The Bill James Guide To Baseball Managers

Author : Bill James
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781626812635

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The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers by Bill James Pdf

The man Newsweek once called “the guru of baseball” offers profiles of top managers, sidebars, statistics, and snapshots of each decade. Widely considered to be one of the greatest minds in the history of the game, Bill James has changed the way we think about the sport of baseball. In this chronicle of field generals, strategists, and occasional cannon fodder, James writes with piercing insight about the men who hold what may be the most important spot in the dugout. For nearly forty years, James has led the vanguard of how we measure the game. From sabermetrics to his Baseball Abstracts, James has influenced even the casual fan all the way up to the top brass. Somewhere in the middle of that spectrum, however, is the manager, and Bill James has penned a guide on some of the most innovative and renowned men to ever hold that position. Some of the game’s greatest managers have been Hall of Fame players who put down a bat and picked up a lineup card: Frank Robinson, Mel Ott, Joe Cronin, Tris Speaker, and Rogers Hornsby. Others have achieved greatness from their ability to assemble legendary teams: Billy Martin, Tommy Lasorda, Connie Mack, Joseph McCarthy, Dick Williams, and Leo Durocher. Here, Bill James explores the history of the manager, and its evolution from 1870–1990, in a decade-by-decade chronicle, examining the successes, the failures, and what baseball fans can learn from both. The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers is a thought-provoking, entertaining, and seminal guide to a vital part of the national pastime, written by one of its most groundbreaking iconoclasts. “A delightful collection that will satisfy baseball fans of all ages.” —Library Journal

Author : Bill James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781439106938

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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James Pdf

When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball's beloved “Sultan of Stats” (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the new millennium. Like the original, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is really several books in one. The Game provides a century's worth of American baseball history, told one decade at a time, with energetic facts and figures about How, Where, and by Whom the game was played. In The Players, you'll find listings of the top 100 players at each position in the major leagues, along with James's signature stats-based ratings method called “Win Shares,” a way of quantifying individual performance and calculating the offensive and defensive contributions of catchers, pitchers, infielders, and outfielders. And there's more: the Reference section covers Win Shares for each season and each player, and even offers a Win Share team comparison. A must-have for baseball fans and historians alike, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is as essential, entertaining, and enlightening as the sport itself.

Author : Rob Neyer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780743241748

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Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups by Rob Neyer Pdf

Presents a series of lineups from each baseball franchise and explores the careers of baseball players both famous and obscure.

Author : Alan H. Levy
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786481132

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Joe McCarthy by Alan H. Levy Pdf

Joe McCarthy was headed towards a career as a plumber--until the parish priest intervened, and convinced McCarthy's mother that he could make more of himself in baseball. She relented, and Joseph Vincent McCarthy embarked on a career that ranks him among the greatest managers ever. In 24 years his teams took nine pennants, seven World Series titles, and never finished lower than fourth. This biography of Joe McCarthy details the 90-year life of one of the greatest managers in baseball's history. Baseball was McCarthy's ticket out of a working-class existence in Germantown, Pennsylvania, taking him to college, the minor leagues, managerial stints in baseball's backwaters, and on to remarkable years with the Yankees, Cubs and Red Sox--years filled with triumph and heartbreak. Seven championships and the highest managerial winning percentage ever earned him entry to the Hall of Fame, but McCarthy will always be remembered for his deft handling of his players. McCarthy's ability to handle even "unmanageable" players won him the respect of all. His effect on the lives of his young charges was, in his mind, his greatest legacy.

Author : Bill James,Baseball Info Solutions
Publisher : ACTA Publications
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780879460259

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The Bill James Handbook 2019 by Bill James,Baseball Info Solutions Pdf

Bill James and Baseball Info Solutions team of analysts continue to pack in new content, including a fresh look at the continues rise and effectiveness of The Shift and a new breakdown of home runs and long flyouts. And, as always, the book forecasts fresh hitter and pitcher projections for those looking to get an early jump on the next season.

Author : Bill James
Publisher : ACTA Publications
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 0879463406

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The Bill James Handbook by Bill James Pdf

One of the most complete annual baseball references available, this updated guidebook includes informative introductions to its different sections and an extensive glossary that features explanations and a multitude of statistics.

Author : Bill James
Publisher : ACTA Publications
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 9780879463113

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The Bill James Handbook 2007 by Bill James Pdf

This annual baseball reference guide includes pitcher projections, base running analysis, hitter projections, team efficiency summaries, player win-shares, manager's records, and more.

Author : Joseph G. Preston
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786484058

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Major League Baseball in the 1970s by Joseph G. Preston Pdf

Many of the most powerful trends in baseball today have their roots in the 1970s. Baseball entered that decade seriously behind the times in race relations, attitudes toward conformity versus individuality, and the manager-player relationship. In a sense, much of the wrenching change that American society as a whole experienced in the 1960s was played out in baseball in the following decade. Additionally, the game itself was rapidly evolving, with the inauguration of the designated hitter rule in the American League, the evolution of the closer, the development of the five-man starting rotation, the acceptance of strikeout lions like Dave Kingman and Bobby Bonds and the proliferation of stolen bases. This book opens with a discussion of the challenges that faced baseball's movers and shakers when they gathered in Bal Harbour, Florida, for the annual winter meetings on December 2, 1969. Their worst nightmares would be realized in the coming years. For many and often contradictory reasons the 1970s game evolved into a war of competing ideologies--escalating salaries, an acrimonious strike, Sesame Street-style team mascots, and the breaking of the time-honored tradition that all players, including the pitcher, must play on offense as well as defense--that would ultimately spell doom for the majority of attendees.

