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The Original Mr. Met Remembers: When the Miracle Began
ISBN: 9780595462605 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1964, Dan Reilly landed the dream job of every New York Mets fan. Pulled from his humble position in Shea Stadium's ticket office to become the Mets' mascot-and Major League Baseball's first official mascot-Reilly donned the baseball-shaped, papier-mache head of Mr. Met and began a career rubbing elbows with some of the game's most illustrious players. "The Original Mr. Met Remembers" is packed with never-before-told anecdotes, detailed team history, and intimate glimpses of players on and off the field. With a cast of characters that include the inimitable Casey Stengel, the bumbling Marv...
In 1964, Dan Reilly landed the dream job of every New York Mets fan. Pulled from his humble position in Shea Stadium's ticket office to become the Met...
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53,17 |
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The Original Mr. Met Remembers: When the Miracle Began
ISBN: 9780595700820 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1964, Dan Reilly landed the dream job of every New York Mets fan. Pulled from his humble position in Shea Stadium's ticket office to become the Mets' mascot-and Major League Baseball's first official mascot-Reilly donned the baseball-shaped, papier-mache head of Mr. Met and began a career rubbing elbows with some of the game's most illustrious players. "The Original Mr. Met Remembers" is packed with never-before-told anecdotes, detailed team history, and intimate glimpses of players on and off the field. With a cast of characters that include the inimitable Casey Stengel, the bumbling Marv...
In 1964, Dan Reilly landed the dream job of every New York Mets fan. Pulled from his humble position in Shea Stadium's ticket office to become the Met...
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91,29 |
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Asian Pacific Americans and Baseball: A History
ISBN: 9780786432912 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the rise of stars such as Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki, and now Daisuke Matsuzaka, fans today can easily name players from the island country of Japan. Less widely known is that baseball has long been played on other Pacific islands, in pre-statehood Hawaii, for instance, and in Guam, Samoa and the Philippines. For the multiethnic peoples of these U.S. possessions, the learning of baseball was actively encouraged, some would argue as a means to an unabashedly colonialist end.As early as the deadball era, Pacific Islanders competed against each other and against mainlanders on the diamond,...
With the rise of stars such as Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki, and now Daisuke Matsuzaka, fans today can easily name players from the island country of Jap...
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166,12 |
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The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book: Comprehensive Hitting, Fielding and Pitching Statistics
ISBN: 9780786437474 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For a dozen years during the 1940s and 1950s more than 600 women played professional baseball in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Some of these women compiled some eye-popping statistics unequaled by their male counterparts: Sophie Kurys swiped 200 bases in one season; Joanne Winter hurled 63 consecutive scoreless innings; pitcher Jean Faut sported one season a.910 winning percentage. Few know that Joanne Weaver was the last professional baseball player to hit .400 in a season: .429 in 1954.This reference book contains the hitting, fielding and pitching records of all...
For a dozen years during the 1940s and 1950s more than 600 women played professional baseball in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. ...
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272,84 |
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Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom: Andrés Reiner and Scouting on the New Frontier
ISBN: 9780803215719 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
Though Venezuela is sandwiched between two soccer-mad countries--Brazil and Colombia--baseball is its national pastime and passion. Yet until the late 1980s few professional teams actively scouted and developed players there. This book is about the man who changed all that and brought Venezuela into Major League Baseball in a major way. While other teams were looking to the Dominican Republic for new talent, Houston Astros' scout AndrEs Reiner saw an untapped niche in Venezuela. Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom recounts how, over the next fifteen years, Reiner signed...
Though Venezuela is sandwiched between two soccer-mad countries--Brazil and Colombia--baseball is its national pastime and passion. Yet unt... |
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76,04 |
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Baseball in America & America in Baseball
ISBN: 9781603440233 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting views from a variety of sport and history experts, Baseball in America and America in Baseball captures the breadth and unsuspected variety of our national fascination and identification with America's Game.
Chapters cover such well-known figures as Ty Cobb and lesser-known topics like the "invisible" baseball played by Japanese Americans during the 1930s and 1940s. A study of baseball in rural California from the Gold Rush to the turn of the twentieth century provides an interesting glimpse at how the game evolved from its earliest beginnings to something most modern... Presenting views from a variety of sport and history experts, Baseball in America and America in Baseball captures the breadth and unsuspected variety...
