Baseball S First Inning

Author : William J. Ryczek
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786482834

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Baseball’s First Inning by William J. Ryczek Pdf

This history of America’s pastime describes the evolution of baseball from early bat and ball games to its growth and acceptance in different regions of the country. Such New York clubs as the Atlantics, Excelsiors and Mutuals are a primary focus, serving as examples of how the sport became more sophisticated and popular. The author compares theories about many of baseball’s “inventors,” exploring the often fascinating stories of several of baseball’s oldest founding myths. The impact of the Civil War on the sport is discussed and baseball’s unsteady path to becoming America’s national game is analyzed at length.

Author : Jeff Pullen
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9798891571266

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Baseballs .400 Hitter And The Forbidden Experiment by Jeff Pullen Pdf

Drew Charlesworth--an accomplished mathematical genius working on a medical experiment with his partner Dr. Kingsly, creating a computerized prosthesis to be one day fused with its human subject--was also gifted with an unusual ability to hit a baseball. This skill, once he reached the major league, thrust him into the limelight, exposing his other work, which angered political and religious Conservatives. This is a story how Drew had to navigate the worlds of not only baseball and medicine but politics and big business, eventually having to make tough decisions.

Author : David Arcidiacono
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786436774

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Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut by David Arcidiacono Pdf

It's been more than a century since Connecticut had big league baseball, but in the 1870s, Middletown, Hartford, and New Haven fielded professional teams that competed at the highest level. By the end of the decade, when the state's final big league team, Mark Twain's beloved Hartford Dark Blues, left the National League, baseball's transition from amateur pastime to major league sport had been accomplished. And Connecticut had played a significant role in its development. The history of the Nutmeg State's three major league teams is described here in full, and the author thoughtfully examines their influence within the regional baseball scene.

Author : Bill Gruber
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476673172

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Baseball in a Grain of Sand by Bill Gruber Pdf

Part sports journalism, part history, part memoir, this many-sided narrative follows one season with the Blue Devils of Moscow, Idaho--a rural American Legion baseball team. Showcasing baseball's enduring place in American life, the author draws on the lore of the game, and conversations with diverse fans and players--an outdoorsman juggling his son's schedule of games with bear hunting; a bewildered German college student, holding a baseball for the first time; former St. Louis Cardinal pitcher & Yale baseball coach John Stuper; the proud owner of a Derek Jeter jersey in Hokendauqua, Pennsylvania, to name a few.

Author : Tyler Kepner
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781101970850

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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches by Tyler Kepner Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From The New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today. The baseball is an amazing plaything. We can grip it and hold it so many different ways, and even the slightest calibration can turn an ordinary pitch into a weapon to thwart the greatest hitters in the world. Each pitch has its own history, evolving through the decades as the masters pass it down to the next generation. From the earliest days of the game, when Candy Cummings dreamed up the curveball while flinging clamshells on a Brooklyn beach, pitchers have never stopped innovating. In K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, Tyler Kepner traces the colorful stories and fascinating folklore behind the ten major pitches. Each chapter highlights a different pitch, from the blazing fastball to the fluttering knuckleball to the slippery spitball. Infusing every page with infectious passion for the game, Kepner brings readers inside the minds of combatants sixty feet, six inches apart. Filled with priceless insights from many of the best pitchers in baseball history--from Bob Gibson, Steve Carlton, and Nolan Ryan to Greg Maddux, Mariano Rivera, and Clayton Kershaw--K will be the definitive book on pitching and join such works as The Glory of Their Times and Moneyball as a classic of the genre.

Author : Joe Cox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493032136

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The Immaculate Inning by Joe Cox Pdf

The Immaculate Inning shines a light on the miracle of baseball’s endless possibility—the way that on any given day, someone (maybe a star, or maybe a scrub) could perform the rarest of single-game feats or cap off a seemingly unobtainable chase for a record. Covering a selection of the most unusual, significant, and rare feats in baseball history, both in the context of single-day (and sometimes even single-play) events and those that require a longer streak or a full season’s excellence to reach or complete, the book clearly defines how each task is amassed, provides historical background, and tells riveting stories of the ballplayers that did the unthinkable.

Author : William J. Ryczek
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786499458

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Blackguards and Red Stockings by William J. Ryczek Pdf

It was a novel experiment as baseball's leading men formed the National Association, bringing order to the hodgepodge of professional and amateur clubs that made up the sport from the end of the Civil War through 1870. It was an imperfect beginning to organized professional sports in America--the league was plagued by gambling, contract jumping and rumors of dishonest play--but it laid the groundwork for the multi-billion-dollar enterprises of the 21st century. Like most sporting endeavors, it was entertaining, with the best players in the world displaying their talents throughout the northeastern and mid-western United States and, in 1874, during a ground-breaking journey to England. The present volume covers all the action--both on and off the field--of the NA's five years, providing the definitive history of the first professional sports league in the U.S.

