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The 1903 World Series: The Boston Americans, the Pittsburg Pirates, and the First Championship of the United States
ISBN: 9780786418404 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each game of the 1903 World Series and its key plays and players are thoroughly covered here, and the authors also pay special attention to the great significance that first World Series held for the future of baseball.
Each game of the 1903 World Series and its key plays and players are thoroughly covered here, and the authors also pay special attention to the great ...
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167,43 zł |
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Baseball/Literature/Culture: Essays, 2002-2003
ISBN: 9780786418510 / Angielski / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1995, the Indiana State University Conference on Baseball and Literature in American Culture has provided a venue for scholars to present their research on baseball as literary subject matter and cultural institution. Nineteen essays presented at the 2002 and 2003 ISU conferences are published in this work. The essays demonstrate that baseball continues to engage scholars like no other sports, despite the game's supposed loss of stature as the national game. A Field of Questions: W.P. Kinsella comes to Ithaca, reveals Kinsella as baseball fan and baseball writer. 'You don't play the...
Since 1995, the Indiana State University Conference on Baseball and Literature in American Culture has provided a venue for scholars to present their ...
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221,24 zł |
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Hardball on the Home Front: Major League Replacement Players of World War II
ISBN: 9780786418978 / Angielski / Miękka / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During WWII President Roosevelt insisted that baseball be played to boost the country's morale. Replacement players made their debuts between 1943 and 1945 while the major leaguers were fighting. They share their memories of being called up to play in the majors, and their feelings about providing entertainment to America during the war years.
During WWII President Roosevelt insisted that baseball be played to boost the country's morale. Replacement players made their debuts between 1943 and...
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194,61 zł |
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High School Baseball: How to Create and Run a Winning Program
ISBN: 9780786420483 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finding potential players; attending to the logistical details of scheduling practices, games, banquets and summer leagues; developing an adequate preseason throwing program that will work in a high school gym; efficiently cutting players after tryouts; and promoting a high school baseball program throughout the community?these are just a few examples of the myriad duties assigned to a high school baseball head coach. This reference work assists coaches in simplifying their many tasks. Here is an easy-to-use handbook for beginning high school baseball coaches and seasoned veterans alike. It...
Finding potential players; attending to the logistical details of scheduling practices, games, banquets and summer leagues; developing an adequate pre...
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113,85 zł |
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Teaching Hitting: A Guide for Coaches
ISBN: 9780786420490 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explanation, demonstration, correction and repetition are essential to the activity of teaching. Successful coaches must be able to effectively and consistently incorporate each of these teaching methods into lessons for their teams. Ideal for any age group, the concepts in this guide help coaches to master these basic principles as they focus on the most important elements of how to teach hitting. Introduced with the author's own teaching-coaching philosophy, this work offers 21 chapters covering a hitting coach's every need. When to Start, Bat Size, Grip, Stance, Swing, Drills and Station...
Explanation, demonstration, correction and repetition are essential to the activity of teaching. Successful coaches must be able to effectively and co...
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167,43 zł |
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A History of the Baseball Fan
ISBN: 9780786421480 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the genesis of baseball in the 1840s, when so-called ?kranks? cheered the teams of their choice, fans have been an ever-present component of the sport. As the number of fans has increased over the years, their influence has increased proportionally. Following the evolution of the game and its fans over more than a century, this book examines the role fans have played in the formation of modern baseball and the part the sport has played in the lives of its devotees. How have fans influenced, reacted to, or been affected by baseball's changes through history? How do fans determine player...
From the genesis of baseball in the 1840s, when so-called ?kranks? cheered the teams of their choice, fans have been an ever-present component of the ...
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167,43 zł |
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October Baseball: Ballplayers Discuss Postseason Play
ISBN: 9780786421817 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. baseball players, the dream of a championship season begins in spring training. Newcomers and veterans, journeymen and legends, all come together for a single purpose to win the World Series. And each year, all but one team goes into the off-season disappointed. But for that one team,the hard work of spring training and the grind of a 162-game season gives way to the euphoria of a championship, fulfilling a dream for the team andits fans.
The 28 players, managers, and pitching coaches here have all experienced baseball?s postseason. Many have been a part of championship teams; others have... baseball players, the dream of a championship season begins in spring training. Newcomers and veterans, journeymen and legends, all come together for...
