Extra Innings

Author : The Baseball Prospectus
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780465029181

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Extra Innings by The Baseball Prospectus Pdf

In 1996, a brassy young team of fansproduced a guide to baseball statistics.Printed on a photocopier, its distribution,which was in the low hundreds, was limited tofriends, family, and die-hard stat heads. Sixteenyears later, the Baseball Prospectus annualregularly hits best-seller lists and has becomean indispensable guide for the serious fan. In Extra Innings, the team at Baseball Prospectusintegrates statistics, interviews, and analysis todeliver twenty arguments about today's game.In the tradition of their seminal book, BaseballBetween the Numbers, they take on everything fromsteroids to the amateur draft. They probe theimpact of managers on the game. They explainthe critical art of building a bullpen. In an erawhen statistics matter more than ever, Extra Inningsis an essential volume for every baseball fan.

Author : Rose Bak
Publisher : Rose Bak
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Extra Innings by Rose Bak Pdf

The hunky baseball player has his eye on her, but she knows better than to trust an athlete! Agnes always promised herself to avoid athletes at all costs. The daughter of a hockey player as famous for his philandering ways as his skill on the ice, she learned the hard way that men can’t be trusted. So when she meets a hot younger man who happens to be a Triple A team pitcher, she’s ready to run the other way. Nolan loves three things: baseball, his mama, and the PR executive who’s working with him to bring more publicity to his baseball team. Sure, she’s a little older than him, a little prickly, and she thinks his beloved sport is “ridiculous”, but he’s a patient man. He’s going to approach her like he’s approached his career: with intense focus, persistence, and a little bit of strategy. This seventh inning stretch is going to lead to love. “Extra Innings” is part of the “Boozy Book Club” series. Each story in the series is a steamy standalone featuring a couple in their forties and fifties, a nosy group of book club friends, a little bit of humor, and a sweet happily ever after that proves anyone can find love later in life. Keywords: Rose Bak, Boozy Book Club, baseball, sports, athlete, midlife romance, later in life, seasoned romance, romance, over forty, work, workplace, friends to lovers, opposites attract, millionaire, rich, wealthy, funny, humor, humorous, steamy, spicy, bbw, curvy

Author : Tiki Barber,Ronde Barber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442457270

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Extra Innings by Tiki Barber,Ronde Barber Pdf

Joining the baseball team, football players Tiki and Ronde wonder if their achievements in other sports will help them through a winning season despite their lack of baseball experience.

Author : Patrick Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786481842

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Extra Innings by Patrick Smith Pdf

What leads a man in his mid to late thirties to take up the sport of baseball after a fifteen year hiatus? Especially when stressful and potentially humiliating tryouts are involved? The Lutherville, Maryland, Athletics are a ball team composed of plumbers, demolition guys, investment bankers, security guards and salesmen who play for the love of the game. How their passion for the game of baseball affects their lives is the subject of this book. Focusing on Smith's lifelong love affair with sport of baseball, this volume provides a firsthand account of a season in the Baltimore County, Over-30 league from tryouts to the final game. Beginning with childhood experiences in the Kentwood League in Raleigh, North Carolina, it follows Smith through his high school and college years as his interest in the game of baseball waned. The true focus of the book is the re-emergence of the sport as an important part of Smith's life during his mid-thirties and the glory he and his teammates find in simply being ballplayers. Baseball is presented as a unifying force and a thread of stability through the experiences of an ever-shifting world. The changes and appeal of major league baseball are also discussed from the vantage point of Smith and his teammates.

Author : Fred Bowen
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781682636374

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Extra Innings by Fred Bowen Pdf

A baseball book full of on the field action perfect for middle grade readers. "Strike one is the best pitch in baseball." Mike loves pitching, and he loves knowing his team counts on him to deliver wins. But Mike's father starts to worry that Mike is getting too carried away with baseball and not spending time working at after school jobs and developing a sense of responsibility. Can Mike and his father reach a compromise in order to let Mike play the game he loves and help his team win the league championship? Read “The Real Story” of Harvey Haddix, who pitched a perfect game against the Atlanta Braves in 1959 and LOST. Baseball fans will love this extra dive into sports history.

Author : B.W. Gibson
Publisher : Author House
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491856635

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Extra Innings by B.W. Gibson Pdf

When identical twins Jimmy and Billy McGee are tasked with maintaining control over the neighborhood baseball diamond, they and their team must deal with their cross-town enemies' inability to accept that their best friend is black.

Author : Robert Newton Peck
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780064472296

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Extra Innings by Robert Newton Peck Pdf

After an airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate finds unexpected solace in the stories of his great-aunt Vidalia's childhood travels with a Depression-era Negro League baseball team.

