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The Hall: A Celebration of Baseball's Greats

Author : The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 55,7 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.

The Hall

Author : Ripken Cal Rice Jim Ryan Nolan Brokaw Tom Yount Robin Morgan Joe Brett George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : GAMES
ISBN : 0316322822

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The Hall by Ripken Cal Rice Jim Ryan Nolan Brokaw Tom Yount Robin Morgan Joe Brett George Pdf

A collection of photographs, plaques, and stories that reflects on the careers of legendary baseball players.

Baseball Season Ticket

Author : Doug Williams
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781634940399

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Baseball Season Ticket by Doug Williams Pdf

Baseball is America's pastime, captivating fans each summer. Take a front-row seat to everything that makes MLB great in Baseball Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame Collection

Author : James Buckley
Publisher : Epic Ink Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760385517

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The National Baseball Hall of Fame Collection by James Buckley Pdf

The National Baseball Hall of Fame Collection celebrates members of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame with stats, facts, rare photos, and objects from the game.

Baseball Record Breakers

Author : Doug Williams
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629699110

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Baseball Record Breakers by Doug Williams Pdf

This title will give you the story behind records held by such baseball stars as Rickey Henderson, Nolan Ryan, Cal Ripken, Jr., and more. The title also features informative sidebars, fun facts, a glossary, and further resources. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

The Umpire Was Blind!

Author : Jonathan Weeks
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476680323

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The Umpire Was Blind! by Jonathan Weeks Pdf

In the words of former American League umpire Nestor Chylak, umpires are expected to "be perfect on the first day of the season and then get better every day." Forced to deal with sullen managers and explosive players, they often take the blame for the failures of both. But let's face it--umpires are only human. For well over a century, the fortunes of Major League teams--and the fabric of baseball history itself--have been dramatically affected by the flawed decisions of officials. While the use of video replay in recent decades has reduced the number of bitter disputes, many situations remain exempt from review and are subject to swirling controversy. In the heat of the moment mistakes are often made, sometimes with monumental consequences. This book details some of these more controversial calls and the men who made them.

Baseball 100

Author : Nel Yomtov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578751887

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Baseball 100 by Nel Yomtov Pdf

A Celebration of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

Baseball's Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them

Author : Jonathan Weeks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781442261570

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Baseball's Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them by Jonathan Weeks Pdf

Baseball has had its fair share of one-and-out champions, but few clubs have dominated the sport for any great length of time. Given the level of competition and the expansive length of the season, it is a remarkable accomplishment for a team to make multiple World Series appearances in a short timespan. From the Baltimore Orioles of the 1800s who would go to any length to win—including physically accosting opponents—to the 1934 Cardinals known as the “Gashouse Gang” for their rough tactics and determination, and on to George Steinbrenner’s dominant Yankees of the late twentieth century, baseball’s greatest teams somehow found a way to win year after year. Spanning three centuries of the game, Baseball’s Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them examines twenty-two of baseball’s most iconic teams. Each chapter not only chronicles the club’s era of supremacy, but also provides an in-depth look at the players who helped make their teams great. Nearly two hundred player profiles are included, featuring such well-known stars as Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Sandy Koufax, and Pete Rose, as well as players who were perhaps overshadowed by their teammates but were nonetheless vital to their team’s reign, such as Pepper Martin, Allie Reynolds, and George Foster. With a concluding chapter that profiles the clubs that were on the cusp of greatness, Baseball’s Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them is a fascinating survey of what makes some teams dominate year after year while others get only a small taste of glory before falling to the wayside. Written in a lively style with amusing anecdotes and colorful quotes, this comprehensive book will be of interest to all fans and historians of baseball.

Latino Stars in Major League Baseball

Author : Jonathan Weeks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781442281738

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Latino Stars in Major League Baseball by Jonathan Weeks Pdf

Some of the best players in Major League Baseball were born outside the United States, with Latino players representing one of the fastest growing ethnicities in the league. Current and former stars such as Albert Pujols, Rod Carew, and Miguel Cabrera all found incredible success in MLB. They have won major awards, guided their teams to the postseason, played in All-Star games, and an elite few have been enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Latino Stars in Major League Baseball: From Bobby Abreu to Carlos Zambrano celebrates the ever-increasing diversity of baseball in America. It includes more than 140 in-depth profiles of retired and active ballplayers representing countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. For many of these players, the road to “The Show” wasn’t easy—discrimination, poverty, language barriers, and government restrictions are major obstacles that Latino players have faced in the past and continue to face today. Author Jonathan Weeks covers these struggles and more in the profiles, showing the players’ strength, resiliency, and ultimately, their rise to the top of professional baseball. Latino Stars in Major League Baseball is a definitive collection of the best and brightest Latino stars both past and present. Full of colorful anecdotes and inspiring stories, this book provides a rich understanding of Latino players’ impact on baseball in the United States.

The Last Chicago Cubs Dynasty

Author : Hal Bock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781442253315

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The Last Chicago Cubs Dynasty by Hal Bock Pdf

The last time the Chicago Cubs played in the World Series, World War II had just ended. The last time they won a World Series, World War I had not yet begun. But from 1906-1910 the Cubs not only played in the World Series four of the five years, they won two World Championships, as well. It was a time when the Cubs ruled baseball, and no one could have imagined the roller coaster adventures that were ahead for this grand old franchise. In The Last Chicago Cubs Dynasty: Before the Curse, Hal Bock tells the story of this legendary team, the characters who were central to its success, and the misfortunes which have plagued the team ever since. Stars such as pitcher Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown and the double-play combination of Tinker to Evers to Chance are profiled, as are opponents who caused the Cubs unending headaches, like superstar pitcher Christy Mathewson and immortal shortstop Honus Wagner. A chronology and cast of characters set the stage for the reader before Bock delves into the early history of the Cubs and the assembly of what would become a dynasty. With talent to spare and just a little bit of luck going their way, the Chicago Cubs were unstoppable. But when an angry fan issued a curse on the team during the 1945 World Series, some believe it marked the beginning of the end for this storied franchise. Featuring 100-year-old images from historic baseball cards, profiles of Hall of Fame legends, and a foreword by Cubs supporter and TV star Joe Mantegna, The Last Chicago Cubs Dynasty will appeal to all baseball fans, but especially to those always-passionate Cubs enthusiasts from around the nation.

