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Author : Floyd Conner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : OCLC:1310606836
Author : Floyd Conner
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612340371
Baseball has so many stars and scrubs, quotables and notables - so many that one book just isn’t enough to cover them all. Enter Baseball's Most Wanted™ II. Starting where Baseball's Most Wanted™ left off, version 2.0 introduces even more colorful characters, inept fielders and hitters, and forgotten stars as well as all the teams, fans, managers, and even announcers who are a vibrant part of baseball’s past, present, and future. You’ll read top-ten lists of the best and worst hitters and pitchers, the most unique memorabilia, and the most obsessed fans. Learn which president vowed to never play the game again after he got shelled in a semipro game. Find out if Tony Suck lived up to his name or rose above it. Discover the secret lure of the no-hitter and how even usually inept pitchers can catch lightning in a bottle and reach Nirvana. You’ll read about these as well as hundreds of other people, places, and events. With more than sixty lists of trivia to amuse and amaze, Baseball's Most Wanted™ II is a wonderful celebration of America’s love of baseball, warts and all.
Author : Floyd Conner
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : 1578661579
An irreverent look at a side of baseball not usually found on the sports pages, with more than 700 entries and 70 lists
Author : Art Graham
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 2444 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781546234678
Growing technology and affluence, rock n roll, baseball, and muscle carsall told through the youth and early adult years of a small-town Montana boy and war veteran. This is a history of the glorious 50s and 60s in America. It is a history also of politicians, the indecency of segregation and war, and the struggle for racial equality and peace. A history of two great nations. Intertwined is the unique history of Vietnam and the Vietnamese long struggle for independence. It is a rendering also of the unique culture of Vietnam with fascinating stories of emperors within the walls of a Forbidden City. Included in the book is a review of the relationship of two nationsone mighty and one resistantultimately entangled in a catastrophic war. Nearly fifty-nine thousand Americans lost to family,friends, wives, and lovers. More than two million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians perished in a war that could not be won.
Author : John Snyder
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781612340524
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first World Series with The World Series Most Wanted M/i>. You'll find fascinating facts, oddball tales, and record-breaking achievements from that initial World Series between the Boston Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates all the way up to the 2003 World Series. The next in a long line of vaunted Most Wanted books from Potomac. THE The World Series Most Wanted tells the tale of October glory and heartbreak, of heroes and goats, and of the thin line between success and failure on baseball's grandest stage. With a hopping sixty top-ten lists.
Author : Francesca Peppiatt
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781612342412
With country music as popular as ever-what other form of music has been honored on an official state quarter?-Country Music's Most WantedOao hits the stage to bring you tales of country musicOCOs famous and infamous.Alan Jackson delivered mail to Hee Hawbefore he made it big. Garth Brooks was booed off the stage during an eleventh-grade talent show. Kris Kristofferson landed a borrowed helicopter on Johnny CashOCOs lawn so he could pitch Cash a song. YouOCOll read about Vernon Dalhart, Kenny Chesney, Hank Williams, the Dixie Chicks, Tim McGraw, the Carters, the Cashes, the Webbs, and so many more artists of yesterday and today. With more than fifty lists, Country Music's Most WantedOao gives you those stories and people plus fun discussions of the best train songs, phone call songs, humorous songs, and tequila songs (you provide the salt and limes).Country musicOCOs vibrant past, successful present, and bright future are all represented in this humorous look at the stars and legends of Music City. From the first million-selling record in 1924 to the songs you heard on the radio last night, Country Music's Most WantedOao has a tractor-full of fun country music trivia!"
Author : Jeff Pullen
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9798891571266
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 : Barbara Gregorich,Christopher Jennison
Publisher : Good Year Books
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781596473362
Develop students' reading, writing, listening, speaking, and research skills by using this book's 48 reproducible one-page reading selections - high-interest baseball articles, stories, biographies, poems, and interviews - each followed by a reproducible activity page that requires fill-in-the-blank responses to questions about the passage, or by a project page with writing assignments and other ideas demanding an active response to the reading selection. Grades 5-8. Answer key. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 119 pages.