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167,43 zł |
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Free Agency and Competitive Balance in Baseball
ISBN: 9780786422203 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As early as the 1880s, baseball owners and sportswriters were decrying the greediness of players as the leading threat to the national pastime. Nearly a century later in 1976, the Player's Association was able to finally tear down baseball's permanent reserve clause--the contract language that essentially bound a player to a single team until he was released or traded--and owners and sportswriters again insisted that the competitive balance of the game was threatened by player greed. The rhetoric from the baseball establishment did not match the on-field reality. From 1981 to 1993, the first...
As early as the 1880s, baseball owners and sportswriters were decrying the greediness of players as the leading threat to the national pastime. Nearly...
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194,61 zł |
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Rumors of Baseball's Demise: How the Balance of Competition Swung and the Critics Missed
ISBN: 9780786422517 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is it bedtime for America's pastime? In recent years, action on and off the diamond has left some fans predicting baseball's imminent death--or claiming to have already attended the funeral. This book refutes those claims with an in-depth look at baseball then and now. Comparing the baseball of the 1950s to the game of today, this author examines the widespread dissatisfaction with major league baseball, considers how modern teams differ from those of the past, and reflects on whether professional baseball remains a truly competitive sport. Excessive salaries, player movement and the...
Is it bedtime for America's pastime? In recent years, action on and off the diamond has left some fans predicting baseball's imminent death--or claimi...
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194,61 zł |
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Play It Again: Baseball Experts on What Might Have Been
ISBN: 9780786425464 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What if Ty Cobb and Shoeless Joe Jackson had stood side by side in Cleveland's outfield? What if integration had taken place in the major leagues before 1947? Who would have won the World Series had a strike not shortened the 1994 season? In this compilation of fantasy scenarios, the history of baseball from 1869 to the controversial 2003 playoffs is literally rewritten by fifty journalists, historians, authors and former baseball players. Topics include playing for pay, Merkle's Boner, rival leagues, the 1919 Series, Mickey Owens and the dropped strike, and integration. Chronologically...
What if Ty Cobb and Shoeless Joe Jackson had stood side by side in Cleveland's outfield? What if integration had taken place in the major leagues befo...
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167,43 zł |
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Extra Innings: The Joy and the Pains of Over-30 Baseball
ISBN: 9780786429097 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What leads a man in his mid to late thirties to take up the sport of baseball after a fifteen year hiatus? Especially when stressful and potentially humiliating tryouts are involved? The Lutherville, Maryland, Athletics are a ball team composed of plumbers, demolition guys, investment bankers, security guards and salesmen who play for the love of the game. How their passion for the game of baseball affects their lives is the subject of this book. Focusing on Smith's love affair with sport of baseball, this volume provides a firsthand account of a season in the Baltimore County, Over-30 league...
What leads a man in his mid to late thirties to take up the sport of baseball after a fifteen year hiatus? Especially when stressful and potentially h...
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113,85 zł |
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Baseball Books: A Collector's Guide
ISBN: 9780786431397 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning with a history of baseball books and collecting, it also identifies the most sought-after titles and explains how to find them, what to pay, and how to maintain their condition.
Beginning with a history of baseball books and collecting, it also identifies the most sought-after titles and explains how to find them, what to pay,...
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167,43 zł |
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South of the Color Barrier: How Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican League Pushed Baseball Toward Racial Integration
ISBN: 9780786432936 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the story of how Mexican multimillionaire businessman Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican League hastened the integration of major league baseball. During the decade that preceded Jackie Robinsons breaking of the color barrier, almost 150 players from the Negro League played in Mexico, most of them recruited by Pasquel.
This book tells the story of how Mexican multimillionaire businessman Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican League hastened the integration of major league ba...
