Baseball The Unfair Sport

Author : Ted Frank
Publisher : eBooks2go, Inc.
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781618130792

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Baseball - The Unfair Sport by Ted Frank Pdf

Most baseball fans realize that left handed hitters have certain advantages over right handers - a shorter running distance to first base, facing mostly right handed pitching, etc. What most fans don't realize however, are the incredible advantages uncovered by Ted Frank that not even the so called experts have discovered. This fasinating book shows why some of the Greats of the game were not so great, and why even in today's age of specialization there are left handed hitters who clearly shouldn't be starting over their right handed counterparts. In his detailed statistical analysis, Ted shares "The Big Secret" never before revealed: and discusses the clear advantages left handed hitters enjoy on what really isn't a level playing field. Baseball the unfair sport is a must read for all true fans of the game.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393066234

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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis Pdf

"This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame." —Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge—insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.

Author : Alva Noë
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SPORTS & RECREATION
ISBN : 9780190928186

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Infinite Baseball by Alva Noë Pdf

"...Philosopher and baseball fan Alva Noë explores the many unexpected ways in which baseball is truly a philosophical kind of game. For example, he ponders how observers of baseball are less interested in what happens, than in who is responsible for what happens; every action receives praise or blame. To put it another way, in baseball - as in the law - we decide what happened based on who is responsible for what happened. Noe also explains the curious activity of keeping score: a score card is not merely a record of the game, like a video recording; it is an account of the game. Baseball requires that true fans try to tell the story of the game, in real time, as it unfolds, and thus actively participate in its creation. Some argue that baseball is fundamentally a game about numbers. Noe's wide-ranging, thoughtful observations show that, to the contrary, baseball is not only a window on language, culture, and the nature of human action, but is intertwined with deep and fundamental human truths."--Dust jacket flap.

Author : Dirk Hayhurst
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806535531

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Out Of My League: A Rookie's Survival in the Bigs by Dirk Hayhurst Pdf

In a follow up to "The Bullpen Gospels," the author details his major league rookie season, revealing that for him, it isn't just about the game, but about the people and events in it.

Author : Thomas H. Murray,Voo Teck Chuan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000151985

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The Ethics of Sports Technologies and Human Enhancement by Thomas H. Murray,Voo Teck Chuan Pdf

This volume presents articles which focus on the ethical evaluation of performance-enhancing technologies in sport. The collection considers whether drug doping should be banned; the rationale of not banning ethically contested innovations such as hypoxic chambers; and the implications of the prospects of human genetic engineering for the notion of sport as a development of ’natural’ talent towards human excellence. The essays demonstrate the significance of the principles of preventing harm, ensuring fairness and preserving meaning to appraise whether a particular performance enhancer is acceptable in the context of sport. Selected essays on various forms of human enhancement outside of sport that highlight other principles and concepts are included for comparative purpose. Sport enhancement provides a useful starting point to work through the ethics of enhancement in other human practices and endeavors, and sport enhancement ethics should track broader bioethical debates on human enhancement. As a whole, the volume points to the need to consider the values and meanings that people seek in a given sphere of human activity and their associated principles to arrive at a morally grounded and reasonable approach to enhancement ethics.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Professional Sports
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Professional sports
ISBN : MINN:31951P00245880W

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Inquiry Into Professional Sports by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Professional Sports Pdf

Author : Nafziger, James A.R.,Gauthier, Ryan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839108617

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Handbook on International Sports Law by Nafziger, James A.R.,Gauthier, Ryan Pdf

The second edition of this comprehensive Handbook presents new and significantly revised chapters by leading scholars and practitioners in the burgeoning field of international sports law. National, regional and comparative dimensions of sports law are emphasized throughout, exploring a wide range of issues emerging in sports law today.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045453276

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The Antitrust Laws and Organized Professional Team Sports Including Consideration of the Proposed Merger of the American and National Basketball Assosiations by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : UCSD:31822019255173

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The Antitrust Laws and Organized Professional Team Sports Including Consideration of the Proposed Merger of the American and National Basketball Associations by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5 Pdf

Author : Krister Swanson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780803288041

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Baseball's Power Shift by Krister Swanson Pdf

From Major League Baseball's inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry. Despite the players' desire to form a viable union, every attempt to do so failed. The labor consciousness of baseball players lagged behind that of workers in other industries, and the public was largely in the dark about labor practices in baseball. In the mid-1960s, star players Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale staged a joint holdout for multiyear contracts and much higher salaries. Their holdout quickly drew support from the public; for the first time, owners realized they could ill afford to alienate fans, their primary source of revenue. Baseball's Power Shift chronicles the growth and development of the union movement in Major League Baseball and the key role of the press and public opinion in the players' successes and failures in labor-management relations. Swanson focuses on the most turbulent years, 1966 to 1981, which saw the birth of the Major League Baseball Players Association as well as three strikes, two lockouts, Curt Flood's challenge to the reserve clause in the Supreme Court, and the emergence of full free agency. To defeat the owners, the players' union needed support from the press, and perhaps more importantly, the public. With the public on their side, the players ushered in a new era in professional sports when salaries skyrocketed and fans began to care as much about the business dealings of their favorite team as they do about wins and losses. Swanson shows how fans and the media became key players in baseball's labor wars and paved the way for the explosive growth in the American sports economy.

