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So Many Summer Fields: Creating Friendships While Connecting to Baseball's Past
ISBN: 9781420888010 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once the days of glory have passed and the cheers have faded, what becomes of the man who was that youthful athlete? What became of the slim pitcher with the blazing fastball or the muscular, young batter who could drive that same pitch to the deepest part of the ballpark? Life goes on. Time waits for no man. SO MANY SUMMER FIELDS allows us to visit with a few of these former ballplayers or their surviving family members to see for ourselves. With each subject we find a gracious, noble man who is treasured by those who know him or loved and honored by those he left behind. These chapters are...
Once the days of glory have passed and the cheers have faded, what becomes of the man who was that youthful athlete? What became of the slim pitcher w...
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65,08 zł |
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Big League Trivia: Facts, Figures, Oddities, and Coincidences from our National Pastime
ISBN: 9781425912925 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,32 zł |
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Never These Men: One Man's Look at Baseball's Creatively Cultured Figures
ISBN: 9781425919238 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Certain individuals find a singular moment in life used to portray them and/or define them, if not basically brand them. In the world of sports, particularly baseball, this practice is raised to a level that is questionable at best, laughable in most instances and blatantly unfair as a rule. The sports media, along with a growing portion of the general public that refuses to form their own opinions, goes to extremes to constantly relive an individual's weak moments. Curiously, they often then close their ridiculing diatribes by mentioning that labeling a particular person is really unfair. In...
Certain individuals find a singular moment in life used to portray them and/or define them, if not basically brand them. In the world of sports, parti...
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91,13 zł |
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Fifty Years by the Bay: The San Francisco Giants 1958-2007
ISBN: 9781425965730 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Fifty Years by the Bay" is a literary documentary, covering all of the significant memories in San Francisco Giant history. This detailed account commences with the move West in 1958, through the 40 seasons at Candlestick Park, to a new beginning at Pacific Bell Park, into a new millennium, and onto the 2007 season. The work relives the key moments, teams, players and figures that made the franchise great. All of the memorable and celebrated moments are chronicled, including: . Through the years with the team, 1958 - 2007 . Top individual game feats . Significant seasonal performances ....
"Fifty Years by the Bay" is a literary documentary, covering all of the significant memories in San Francisco Giant history. This detailed account com...
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78,59 zł |
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One Day in Mudville: A Look at Some of the Most Unique Baseball Games of All Time
ISBN: 9781425978990 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,50 zł |
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Haney's Base Ball Book of Reference
ISBN: 9781557095954 / Angielski / Miękka / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Revised Rules of Baseball for 1867 together with full instructions for umpires and scorers, and also for pitching, batting, and fielding.
The Revised Rules of Baseball for 1867 together with full instructions for umpires and scorers, and also for pitching, batting, and fielding.
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85,68 zł |
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Whiz Kids and 1950 Pennant CL
ISBN: 9781566394666 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1950 Phillies unexpectedly captured the hearts and imaginations of Philadelphians. This work features this inspiring era in Phillies history, with the personal reflections of Robin Roberts, a Hall of Famer and arguably the best right-handed pitcher in Phillies history.
The 1950 Phillies unexpectedly captured the hearts and imaginations of Philadelphians. This work features this inspiring era in Phillies history, with...
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284,33 zł |
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The Yankees: An Illustrated History
ISBN: 9781566395533 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents the story of the New York Yankees, captured in more than 450 photographs and entertaining anecdotes about your favorite players. This work provides statistics and game highlights through the 1996 season and World Championship, hitting streaks, ERA's, box scores, trades, and American League championship and World Series rosters.
Presents the story of the New York Yankees, captured in more than 450 photographs and entertaining anecdotes about your favorite players. This work pr...
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218,33 zł |
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Land of the Giants: New York's Polo Grounds
ISBN: 9781566397964 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than thirty years after its demolition, the Polo Grounds -- like some other urban neighborhood parks such as Ebbets Field, Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, and Wrigley Field -- still holds a place in the hearts of baseball fans.
