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Author : Rick Norman
Publisher : august house
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0874832047
On trial for treason, Andrew Jackson Fielder looks back on his brief career as a major league pitcher, and his experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war
Author : Craig Estes
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781412003223
W.D. Fielder's prim Virginia bred mother certainly wasn't looking for her seventeen-year-old's disgusting pinup magazines. But when she found them, while cleaning up his room, that rainy spring afternoon in 1989, she just kind of lost it. She had never raised a hand to either of the twins, William David or Wallace Daniel, but she did that day and paid for her lose of control with her life. Over the next decade, the late Edna Fielder's miscalculation fostered a flood of missing persons reports being lodged with the Barnwell County, Maryland Sheriff's department, but none of the almost three dozen missing women were ever found. The authorities, chagrined at being unable to solve even a single one of the cases, took the position that the girls had most likely just run away to see the world in Washington, D.C. or Baltimore or maybe even New York City. Then the newspaper publisher's daughter disappears while investigating the controversial Forest Vista land development project, located on one of the Fielder family properties, and all hell breaks loose. From the opulent corporate boardrooms of Washington, D.C. to the drug infested Baltimore slums and the rich rural farmlands in between, follow Jillian Hargrove and Architect Romulus Reynolds as they search for Reporter Chelsa Wellington and the other missing girls, even as the WD's track their every move. Initially reluctant to accede to his client's request to get involved in the search for the missing reporter, Reynolds is even more reticent in agreeing to let Jillian help. It's not just that she represents a group of neighbors, who want to stop his client's project. What really makes him uncomfortable is the possibility that she has become the kidnapper's next target. As their investigation reveals the magnitude of the twins' depravity, Rom's reservations are complicated by the fact that he has fallen passionately in love with Jillian. As their relationship deepens and the investigation accelerates, so do his fears that he will soon be coming face to face with the prospect of Jillian's death at the hands of the twins.
Author : Wilfred McCormick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Baseball
ISBN : OSU:32435057555278
The Sonora nine finds themselves pitted against a powerful champion, but are confident of their ability to win against their highly-favored opponent because of their knowledge of sound baseball strategy. When the newspapers begin to center their publicity on Bronc, a breach comes between him and his teammates. He comes back to pitch the championship game, trying desparately to win without being a star.
Author : Jerome Holtzman
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000010442265
Baseball: no other sport can claim its drama, its rhythms-or as many writers among its fans. These twenty-seven selections are by authors ranging from Lardner to Malamud.
Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393073492
The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.
Author : Andy McCue,Pete Palmer,Richard Hershberger,Max Blue,Takeyuki Inohiza
Publisher : SABR, Inc.
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781933599649
The Baseball Research Journal is the flagship research publication of the Society for American Baseball Research. Founded in 1971, SABR now has over 6,000 members investigating every aspect of the sport, from statistical analysis to biographical research, to psychology, economics, physics, biomechanics, game theory, and more. In this issue: Leaving a Mark on the Game Allan Roth by Andy McCue The Creation of the Alexander Cartwright Myth by Richard Hershberger Stolen Bases and Caught Stealing by Catchers: Updating Total Player Rating by Pete Palmer New York Connections McGraw’s Streak by Max Blue Clyde Sukeforth: The Dodgers’ Yankee and Branch Rickey’s Maine Man by Karl Lindholm Identifying Undated Ticket Stubs: An Attempt to Recapture Baseball History by Dr. James Reese Outside the Majors “Many Exciting Chases After the Ball”: Nineteenth Century Base Ball in Bismarck, Dakota Territory by Terry Bohn The Great 1952 Florida International League Pennant Race by Sam Zygner and Steve Smith Aquino Abreu: Baseball’s Other Double No-Hit Pitcher by Peter C. Bjarkman Defiance College’s Historic 1961 Postseason by Roger J. Hawks Analytical Looks at the Game We Love The Twisting Model and Ted Williams’s Science of Hitting by Takeyuki Inohiza The Best Shortened-Season Hitting Performance in Major League History by David Nemec Was There a Seven Way Game? Seven Ways of Reaching First Base by Paul Hertz The Three, or Was it Two, .400 Hitters of 1922 by Brian Marshall What Do Your Fans Want?: Attendance Correlations with Performance, Ticket Prices, and Payroll Factors by Ben Langhorst Do Fans Prefer Homegrown Players? An Analysis of MLB Attendance, 1976–2012 by Russell Ormiston 2014 Chadwick Honorees Mark Armour by Rob Neyer Ernie Lanigan by Lyle Spatz Marc Okkonen by Dan Levitt Cory Schwartz by Christina Kahrl John C. Tattersall by John Thorn
