The Timeline History Of Baseball

Author : Don Jensen
Publisher : Thunder Bay Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : PSU:000067935444

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The Timeline History of Baseball by Don Jensen Pdf

"Take me out to the ballgame, take me out to the crowd!" Baseball is an integral part of American popular culture. In fact, baseball offers a form of social currency by which many people relate. Its stars--King Kelly, Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio--have often transcended the game. Discover the amazing development of baseball in The Timeline History of Baseball.- Lavishly illustrated and colorfully designed throughout, The Timeline History of Baseball presents hundreds of fascinating details about the development of baseball in a fun, easy-to-use format.- This unique book brings together a comprehensive history of the sport along with a separate pull-out timeline that offers an at-a-glance view of baseball from 1601 to 2009.- Get some peanuts and Cracker Jacks! You're about to meet some of the greatest players and teams ever to play the game, and venture to some of baseball's hallowed grounds and legendary stadiums.- Did you know that the spit ball was outlawed in 1920, but pitchers who already threw it were permitted to continue using it until they retired? Filled with fun and fascinating facts about the game and all of its organized leagues throughout history, including the major and minor leagues, negro leagues, women's leagues, little league and leagues around the world.- This engaging compendium also includes a giant, colorfully-illustrated gate-fold timeline that offers a unique way of looking at the history of baseball. The timeline integrates world events with major moments in baseball for a unique overview of social history.

Author : Burt Solomon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 038078291X

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The Baseball Timeline by Burt Solomon Pdf

From baseball's humble beginnings to its modern-day pyrotechnics, this comprehensive, one-of-a-kind, and endlessly entertaining volume contains stats and records, amazing anecdotes, and recreations of great games and heroic events--from pre-season to post-season and all the glory days in between.

Author : Burt Solomon
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 0789471329

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The Baseball Timeline by Burt Solomon Pdf

"The Baseball Timeline" brings together the players and the history of the game in a unique, day-by-day format that makes each season come alive and contains every record and statistic for the die-hard fan. Illustrations.

Author : Brendan Flynn
Publisher : Pogo Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798892130714

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The History of Baseball by Brendan Flynn Pdf

"In this book, early fluent readers will learn about baseball's beginnings and how it has evolved into the sport we know today. Learn about the first World Series, how equipment has changed over the years to better protect players, the most well-known MLB stars, and more. Take a Look! infographics and sidebars present interesting, supplementary information, and a timeline highlights critical events in the sport's history. Children can learn more about baseball using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. The History of Baseball also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a glossary, and an index. The History of Baseball is part of Jump!'s History of Sports series"--

Author : P.J. Dragseth
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476639222

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Baseball and the House of David by P.J. Dragseth Pdf

House of David barnstorming baseball (1915-1957) was played without pre-determined schedules, leagues, player statistics or standings. The Davids quickly gained popularity for their hirsute appearance and flashy, fast-paced style of play. During their 200 seasons, they travelled as many as 30,000 miles, criss-crossing the United States, Canada and Mexico. The Benton Harbor teams invented the pepper game and were winners year after year, becoming legends in barnstorming baseball. Initially a loose affiliation of players, the Davids expanded to three teams--Western, Central and Eastern--as their reputation grew, and hired outsiders to fill the rosters. Prominent among them were pitchers Grover Cleveland Alexander and Charlie "Chief" Bender, both player managers in the early 1930s. They resisted the color barrier, eagerly facing Negro League teams everywhere. In 1934, before their largest crowd to date, they defeated the first Negro team invited to the famed Denver Post Tournament, the great Kansas City Monarchs, for the championship.

Author : George Vecsey
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780307494061

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Baseball by George Vecsey Pdf

“Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey’s book proves it, without wasting a word.”—Lee Eisenberg, author of The Number In Baseball, one of the great bards of America’s Grand Old Game gives a rousing account of the sport, from its pre-Republic roots to the present day. George Vecsey casts a fresh eye on the game, illuminates its foibles and triumphs, and performs a marvelous feat: making a classic story seem refreshingly new. Baseball is a narrative of America’s can-do spirit, in which stalwart immigrants such as Henry Chadwick could transplant cricket and rounders into the fertile American culture and in which die-hard unionist baseballers such as Charles Comiskey and Connie Mack could eventually become the tightfisted avatars of the game’s big-money establishment. It’s a celebration of such underdogs as a rag-armed catcher turned owner named Branch Rickey and a sure-handed fielder named Curt Flood, both of whom flourished as true great men of history. But most of all, Baseball is a testament to the unbreakable bond between our nation’s pastime and the fans, who’ve remained loyal through the fifty-year-long interdict on black athletes, the Black Sox scandal, franchise relocation, and the use of performance-enhancing drugs by some major stars. Reverent, playful, and filled with Vecsey’s charm, Baseball begs to be read in the span of a rain-delayed doubleheader, and so enjoyable that, like a favorite team’s championship run, one hopes it never ends. “Vecsey possesses a journalist’s eye for detail and a historian’s feel for the sweep of action. His research is scrupulous and his writing crisp. This book is an instant classic—a highly readable guide to America’s great enduring pastime.”—The Louisville Courier Journal

Author : Bill Felber
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 1880141841

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125 Years of Professional Baseball by Bill Felber Pdf

Author : Warren Jay Goldstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780801471476

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Playing for Keeps by Warren Jay Goldstein Pdf

In the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increasingly disciplined labor of skilled player-employees. Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century. Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades. The 20th Anniversary Edition of Goldstein's classic includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s and an account of his experience as a scholarly consultant during the production of Ken Burns's Baseball.

Author : Warren N. Wilbert
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786430130

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The Arrival of the American League by Warren N. Wilbert Pdf

In 1901, Charles Comiskey and Ban Johnson launched a brazen challenge to the National League's supremacy. This book covers the American League's origins in the Western League, the decisions and planning that laid the groundwork for the American League, and in detail, the 1901 season that established the AL as a new major league.

Author : William M. Simons
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786453313

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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2007-2008 by William M. Simons Pdf

This anthology gathers selected papers from the 2007 and 2008 meetings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, the long-running academic conference held annually at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Essays included employ the national pastime to comment on issues transcending the playing field, and are divided into six sections: "Cultural Perspectives on the Game," "Literary Baseball," "Baseball at the Movies," "Minority Standard Bearers," "New Leagues," and "The Business of Baseball."

Author : Kirk McKnight
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538177020

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The Voices of Baseball by Kirk McKnight Pdf

An in-depth look at each of Major League Baseball’s thirty ballparks from the perspectives of the game’s longest-tenured storytellers—the broadcasters. With decades of broadcasting between them, 50 broadcasters share their fondest memories from the booth, encapsulating some of baseball’s greatest moments.

Author : George Vecsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064755203

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Baseball by George Vecsey Pdf

One of the great bards of America's Grand Old Game gives a rousing account ofbaseball, from its pre-Republic roots to the present day.

Author : Stephen M. Bratkovich
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476638539

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The Baseball Bat by Stephen M. Bratkovich Pdf

Why do modern-day sluggers like Aaron Judge prefer maple bats over the traditional ash bats swung by Ted Williams and others? Why did the surge of broken bats in the early 21st century create a crisis for Major League Baseball and what steps were taken to address the issue? Are different woods being considered by players and manufacturers? Do insects, disease and climate change pose a problem long-term? These and other questions are answered in this exhaustive examination of the history and future of wooden bats, written for both lifelong baseball fans and curious newcomers.

Author : Eldon L. Ham
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786486359

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Broadcasting Baseball by Eldon L. Ham Pdf

There is a long-standing relationship between broadcasting and sports, and nowhere is this more evident than in the marriage of baseball and radio: a slow sport perfectly suited to the word-painting of broadcasters. This work covers the development of the baseball broadcasting industry from the first telegraph reports of games in progress, the influence of early pioneers at Pittsburgh's KDKA and Chicago's WGN, including the first World Series broadcast, the launch of the Telstar Satellite, the Carlton Fisk homerun in the 1975 World Series, which changed how baseball is broadcast, through the latest computer graphics, HD television, and the Internet.

Author : Katie Lajiness
Publisher : Big Buddy Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1532115199

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San Francisco Giants by Katie Lajiness Pdf

Presents a history of the San Francisco Giants, highlighting most memorable players and managers, with a timeline of significant events in team history.