Minor League All Star Teams 1922 1962

Author : Jamie Selko
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786426522

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Minor League All-Star Teams, 1922-1962 by Jamie Selko Pdf

Long before strip malls, television and huge retail chains homogenized American culture, minor league baseball clubs represented individual, local ideals. Fans turned out in droves to see their hometown heroes, and teams were sources of civic pride and popular recreation. Gradually, these teams and leagues were either driven under or swallowed up by baseball's vertical integration, and by 1963 a significant piece of the American landscape had all but disappeared. This heavily researched reference work covers every official minor league All-Star team from 1922 (when the first such team was named) to 1962 (the last year of the AAA-D classification system). Each entry includes the full roster of an All-Star team, complete individual hitting and pitching statistics, and detailed commentary on the selections. Where sabermetrics indicate more-deserving players were passed over, the author presents the case for alternative candidates.

Author : Charlie Bevis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476642321

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Baseball Under the Lights by Charlie Bevis Pdf

Night games transformed the business of professional baseball, as the smaller, demographically narrower audiences able to attend daytime games gave way to larger, more diversified crowds of nighttime spectators. Many ball club owners were initially conflicted about artificial lighting and later actually resisted expanding the number of night games during the sport's struggle to balance ballpark attendance and television viewership in the 1950s. This first-ever comprehensive history of night baseball examines the factors, obstacles and trends that shaped this dramatic change in both the minor and major leagues between 1930 and 1990.

Author : Bill Nowlin,Clifton Blue Parker
Publisher : SABR, Inc.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781933599496

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Sweet '60 by Bill Nowlin,Clifton Blue Parker Pdf

Sweet ’60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates is the joint product of 44 authors and editors from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) who have pooled their efforts to create a portrait of the 1960 team which pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the last 60 years. Game Seven of the 1960 World Series between the Pirates and the Yankees swung back and forth. Heading into the bottom of the eighth inning at Forbes Field, the Yankees had outscored the Pirates, 53-21, and held a 7–4 lead in the deciding game. The Pirates hadn’t won a World Championship since 1925, while the Yanks had won 17 of them in the same stretch of time, seven of the preceding 11 years. The Pirates scored five times in the bottom of the eighth and took the lead, only to cough it up in the top of the ninth. The game was tied 9–9 in the bottom of the ninth. At 3:36, Bill Mazeroski swung at Ralph Terry’s slider. As Curt Smith writes in these pages: “There goes a long drive hit deep to left field!” said Gunner. “Going back is Yogi Berra! Going back! You can kiss it good-bye!” No smooch was ever lovelier. “How did we do it, Possum? How did we do it?” Prince said finally, din all around. Woods didn’t know—only that, “I’m looking at the wildest thing since I was on Hollywood Boulevard the night World War II ended.” David had toppled Goliath. It was a blow that awakened a generation, one that millions of people saw on television, one of TV’s first iconic World Series moments.

Author : Lyle Spatz
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780810879546

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Historical Dictionary of Baseball by Lyle Spatz Pdf

Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as “our game, the American game,” and George Will compared calling baseball “just a game” to the Grand Canyon being “just a hole.” Countless others have called baseball “the most elegant game,” and to those who have played it, it’s life. The Historical Dictionary of Baseball is primarily devoted to the major leagues it also includes entries on the minor leagues, the Negro Leagues, women’s baseball, baseball in various other countries, and other non-major league related topics. It traces baseball, in general, and these topics individually, from their beginnings up to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on the roles of the players on the field—batters, pitchers, fielders—as well as non-playing personnel—general managers, managers, coaches, and umpires. There are also entries for individual teams and leagues, stadiums and ballparks, the role of the draft and reserve clause, and baseball’s rules, and statistical categories. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of baseball.

Author : Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803240940

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Bridging Two Dynasties by Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Pdf

Tells the story of how the 1947 New York Yankees won the pennant that year, set a record with a nineteen-game winning streak, and won the first televised World Series.

Author : Steven P. Gietschier
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781496235374

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Baseball by Steven P. Gietschier Pdf

A history of baseball as a sport and business during the middle of the twentieth century, examining the game on and off the field and tracing its development within the broader contours of American history.

Author : Pete Cava
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476622705

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Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players by Pete Cava Pdf

Indiana boasts a rich baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown. This biographical dictionary provides a close look at the lives of all 364 Hoosier big leaguers, who include New York City’s first baseball superstar; the first rookie pitcher to win three games in a World Series; the man who caught most of Cy Young’s record 511 career wins; one of the game’s first star relievers; the player who held the record for consecutive games played before Lou Gehrig; an obscure infielder mentioned in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip; baseball’s only one-legged pitcher; Indiana’s first Mr. Basketball, who became one of baseball’s greatest pinch-hitters; the first African American to play for the Cincinnati Reds; the only pitcher to throw a perfect game in the World Series; the skipper of the 1969 “Miracle Mets”; the pitcher for whom a ground-breaking surgical procedure is named; and the only two men to have played in both the World Series and the Final Four of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123029378