Author : Andres Wirkmaa
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786455133
Many fans enjoy keeping track of baseball action with easy abbreviations written on simple grids. Serious scorekeeping, however, is more complicated than just jotting down runs, outs, and the final score. Official scorekeeping requires a thorough knowledge of a large body of rules--many of which are confusing, and all of which must be followed carefully to ensure that the scorekeeper's data are valid. With confidence and enthusiasm, Andres Wirkmaa leads the reader through the daunting maze of rules that govern official scorekeeping. Chapters explain and clarify the official scorer's duties, responsibilities and authority; the official scorer's reports; and all the game-to-game details such as player listings, substitute batters and runners, out-of-turn batters, called and forfeited games, runs batted in, base hits, stolen bases, sacrifices, putouts, assists, double and triple plays, errors (and instances when errors are not charged), wild pitches and passed balls, bases on balls, strikeouts, earned runs, winning and losing pitchers, and saves. Also covered are statistics, percentage records, minimum standards for individual championships, and consecutive hitting and playing streaks.
Author : J. Mark Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-12
Category : Baseball stories
ISBN : 0982617437
In 1969, Brad Williams thought baseball might save his lifeNif he wasn't shipped off to Vietnam. He desperately needed a college baseball scholarship, but violence from integration and the Vietnam draft shattered his neighborhood and tested his conscience. The time came to choose sides. But how could he play it safe when so much was at stake?
Author : Bill James
Publisher : ACTA Publications
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0879463201
"New essays, statistical profiles, and hidden "nuggets" from the man who revolutionized baseball analysis"--Cover
Author : Peter E. Meltzer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393346671
Essential for armchair umpires and scorekeepers, this guide challenges aficionados on every significant part of the Official Baseball Rules. Few sports lovers are as obsessed with rules and statistics as baseball fans. In So You Think You Know Baseball?, lifelong baseball enthusiast Peter E. Meltzer catalogues every noteworthy baseball rule from the Major League rulebook and illustrates its application with actual plays, from the historical to the contemporary. You can read the book from start to finish or consult it while watching a game to understand the mechanics of a play or how it should be scored. Meltzer analyzes the entire Official Baseball Rules using hundreds of Major League plays involving both plays on the field situations and plays which have involved the official scorer. This is the first book ever written which analyzes the entire rulebook in this fashion and which is based on actual plays. With Meltzer’s unique and thoroughly entertaining guide in hand, which includes a foreword by baseball rules expert Rich Marazzi, you’ll never have to scratch your head over an umpire or scorekeeper’s call again.
Author : Andres Wirkmaa
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476663890
With the aim of providing anyone interested in baseball scorekeeping everything he or she needs to perform the task, this book contains a thorough and comprehensive manual on keeping a scorecard, together with a detailed analysis of each of the numerous, and often complex, official rules governing scorekeeping in baseball (many of which were revised or modified in 2007), as well as scorekeeping issues outside of MLB's rulebook. Myriad examples are given (many drawn from significant and well-known major league games throughout the history of baseball as well as a number of examples drawn from popular culture) of how baseball's scorekeeping rules are applied and dealt with in both routine situations as well as the most difficult and convoluted scenarios. Revised and updated to reflect recent changes to the MLB rulebook, this book is very readable and perfectly accessible to a broad audience.