Author : William Marshall
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780813158792
With personal interviews of players and owners and with over two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall tells of the players, the pennant races, and the officials who shaped one of the most memorable eras in sports and American history. At the end of World War II, soldiers returning from overseas hungered to resume their love affair with baseball. Spectators still identified with players, whose salaries and off-season employment as postmen, plumbers, farmers, and insurance salesmen resembled their own. It was a time when kids played baseball on sandlots and in pastures, fans followed the game on the radio, and tickets were affordable. The outstanding play of Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Bob Feller, Don Newcombe, Warren Spahn, and many others dominated the field. But perhaps no performance was more important than that of Jackie Robinson, whose entrance into the game broke the color barrier, won him the respect of millions of Americans, and helped set the stage for the civil rights movement. Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 also records the attempt to organize the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Mexican League's success in luring players south of the border that led to a series of lawsuits that almost undermined baseball's reserve clause and antitrust exemption. The result was spring training pay, uniform contracts, minimum salary levels, player representation, and a pension plan--the very issues that would divide players and owners almost fifty years later. During these years, the game was led by A.B. "Happy" Chandler, a hand-shaking, speech-making, singing Kentucky politician. Most owners thought he would be easily manipulated, unlike baseball's first commissioner, the autocratic Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis. Instead, Chandler's style led one owner to complain that he was the "player's commissioner, the fan's commissioner, the press and radio commissioner, everybody's commissioner but the men who pay him."
Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781607106722
Strange-but-true stories, colorful characters, and big-league bizarreness for fans of America’s pastime! Why is baseball such a great subject for a Bathroom Reader? Because it’s steeped in history and tradition, it’s rife with scandals and controversy, and most of the men that dedicate their life to it are just a little bit . . . weird. Uncle John’s spirited take on the game takes you deep into that history to paint a detailed picture of where the game came from and where it may be going. You’ll go behind the scenes at spring training, listen in on pitcher’s mound conferences, and meet the players, coaches, fans, and broadcasters who make this the greatest game in the world! Swing for the fences as you read about . . . * Minor league mishaps * The violent history of umpiring * The true story of Lou Gehrig’s heroic rise and tragic fall * The man who pitched a no-hitter while tripping on LSD * The origins of gloves, baseballs, bats, uniforms, helmets, and more * Baseball’s most famous call and how it was saved for posterity * The best and worst teams of all time * Animals in the outfield * The birth of Little League * The Abner Doubleday myth * and much, much more!
Author : David Nemec
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803235328
"The business of baseball and player transactions by David Ball"-- t.p.
Author : Joe Posnanski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982180584
A sportswriter and lifelong student of the game, Posnanski that tells the story of baseball through the lives of its greatest players. His choices include iconic Hall of Famers, unfairly forgotten All-Stars, talents of today, and more. Rather than relying on records and statistics, he retraces players' origins, illuminates their characters, and places their accomplishments in the context of baseball's past and present. The result is a rich pageant of baseball history, and stories that have long gone unheard. -- adapted from jacket
Author : Phil S. Dixon
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9798369406786
A Galaxy of Stars best describes Andrew “Rube” Foster’s 1910 Chicago Leland Giants. In their only season together, this combination of players played their way into the heart and soul of a nation divided. They are proof positive that the National and American Leagues did not corner the market on athletic talent. Foster's unit began the season with a thirty-two and one record and ended with thirty-one consecutive victories. They scored nearly 1,000 runs and finished the season with a 124-7-1 record. Their win total is elevated to 138-11-2 when Cuban Winter League games are added. They played 64 games in the Chicago portion of their schedule. These games are equivalent to a home schedule for National and American League teams. Foster's Giants finished with a landmark 57-6-1 record for games played in Chicago. That Foster, John Henry Lloyd, and John "Pete" Hill, three members of the 1910 Leland Giants, are enshrined in Baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, is worthy of closer observation. And yet, Bruce Petway, Frank Wickware, and Grant "Home Run" Johnson should be there, too. Thus, Phil Dixon's American Baseball Chronicles, Volume II, Great Teams, enters the illustrious conversation. The Leland Giants story is uniquely told here in a day-to-day account of every exciting win and every memorable thrill. The comparative scores and related histories are a resourceful and entertaining aid for further analysis of the participation of African-American athletes in baseball as best represented by one legendary team in a single championship season.
Author : Mike Eisenbath
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781566397032
This encyclopedia of the Cardinals baseball team includes extensive profiles for the top 200 players, a synopsis of the careers of every team player, stories, statistics, game-by-game accounts of every season, and information on every manager.
Author : William J. Ryczek
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476668482
Major League Baseball was in crisis in 1968. The commissioner was inept, professional football was challenging the sport's popularity and the game on the field was boring, with pitchers dominating hitters in a succession of dull, low-scoring games. The major league expanded for the 1969 season but the muddled process by which new franchises were selected highlighted the ineffective management of the sport. This book describes how baseball reached its nadir in the late 1960s and how it survived and began its slow comeback. The lack of offense in the game is examined, taking in the great pitching performances of Denny McLain, Bob Gibson, Don Drysdale and others. Colorful characters like Charley Finley and Ken Harrelson are covered, along with the effects that dramatic changes in American society and the war in Vietnam had on the game.