Author : Joe Boschi
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781449077525

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Extra Innings by Joe Boschi Pdf

What's this book about? The short answer is that it is about Bull Durham and the Godfather joining to play some golf with Tin Cup. At one time or another, you've probably heard expressions like "You're a product of your environment," "More is better," and "Timing is everything." Extra Innings is the story of Bobby Winston and Pep Woodson. It chronicles their youth and the influence of their environment on their lives and careers in Major League Baseball (Bobby) and the aerospace industry (Pep). Each of them enjoyed enough success in their individual careers to enable them to retire comfortably, but it seemed that they were a step ahead of the boom times in each industry. Bobby and Pep meet in retirement and work together at a golf course, where their interests in golf are focused. It doesn't take long for them to exchange stories of their past and recognize the similarities in their lives. The compensation landscape changes around them in some of the same ways. An opportunity for each of them to get a second bite of the apple arises when they join forces.

Author : B.W. Gibson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781546229711

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Extra Innings Trilogy by B.W. Gibson Pdf

With young adulthood comes inevitable change. From puberty to hometown struggles to the tragic blow of deadly racism, identical twins Jimmy and Billy McGee have experienced some pivotal points in their lives. Now, eighteen years old, these brothers aint seen nothing yet. Its 1952 in the Deep South and bad news is about to annihilate the McGee familys entire world. Jimmy is beginning college at Ole Miss while Billy is soon on his way into the depths of the Korean War. The brothers decisions to set their own courses apart from the other, for the first time in their lives, turned out to be the easy part. But their plans would set in motion a course of events even more trying than either could have anticipated. Theres an old adage that says: you can never go home again and this couldnt have rung truer for the twins. Sadly, only one learned the lesson.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781434971968

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Extra Innings: A Novel Based on the Life of Jack "Lucky" Lohrke by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard F. Peterson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0252069609

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Extra Innings by Richard F. Peterson Pdf

Extra Innings tackles the question of how writing about baseball has shaped our understanding and misunderstanding of the national pastime. In a series of astute reflections on baseball histories, biographies, personal reminiscences, and fiction, Richard Peterson explores the shifting balance of romance and fact in standard baseball histories, offers a lively discussion of baseball fiction, and assesses the realism of postmodern baseball writing. He discusses the influence of Jackie Robinson on the serious baseball novel and the reluctance of baseball fiction to treat race issues realistically. He also surveys baseball fleeting appearances in the literary canon and suggests a "top nine" reading list for the baseball aficionado. Slicing away the myths and distortions of baseball's bizarre history, Extra Innings.

Author : David Whitford
Publisher : Harpercollins
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 006016459X

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Extra Innings by David Whitford Pdf

Chronicles the first season of baseball's senior league for retired major league ballplayers and includes comments from the league's founder and the star players who returned to the game

Author : Doris Grumbach
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393313204

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Extra Innings by Doris Grumbach Pdf

This memoir offers an intense, sometimes funny, sometimes tart, and often very moving account of the life of Doris Grumbach, author of Coming into the End Zone. Grumbach records an eventful year crowded with literary pleasures and pains, and the natural beauties and social particulars of life in coastal Maine.

Author : Bruce E. Spitzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : 0984956905

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Extra Innings by Bruce E. Spitzer Pdf

In the year 2092, Ted Williams, the greatest baseball hitter of all time, is brought back to life through the science of cryonics. Once again playing for the Red Sox, Williams finds himself trapped in a world he hardly recognizes: the corruption of the game he loves with uber-juiced batters and robot pitchers; difficult love affairs clashing with his old desires; and a military conflict of the future in which he must harness the fighter pilot skills he used in his first life. Dr. Elizabeth Miles is the cryonicist who brings him back to life, initiating a dramatic sequence of medical achievements. She and her young son Johnnie are a constant reminder of what Williams lacked in his first trip around the bases, never devoting much time to love and family. But old habits die hard. With enemies and allies both on the field and off, Williams must make sense of it all and play on against a machine that he detests, pressure to take the "giddyup" he abhors, unrelenting media mania, and a dystopian world he cant ignore. The narrative resonates with the consequences of the major issues we face in our world today-the steroids debate in sports, global warming, corporate greed, technology run rampant, and the moral ambiguity of war. Extra Innings is alternately poignant and humorous, heartbreaking and joyous. Thought-provoking throughout, its a rollicking ride that looks at second chances and redemption, the ability to triumph over adversity, and the search for meaning in this life and the next. Flawed in his first life, Williams must decide in the second whats more important, the chance to win his first World Series, or the chance to be a better man? The Greatest Comeback of all Time is More Than Just a Game.

Author : Philip J. Lowry
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786457342

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Baseball's Longest Games by Philip J. Lowry Pdf

Baseball is the only major team sport that doesn’t feature a clock, and there’s a familiar saying among fans that as long as outs remain, the game can, theoretically, go on forever. Every now and again, it nearly does, as author Phil Lowry demonstrates. The product of more than four decades of research, this book catalogs baseball games from around the world and throughout history that lasted 20 or more innings, stretched five or more hours, or ended after 1:00 am. Lowry also examines probability models to predict how often games of unusual length will occur.