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167,43 zł |
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Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond
ISBN: 9780789014849 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover baseball's role in American society
Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond is a thoughtful look at baseball's impact on American society through the eyes of the game's foremost scholars, historians, and commentators. Edited by Dr. Edward J. Rielly, author of Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, the book examines how baseball and society intersect and interact, and how the quintessential American game reflects and affects American culture. Enlightening and entertaining, Baseball and American Culture presents a multidisciplinary perspective on baseball's... Discover baseball's role in American society
Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond is a thoughtful look at baseball's impact on Amer... |
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681,49 zł |
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Baseball and American Culture : Across the Diamond
ISBN: 9780789014856 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Baseball and American Culture examines the game as a mirror of American society--good and bad. Readers will learn about the struggle for racial equality in the game, the role of women, management-labor conflicts, advertising, patriotism, religion, and more. The book's panel of contributing authors includes Larry Moffi, author of This Side of Cooperstown: An Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s and Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959, as well as a host of presenters to the 2001 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, including Thomas Altherr, George...
Baseball and American Culture examines the game as a mirror of American society--good and bad. Readers will learn about the struggle for racial equali...
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267,68 zł |
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It's Good to Be Alive
ISBN: 9780803263635 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Three-time winner of the National League's Most Valuable Player award, Roy Campanella was catcher for the Brooklyn (soon to be Los Angeles) Dodgers in January 1958, when a car accident left him permanently paralyzed. It's Good to Be Alive describes his determination to rally from helplessness and help other quadriplegics. It looks back to a famous career and to a childhood on the sandlots of Philadelphia. Introducing this Bison Book edition is Jules Tygiel, a professor of history at San Francisco State University and the author of Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy.
Three-time winner of the National League's Most Valuable Player award, Roy Campanella was catcher for the Brooklyn (soon to be Los Angeles) Dodgers in...
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96,84 zł |
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Jocko
ISBN: 9780803263819 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ultimate umpire relives the good old days on the diamond. Jocko Conlan was an outfielder for the Chicago White Sox when, one afternoon in 1936, he became an umpire. Thus began a career lasting more than a quarter century, most of it with the National League. Through the skillful writing of Robert W. Creamer, the ebullient Jocko makes his many years of umpiring so real that the reader can smell the peanuts and hear the swat of the ball. Jocko is packed with funny stories about famous players and the beleaguered umpire's lot. Robert W. Creamer, who has contributed a new afterword to this...
The ultimate umpire relives the good old days on the diamond. Jocko Conlan was an outfielder for the Chicago White Sox when, one afternoon in 1936, he...
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56,31 zł |
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The Tour to End All Tours: The Story of Major League Baseball's 1913-1914 World Tour
ISBN: 9780803267480 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the winter of 1913 and the spring of 1914 the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox took a trip around the world. Organized by crusty John McGraw of the Giants and the White Sox's Charles Comiskey, it was a trip of epic proportions-a tour to end all tours recreated here in all its monumental sweep and comical detail. This book follows the two teams, whose members include Christy Mathewson, Jim Thorpe, and half a dozen other future Hall-of-Famers, as they barnstorm across the United States and sail the seas to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, finishing with a game before twenty...
During the winter of 1913 and the spring of 1914 the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox took a trip around the world. Organized by crusty John ...
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95,89 zł |
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The Men in Blue: Conversations with Umpires
ISBN: 9780803270459 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The philosopher Jacques Barzun thought that "whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." And whoever wants to know baseball had better learn about umpires. As Larry Gerlach points out in The Men in Blue, these arbiters transform competitive chaos into organized sport. They make it possible to "play ball," but nobody loves them. Considering the abuse meted out by fans and players, why would any sane person want to be an umpire? Many reasons emerge in conversations with a dozen former major league arbiters. While nobody loves them, they love the game. Gerlach...
The philosopher Jacques Barzun thought that "whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." And whoever wants to know...
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97,30 zł |
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Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball
ISBN: 9780803289390 / Angielski / Miękka / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Babe Ruth remains the most popular player in the history of baseball. The slugger for the New York Yankees established a home run record in the 1927 season, just a year before joining the league of authors. Babe Ruth's Own Book is a who's who of old-time greats-Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, and many others. It describes the Babe's rise from poverty to stardom, catching his image and voice as freshly and permanently as pen and ink can. In a no-nonsense style, the Babe describes the ins and outs of the game, touching all bases and loading up the reader with priceless information and...
Babe Ruth remains the most popular player in the history of baseball. The slugger for the New York Yankees established a home run record in the 1927 s...
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77,84 zł |
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