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Author : Tom Tierney,Paper Dolls
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486248461
Step up to the plate with 16 of the biggest names in the game: Cy Young, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, more. Two uniforms are provided for each player.
Author : Triumph Books
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781633197190
From baseball's hottest hitters like Mike Trout and Bryce Harper to ace pitchers Chris Sale, Clayton Kershaw, and Jake Arrieta to All-Star veterans David Ortiz and Miguel Cabrera, Baseball Stars is a look at the greatest players in the game today. Including stunning full-color photography, profiles, statistics, fun facts, and much more, this guide is a must-have for baseball fans.
Author : Matthew Allan Chandler
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781491474815
Who is the better pure hitter, Ted Williams or Miguel Cabrera? Who was better at tearing up the basepaths, Rickey Henderson or Ty Cobb? Does Clayton Kershaw compare to the strikeout king, Nolan Ryan? See how the players match up in this side-by-side look at baseball's stars. Produced in partnership with Sports Illustrated KIDS.
Author : Larry Donnell Ford
Publisher : Larry Ford
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
We have reviewed over 200 MLB (Major League Baseball) Stars and their plight to becoming millionaires and concluded that this simple guide is more than sufficient to stir new and any aspiring baseball star to becoming a millionaire in less than a few years. When you completely digest the information of this expose material you will be well on your way to becoming one of the richest MBL stars to date.
Author : Virginia Buckman
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : 0531187004
Provides short biographics of some of baseball's heroes, such as players Alex Rodriguez and Miguel Tejada.
Author : Rick Swaine
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476605531
For major league baseball, the decade following Jackie Robinson's 1947 debut was one of slow yet persistent change. Four other black players made their first, brief big-league appearances that year, followed by only two in 1948 and four in 1949. But by the end of 1959, 122 black ballplayers had made it to the big leagues. Like Robinson, their lives were made difficult off the field, and on it they dodged beanballs and spikes. This book brings attention to the accomplishments of this transitional generation of African American players--made up of men like Luscious Luke Easter, Sam "The Jet" Jethroe, and Sad Sam Jones--many of whom spent years in the minors, the Negro leagues, or both before getting their shot. Chapters on each season from 1947 to 1959 incorporate biographical and career profiles for 25 players who stood out during baseball's integration. A final chapter covers the outstanding minor league players who for various reasons never got a real chance to play major league ball. Appendices include a roster of black major leaguers from 1947 through 1959, a list of black-player firsts and statistics on the year-by-year population of black players in the majors.
Author : William F. McNeil
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786407840
Baseball is played in all corners of the world, so it is no surprise to learn that some of the greatest hardballers of all time never played on a U.S. major league diamond. Who knows what major league records would have been shattered had Sadaharu Oh of Japan, Josh Gibson of the Negro Leagues, Martin Dihigo of Cuba, Francisco Coimbre of Puerto Rico and Hector Espino of Mexico played in the United States. This work is a survey of the greatest baseball players who never played in the U.S. major leagues. The greatest players from the various professional leagues outside organized baseball in the United States are reviewed, and all-star teams are selected for each league. Finally, the author selects an "all-world all-star team" from the individual all-star teams from Japan, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the Negro Leagues.
Author : Ed Gruver
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803288171
Hairs vs. Squares is an ode to an unforgettable season that began with the first major players’ strike in the history of North American sports and ended with a record-setting World Series played by two of the game’s greatest and most colorful dynasties. In a sign of the times it was Hippies vs. Hardhats, a clash of cultures with the hirsute, mod Mustache Gang colliding with the clean-cut, conservative Big Red Machine on the game’s grandest stage. When the Oakland A’s met the Cincinnati Reds in the 1972 Fall Classic, more than a championship was at stake. The more than two dozen interviews bring to life a time when controversy was commonplace, both inside and outside the national pastime. In baseball, Willie Mays was traded, Hank Aaron was chasing down Babe Ruth’s home run record, and Dick Allen was helping to save the Chicago White Sox franchise while winning the American League’s Most Valuable Player award. Outside the American pastime the war in Vietnam was raging, campus protests spread throughout the country, and Watergate and the Munich Olympics headlined the tumultuous year. The 1972 Major League Baseball season was marked by the rapid rise of rookies and young stars, the fall of established teams and veterans, courageous comebacks, and personal redemptions. Along with the many unforgettable and outrageous characters inside baseball, Hairs vs. Squares emphasizes the dramatic changes that took place on and off the field in the 1970s. Owners’ lockouts, on-field fights, maverick managers, controversial trades, artificial fields, the first full five-game League Championship Series, and the closest, most competitive World Series ever, combined to make the 1972 season as complex as the social and political unrest that marked the era.