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121,89 |
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Home Run: The Definitive History of Baseball's Ultimate Weapon
ISBN: 9781597970365 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The home run is indeed baseball's ultimate weapon. It can change a game in a heartbeat, making a tight game into a blowout or a seemingly easy win into a nail-biter. Homers are majestic, powerful, and awe inspiring. And sluggers are the sport's biggest stars, from the days of Babe Ruth through Barry Bonds.David Vincent, called "The Sultan of Swat Stats" by ESPN, delves into the long history of the home run with great detail and color. He starts when the rules of the game were highly unstable and sometimes the definition of a home run could change in a park from year to year; follows through...
The home run is indeed baseball's ultimate weapon. It can change a game in a heartbeat, making a tight game into a blowout or a seemingly easy win int...
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95,10 |
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Baseball in Crisis: Spiraling Costs, Bad Behavior, Uncertain Future
ISBN: 9780786433315 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why has the national pastime fallen behind other so-called major sports? Is the trend reversible? This book addresses these important questions by identifying the most unique, persistent and substantial issues that have impaired and most likely restricted Major League Baseballs development and potential as a professional sport.
Why has the national pastime fallen behind other so-called major sports? Is the trend reversible? This book addresses these important questions by ide...
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219,48 |
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Heavenly Twins of Boston Baseball: A Dual Biography of Hugh Duffy and Tommy McCarthy
ISBN: 9780786434558 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Baseball was a rough sport in the nineteenth century and no one played the game with more vigor (and often violence) than Hall of Famers Hugh Duffy and Tommy McCarthy, dubbed "The Heavenly Twins." This book details their professional history playing for Boston Beaneaters teams and personal experiences with baseball, faith, and legendary Boston baseball scribe Tim Murnane. The book also traces their minor league careers and post-professional baseball activities.
Baseball was a rough sport in the nineteenth century and no one played the game with more vigor (and often violence) than Hall of Famers Hugh Duffy an...
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166,12 |
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All-Stars for All Time: A Sabermetric Ranking of the Major League Best, 1876-2007
ISBN: 9780786435005 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work uses practical measures to scientifically rank major league players, position by position, according to their offensive and defensive skills. The author has adjusted individual statistics for the era in which the player was active and for home park factor in order to put all eligible players on a level playing field. For each position, the author has identified the top contenders for best offensive, defensive and all-around player, and provides a brief history of each of the candidates.
This work uses practical measures to scientifically rank major league players, position by position, according to their offensive and defensive skills...
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219,48 |
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Miracle in Chavez Ravine: The Los Angeles Dodgers in 1988
ISBN: 9780786435012 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After winning the 1981 World Series, raising the expectations of management and fans, the Los Angeles Dodgers followed up with six years of disappointing finishes. By the time they ended the 1987 season 17 games behind the hated Giants, general manager Fred Claire had seen enough. Over the winter Claire radically restructured the team, bringing in fiery players like outfielder Kirk Gibson, closer Jay Howell and shortstop Alfredo Griffin to spark the team out of complacency. Led by Gibson and pitcher Orel Hershiser, the upstart Dodgers outlasted Houston in a race for the NL West title. They...
After winning the 1981 World Series, raising the expectations of management and fans, the Los Angeles Dodgers followed up with six years of disappoint...
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166,12 |
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'30: Major League Baseball's Year of the Batter
ISBN: 9780786436668 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1930 season was unlike any other in baseball history. Big league rosters included more Hall of Famers than at any time before or since. For the first time, this remarkable season is covered in full, from spring training to the final out of the World Series.
The 1930 season was unlike any other in baseball history. Big league rosters included more Hall of Famers than at any time before or since. For the fi...
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166,12 |
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The California Winter League: America's First Integrated Professional Baseball League
ISBN: 9780786438815 / Angielski / Miękka / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first complete history of the California Winter League from its murky beginnings around 1912 to its golden years in the twenties and thirties to its demise in the mid-1940s. It provides an overview of the local amateur ball clubs evolution into the semi-professional league, detailed summaries for the official seasons of 1920 through 1947, and accounts of the exciting pennant races between the Negro League teams and the white professional teams.
This is the first complete history of the California Winter League from its murky beginnings around 1912 to its golden years in the twenties and thirt...
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166,12 |
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The Santurce Crabbers: Sixty Seasons of Puerto Rican Winter League Baseball
ISBN: 9780786438952 / Angielski / Miękka / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Santurce Crabbers are one of the most storied franchises in the Caribbean. Their first owner, Pedrn Zorrilla, was a visionary. He signed up such eventual Hall of Famers as Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Ray Dandridge and Leon Day during the teams first decade. Santurce was the most successful winter league team of the 1950s.
