puzzles and activities, along with baseball trivia and the rules of the game, this book delivers one grand slam after another!
Touching Second
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Author : John J. Evers
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2004-12-30
Touching Second written by John J. Evers and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-30 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Johnny Evers was widely considered the brainiest ballplayer of his day and, along with Ty Cobb, one of the most guileful and cantankerous. (He and Joe Tinker, two thirds of the famous double-play combination, battled each other nearly as viciously and as often as they did their opponents.) One of the great practitioners of the inside game, Evers was quick to pick up on the unwatched-for advantage that might upend his opponent and propel his team to victory. In 1910's Touching Second, Evers and sports writing great Hugh Fullerton describe the game as it was played during the first decade of the 20th century. With an emphasis on what Evers saw as baseball's development "into an exact mathematical sport," he describes the great plays and players, shares "anecdotes and incidents of decisive struggles on the diamond," and discusses "the signs and systems used by championship teams."
Touching Second
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Author : John J. Evers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910-12
Touching Second written by John J. Evers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910-12 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Touching Second The Science Of Baseball
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Author : John J. Evers
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-26
Touching Second The Science Of Baseball written by John J. Evers and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-26 with Fiction categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Touching
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Author : John J. Evers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-05
Touching written by John J. Evers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05 with History categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
The Second Greatest Baseball Game Ever Played
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Author : Drew Bridges
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2014-10-24
The Second Greatest Baseball Game Ever Played written by Drew Bridges and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in the seventh game of the 1955 World Series in the greatest baseball game ever played. The second-greatest baseball game ever played took place Saturday, June 29, 1957. No Yankees, Giants, Dodgers, Cardinals, or Red Sox were there. The game played out in author Drew Bridgess hometown of Hildebran in western North Carolina. Two teams of boys, ten to fifteen years old, faced off on the high school baseball diamond, no uniforms and no organized league. Bridges played second base, his brother played third, and their dad coached the team. In this memoir, Bridges tells the story of that afternoon of baseball and how it came to be through his recollections and his fathers wartime letters to his mother who was pregnant with their first child. It shares the words of an ordinary American serviceman who is dreaming about a life beyond war. Field of Dreams meets A League of Their Own meets The Sandlot in this story of a soldiers return home from World War II and his work with others in the community to build a youth league baseball program. The Second-Greatest Baseball Game Ever Played shares the game of baseball through the eyes of a ten-year-old and shows how this game captured the heart and soul of a community and became so vital to all.
The Arm
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Author : Jeff Passan
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2016-04-05
The Arm written by Jeff Passan and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-05 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Yahoo’s lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports—the pitching arm—and how its vulnerability to injury is hurting players and the game, from Little League to the majors. Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitchers—five times more than the salary of every NFL quarterback combined. Pitchers are the game’s lifeblood. Their import is exceeded only by their fragility. One tiny band of tissue in the elbow, the ulnar collateral ligament, is snapping at unprecedented rates, leaving current big league players vulnerable and the coming generation of baseball-playing children dreading the three scariest words in the sport: Tommy John surgery. Jeff Passan traveled the world for three years to explore in-depth the past, present, and future of the arm, and how its evolution left baseball struggling to wrangle its Tommy John surgery epidemic. He examined what compelled the Chicago Cubs to spend $155 million on one arm. He snagged a rare interview with Sandy Koufax, whose career was cut short by injury at thirty, and visited Japan to understand how another baseball-mad country treats its prized arms. And he followed two major league pitchers, Daniel Hudson and Todd Coffey, throughout their returns from Tommy John surgery. He exposes how the baseball establishment long ignored the rise in arm injuries and reveals how misplaced incentives across the sport stifle potential changes. Injuries to the UCL start as early as Little League. Without a drastic cultural shift, baseball will continue to lose hundreds of millions of dollars annually to damaged pitchers, and another generation of children will suffer the same problems that vex current players. Informative and hard-hitting, The Arm is essential reading for everyone who loves the game, wants to keep their children healthy, or relishes a look into how a large, complex institution can fail so spectacularly.