Eddie Collins

Author : Rick Huhn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786432875

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Eddie Collins by Rick Huhn Pdf

In what is sure to be the definitive book on Eddie Collins's life and long career, author Rick Huhn covers the Hall of Fame player's experiences from childhood through his days at Columbia University, his tenure with the great Athletics clubs of 1906-1914, the highs and lows of a championship and scandal with the White Sox, and his return to the A's during their final run at greatness. By the time his 25-year playing career had ended, he was a pivotal performer on five all-time great clubs, dominating his position like no one before (or since), and earning a reputation for intelligent, selfless play that followed him to Cooperstown. Also covered in detail is his tenure with the Boston Red Sox, a team he served variously as part owner, vice-president and general manager until 1951, when after 45 years in major league baseball a stroke ended his career and, weeks later, his life.

A Fan's-Eye View of the Baseball Hall of Fame

Author : Matt Sullivan,Dave Manion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692751424

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A Fan's-Eye View of the Baseball Hall of Fame by Matt Sullivan,Dave Manion Pdf

Who's In, Who's Not, Who Should Be, Who Should Not. And Why It Matters. A Fan's-Eye View of the Baseball Hall of Fame is an often iconoclastic, sometimes controversial, yet always entertaining look at the institution that welcomes and enshrines the game's greatest players.

What Baseball Means to Me

Author : Curt Smith,The National Baseball Hall of Fame
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780446556989

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What Baseball Means to Me by Curt Smith,The National Baseball Hall of Fame Pdf

Funny, moving, and each one a diamond in the rough of the American consciousness, the essays in this book are the ultimate baseball conversation that pays homage to the perfect sport, in this perfect companion for all our personal baseball journeys. For some people baseball means a memory-of a certain dusty ball field on a certain summer day, or the first time they walked into a major league park and saw the perfect emerald playing field. For some, baseball means one heartbreaking or heroic moment. And for others, it means a father, a friend, or an old flame who shared a game for a day or for a lifetime. To create this marvelous book, more than 150 writers, athletes, celebrities, politicians, presidents, and pundits were asked what baseball means to them. The answers came back with richness, wonder, insight, and poetry. A fascinating portrait of baseball's beautiful nuances, What Baseball means to me marks the greatest collection of original essays ever written about the game. Accompanied by more than 200 classic baseball photographs, the voices in this book bring alive the game in all its venues-in the past and present, in wartime and hard times, in Cuba, in Wrigley Field or Yankee Stadium. We meet players in a different light: including Paul Molitor returning a baseball to a trusting boy named Dan Jansen, Derek Jeter as depicted by his dad, the Toledo Mud Hens as seen through the eyes of Christine Brennan, and Pedro Martinez talking about baseball as a way of life in his native Dominican Republic. Most of all, we meet ordinary Americans, like the kids Rudy Giuliani grew up with in Brooklyn, or the man in Philadelphia who transforms himself for every home game from mild-mannered Tom Burgoyne to the Phillie Phanatic.

Pirates Reader

Author : Richard Peterson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780822980599

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Pirates Reader by Richard Peterson Pdf

Whether winning world championships or falling into last place, fielding teams with Hall of Fame players or trotting out bumbling boys of summer, the Pittsburgh Pirates have thrilled, frustrated, and fascinated generations of fans since 1876. To date, the Pirates have won five World Series and have a total of thirty-six players and managers in the Hall of Fame-including Honus Wagner, Pie Traynor, Lloyd and Paul Waner, Ralph Kiner, Willie Stargell, Roberto Clemente, and Bill Mazeroski. The Pirates Reader is a tribute to the fans, players, and teams who have forged the franchise's rich history. Richard Peterson has collected the writing of baseball's greatest storytellers and brings to life the players, games, and magical moments for this classic and well-loved team.

The Team That Forever Changed Baseball and America

Author : Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803240254

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The Team That Forever Changed Baseball and America by Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Pdf

Of all the teams in the annals of baseball, only a select few can lay claim to historic significance. One of those teams is the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, the first racially integrated Major League team of the twentieth century. The addition of Jackie Robinson to its roster changed not only baseball but also the nation. Yet Robinson was just one member of that memorable club, which included Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Pete Reiser, Duke Snider, Eddie Stanky, Arky Vaughan, and Dixie Walker. Also present was a quartet of baseball’s most unforgettable characters: co-owners Branch Rickey and Walter O’Malley, suspended manager Leo Durocher, and radio announcer Red Barber. This book is the first to offer biographies of everyone on that incomparable team as well as accounts of the moments and events that marked the Dodgers’ 1947 season: Commissioner Happy Chandler suspending Durocher, Rickey luring his old friend Burt Shotton out of retirement to replace Durocher, and brilliant outfielder Reiser being sidelined after running into a fence. In spite of all this, the Dodgers went on to win the National League pennant over the heavily favored St. Louis Cardinals. And of course, there is the biggest story of the season, where history and biography coalesce: Jackie Robinson, who overcame widespread hostility to become Rookie of the Year—and to help the Dodgers set single-game attendance records in cities around the National League.