Harry Hooper

Author : Paul J. Zingg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252071700

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Harry Hooper by Paul J. Zingg Pdf

"Hooper's instinct for knowing where the ball was going to be hit was uncanny. I'm sure, too, that he made more diving catches than any other outfielder in history. With most outfielders the diving catch is half luck; with Hooper, it was a masterpiece of business."--Babe Ruth, on his selection of Harry Hooper for his all-time all-star team Through the figure of Harry Hooper (1887-1974), star of four World Series championship teams and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Paul Zingg describes baseball's transformation from an often rowdy spectacle to a respectable career choice and entertainment institution. Zingg chronicles Hooper's rise from a sharecropper background in California to college and then to the pinnacle of his sport. Boston's leadoff hitter and right fielder from 1909 to 1920, Hooper later played for the Chicago White Sox, managed in the Pacific Coast League, and coached Princeton's team. When he retired from playing in 1925, he held every major fielding record for an American League right fielder. Hooper's diaries, memoirs, and six decades of letters offer a rich and colorful commentary on the evolution of the game, as well as insight into the tensions between a player's public and private lives.

Author : Jason Aronoff
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786441136

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Going, Going ... Caught! by Jason Aronoff Pdf

Though Willie Mays' World Series catch of Vic Wertz's long drive in 1954 immediately comes to mind, there are many catches that have been called "the greatest." This work documents baseball's best catches by outfielders from 1887 through 1964 (the year of Duke Snider's retirement, the demolition of the Polo Grounds, and, arguably, Willie Mays' last great grab). After introductory chapters on factors that influenced the catches and their legacies--from ballpark quirks, changes to the baseball and the evolution of baseball gloves, to sportswriters and photography--the book describes famous catches by decade from such players as Mays, Willie Keeler, Joe DiMaggio, Duke Snider, Roberto Clement, Curt Flood and many others. Extensive research yields a wealth of information for each catch, including commentary by period sportswriters, players, and, often, the man who snagged the ball.

Author : Ted Meyer
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781637421994

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Championing the Cause of Leadership by Ted Meyer Pdf

Whether you are a baseball fan or not, reading Championing the Cause of Leadership will deepen your skillset as a leader and could dramatically improve the future of your team. If your organization is not performing at its best, this book is for you. It puts you right into the shoes of the leaders of the great baseball dynasties and demonstrates how they overcame challenges common to those in our own teams and groups. Topics include managing and motivating highly talented but dysfunctional individuals, turning around careers that have stalled late in life, better understanding the practical benefits of diversity and inclusion, and inspiring individuals to find their best within the context of their teams. Meyer combines his over thirty years representing some of the world’s top companies with his deep knowledge of baseball history and looks at leadership from a brand-new perspective. Learn the value of encouraging leadership from all levels in your organization. Discover the critical importance of leaders coming to terms with their own internal demons before they can reach their full potential. Unlock the secrets of how to out-perform the competition in times of intense pressure and how to find opportunity in times of crisis. The stories of the greatest teams of our greatest game are wildly entertaining and provide unique insight into our own success. Whether you are a baseball fan or not, reading Championing the Cause of Leadership will deepen your skillset as a leader and could dramatically improve the future of your team.

Author : Jerry Remy,Corey Sandler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780762762491

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Red Sox Heroes by Jerry Remy,Corey Sandler Pdf

One of baseball's most insightful commentators picks the 50 greatest Red Sox players of all time.

Author : The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780316213035

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The Hall: A Celebration of Baseball's Greats by The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Pdf

A deluxe baseball treasury unlike any other, complete with essays, photos, and player bios from The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Everyone dreams of Cooperstown. It's a hallowed name in baseball, for players as well as their fans. It's a house where legends live; it's everything that's great about the game. Never before has the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum published a complete registry of inductees with plaques, photographs, and extended biographies. In this unique, 75th anniversary edition, read the stories of every player inducted into the Hall, organized by position. Each section begins with an original essay by a living Hall of Famer who played that position: Hank Aaron, George Brett, Orlando Cepeda, Carlton Fisk, Tommy Lasorda, Joe Morgan, Jim Rice, Cal Ripken Jr., Nolan Ryan, and Robin Yount.

Author : Herman O. Krabbenhoft
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786422913

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Leadoff Batters of Major League Baseball by Herman O. Krabbenhoft Pdf

Every sport has its subtleties, and in baseball, one subtlety is the batting line-up. Leadoff batters can make or break a team. Who are the men who have taken that position, and how have they performed in their important role? From 1900 through 2005, the major leagues' leadoff batters for more than 160,000 games are covered in this reference work. The first of the book's five parts discusses the annual records of the principal leadoff batters. Part Two identifies the principal leadoff batter for each team in each year, as well as the top career leadoff batters. Part Three presents composite statistics for those players with five or more principal leadoff batter seasons. Part Four looks at leadoff home runs, and Part Five offers essays on assorted leadoff batter achievements, such as RBIs, runs scored, and awards and honors. Appended to the text is a discussion of the accuracy of the statistics and a list of "Make It Happen" award winners.

