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2009 Cleveland Indians Top 100 Prospects & More
ISBN: 9781439229576 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Cleveland Indians lifeline to their success will always be their farm system, and that lifeline has never been as strong as it is today. This book is a comprehensive listing of the Indians best prospects that brings to light the minor league players of today who may be the next stars of tomorrow for your Cleveland Indians. In this book you will find full scouting reports for over 125 Indians minor leaguers, complete stats and photos for over 100 players, a 2008 Draft recap, projected 2009 affiliate opening day rosters, regular season schedules for each affiliate, full transactions recap...
The Cleveland Indians lifeline to their success will always be their farm system, and that lifeline has never been as strong as it is today. This book...
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36,37 |
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Mental Toughness: Getting the Edge: Baseball Edition
ISBN: 9780615344300 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many baseball players ignore the mental game. The result: prolonged slumps, eroding self-confidence, high levels of anxiety, and inconsistent performance. The game is no longer fun. It is a struggle. In Mental Toughness: Getting the Edge, Dr. Ickes teaches you not only what to do to develop a great mental game, but how to do it. This book provides a blueprint for developing a mentally tough personality and putting this mental toughness in action during game situations. Using proven techniques, Dr. Ickes helps players learn how to achieve the optimal mental state during the "instant of...
Many baseball players ignore the mental game. The result: prolonged slumps, eroding self-confidence, high levels of anxiety, and inconsistent performa...
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64,53 |
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: Six Minor Leaguers in Search of the Baseball Dream
ISBN: 9781558498433 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rich slice of Americana found in minor league baseball presents a contradictory culture. On the one hand, the minors are filled with wholesome, family-friendly entertainment-fluffy mascots, kitschy promotions, and earnest young men signing autographs for wide-eyed Little Leaguers. On the other, they comprise a world of cutthroat competition in which a teammate's failure or injury can be the cause of quiet celebration and 90 percent of all players never play a single inning in the major leagues. In Knocking on Heaven's Door, award-winning sportswriter Marty Dobrow examines this... The rich slice of Americana found in minor league baseball presents a contradictory culture. On the one hand, the minors are filled with wholesome,... |
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141,98 |
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Integrating Cleveland Baseball: Media Activism, the Integration of the Indians and the Demise of the Negro League Buckeyes
ISBN: 9780786436903 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the Negro American League Buckeyes, this detailed history describes the effects of major league integration on blackball in Cleveland, as well as the cont-roversial role that the local black press played in the transformation. Included are historical photos, rosters for all Cleveland Negro League teams, and a list of the city's players in the annual East-West All-Star game.
Focusing on the Negro American League Buckeyes, this detailed history describes the effects of major league integration on blackball in Cleveland, as ...
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167,87 |
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Induction Day at Cooperstown: A History of the Baseball Hall of Fame Ceremony
ISBN: 9780786444168 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This history of the National Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony covers the entire period of its existence, from its inception in 1939 up until the year 2009. Included are biographical sketches of each of the 292 inductees, as well as highlights from their induction speeches.
This history of the National Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony covers the entire period of its existence, from its inception in 1939 up until t...
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221,82 |
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Mysteries from Baseball's Past: Investigations of Nine Unsettled Questions
ISBN: 9780786445547 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of nine essays looks into some of baseball's most elusive mysteries. Topics include: the discovery of the body of Ed Delahanty at the bottle of Niagara Falls, the suicides of Chick Stahl and serious death of National League president Harry Pulliam, the case of a game that may never have been played, gambling scandals involving Hall of Famers, the facts behind the legendary matchups of Satchel Paige and slugger Josh Gibson, and the reasons behind the Brooklyn Dodgers move to Los Angeles.
This collection of nine essays looks into some of baseball's most elusive mysteries. Topics include: the discovery of the body of Ed Delahanty at the ...
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167,87 |
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The Cardinals and the Yankees, 1926: A Classic Season and St. Louis in Seven
ISBN: 9780786446575 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The two pennant winners in 1926, the National League's Cardinals and the American League's Yankees, were a study in contrasts. The Yankees were heavily composed of first- and second-generation Americans and based in New York, the epicenter of baseball; the Cardinals, on the other hand, were mostly a collection of farm boys playing at the western fringe of the major leagues. But both teams arrived battle-tested, St. Louis having fought a long, close race with Cincinnati, New York having survived a dramatic late-season run by Cleveland. Their classic World Series meeting went seven games and...
The two pennant winners in 1926, the National League's Cardinals and the American League's Yankees, were a study in contrasts. The Yankees were heavil...
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141,17 |
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Wrigley Regulars: Finding Community in the Bleachers
ISBN: 9780252077401 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A unique exploration of creating community in a fragmented world
A unique exploration of creating community in a fragmented world
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102,81 |
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The Game in the Rain
ISBN: 9781451553918 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the movingly autobiographical novel The Game in the Rain, Bob Irwin looks back at the sixties, a baseball game that never should have been played, and his own relationship with his dad when he was just thirteen. As the young Bob struggles to gain control and conquer his fears, frustrations, and failures, he begins to discover that the secret to success just might be never giving up. Gorgeously written and filled with rich and alive characters, The Game in The Rain harkens back to a simpler time, even as it explores what it truly means to be human. The perfect book for baseball fans or for...