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Choice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Glenn Wong
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780763728847

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The Comprehensive Guide to Careers in Sports by Glenn Wong Pdf

As more students enter the growing field of sports management, there is a greater need for information informing them about their career choices. Careers in Sports provides an overview of what students should consider and expect from the varied career options available to them. This book answers the questions students are most likely to have, including what courses they should take, what areas are available to them, what salary can they expect to earn after graduation, and how they can get the job of their dreams. In the highly competitive field of sports management, it is important for individuals to prepare themselves well and to make the right decisions along the way. Although there are no guarantees of success, this book will increase students’ likelihood of finding success in the sports industry. Encouraging research and realistic expectations, this book has been developed by an author with many years of experience as a respected practitioner, teacher and internship coordinator.

Author : Tom Schott,Nick Peters
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1582616930

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The Giants Encyclopedia by Tom Schott,Nick Peters Pdf

From the first pitch at the original Polo Grounds on May 1, 1883, to the night of August 9, 2002, at Pacific Bell Park, where Barry Bonds crushed his 600th career home run -- and beyond -- the New York and San Francisco Giants have been one of the most successful -- and popular -- franchises in Major League Baseball. They have won five World Series championships (plus three 19th-century titles) and 20 National League pennants. Some 50 Giants are enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York (more than any other franchise). Now, all the highlights and the individuals who provided them are captured in this comprehensive history of the club. The Giants Encyclopedia is more than just a running narrative of the franchise's history. It chronicles all 120 seasons in minute detail (the world championships, pennant winners, near-misses and disappointments). The book features biographies of more than 100 players (from Hall of Famers like Willie Mays and Christy Mathewson to present-day stars like Barry Bonds and Robb Nen), plus prominent owners (such as John Day, Horace and Charles Stoneham, Bob Lurie and Peter Magowan); front office executives (like Chub Feeney, Al Rosen and Brian Sabean); managers (such as John McGraw, Leo Durocher, Roger Craig and Dusty Baker); and broadcasters (Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons and Hank Greenwald).

Author : Jamie Selko
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476692494

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Searchin' for Toothpick Sam by Jamie Selko Pdf

Anyone who has collected baseball cards understands the thrill of completing a set. And part of the fun is filling in the gaps along the way, one wax pack at a time, over months or even years. Or sometimes, as in Jamie Selko's case, decades. This memoir recounts the author's love affair with Topps' 1961 baseball card set and his quest to acquire a complete autographed collection--an effort that took almost 40 years and still is one card short, #555 Sam "Toothpick" Jones. The author describes growing up in the early 1960s and details the backstory behind his mission, from the first autograph he got--Joe DiMaggio's, in an officer's club in Mannheim, Germany--to how he decided, 15 years later, to get signatures on each of the '61s. He also comments on each card in the set and on each player's finest game in the season.

Author : Jackie Sheckler Finch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762774760

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Insiders' Guide® to Nashville, 8th by Jackie Sheckler Finch Pdf

Your Travel Destination. Your Home. Your Home-To-Be. Nashville Savor down-home Southern food and hospitality. See antebellum mansions and lush flowering gardens. Feel the beat of the Music City. The Athens of the South. • A personal, practical perspective for travelers and residents alike • Comprehensive listings of attractions, restaurants, hotels, and music venues • How to live & thrive in the area—from recreation to relocation • Countless details on shopping, arts & entertainment, and children’s activities

Author : Jerry Poling
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780299181833

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A Summer Up North by Jerry Poling Pdf

June 12, 1952—only a local sportswriter showed up at the Eau Claire airport to greet a newly signed eighteen-year-old shortstop from Alabama toting a cardboard suitcase. "I was scared as hell," said Henry Aaron, recalling his arrival as the new recruit on the city’s Class C minor league baseball team. Forty-two years later, as Aaron approached the stadium where the Eau Claire Bears once played, an estimated five thousand people surrounded a newly raised bronze statue of a young "Hank" Aaron at bat. "I had goosebumps," he said later. "A lot of things happened to me in my twenty-three years as a ballplayer, but nothing touched me more than that day in Eau Claire." For the people of Eau Claire, Aaron’s summer two years before his Major League debut with the Milwaukee Braves symbolizes a magical time, when baseball fans in a small city in northern Wisconsin could live a part of the dream.

Author : David Blevins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1302 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780810861305

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The Sports Hall of Fame Encyclopedia by David Blevins Pdf

Provides a comprehensive listing, including biographical information and statistics, of each athlete inducted into one of the major sports halls of fame.

Author : Larry Powell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786454808

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Black Barons of Birmingham by Larry Powell Pdf

A unique approach to the history of a Negro League team: The first half of this book covers the leagues and the players of the 1920s, the 1930s, and 1940 through 1947 (when Robinson broke the color barrier). The second half is devoted to the Black Barons of subsequent decades, the former Barons invited to tryout camps, others who were signed with minor league clubs, and the fortunate few who got their long-awaited chance in the majors.