Author : Timothy M. Gay
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496235404

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Tris Speaker by Timothy M. Gay Pdf

A three-time World Series winner and an early inductee into the Hall of Fame, lauded by Babe Ruth as the finest defensive outfielder he ever saw and described as "perfection on the field" by the great Grantland Rice, Tris Speaker enjoys the peculiar distinction of being one of the least-known legends of baseball history. Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend is the first book to tell the full story of Speaker's turbulent life and to document in sharp detail the grit and glory of his pivotal role in baseball's dead-ball era. Playing for the Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians in the early part of the twentieth century, Tris "Spoke" Speaker put up numbers that amaze us even today: his record for career doubles--792--may never be approached, let alone broken. Tris Speaker explores the colorful life behind the statistics, introducing readers to a complex and contradictory Texan whose cowboy mentality never left him as he brawled his way through two decades in the big leagues. Speaker's career put him in the company of Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson, Shoeless Joe Jackson and Honus Wagner, and in describing it Timothy M. Gay gives a rousing account of some of the best baseball ever played--and some of the darkest moments that ever tainted a game and hastened the end of a career. His four years of research on Speaker unearthed a document that suggests that cheating induced by gambling was far more widespread in early baseball than officials have acknowledged. Gay's book captures the bygone spirit of the big leagues' rough-and-tumble early years and restores one of baseball's true greats--and a truly larger-than-life personality--to his rightful place in the American sports pantheon.

Author : Glenn Stout
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0618303987

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Impossible Dreams by Glenn Stout Pdf

From the series editor of "The Best American Sports Writing" and coauthor of "Red Sox Century" comes every Boston fan's dream--100 years' worth of the best writing on the Red Sox.

Author : Mark Cofman
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781600783456

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162-0: Imagine a Red Sox Perfect Season by Mark Cofman Pdf

In a series that imagines the impossible, each book plays out a flawless season for a particular team, identifying the most memorable real-life victory on every single day of the baseball calendar and including archival photos, original quotes and thorough research.

Author : Dennis Lehane
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061982286

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The Given Day by Dennis Lehane Pdf

"Gut-wrenching force...A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive." - The New York Times Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—offers an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power at the end of World War I.

Author : Warren N. Wilbert,William C. Hageman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 078641622X

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The 1917 White Sox by Warren N. Wilbert,William C. Hageman Pdf

The 1917 Chicago White Sox were rooted in frustration over eleventh hour pennant losses as far back as 1907 and 1908. Charles Comiskey, one of the founding fathers of the American League and a man who did not gladly suffer mediocrity and losing, had fumed for a decade until he finally put together a team that would take him back to the World Series and win it all. This work chronicles the team that did it, re-establishing the White Sox as one of the game's elite. It covers Comiskey's recruitment of quality players beginning in 1914 and continuing through the 1917 season; the players themselves, including Red Faber, Hap Felsch, Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jackson and Eddie Collins; the events of the extraordinary season on and off the field, including the three series that the White Sox had with the Boston Red Sox and the United States' involvement in World War I; and the team's victory over John McGraw's Giants in the World Series.

Author : Chris Goode
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780557087600

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California Baseball: from the Pioneers to the Glory Years by Chris Goode Pdf

Beginning in the 1890s, the book examines the personalities, schools, teams, managers, and owners that helped shape baseball in California. It provides an insightful history of the game from the perspective of the California minor leagues, particularly the California League and Pacific Coast League. While focusing on the lives of a select group of pioneers integral to the sport in the Golden State, it reveals a representative and interesting sample of the achievements, events, and contributions spanning a half-century. Frank Chance, Walter Johnson, Hal Chase, Mike Donlin, Charlie Graham, Hap Hogan, Hen Berry, and Cy Moreing lead teams including Santa Clara College, St. Mary's, the Los Angeles Angels, Stockton Millers, San Jose Prune Pickers, Vernon Tigers, Santa Cruz Sand Crabs, Oakland Oaks, and San Francisco Seals. We begin in San Francisco in 1897 at the genesis of professional baseball in California ' at the San Francisco Examiner Baseball Tournament.

Author : William H. Edwards
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547365105

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Football Days by William H. Edwards Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Football Days" (Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball) by William H. Edwards. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1390 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Allegan County (Mich.)
ISBN : UOM:39015071407806

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Grand Rapids City Directories by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Hankins Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3254419

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Wallace's American Trotting Register ... by John Hankins Wallace Pdf