Author : Dean A. Sullivan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803242379

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Early Innings by Dean A. Sullivan Pdf

This compilation of 120 primary writings documents baseball’s first century, from a loosely organized village social event to the arrival of the National League. Collecting from a wide range of sources—including newspaper accounts, letters, folk poetry, songs, and annual guides—Dean A. Sullivan of Fairfax, Virginia, progresses chronologically from the earliest known baseball reference (1825) to the creation of the Doubleday Myth (1908).

Author : Joseph G. Preston
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786415922

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Major League Baseball in the 1970s by Joseph G. Preston Pdf

Many of the most powerful trends in baseball today have their roots in the 1970s. Baseball entered that decade seriously behind the times in race relations, attitudes toward conformity versus individuality, and the manager-player relationship. In a sense, much of the wrenching change that American society as a whole experienced in the 1960s was played out in baseball in the following decade. Additionally, the game itself was rapidly evolving, with the inauguration of the designated hitter rule in the American League, the evolution of the closer, the development of the five-man starting rotation, the acceptance of strikeout lions like Dave Kingman and Bobby Bonds and the proliferation of stolen bases. This book opens with a discussion of the challenges that faced baseball's movers and shakers when they gathered in Bal Harbour, Florida, for the annual winter meetings on December 2, 1969. Their worst nightmares would be realized in the coming years. For many and often contradictory reasons the 1970s game evolved into a war of competing ideologies--escalating salaries, an acrimonious strike, Sesame Street-style team mascots, and the breaking of the time-honored tradition that all players, including the pitcher, must play on offense as well as defense--that would ultimately spell doom for the majority of attendees.

Author : Peter Morris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781566636773

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A Game of Inches by Peter Morris Pdf

"The scope of A Game of Inches is encyclopedic, with nearly a thousand entries that illuminate the origins of items ranging from catchers' masks to hook slides to intentional walks to cork-center baseballs. But this is much more than just a reference guide. Along the way, award-winning author Peter Morris has a sharp eye for the telling quote and the entertaining anecdote. He explains the context that led each new feature of the game to emerge when it did, and chronicles the often surprising responses to these innovations."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : J. Daniel
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476670881

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Phinally! by J. Daniel Pdf

A lot happened in baseball in 1980. After being stabbed with a penknife in Mexico during spring training, the Indians' "Super Joe" Charboneau captured Cleveland's heart--and Rookie of the Year. Nolan Ryan became baseball's first Million Dollar Man, Reggie Jackson twice found himself looking down the wrong end of a gun, and George Brett posted the highest single-season batting average since 1941. The Phillies and Expos battled up to the season's final weekend while the Dodgers tilted against the Astros in a one-game playoff for the division title. In the American League, Brett led Kansas City past the mighty Yankees and into the Series, where slugger Mike Schmidt and the Phillies awaited. This book covers it all.

Author : Claude Walker
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781475938715

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The Earth Baseball Tourney by Claude Walker Pdf

When water magnate (and owner of the minor league Springfield WaterDogs) Reynolds Beckert learns he has a short time to live, his dream of extending the "reach of baseball" becomes a holy mission. Determined to find the "next Clemente" in a place like Fiji, he organizes a tournament with the largest purse in history and a lottery which will make some lucky fans billionaires. His innocent aim - to share the game he loves with the whole world - goes horribly wrong when it is threatened by ninjas, flaming flamingos, anti-baseball protests, echo clones and killer cellphones. Greed and nationalist zeal take the inaugural Earth Baseball Tourney - and humanity - to the apocalyptic brink. A dark comedy about baseball's globalization and technology-run-amok, "The Earth Baseball Tourney: An Invitational to Disaster" is an ode to the greatest game ever devised. The lyrical tale reminds fans of their first game with their grandfather, aromas of grilled onions and fresh-cut grass, and that distinctive crack of the bat.

Author : Lou Hernández
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786489367

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The Rise of the Latin American Baseball Leagues, 1947-1961 by Lou Hernández Pdf

Major League Baseball today would be unrecognizable without the large number of Latin American players and managers filling its ranks. Their strong influence on the sport can trace its beginnings to professional leagues established south of the border and in the Caribbean nations in the 1940s. This narrative history of Latin American baseball leagues during the 1940s and 1950s provides an in-depth, year-by-year chronicle of seasonal leagues in the seven primary baseball-playing areas in the region: Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. The success of these leagues, and their often acrimonious competition with U.S. Organized Baseball, eventually ushered in a new era of contract concessions from owners and general labor advancements for players that forever changed the game.

Author : Gary Bedingfield
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786458208

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BaseballÕs Dead of World War II by Gary Bedingfield Pdf

While most fans know that baseball stars Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, and Bob Feller served in the military during World War II, few can name the two major leaguers who died in action. (They were catcher Harry O’Neill and outfielder Elmer Gedeon.) Far fewer still are aware that another 125 minor league players also lost their lives during the war. This book draws on extensive research and interviews to bring their personal lives, baseball careers, and wartime service to light.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101054732399

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Princeton Alumni Weekly by Anonim Pdf