The Santurce Crabbers are one of the most storied franchises in the Caribbean. Their first owner, Pedrn Zorrilla, was a visionary. He signed up such e...
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166,12 |
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The Negro Leagues in New Jersey: A History
ISBN: 9780786439003 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book covers New Jerseys extensive role in segregated baseball, from the White Stockings historic refusal to play the integrated Newark Little Giants in 1887, to the Gentlemens Agreement (decided in the Garden State), through the demise of the Negro Leagues. Throughout, it focuses on the people (players and others), with extensive coverage of New Jerseys ball parks and teams.
This book covers New Jerseys extensive role in segregated baseball, from the White Stockings historic refusal to play the integrated Newark Little Gia...
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166,12 |
![Reynolds, Raschi and Lopat: New York's Big Three and the Great Yankee Dynasty of 1949-1953 [Large Print] Gittleman, Sol 9780786439362 McFarland & Company](/9780786439362_reynolds_raschi_and_lopat_new_yorks_big_three_and_the_great_yankee_dynasty_of_1949_1953_large_print.jpg "Reynolds, Raschi and Lopat: New York's Big Three and the Great Yankee Dynasty of 1949-1953 [Large Print]") |
Reynolds, Raschi and Lopat: New York's Big Three and the Great Yankee Dynasty of 1949-1953 [Large Print]
ISBN: 9780786439362 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the 1949-1953 New York Yankees won an astounding five consecutive World Series, they did it without the offensive firepower that characterized so many of their championship teams before and after. The franchise came to rely instead on three aging pitchers, an unlikely trio that won 255 games during the five-year championship run. This book focuses on the close relationship and quiet achievement of Allie Reynolds, Vic Raschi and Eddie Lopat. Soon after Robinson and the cross-town Dodgers had publicly confronted the issues of race and ethnicity, these men from very different...
When the 1949-1953 New York Yankees won an astounding five consecutive World Series, they did it without the offensive firepower that characterized so...
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219,48 |
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Baseball Ratings: The All-Time Best Players at Each Position, 1876 to the Present, 3D Ed.
ISBN: 9780786434145 / Angielski / Miękka / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this third edition of "Baseball Ratings", author Charles Faber combines the second edition ('great fodder for arguments' - "Booklist/RBB") with his book on 19th-century greats, "Baseball Pioneers" ('very impressive' - "Reference and User Services Quarterly"; 'a notable and...worthwhile addition' - "ARBA"), updating the ratings and expanding the commentary in each. The result, "Baseball Ratings: The All-Time Best Players at Each Position, 1876 to the Present", is that rarest of rankings books - a time-tested, comprehensive reference work that invites reading.Batters, fielders and pitchers...
In this third edition of "Baseball Ratings", author Charles Faber combines the second edition ('great fodder for arguments' - "Booklist/RBB") with his...
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246,42 |
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Mack, McGraw and the 1913 Baseball Season
ISBN: 9780786436750 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author provides a carefully researched account of the season-long dominance of the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Athletics with the narrative building toward a dramatic collision in the Fall Classic.
The author provides a carefully researched account of the season-long dominance of the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Athletics with the narrati...
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166,12 |
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Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution
ISBN: 9780812220278 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the later movement toward integration. Baseball functioned as a critical component in the separate economy catering to black consumers in the urban centers of the North and South. While most black businesses struggled to survive from year to year, professional baseball teams and leagues operated for decades, representing a major achievement... The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial ... |
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156,09 |
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The Rise and Fall of Dodgertown: 60 Years of Baseball in Vero Beach
ISBN: 9780813031941 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ironically, the last year of Dodgertown will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the team's relationship with Vero Beach, a sleepy beach town a couple of hours north of Miami. Since 1948, when Branch Rickey first brought his team to a former naval air station for training (the players slept in barracks), the Dodgers have practiced fundamentals in a bucolic setting. Featuring roofless dugouts, a grassy berm surrounding the outfield, and intimate seating for 6,400, Holman Stadium has been home to the Dodgers longer than even famed Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.Granted special access to the team's...
Ironically, the last year of Dodgertown will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the team's relationship with Vero Beach, a sleepy beach town a couple of...
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95,10 |
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