The Polo Grounds was the home of the New York Giants from John McGraw and Christy Mathewson to Carl Hubbell and Mel Ott to Willie Mays and Leo Durocher. It was also home to the Yankees when Babe Ruth's home run production was soaring (which led to "the House that Ruth built") and home to the Mets in their painful early years. From "Merkle's Boner", which cost the... More than thirty years after its demolition, the Polo Grounds -- like some other urban neighborhood parks such as Ebbets Field, Yankee Stadium, Fenway...
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238,63 zł |
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Heartbreakers: Baseball's Most Agonizing Defeats
ISBN: 9781566634120 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bobby Thomson s home run in the ninth to beat Brooklyn and give the Giants the 1951 National League pennant. Bill Mazeroski s ninth-inning homer for Pittsburgh to beat the Yankees in the 1960 World Series. The Mets amazing 1969 stretch drive. It s the winners we remember in baseball s most dramatic episodes. But baseball being a game of inches, it's often a fine line between victory and defeat. Losing is unexpected, unpredictable, frequently a consequence of fickle fate. The game is designed to break your heart, Bart Giamatti said. In Heartbreakers, veteran baseball writer John Kuenster...
Bobby Thomson s home run in the ninth to beat Brooklyn and give the Giants the 1951 National League pennant. Bill Mazeroski s ninth-inning homer for P...
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74,21 zł |
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The National Game: Baseball and American Culture
ISBN: 9781566634168 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a part of popular culture, sport has made a deep impression in American life. And nowhere is this clearer than in baseball, the game that seems to transcend generations and has made its way into our language and literature. In The National Game, John Rossi offers not only an expert overview of baseball over the past 175 years; he shows how the game has reflected and contributed to changes in American society over that time. The country grew up playing baseball, Mr. Rossi notes, but the professional game took hold in the cities of the Northeast just as the nation was transforming itself...
As a part of popular culture, sport has made a deep impression in American life. And nowhere is this clearer than in baseball, the game that seems to ...
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122,46 zł |
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A Whole Different Ball Game: The Inside Story of the Baseball Revolution
ISBN: 9781566635998 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marvin Miller, the first executive director to the Major League Baseball Players Association, recounts his experience in dealing with club owners and his success in winning a new role for the players. He helped virtually end the system that bound an athlete to one team forever, and thereby raised salaries enormously.
Marvin Miller, the first executive director to the Major League Baseball Players Association, recounts his experience in dealing with club owners and ...
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82,97 zł |
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Baseball's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of the National Pastime's Outrageous Offenders, Lucky Bounces, and Other Oddities
ISBN: 9781574882292 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edd Roush was once ejected from a game for falling asleep in the outfield. Dan Friend played left field while dressed in a bathrobe. Outfielder Len Koenecke was killed attempting history's first skyjacking. Pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich swapped not only their wives but also their children, station wagons, and pets.Baseball history is brimming with the weird, the bizarre, and the hard to believe. Baseball's Most Wanted(TM)chronicles 700 of the most outlandish players, managers, and owners throughout baseball history. Its seventy lists describe in humorous detail baseball's...
Edd Roush was once ejected from a game for falling asleep in the outfield. Dan Friend played left field while dressed in a bathrobe. Outfielder Len Ko...
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74,21 zł |
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The World Series' Most Wanted(tm): The Top 10 Book of Championship Teams, Broken Dreams, and October Oddities
ISBN: 9781574887280 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first World Series with The World Series Most Wanted(TM)M/i>. You'll find fascinating facts, oddball tales, and record-breaking achievements from that initial World Series between the Boston Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates all the way up to the 2003 World Series.The next in a long line of vaunted Most Wanted(TM) books from Potomac. THE The World Series Most Wanted(TM) tells the tale of October glory and heartbreak, of heroes and goats, and of the thin line between success and failure on baseball's grandest stage. With a hopping sixty...
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first World Series with The World Series Most Wanted(TM)M/i>. You'll find fascinating facts, oddball tales, ...
