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Baseball's Greatest Quotations Rev. Ed.: An Illustrated Treasury of Baseball Quotations and Historical Lore
ISBN: 9780061260605 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Baseball has always had its share of colorful characters, and over the years they have expressed themselves in eminently quotable ways. In this treasury of more than 5,000 quotations, noted baseball writer and observer Paul Dickson has captured the flavor of the game, in the words of its most important participants and onlookers. They are all here--from Aaron (Estella, Hank's mother) to Zoldack ("Sad Sack" Sam), and everyone in between. From the players, sportswriters, and politicians, to noted personalities in other fields (a very diverse group), everyone has his or her say on our... Baseball has always had its share of colorful characters, and over the years they have expressed themselves in eminently quotable ways. In this tre... |
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95,71 zł |
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The Head Game: Baseball Seen from the Pitcher's Mound
ISBN: 9780156013048 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beyond the techniques and training, baseball begins with one player facing another and the psychological battle that they wage-the head game. In his critically acclaimed and bestselling new book, Roger Kahn presents the story of this supreme war of wits and the people who changed the course of baseball by playing, what he calls, chess at 90 miles an hour. In The Head Game, Kahn investigates not only grips, tactics, and physics, but also the intelligence, maturity, and competitive fire that has inspired some of the greatest hurlers in history.
By covering renowned pitchers and... Beyond the techniques and training, baseball begins with one player facing another and the psychological battle that they wage-the head game. In his c...
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90,73 zł |
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Game Time: A Baseball Companion
ISBN: 9780156013871 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roger Angell has been writing about baseball for more than forty years . . . and for my money he's the best there is at it," says novelist Richard Ford in his introduction to Game Time. Angell's famous explorations of the summer game are built on acute observation and joyful participation, conveyed in a prose style as admired and envied as Ted Williams's swing. Angell on Fenway Park in September, on Bob Gibson brooding in retirement, on Tom Seaver in mid-windup, on the abysmal early and recent Mets, on a scout at work in backcountry Kentucky, on Pete Rose and Willie Mays and Pedro Martinez,...
Roger Angell has been writing about baseball for more than forty years . . . and for my money he's the best there is at it," says novelist Richard For...
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119,65 zł |
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Extra Innings : WRITING ON BASEBALL
ISBN: 9780252069604 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where is the truth about baseball to be found? In nostalgic stories of the timeless bond woven between fathers and sons on the ball field. Or in stinging expos about manipulative owners, abusive coaches, and greedy players. Beginning with a mostly truthful essay about an exhausted university department chair who believes a visit to Cooperstown can save his soul and ending with the story of a delusional university professor who loses his mind because he takes baseball-and baseball writing-too seriously, Extra Innings tackles the question of how writing about baseball has shaped our...
Where is the truth about baseball to be found? In nostalgic stories of the timeless bond woven between fathers and sons on the ball field. Or in sting...
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76,24 zł |
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Swings and Misses : Moribund Labor Relations in Professional Baseball
ISBN: 9780275957971 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this follow-up to "Balls and Strikes: The Money Game in Professional Baseball" (Praeger, 1990), Jennings examines the state of professional baseball's labor relations during a nearly 25 year period, focusing on the background and the outcome of the 1994 baseball strike. Jennings concludes by suggesting ways to improve future labor relations in the sport. While the entire professional sports industry generates less revenue than sales of Fruit of the Loom underwear, a lengthy strike in professional baseball assures a national notoriety far beyond its economic impact. When the 1994... In this follow-up to "Balls and Strikes: The Money Game in Professional Baseball" (Praeger, 1990), Jennings examines the state of professional base... |
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569,37 zł |
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The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark
ISBN: 9780312291563 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maybe your dad took you to ball games at Fenway, Wrigley, or Ebbets. Maybe the two of you watched broadcasts from Yankee Stadium or Candlestick Park, or listened as Red Barber or Vin Scully called the plays on radio. Or maybe he coached your team or just played catch with you in the yard. Chances are good that if you're a baseball fan, your dad had something to do with it--and your thoughts of the sport evoke thoughts of him. If so, you will treasure The Final Season, a poignant true story about baseball and heroes, family and forgiveness, doubts and dreams, and a place that brings... Maybe your dad took you to ball games at Fenway, Wrigley, or Ebbets. Maybe the two of you watched broadcasts from Yankee Stadium or Candlestick Par... |
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95,71 zł |
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Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century
ISBN: 9780312302535 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who was better, Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays? At their peak, who was more valuable, Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams? If Lefty Grove, Sandy Koufax, and Roger Clemens had pitched at the same time against the same hitters, who would have won the most games? Clearing the Bases is the first book to tackle these and many other of baseball's most intriguing questions and offer hard, sensible answers---answers based on exhaustive research and... Who was better, Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays? At their peak, who was more valuable, Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams? If Lefty Grove, Sandy Koufax, and... |
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110,07 zł |
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Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville : A Lifelong Passion for Baseball
ISBN: 9780393325577 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a delight, an essential addition to Gould's remarkable legacy, and a fitting tribute to his love for the game.
This book is a delight, an essential addition to Gould's remarkable legacy, and a fitting tribute to his love for the game.
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119,46 zł |
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The View from the Dugout : The Journals of Red Rolfe
ISBN: 9780472031481 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During his time as manager of the Detroit Tigers from 1949 to 1951, Red Rolfe recorded daily accounts of each game, including observations about his team's performance, strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies of opposing players and managers. His journals offer an opportunity to find out what a manager is thinking when no one is around to hear.
During his time as manager of the Detroit Tigers from 1949 to 1951, Red Rolfe recorded daily accounts of each game, including observations about his t...
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134,70 zł |
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The View from the Dugout : The Journals of Red Rolfe
ISBN: 9780472115464 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Somewhere, if they haven't been destroyed, there are hundreds of pages of typewritten notes about American League players of that era, notes which I would love to get my hands on."
-Bill James, in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, on the journals of Red Rolfe "Red Rolfe's journal for his years as manager of the Detroit Tigers is the kind of precious source researchers yearn for. In combination with William M. Anderson's well-done text, The View from the Dugout will be of great interest to general readers and of immense value to students of baseball... "Somewhere, if they haven't been destroyed, there are hundreds of pages of typewritten notes about American League players of that era, notes which I ...
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504,48 zł |
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2001 : A Baseball Odyssey
ISBN: 9780595211692 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,94 zł |
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Impossible Dreams: A Red Sox Collection
ISBN: 9780618303984 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the series editor of The Best American Sports Writing and coauthor of Red Sox Century comes every Boston fan's dream--100 years' worth of the best writing on the Red Sox.
From the series editor of The Best American Sports Writing and coauthor of Red Sox Century comes every Boston fan's dream--100 years' worth of the bes...
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119,65 zł |
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Top of the Heap: A Yankees Collection
ISBN: 9780618303991 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To mark the 100th anniversary of the most celebrated team in history, this collection features a century's worth of the best writing on the New York Yankees.
To mark the 100th anniversary of the most celebrated team in history, this collection features a century's worth of the best writing on the New York Y...
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105,28 zł |
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My Turn at Bat : The Story of My Life
ISBN: 9780671634230 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now available for the first time in years, My Turn at Bat is Ted Williams' own story of his spectacular life and baseball career.
An acclaimed best-seller, My Turn at Bat now features new photographs and, for the first time, Ted's reflections on his managing career and the state of baseball as it is played in the 1980s. It's all here in this brilliant, honest and sometimes angry autobiography -- Williams' childhood days in San Diego, his military service, his unforgettable major league baseball debut and ensuing Hall of Fame career that included two Triple Crowns, two Most... Now available for the first time in years, My Turn at Bat is Ted Williams' own story of his spectacular life and baseball career.
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105,33 zł |
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Bunts
ISBN: 9780684853741 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this New York Times bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author George F. Will returns to baseball with more than seventy finely honed pieces about the sometimes recondite, sometimes frustrating, yet always passionately felt national pastime. Here are Will's eulogy for the late Curt Flood ("Dred Scott in Spikes"), Will on Ted Williams ("When Ted Williams retired in 1960, a sportswriter said that Boston knew how Britain felt when it lost India. Indeed, Britain felt diminished, but also a bit relieved"), and Will on his own baseball career ("I was a very late draft choice of the...
In this New York Times bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author George F. Will returns to baseball with more than seventy finely honed pieces ...
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105,28 zł |
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Why Is the Foul Pole Fair?: Answers to 101 of the Most Perplexing Baseball Questions
ISBN: 9780743257916 / Angielski / Miękka / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chicken soup for the baseball lover's soul -- the inimitable Vince Staten takes you out to the ol' ballgame and answers all the baseball questions your dad hoped you wouldn't ask.
Chicken soup for the baseball lover's soul -- the inimitable Vince Staten takes you out to the ol' ballgame and answers all the baseball questions you...
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95,71 zł |
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Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
ISBN: 9780743267533 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Faithful isn't just about the Red Sox. It's also about family, friendship, and what it truly means to be a baseball fan and to be--well, faithful, come hell or high water" (The Boston Globe). "Of all the books that will examine the Boston Red Sox's stunning come-from-behind 2004 ALCS win over the Yankees and subsequent World Series victory, none will have this book's warmth, personality, or depth" (Publishers Weekly). Early in 2004, two writers and Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, decided to chronicle the upcoming season, one of the most...
"Faithful isn't just about the Red Sox. It's also about family, friendship, and what it truly means to be a baseball fan and to be--well, faith...
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95,76 zł |
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My Team: Choosing My Dream Team from My Forty Years in Baseball
ISBN: 9780743275149 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mantle or Mays? A-Rod or Jeter? Clemens, Maddux, and Randy Johnson--or Pedro, Palmer, and Carlton? These are questions baseball fans can spend endless hours debating, and My Team will provide more fuel for the fire as former All-Star pitcher and National League Manager of the Year Larry Dierker shares his opinions on who would make the cut for the ultimate Dream Team. Choosing from the greatest players he has seen in his four decades in the major leagues, Dierker selects twenty-five players for My Team and another twenty-five for the opposition, the Underdogs. All are players that...
Mantle or Mays? A-Rod or Jeter? Clemens, Maddux, and Randy Johnson--or Pedro, Palmer, and Carlton? These are questions baseball fans can spend endless...
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90,92 zł |
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Over the Shoulder and Plant on One : An Irishman's Tribute to Willie Mays
ISBN: 9780759651692 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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113,67 zł |
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Jackie Robinson : Race, Sports and the American Dream
ISBN: 9780765603173 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With these words, President Clinton contributed to Long Island University's three-day celebration of that momentous event in American history when Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball. This new book includes presentations from that celebration, especially chosen for their fresh perspectives and illuminating insights.
A heady mix of journalism, scholarship, and memory offers a presentation that far transcends the retelling of just another sports story. Readers get a true sense of the social conditions prior to Robinson's arrival in the major leagues and... With these words, President Clinton contributed to Long Island University's three-day celebration of that momentous event in American history when Rob...
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669,12 zł |