Baseball Ratings

Author : Charles F. Faber
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476620640

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Baseball Ratings by Charles F. Faber Pdf

In this third edition of Baseball Ratings, author Charles Faber combines the second edition (“great fodder for arguments”—Booklist) with his book on 19th-century greats, Baseball Pioneers (“very impressive”—Reference and User Services Quarterly; “a notable and ... worthwhile addition”—ARBA), updating the ratings and expanding the commentary in each. The result, Baseball Ratings: The All-Time Best Players at Each Position, 1876 to the Present, is that rarest of rankings books—a time-tested, comprehensive reference work that invites reading. Batters, fielders and pitchers from all major leagues since 1876 are ranked by position and, for pitchers, according to role (e.g., starter, middle reliever, closer) according to career, peak, and per-season achievement. All big league players with at least five years of eligibility are rated, and appendices identify underrated and overrated players, rate multiposition players, and sort the great by handedness.

Author : Eldon L. Ham
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786486359

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Broadcasting Baseball by Eldon L. Ham Pdf

There is a long-standing relationship between broadcasting and sports, and nowhere is this more evident than in the marriage of baseball and radio: a slow sport perfectly suited to the word-painting of broadcasters. This work covers the development of the baseball broadcasting industry from the first telegraph reports of games in progress, the influence of early pioneers at Pittsburgh's KDKA and Chicago's WGN, including the first World Series broadcast, the launch of the Telstar Satellite, the Carlton Fisk homerun in the 1975 World Series, which changed how baseball is broadcast, through the latest computer graphics, HD television, and the Internet.

Author : Michael J. Schell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780691171111

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Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers by Michael J. Schell Pdf

Over baseball history, which park has been the best for run scoring?1 Which player would lose the most home runs after adjustments for ballpark effect?2 Which player claims four of the top five places for best individual seasons ever played, based on all-around offensive performance.3 (See answers, below). These are only three of the intriguing questions Michael Schell addresses in Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers, a lively examination of the game of baseball using the most sophisticated statistical tools available. The book provides an in-depth evaluation of every major offensive event in baseball history, and identifies the players with the 100 best seasons and most productive careers. For the first time ever, ballpark effects across baseball history are presented for doubles, triples, right- and left-handed home-run hitting, and strikeouts. The book culminates with a ranking of the game's best all-around batters. Using a brisk conversational style, Schell brings to the plate the two most important credentials essential to producing a book of this kind: an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball and a professional background in statistics. Building on the traditions of renowned baseball historians Pete Palmer and Bill James, he has analyzed the most important factors impacting the sport, including the relative difficulty of hitting in different ballparks, the length of hitters' careers, the talent pool from which players are drawn, player aging, and changes in the game that have raised or lowered major-league batting averages. Schell's book finally levels the playing field, giving new credit to hitters who played in adverse conditions, and downgrading others who faced fewer obstacles. It also provides rankings based on players' positions. For example, Derek Jeter ranks 295th out of 1,140 on the best batters list, but jumps to 103rd in the position-adjusted list, reflecting his offensive prowess among shortstops. Replete with dozens of never-before reported stories and statistics, Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers will forever shape the way baseball fans view the greatest heroes of America's national pastime. Answers: 1. Coors Field 2. Mel Ott 3. Barry Bonds, 2001-2004 seasons

Author : Charles F. Faber
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786462094

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Major League Careers Cut Short by Charles F. Faber Pdf

Since 1876, approximately 16,000 young men have enjoyed at least a taste of glory by appearing in big league games, many of them only a few times. By the end of the 2009 season, out of the millions who have aspired, fewer than three thousand individuals had had the good fortune to be a major league regular for five or more seasons. The median age at which they hung up their spikes was 35. However, 197 men played in their last big league contest at the age of 30 or younger. With a focus on the stories of 15 greats and near-greats, this book provides information on these 197 men. Why did their careers end so soon? The reasons are varied and include drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, illness, injury, banishment, and declining ability among others.

Author : Furman Bisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : OCLC:1368033543

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Strange But True Baseball Stories by Furman Bisher Pdf

Author : Chris Lee
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781463455163

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The Winner's Guide to Fantasy Baseball by Chris Lee Pdf

The Winners Guide in Fantasy Baseball is the most comprehensive guide on the market to one of Americas favorite hobbies. Where are the best websites to find fantasy baseball information? Which pre-season publications are worth your dollar? What should you look for in evaluating major and minor-league players? How do you value players for your league and adjust for draft inflation? How should you react when your leagues draft isnt going your way? The Winners Guide to Fantasy Baseball not only tackles these issues, but walks you through the hows and whys of each so that owners learn to think for themselves. If winning a league title is your ultimate goal, this book will help get you there.

Author : Daniel Okrent,Harris Lewine
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0618056688

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The Ultimate Baseball Book by Daniel Okrent,Harris Lewine Pdf

THE ULTIMATE BASEBALL BOOK has more than lived up to its name. Spanning the complete history of the sport from the fledgling leagues in the late 1870s to the powerhouses of the 1990s and revealing in the process what a remarkable effect baseball has had on our collective experience, this is THE book for any and all baseball fans, certain to grace coffee and bedside tables alike. Designed with that wonderful nostalgia that the sport itself so often evokes, THE ULTIMATE BASEBALL BOOK combines timeless images with a sweeping narrative history as well as essays on various idols and icons by such heavy hitters as Red Smith, Wilfrid Sheed, Roy Blount, Jr., Tom Wicker, and Geoge Will. This new edition covers baseball through the nineties, the decade when home run records fell and the sport reclaimed its hold on America, and celebrates the national game in ultimate style.