In the movingly autobiographical novel The Game in the Rain, Bob Irwin looks back at the sixties, a baseball game that never should have been played, ...
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68,59 |
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Becoming Champions For Life
ISBN: 9781609575113 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,17 |
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Batting 10th for the Yankees: Recollections of 30 Yankees You May Not Remember
ISBN: 9781449071882 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There have been well over 100 books written on the New York Yankees. However, this one takes a popular subject and looks at it from a very different angle. Batting 10th for the Yankees; Recollections of 30 Yankees You May Not Rememeber contains in depth interviews with former ballplayers who had brief careers or were bench players. These largely unknown men shared the unique privilage of having worn the pinstripes and played at Yankee Stadium. Stories and books aplenty have been written about Mantle, Berra, Ruth, Gehrig, Ford, Jeter, Munson and Torre. Now, in their own words, here the Yankee...
There have been well over 100 books written on the New York Yankees. However, this one takes a popular subject and looks at it from a very different a...
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114,60 |
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The National Pastime, Monumental Baseball, 2009
ISBN: 9781933599144 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The National Pastime offers baseball history available nowhere else. Each fall this publication from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) explores baseball history with fresh and often surprising views of past players, teams, and events. Drawn from the research efforts of more than 6,700 SABR members, The National Pastime establishes an accurate, lively, and entertaining historical record of baseball.
The National Pastime offers baseball history available nowhere else. Each fall this publication from the Society for American Baseball Research...
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57,61 |
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Some Were Giants
ISBN: 9781453546468 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,02 |
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Some Were Giants
ISBN: 9781453546475 / Angielski / Twarda / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,23 |
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Broadcasting Baseball: A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television
ISBN: 9780786446445 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 1975 World Series, which changed how baseball is broadcast, through New...
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 ...
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221,82 |
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With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture
ISBN: 9780226249377 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are boys like? Who is the creature inhabiting the twilight zone between the perils of the Oedipus complex and the Strum und Drang of puberty? In With the Boys, Gary Alan Fine examines the American male preadolescent by studying the world of Little League baseball. Drawings on three years of firsthand observation of five Little Leagues, Fine describes how, through organized sport and its accompanying activities, boys learn to play, work, and generally be "men."
What are boys like? Who is the creature inhabiting the twilight zone between the perils of the Oedipus complex and the Strum und Drang of puberty? In ...
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144,35 |
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The Baseball Film in Postwar America: A Critical Study, 1948-1962
ISBN: 9780786461233 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work focuses on the baseball movie genre in the years following World War II, beginning with the 1948 biopic The Babe Ruth Story and ending with the 1962 Mickey Mantle-Roger Maris vehicle Safe at Home!, when the consensus was that conflict should be limited in American society by emphasizing economic growth and a strong stand against Communism.
This work focuses on the baseball movie genre in the years following World War II, beginning with the 1948 biopic The Babe Ruth Story and ending with ...
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167,87 |
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Baseball For Boys
ISBN: 9781438268729 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The objective of the writer of this book is to produce a manual that will provide player, manager, fan and father-coach with the kind of useful, practical information that can be applied to amateur baseball, especially tothose programs for 8 to 18 year-olds.Most of the book is devoted to individual and team play with these two major groupings broken down and presented in logical fashion and also in the order of importance. For example, the three major skills: batting, running and throwing are given first. The specialized skills, such as pitching and catching, follow. Team play, of course, is...
The objective of the writer of this book is to produce a manual that will provide player, manager, fan and father-coach with the kind of useful, pract...
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60,49 |
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Championship Baseball
ISBN: 9781438291710 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most elaborate baseball program of special instruction and physical conditioning takes place every spring in Dodgertown, U.S.A. A month's concentrated training in Dodgertown may be equal to a year's experience in minor league competition. At the camp the Class-D rookie can enjoy the same facilities and instruction as the Dodgers.The Sporting News once commented, "For all its numbers the camp is not an impersonal assembly line. All clubs have managers who quickly get to know their players. Two or three scouts check every workout and every camp. It is here that the fine combing of players...
The most elaborate baseball program of special instruction and physical conditioning takes place every spring in Dodgertown, U.S.A. A month's concentr...
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68,59 |
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Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession
ISBN: 9780802145321 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson rediscovered his childhood baseball card collection he figured that now was the time to cash in on his investments. But when he tried the card shops, they were nearly all gone, closed forever. eBay was no help, either. Baseball cards were selling for next to nothing. What had happened? In "Mint Condition," the first comprehensive history of this American icon, Jamieson finds the answers and much more. In the years after the Civil War, tobacco companies started slipping baseball cards into cigarette packs as collector s items, launching a massive...
When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson rediscovered his childhood baseball card collection he figured that now was the time to cash in on his inv...
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73,22 |
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