Author : Warren Tryon
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780124200982

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Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychotherapy by Warren Tryon Pdf

Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychotherapy provides a bionetwork theory unifying empirical evidence in cognitive neuroscience and psychopathology to explain how emotion, learning, and reinforcement affect personality and its extremes. The book uses the theory to explain research results in both disciplines and to predict future findings, as well as to suggest what the theory and evidence say about how we should be treating disorders for maximum effectiveness. While theoretical in nature, the book has practical applications, and takes a mathematical approach to proving its own theorems. The book is unapologetically physical in nature, describing everything we think and feel by way of physical mechanisms and reactions in the brain. This unique marrying of cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology provides an opportunity to better understand both. Unifying theory for cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology Describes the brain in physical terms via mechanistic processes Systematically uses the theory to explain empirical evidence in both disciplines Theory has practical applications for psychotherapy Ancillary material may be found at: http://booksite.elsevier.com/9780124200715 including an additional chapter and supplements

Author : John Shiffert
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786427956

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Base Ball in Philadelphia by John Shiffert Pdf

This work starts with the formation of the first baseball club in America, the Olympic Town Ball Club, and concludes with the final year of the National League's monopoly. Also included: the early Philadelphia club teams, including the first great African-American team, the Pythians; Philadelphia's part in the National Association of Base Ball Players; and the golden days of the national champion Philadelphia Athletic Club from 1860 through the National Association years.

Author : Fan Hong,Zhouxiang Lu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317574019

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Sport and Nationalism in Asia by Fan Hong,Zhouxiang Lu Pdf

Written by a team of international scholars, Sport and Nationalism in Asia - Power, Politics, and Identity is a collection of original research which addresses a number of issues central to notions of nationalism and identity in sport including: how the Olympics and other international and regional sports events have fostered an active interweaving of sport, politics and nationalism; the role of traditional sport in the building of national consciousness and national identity; the way modern sport creates and reflects nationalism, thereby giving it a voice and a focus. The book covers eight case studies on countries/regions across West Asia, Central Asia and East Asia. It is one of the few works that examines the relationships between sport, politics and nationalism from Asian perspective. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1952 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : MINN:31951D03669357B

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Organized Professional Team Sports by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Committee Serial No. 8. pt. 1: Considers legislation on the applicability of the antitrust laws to organize professional sports enterprises. pt. 2: Continuation of hearings on sports teams and antitrust legislation. pt. 3: Continuation of antitrust hearings on professional sports antitrust exemptions.

Author : Dirk Hayhurst
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806536712

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Bigger Than the Game by Dirk Hayhurst Pdf

"The best writer in a baseball uniform." —Tyler Kepner, The New York Times After nearly a decade in the minors, Dirk Hayhurst defied the odds to climb onto the pitcher's mound for the Toronto Blue Jays. Newly married, with a big league paycheck and a brand new house, Hayhurst was ready for a great season in the Bigs. Then fate delivered a crushing hit. Hayhurst blew out his pitching shoulder in an insane off-season workout program. After surgery, rehab, and more rehab, his major-league dreams seemed more distant than ever. From there things got worse, weirder, and funnier. In a crazy world of injured athletes, autograph-seeking nuns, angry wrestlers, and trainers with a taste for torture, Hayhurst learned lessons about the game—and himself—that were not in any rulebook. Honest, soul?searching, insightful, hilarious, and moving, Dirk Hayhurst's latest memoir is an indisputable baseball classic. Praise for The Bullpen Gospels and Out of My League "Dirk Hayhurst writes about baseball in a unique way. Observant, insightful, human, and hilarious." —Bob Costas "A fun read. . .This book shows why baseball is so often used as a metaphor for life." —Keith Olbermann "Entertaining and engaging. . .reminiscent of Jim Bouton's Ball Four." —Booklist "A rare gem of a baseball book." —Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated "A humorous, candid, and insightful memoir of Hayhurst's rookie season in the majors. . .Grade: Home Run." —Cleveland Plain Dealer