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I'm Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies

Author : Tim Kurkjian
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781466890275

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I'm Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies by Tim Kurkjian Pdf

The New York Times Bestseller! In the aftermath of the Steroid Era that stained the game of baseball, at a time when so many players are so rich and therefore have a sense of entitlement that they haven't earned, ESPN baseball commentator Tim Kurkjian shows readers how to love the game more than ever, with incredible insight and stories that are hilarious, heartbreaking, and revealing. From what Pete Rose was doing in the batting cage a few minutes after getting out of prison, to why everyone strikes out these days and why no one seems to care, I'm Fascinated By Sacrifice Flies will surprise even longtime baseball fans. Tim explains the fear factor in the game, and what it feels like to get hit by a pitch; Adam LaRoche wanted to throw up in the batter's box. He examines the game's superstitions: Eliot Johnson's choice of bubble gum, a poker chip in Sean Burnett's back pocket. He unearths the unwritten rules of the game, takes readers inside ESPN, and reveals how Tony Gwynn made baseball so much more fun to watch. And, of course, Tim will explain to readers why he is fascinated by sacrifice flies.

Softball

Author : Diane L. Potter,Lynn V. Johnson
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0736059539

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Softball by Diane L. Potter,Lynn V. Johnson Pdf

Improve your play at the plate, on the base paths, and in the field by mastering the essentials of the game. Softball: Steps to Success offers a comprehensive, progressive approach that combines in-depth instruction, crisp illustrations, and 127 drills. Any player can become fundamentally sound and be ready to take the field. You'll find detailed instruction on every individual skill necessary for success in the game: catching, throwing, fielding, pitching, hitting, and baserunning. This updated edition also includes these features: -Responsibilities of each position on the field and every batter in the lineup -Offensive and defensive tactics for specific game situations -Emphasis on the short game, covering five types of bunts and the running slap hit -An expanded section on pitching that includes seven types of pitches for modified-pitch, slow-pitch, and fastpitch games -Skill-development drills with assessment scoring systems to gauge progress along the way Hits, runs, putouts, and double plays are at your fingertips. With Softball: Steps to Success, part of the popular Steps to Success Series that has sold more than 1.5 million copies, your performance on the diamond will shine.

Complete Guide to Slowpitch Softball

Author : Rainer Martens,Julie S. Martens
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780736094061

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Complete Guide to Slowpitch Softball by Rainer Martens,Julie S. Martens Pdf

A comprehensive and original instructional guide to the unique sport of slowpitch. Learn basic to advanced offensive and defensive techniques, as well as expert advice on physical and psychological conditioning.

Baseball Scorekeeping

Author : Andres Wirkmaa
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786455133

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Baseball Scorekeeping by Andres Wirkmaa Pdf

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.

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition)

Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393073492

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The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition) by Paul Dickson Pdf

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.

Small Ball in the Big Leagues

Author : James D. Szalontai
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786458332

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Small Ball in the Big Leagues by James D. Szalontai Pdf

The typical baseball fan yearns for one of two things: a strikeout or a home run. But most of the game takes place in between these electrifying moments, and this book discusses the importance of "small ball" to baseball. It examines the multitude of times small ball activities have secured victories through aggressive base running, sacrifice hits, squeeze bunts, stolen bases, productive outs and hit-and-run plays, as well as games in which aggressive small ball activity led to defeat. The book covers the most important small ball players, managers and teams.

Baseball and Other Matters in 1941

Author : Robert W. Creamer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803264062

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Baseball and Other Matters in 1941 by Robert W. Creamer Pdf

"This is a baseball book, but whether Creamer intended it or not, it's much, much more."-Sports Illustrated. "[Creamer] recalls this momentous year in baseball and world history. He reprises Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, Ted Williams's .406 batting average, Hank Greenberg and the draft, the furious Dodgers-Cardinals pennant fight, and the ensuing World Series. All this is portrayed against the looming U.S. entry into World War II."-Library Journal. Robert W. Creamer, one of the best and most perceptive writers on baseball, remembers the baseball-and other matters-of 1941 in a tribute to the game that is also part memoir. Creamer was a long-time writer and editor at Sports Illustrated. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including the following Bison Books: Stengel: His Life and Times, Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat, Jocko, and The Quality of Courage.

Curve Ball

Author : Jim Albert,Jay Bennett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-23
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780387215129

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Curve Ball by Jim Albert,Jay Bennett Pdf

A look at baseball data from a statistical modeling perspective! There is a fascination among baseball fans and the media to collect data on every imaginable event during a baseball game and this book addresses a number of questions that are of interest to many baseball fans. These include how to rate players, predict the outcome of a game or the attainment of an achievement, making sense of situational data, and deciding the most valuable players in the World Series. Aimed at a general audience, the text does not assume any prior background in probability or statistics, although a knowledge of high school abgebra will be helpful.