Author : Ray Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 0515032999
Author : Burton A. Boxerman,Benita W. Boxerman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476605142
Long before Hank Greenberg earned recognition as baseball's greatest Jewish player, Jews had developed a unique, and very close, relationship with the American pastime. In the late nineteenth century, as both the American Jewish population and baseball's popularity grew rapidly, baseball became an avenue by which Jewish immigrants could assimilate into American culture. Beyond the men (and, later, women) on the field, in the dugout, and at the front office, the Jewish community produced a huge base of fans and students of the game. This important book examines the interrelated histories of baseball and American Jews to 1948--the year Israel was established, the first full season that both major leagues were integrated, and the summer that Hank Greenberg retired. Covered are the many players, from Pike to Greenberg, as well as the managers, owners, executives, writers, statisticians, manufacturers and others who helped forge a bond between baseball and an emerging Jewish culture in America. Key reasons for baseball's early appeal to Jews are examined, including cultural assimilation, rebellion against perceived Old World sensibilities, and intellectual and philosophical ties to existing Jewish traditions. The authors also clearly demonstrate how both Jews and baseball have benefited from their relationship.
Author : Brent P. Kelley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJ42T
Author : Dennis J. Frost
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781684175048
"In Seeing Stars, Dennis J. Frost traces the emergence and evolution of sports celebrity in Japan from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. Frost explores how various constituencies have repeatedly molded and deployed representations of individual athletes, revealing that sports stars are socially constructed phenomena, the products of both particular historical moments and broader discourses of celebrity. Drawing from media coverage, biographies, literary works, athletes’ memoirs, bureaucratic memoranda, interviews, and films, Frost argues that the largely unquestioned mass of information about sports stars not only reflects, but also shapes society and body culture. He examines the lives and times of star athletes—including sumo grand champion Hitachiyama, female Olympic medalist Hitomi Kinue, legendary pitcher Sawamura Eiji, and world champion boxer Gushiken Yokoō—demonstrating how representations of such sports stars mediated Japan’s emergence into the putatively universal realm of sports, unsettled orthodox notions of gender, facilitated wartime mobilization of physically fit men and women, and masked lingering inequalities in postwar Japanese society. As the first critical examination of the history of sports celebrity outside a Euro-American context, this book also sheds new light on the transnational forces at play in the production and impact of celebrity images and dispels misconceptions that sports stars in the non-West are mere imitations of their Western counterparts."
Author : Rick Swaine
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476614359
This book profiles forty major league ballplayers who engineered remarkable comebacks to salvage fading careers. Details of each comeback is provided along with a summary of the player's career. The comeback players range from Hall of Famers like Ted Williams and Stan Musial; to near-greats like Tommy John and Luis Tiant; to journeyman performers like George McQuinn and Tony Cuccinello. In the absence of statistical standards to evaluate or even define comebacks, the selection of the top comeback players was based on the following criteria: historical significance, uniqueness, dramatic content, degree of difficulty, and the player's overall reputation and standing.
Author : David Hornish
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781304193285
The true story of Topps Chewing Gum and its founders the Shorin family. This book takes a detailed look at Topps and two prior family businesses: American Leaf Tobacco Company and American Gas Stations. Full checklists and information are presented along with hundreds of informative illustrations. If you collect anything at all from the vintage Topps era, this book is for you!
Author : Paul Loukides,Linda K. Fuller
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0879725893
One of five volumes devoted to exploring some of the peripheral aspects of American films. Essays describe the depiction of such geographical and conceptual places as Arizona and the Arabic world, such public and ritual spaces as churches and western saloons, and such private arenas and commonplace spaces as the men's room and poolsides. Not illustrated. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR