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Author : Matt Christopher
Publisher : Norwood House Press
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781599533162
Mudders' catcher Rudy Calhoun is having a bad season behind the plate until, at a yard sale, he buys a used catcher's mask that greatly improves his playing.
Author : Matt Christopher
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 0316170194
Mudders' catcher Rudy Calhoun is having a bad season behind the plate until, at a yard sale, he buys a used catcher's mask that greatly improves his playing.
Author : Xan Barksdale
Publisher : Author House
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781463439590
CATCHING-101: The Complete Guide for Baseball Catchers is the most comprehensive book ever written for baseball catchers. It contains tips, drills, and proper mechanics that will help every catcher or coach better understand the most difficult position on the field. This book contains information on EVERY aspect of catching that Coach Barksdale has learned through his years of experience from coaching nationally ranked NCAA teams, and playing at almost every level from Little League to professional baseball. A few of the topics covered in CATCHING-101 are: Receiving Blocking Catching Pop Flies Throwing Fielding Bunts Plays at Home Plate Drills Pitchouts Pass Balls/Wild Pitches Giving Signals And More! If you have been searching for a source with lots of high quality information about catching, this is the book for you! CATCHING-101 was written by Coach Xan Barksdale who is currently an NCAA Division I baseball coach and an ex-professional baseball player. Coach Barksdale played in the Atlanta Braves organization and has been a featured speaker at the prestigious ABCA (American Baseball Coaches Association) national convention.
Author : Matt Christopher
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0606167277
Mudders' catcher Rudy Calhoun is having a bad season behind the plate until, at a yard sale, he buys a used catcher's mask that greatly improves his playing.
Author : James R. Tootle
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786485420
Every spring, thousands of ball players across the country step back to the nineteenth century to play vintage base ball using the equipment, uniforms, rules, and customs of the game's early years. A unique combination of athletic contest, living history, and outdoor theatre, vintage base ball transports players and spectators alike to that fascinating and innocent time when athletes gathered on the diamond for recreation, exercise, and pure enjoyment. This lore-laden how-to provides all the information needed to play this entertaining, educational, and fast-growing game and to present it properly to the public, covering everything from historically accurate equipment and etiquette to the rules of play and game-day preparations.
Author : Doug Wedge,Charlie O'Brien
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781623492922
During fifteen seasons in the major leagues, Charlie O’Brien was battery-mate to thirteen pitchers who won the Cy Young Award, presented each year by the Baseball Writers Association of America. To put that accomplishment in perspective, Hall of Fame catchers Johnny Bench and Yogi Berra each worked with only one Cy Young winner during their careers. Legendary hurlers caught by O’Brien include such greats as Roger Clemens, Dwight Gooden, Bret Saberhagen, and Steve Bedrosian. O’Brien’s The Cy Young Catcher, written with Doug Wedge, includes up-close views of the thirteen Cy Young Award–winning pitchers at their best . . . and occasionally at their worst. O’Brien shares an inside perspective on how catchers talk to umpires, what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a 90-mph fastball, and how it feels to be in a clutch situation when the World Series is on the line. This authentic, down-to-earth memoir will not only delight baseball fans of all stripes, it will also provide keen insights into what separates the game’s greatest competitors from the also-rans.
Author : Peter Morris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781566636773
"The scope of A Game of Inches is encyclopedic, with nearly a thousand entries that illuminate the origins of items ranging from catchers' masks to hook slides to intentional walks to cork-center baseballs. But this is much more than just a reference guide. Along the way, award-winning author Peter Morris has a sharp eye for the telling quote and the entertaining anecdote. He explains the context that led each new feature of the game to emerge when it did, and chronicles the often surprising responses to these innovations."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000064091792
Author : Peter Morris
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781615780037
Today the baseball catcher is a familiar but uninspiring figure. Decked out in the so-called tools of ignorance, he stolidly goes about his duty without attracting much attention. But it wasn't always that way, as Peter Morris shows in this lively and original study. In baseball's early days, catchers stood a safe distance back of the batter. Then the introduction of the curveball in the 1870s led them to move up directly behind home plate, even though they still wore no gloves or protective equipment. Extraordinary courage became the catcher's most notable requirement, but the new positioning also demanded that the catcher have lightning-fast reflexes, great hands, and a cannon for a throwing arm. With so great a range of needed skills, a special mystique came to surround the position, and it began to seem that a good catcher could single-handedly make the difference between winning and losing.
Author : Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476617442
More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America’s culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues’ decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.
Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : John H. Minan,Kevin Cole
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 1604421002
The game of baseball has often resulted in brawls, both on the field and in the courtroom, and from the 1890's on, much of what baseball is today has been shaped by the law. In eighteen chapters, this eye-opening book discusses cases that involved rules of the game, new stadium construction, ownership of baseball memorabilia, injured spectators, television contracts, and much more.
Author : Bob Swope
Publisher : Bob Swope, Jacobob Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780977281787
Swope presents 147 drills, plays, and diagrams, all numbered for easy reference between coaches. He covers all the basic offensive, defensive, and situation fundamentals one needs to get started.
Author : Mike Roer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786423552
As a player, manager, team captain, umpire, owner and league president, Hall of Famer Jim O'Rourke (1851-1918) spoke for the players in the emerging game of baseball. O'Rourke's career paralleled the rise of the game from a regional sport with few strategies to the national pastime. Nicknamed "Orator" for his booming voice and his championing of the rights of professional athletes, he was a driving force in making the sport a profession, bringing respectability to the role of professional baseball player. From contemporary sources, O'Rourke's own correspondence, and player files available through the National Baseball Library, a rounded portrait of Jim O'Rourke emerges. Quick to speak his mind, the outfielder played on nine pennant-winning teams, but his playing career was overshadowed by his work in organizing baseball's first union. After his playing days ended, O'Rourke attempted to establish the Connecticut League, becoming the circuit's president, secretary, and treasury. Though the league failed to fully materialize, his Bridgeport Victors did play several games and were one of the few racially integrated teams--a fact emblematic of O'Rourke's efforts to change the national pastime. In those efforts, he attempted to wrest control of the game from the owners and empower the players. A carefully researched account of O'Rourke's life and career, this biography also provides a behind-the-scenes look at the growth of the national pastime from the Civil War through the deadball era.
Author : Tom DeMichael
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781617136597
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