High-Scoring Softball

Author : Ralph Weekly, Jr.,Karen Weekly
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781492582533

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High-Scoring Softball by Ralph Weekly, Jr.,Karen Weekly Pdf

Plain and simple, championship teams score runs. Their offenses are consistent, aggressive, opportunistic, and disciplined. They may manufacture runs or rely on the long ball, but they score early and often. And they win. High-Scoring Softball is the definitive guide for offensive play. The game’s most successful coaching duo, Ralph and Karen Weekly, share the approach that has shaped some of the game’s top scoring offenses and generated more than 1,700 career victories. Inside you’ll find detailed instruction, advice, and coaching tips on mastering offensive fundamentals, such as baserunning, bunting, slap hitting, and hitting for power and average. You’ll learn how to evaluate your team’s talents, tendencies, and strengths and create a potent, offensive attack. And a detailed analysis of common game situations provides you with strategies and advice for capitalizing on every opportunity. Defense may win games, but only if you score. With High-Scoring Softball you will score and you will win. It will change the way you play the game.

The Complete Baseball Scorekeeping Handbook, Revised and Updated Edition

Author : Andres Wirkmaa
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476623573

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The Complete Baseball Scorekeeping Handbook, Revised and Updated Edition by Andres Wirkmaa Pdf

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.

Bucketfoot Al

Author : Clifton Blue Parker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786486403

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Bucketfoot Al by Clifton Blue Parker Pdf

Al Simmons, at top form in the Roaring Twenties, sparked one of baseball's greatest dynasties, the Philadelphia Athletics, to multiple championships, before becoming just another ballplayer. While his achievements demonstrated greatness, he was not an easy man to like--for those competing against him or with him--and he seemed to play to the level of team expectation. Contemporary accounts and other recollections give us a sense of Al Simmons the person and the ballplayer, his connections to people, his teams and his ability to capture the fans' imagination in his halcyon days.

体育英语

Author : Anonim
Publisher : 清华大学出版社有限公司
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : 7302089264

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体育英语 by Anonim Pdf

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It Takes More Than Balls

Author : Diedre Silva,Jackie Koney
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781602396319

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It Takes More Than Balls by Diedre Silva,Jackie Koney Pdf

For years, Deidre Silva and Jackie Koney figured that men simply knew more about baseball than they did. They tried to reconcile their love of baseball with their second-class fan status, but they finally realized that not getting in a tizzy over the 1952 World Series didn't mean that they weren't "real" fans. As loyal—but not insane or stat-obsessed—spectators, they simply had a different perspective. In It Takes More Than Balls they share their brand of baseball passion with lifelong fans and the "baseball curious" of either gender. Offering anecdotes and gossip from the ballpark, the book also explains the nuances of today's game that will help readers enjoy their next (or first) baseball outing.

Spitters, Beanballs, and the Incredible Shrinking Strike Zone

Author : Glen Waggoner,Kathleen Moloney,Hugh Howard
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781623684792

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Spitters, Beanballs, and the Incredible Shrinking Strike Zone by Glen Waggoner,Kathleen Moloney,Hugh Howard Pdf

For everyone who has ever wondered about spitballs, pine tar, the size of the diamond—all of the fascinating stories behind the rules of America's pastime—this book provides all of the answers. The authors take readers on a unique trip around the bases, explaining the development of the existing rules and drawing on a vast amount of fascinating history, lore, and trivia. Anecdotes feature legendary figures and events such as Yogi Berra, who threw himself out at first while playing in the minors in order to win a bet for a steak dinner; Fred “Bonehead” Merkle, who famously cost the New York Giants the pennant when he failed to tag a base; Albert Belle and the corked bat controversy; and Mets manager Bobby Valentine, who appeared in disguise after having been ejected by umpires. Every rule is dissected in this appealing look at baseball history that supplements its stories with archival photographs from the Hall of Fame as well as photos of current heroes.

Connie Mack

Author : Norman L. Macht
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803220393

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Connie Mack by Norman L. Macht Pdf

The Philadelphia Athletics dominated the first fourteen years of the American League, winning six pennants under the leadership of their founder and manager, Connie Mack. But beginning in 1915, where the second volume in Norman L. Macht's three-part biography picks up the story, Mack's teams fell from pennant winners to last place and stayed there for seven years. World War I robbed baseball of young players, and Mack's rebuilding efforts using youngsters of limited ability made his teams the objects of public ridicule. At the age of 59 and in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, Connie Mack remade the A's and rose again to the top, even surpassing his earlier success. Baseball biographer and historian Macht shows us the man and his time and the game of baseball in all the glory of the 1920s, and how Connie Mack built the 1929-31 champions--a team many consider baseball's greatest ever.--From publisher description.