Author : Larry Hausner
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476689920

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Save Baseball by Larry Hausner Pdf

Major League Baseball has been in crisis in recent years. Game attendance is down by millions and fan interest is in free fall. The future of the game is in jeopardy. While the League acknowledges the issues, many are stumped as to how to address them. This book explores in detail the critical challenges facing MLB, and their ramifications, along with some potential solutions. Interviews with baseball insiders, players to executives, give a perspective on baseball’s struggle to reinvent itself for future generations.

Author : Trey Strecker,,Steven P. Gietschier,Mitchell Nathanson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786476312

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Understanding Baseball by Trey Strecker,,Steven P. Gietschier,Mitchell Nathanson Pdf

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.

Author : A. W. Laird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015018981988

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Ranking Baseball's Elite by A. W. Laird Pdf

According to selection criteria the author has developed, he ranks baseball's greatest players in order of greatness, chooses the best baseball player between 1893 and 1987, lists seven all-time all-star teams, and reviews the early Negro baseball leagues and players.

Author : Rob Gordon,Jeremy Deloney,Brent Hershey
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781641254519

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2020 Minor League Baseball Analyst by Rob Gordon,Jeremy Deloney,Brent Hershey Pdf

The first book of its kind to fully integrate sabermetrics and scouting, the 2020 Minor League Baseball Analyst provides a distinctive brand of analysis for more than 1,000 minor league baseball players. Features include scouting reports for all players, batter skills ratings, pitch repertoires, performance trends, major league equivalents, and expected major league debuts. A complete sabermetric glossary is also included. This one-of-a-kind reference is ideally suited for baseball analysts and those who play in fantasy leagues with farm systems.

Author : Rowe, David
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780335211500

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Critical Readings: Sport, Culture And The Media by Rowe, David Pdf

Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and the Media contains a broad range of essays on the relationships between sport, culture and the media. Featuring a mixture of classic works and recent texts, the Reader provides students, lecturers and researchers with an essential core of readings on the topic. The readings examine media and sport in Europe, North and South America, Australia, Asia and Africa and explore topics such as: Sport as entertainment: the role of mass communications The manufacture of sports news for the daily press The televised sports manhood formula Women, sport and globalization Sport on the information superhighway Advertising sportswear to black audiences Mega-events and media culture: sport and the Olympics Designed to complement the key textbook in the area, Sport, Culture and Media, this collection of critical readings can also be used independently, ideally in undergraduate and postgraduate studies in culture and media, sociology, sport and leisure studies, communication, race, ethnicity and gender. Essays by: John Amis, David L. Andrews, Ketra L. Armstrong, Frank B. Ashley, Joan Chandler, George B. Cunningham, Michele Dunbar, Laurel Davis, John Goldlust, Darnell Hunt, Kyle W. Kusz, James F. Larson, Geoffrey Lawrence, Mark D. Lowes, David McGimpsey, Jim McKay, Miquel de Moragas Sp?, Michael A. Messner, Toby Miller, Robert E. Rinehart, Nancy K. Rivenburgh, David Rowe, Maurice Roche, Michael Sagas, Michael Silk, Trevor Slack, Deborah Stevenson, Brian Stoddart, Lawrence A. Wenner, Brian J. Wrigley

Author : Meenekshi Bose
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1590337948

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The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Ratings by Meenekshi Bose Pdf

Debates about the uses of presidential ratings raise important questions about the accuracy of grouping leaders into single categories. Categories serve to identify some common features within a group, but they also mask important differences, which may distinguish a person significantly from others in the same category. The small number of presidents may make the value of subdividing them minimal, especially given the range of qualities by which we evaluate presidential leadership. Depending on the criteria used, a president may move sharply up or down in the survey -- presidents such as Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, both of whom faced scandals in their administrations but also had notable policy achievements, are good examples. Yet rating presidents continues to be a favourite pastime of scholars and journalists, and new surveys always spark heated discussion about why the rankings of certain presidents have changed from previous surveys. This new and timely volume summarises the debates and assesses the uses of presidential ratings in light of those discussions. While presidential ratings surveys do generalise presidential performance and cannot capture all of a president's qu

Author : David L. Fleitz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476602417

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Napoleon Lajoie by David L. Fleitz Pdf

Napoleon Lajoie was the sixth player, and the first second baseman, to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. During his career, which lasted from 1896 to 1916, he was regularly called the "King of Ballplayers" and was widely regarded as the greatest baseball player of all time before Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth came along. Colorful, competitive, and often unpredictable, Lajoie was so popular that the Cleveland team was called the Naps in his honor while he played for them. He was a multiple batting champion, the American League's first Triple Crown winner, and the third member of the 3,000 hits club. This book is the first ever full-length biography of this long ago superstar.

Author : Mark Dyreson,J. A. Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317997764

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Sport and American Society by Mark Dyreson,J. A. Mangan Pdf

A special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, this collection of provocative essays explores the many faces of sport in America. Drawing upon insights from anthropology, history, philosophy and sociology and with reference throughout to politics and economics, the contributors outline the story of how American sport has contributed to a climate of insularity, exceptionalism and imperialism, from a symbolic rejection of British rule and British sports to the current status of all-American sports such as baseball and basketball in the face of globalization.