Author : Bill James
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0345341805

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The Bill James Baseball Abstract 1987 by Bill James Pdf

Author : Patrick K. Thornton
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786486335

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Legal Decisions That Shaped Modern Baseball by Patrick K. Thornton Pdf

This work takes a look at the cases that have had a significant influence on the game of baseball, such as Flood v. Kuhn and Garvey v. MLB, which either made it to the U.S. Supreme Court or brought up major legal issues in baseball. Also included are cases that explore legal issues in baseball but are not as well known and cases that appear in most sports law books. For each case, the historical and legal significance of the decision is discussed.

Author : Peter Morris
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781566639545

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A Game of Inches by Peter Morris Pdf

A fascinating and charming encyclopedic collection of baseball firsts, describing how the innovations in the game—in rules, equipment, styles of play, strategies, etc.—occurred and developed from its origins to the present day. The book relies heavily on quotations from contemporary sources.

Author : Bill James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-04-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781439108376

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Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame by Bill James Pdf

Arguing about the merits of players is the baseball fan's second favorite pastime and every year the Hall of Fame elections spark heated controversy. In a book that's sure to thrill--and infuriate--countless fans, Bill James takes a hard look at the Hall, probing its history, its politics and, most of all, its decisions.

Author : Rob Neyer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781416592143

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Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders by Rob Neyer Pdf

BLOOPER: BALL SQUIRTS THROUGH BILLY BUCKNER'S LEGS. BLUNDER: BILLY BUCKNER'S MANAGER LEFT HIM IN THE GAME. Baseball bloopers are fun; they're funny, even. A pitcher slips on the mound and his pitch sails over the backstop. An infielder camps under a pop-up...and the ball lands ten feet away. An outfielder tosses a souvenir to a fan...but that was just the second out, and runners are circling the bases (and laughing). Without these moments, the highlight reels wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. Baseball blunders, however, can be tragic, and they will leave diehard fans asking why...why...why? Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders does its best to answer all those whys, exploring the worst decisions and stupidest moments of managers, general managers, owners, and even commissioners. As he did in his Big Book of Baseball Lineups, Rob Neyer provides readers with a fascinating examination of baseball's rich history, this time through the lens of the game's sometimes hilarious, often depressing, and always perplexing blunders. · Which ill-fated move cost the Chicago White Sox a great hitter and the 1919 World Series? · What was Babe Ruth thinking when he became the first (and still the only) player to end a World Series by getting caught trying to steal? · Did playing one-armed Pete Gray in 1945 cost the Browns a pennant? · How did winning a coin toss lead to the Dodgers losing the National League pennant on Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'round the World"? · How damaging was the Frank Robinson-for-Milt Pappas deal, really? · Which of Red Sox manager Don Zimmer's mistakes in 1978 was the worst? · Which Yankees trade was even worse than swapping Jay Buhner for Ken Phelps? · What non-move cost Buck Showalter a job and gave Joe Torre the opportunity of a lifetime? · Game 7, 2003 ALCS: Pedro winds up to throw his 123rd pitch...what were you thinking? These are just a few of the legendary (and not-so-legendary) blunders that Neyer analyzes, always with an eye on what happened, why it happened, and how it changed the fickle course of history. And in separate chapters, Neyer also reviews some of the game's worst trades and draft picks and closely examines all the teams that fell just short of first place. Another in the series of Neyer's Big Books of baseball history, Baseball Blunders should win a place in every devoted fan's library.

Author : Lou Hernández
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476629889

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Manager of Giants by Lou Hernández Pdf

 For decades prior to the rise of Babe Ruth, the most recognized name in baseball was John McGraw. An outstanding player in the 1890s, McGraw—nicknamed “Mugsy”—was molded in the rough and tumble pre–20th century game where sportsmanship and fair play took a back seat to competition. Later, he became the successful manager of the New York Giants, dominating the National League in New York City for more than 30 years. McGraw led the Giants with authoritarian swagger—earning another moniker, “Little Napoleon”—from 1902 through 1932, before illness forced his retirement. In his 31 seasons in New York, his teams won three world championships and 10 pennants and rarely finished out of the first division. He was a trailblazer in the use of bullpen and position player substitutions, and pushed hit-and-run strategies over the then prevalent dictums of sacrifice bunting. An unconventional leader, McGraw missed considerable bench time during his reign on account of injury, illness and fiery temperament.

Author : John C. Skipper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476611129

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A Biographical Dictionary of Major League Baseball Managers by John C. Skipper Pdf

Earl Weaver put his best defensive players on the field early in the game rather than make late-inning defensive replacements, and he didn’t like to bunt, figuring if you played for only one run that’s all you’d get. Whitey Herzog, by contrast, became one of the greats by using players who could bunt and by playing for one run over and over again. Full coverage of them and 600 other major league managers over a 125 year period can be found in this work. The entries are based on interviews, standard data and anecdotes from owners, coaches, and players. Information includes birth and death dates, teams and dates managed, win-loss records, winning percentages, and standings. Lists are included of managers of 1,000 games or more, those with one-game careers, those with the best winning percentages, and those with the most wins. A complete list of managers in the history of each team is provided.