Author : Jerome Holtzman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015002631417
Introduction / Jerome Holtzman -- [from] Universal Baseball Association, Inc. / Robert Coover -- Alibi Ike / Ring W. Lardner -- One throw / W.C. Heinz -- [from] Bang the drum slowly / Mark Harris -- Rhubarb / H. Allen Smith -- Leroy Jeffcoat / William Price Fox -- You could look it up / James Thurber -- [from] Chosen / Chaim Potok -- Cliche expert testifies on baseball / Frank Sullivan -- [from] Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings / William Brashler -- Baseball Hattie / Damon Runyon -- [from] Great American novel / Philip Roth -- Umpire's revolt / Paul Gallico -- My kingdom for Jones / Wilbur Schramm -- [from] Pride of the bimbos / John Sayles -- [from] St. Urbain's horseman / Mordecai Richler -- Naked to the invisible eye / George Effinger -- Rookie / Eliot Asinof -- [from] Voices of a summer day / Irwin Shaw -- [from] It happens every spring / Valentine Davies -- Voo and Doo / Hoke Norris -- Name of the game / Stanley Frank -- Pitcher and the plutocrat / P.G. Wodehouse -- Umpire was a rookie / Arnold Hano -- Pitcher / Andre Dubus -- Reflex curve / Charles Einstein -- [from] Natural / Bernard Malamud.
Author : Elise Partridge
Publisher : Esplanade Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1550651706
Filled with rich evocations of childhood, travel and landscape, Fielder's Choice, Elise Partridge's masterful debut, delivers up fresh and striking elegiac poems that grapple with their subjects vigorously, unpredictably, and without sentimentality. Partridge's poetry combines a gifted ear for the vernacular and exuberant verbal skills with an exceptional-and often emotionally powerful-lyric intelligence.
Author : Willie Runquist
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786400065
Perhaps no other sport in the world relies as heavily on the use of statistics as does baseball. From the boardroom to the playing field, statistics play an extremely important role in deciding everything from players’ salaries and chances at future employment to whom to put up to bat in the top of the fifth inning with one out and a man on first base. Provided in this volume are critical analyses of both the traditional (batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, fielding, earned run average) and many of the newer nontraditional (linear weights, runs created, production index, isolated power, park factors) statistics used to measure players’ production. Particular attention is given to the reliability and validity of individual measurements and an evaluation of situational statistics. The author also provides detailed examples of how statisticians compute many of the averages.
Author : Joseph Adler
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-31
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781491949429
Baseball Hacks isn't your typical baseball book--it's a book about how to watch, research, and understand baseball. It's an instruction manual for the free baseball databases. It's a cookbook for baseball research. Every part of this book is designed to teach baseball fans how to do something. In short, it's a how-to book--one that will increase your enjoyment and knowledge of the game. So much of the way baseball is played today hinges upon interpreting statistical data. Players are acquired based on their performance in statistical categories that ownership deems most important. Managers make in-game decisions based not on instincts, but on probability - how a particular batter might fare against left-handedpitching, for instance. The goal of this unique book is to show fans all the baseball-related stuff that they can do for free (or close to free). Just as open source projects have made great software freely available, collaborative projects such as Retrosheet and Baseball DataBank have made great data freely available. You can use these data sources to research your favorite players, win your fantasy league, or appreciate the game of baseball even more than you do now. Baseball Hacks shows how easy it is to get data, process it, and use it to truly understand baseball. The book lists a number of sources for current and historical baseball data, and explains how to load it into a database for analysis. It then introduces several powerful statistical tools for understanding data and forecasting results. For the uninitiated baseball fan, author Joseph Adler walks readers through the core statistical categories for hitters (batting average, on-base percentage, etc.), pitchers (earned run average, strikeout-to-walk ratio, etc.), and fielders (putouts, errors, etc.). He then extrapolates upon these numbers to examine more advanced data groups like career averages, team stats, season-by-season comparisons, and more. Whether you're a mathematician, scientist, or season-ticket holder to your favorite team, Baseball Hacks is sure to have something for you. Advance praise for Baseball Hacks: "Baseball Hacks is the best book ever written for understanding and practicing baseball analytics. A must-read for baseball professionals and enthusiasts alike." -- Ari Kaplan, database consultant to the Montreal Expos, San Diego Padres, and Baltimore Orioles "The game was born in the 19th century, but the passion for its analysis continues to grow into the 21st. In Baseball Hacks, Joe Adler not only demonstrates thatthe latest data-mining technologies have useful application to the study of baseball statistics, he also teaches the reader how to do the analysis himself, arming the dedicated baseball fan with tools to take his understanding of the game to a higher level." -- Mark E. Johnson, Ph.D., Founder, SportMetrika, Inc. and Baseball Analyst for the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals