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55,80 zł |
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Paths to Glory: How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way
ISBN: 9781574888058 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An essential experience of being a baseball fan is the hopeful anticipation of seeing the hometown nine make a run at winning the World Series. In Paths to Glory, Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt review how teams build themselves up into winners. What makes a winning team like the 1900 Brooklyn Superbas or the 1917 White Sox or the 1997 Florida Marlins? And how are these teams different? What makes each championship team a unique product of its time? Armour and Levitt provide the historical context to show how the sport's business side has changed dramatically but its competitive...
An essential experience of being a baseball fan is the hopeful anticipation of seeing the hometown nine make a run at winning the World Series. In ...
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128,22 zł |
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Forging Genius: The Making of Casey Stengel
ISBN: 9781574888744 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Casey Stengel was named the manager of the Yankees in 1949, baseball wags were stunned. What had Stengel ever done? His work managing the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves had been long on personality and remarkably short on success. They thought the Yankees would never be able to compete with the Red Sox or Indians with that broken-down old man in charge. At the All-Star break, the Yankees looked like a banged-up bunch of also-rans, not like a team about to embark on five straight championships. Yet Stengel seemed confident of success. As Steven Goldman explains, people had forgotten...
When Casey Stengel was named the manager of the Yankees in 1949, baseball wags were stunned. What had Stengel ever done? His work managing the Brookly...
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69,43 zł |
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Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame Highlights: Memorable Moments in Team History as Heard on the Reds Radio Network
ISBN: 9781578603008 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As part of every Reds game broadcast on the Reds Radio Network, Greg Rhodes, noted baseball historian and director of the Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, presents a brief, colorful account of a memorable moment in the history of America's longest-running baseball team. These pieces have become a favorite feature for Reds fans, who love to celebrate the Big Red Machine's long and storied history and traditions. This collection brings together every single one of Rhodes' pieces in a single book for both Reds fans and baseball aficionados. Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame Highlights chronicles...
As part of every Reds game broadcast on the Reds Radio Network, Greg Rhodes, noted baseball historian and director of the Reds Hall of Fame and Museum...
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100,49 zł |
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Slide, Kelly, Slide: The Wild Life and Times of Mike King Kelly
ISBN: 9781578860036 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mike "King" Kelly was the hard-living, hard-drinking son of a Civil War veteran whose skills at baseball and infectious charm turned him into the game's first hero, and a symbol of what it meant to be a celebrity in America in the 1880s and 1890s. Slide, Kelly, Slide reacquaints baseball fans and scholars with this little-known pioneer of the game. Marty Appel, the author of several baseball books, conducted a thorough search of local archives to bring the story of King Kelly to light and place him in his proper historical context. An innovator on the field, who was not above taking advantage...
Mike "King" Kelly was the hard-living, hard-drinking son of a Civil War veteran whose skills at baseball and infectious charm turned him into the game...
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153,25 zł |
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The Kid: Ted Williams in San Diego
ISBN: 9781579400941 / Angielski / Miękka / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nowlin portrays the life of Hall of Fame baseball player Ted Williams before he made it to the majors. The book digs into Ted's high school baseball and the semi-professional games he played on the sandlots.
Nowlin portrays the life of Hall of Fame baseball player Ted Williams before he made it to the majors. The book digs into Ted's high school baseball a...
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59,67 zł |
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Yankees Century: Voices and Memories of the Pinstripe Past
ISBN: 9781581821987 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Love'em or hate'em, there's no denying that the New York Yankees have won twenty-six world championships. No other team comes close to matching that record. Some clubs are fortunate enough to assemble a team that can be called a dynasty, most never come close -- the Yankees have had five.Long before the 2000 World Series trophy was awarded, Alan Ross, a lifelong Yankees fan, began compiling a unique, concise treasury of quotations about the Yankees by the players, coaches, and sportswriters who called Yankee Stadium home. The result is an eloquent collection of pinstripe pride that should...
Love'em or hate'em, there's no denying that the New York Yankees have won twenty-six world championships. No other team comes close to matching that r...
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61,08 zł |
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