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Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero
ISBN: 9781566638708 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today's baseball catcher stolidly goes about his duty without attracting much attention. But it wasn't always that way, as Peter Morris shows in this lively and original study. In baseball's early days, catchers stood a safe distance back of the batter without protective gear. Then the introduction of the curveball in the 1870s led them to move up directly behind home plate, even though they still wore no gloves or other protection. Extraordinary courage became the catcher's most notable requirement, but the new positioning also demanded that the catcher have lightning-fast reflexes, great...
Today's baseball catcher stolidly goes about his duty without attracting much attention. But it wasn't always that way, as Peter Morris shows in this ...
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The Amazing Tale of Mr. Herbert and His Fabulous Alpine Cowboys Baseball Club: An Illustrated History of the Best Little Semipro Baseball Team in Texa
ISBN: 9780292723344 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Back in the 1940s and 1950s, almost every small town in America had a baseball team. Most players were simply local heroes with a local following, but a few teams achieved fame far beyond their region. The Alpine Cowboys--despite being based in Texas's remote, sparsely populated Big Bend country--became a star in the firmament of semi-pro baseball. Lavishly underwritten by a wealthy rancher with a passion not only for baseball but even more for helping young men get a good start in life, the Cowboys played on a "field of dreams" whose facilities rivaled those of professional ballparks.... Back in the 1940s and 1950s, almost every small town in America had a baseball team. Most players were simply local heroes with a local following, ... |
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Latino Baseball Legends: An Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780313378676 / Angielski / Twarda / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Latino Baseball Legends: An Encyclopedia" offers the most comprehensive, go-to source for everything relating to Latin American baseball stars, tracing the history of Latinos in baseball through the stories of those who have excelled at the game. Colorfully written 3,000-word entries explore the lives and careers of 25 dominant players, from legends such as Roberto Clemente to deserving, but comparatively unknown superstars such as Martin Dihigo. Shorter listings note another 75 Latinos who have figured prominently in the sport. The entries document the importance of baseball in Latin... "Latino Baseball Legends: An Encyclopedia" offers the most comprehensive, go-to source for everything relating to Latin American baseball stars, tr... |
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409,92 |
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The Ultimate Philadelphia Athletics Reference Book 1901-1954
ISBN: 9781450025713 / Angielski / Miękka / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,51 |
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Boston Red Sox IQ: The Ultimate Test of True Fandom
ISBN: 9781449551360 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Think you know Red Sox trivia? Think again. Test yourself to find out how smart you really are about the Boston Red Sox. Are you a rookie? Are you a proven, hardcore veteran? Or will you be clearing waivers for your pending release halfway through the book? We'll let you know. Five chapters and more than 250 questions in ten categories: The Numbers Game, The Rookies, The Veterans, The Legends, The Hitters, The Pitchers, The Managers, Coaches, Announcers, and Trades, The Fabulous Feats, The Teams, and Miscellaneous. That's what you're up against, and we're keeping score. Test your skills....
Think you know Red Sox trivia? Think again. Test yourself to find out how smart you really are about the Boston Red Sox. Are you a rookie? Are you a p...
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Satch, Dizzy, & Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson
ISBN: 9781416547990 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A new classic baseball book" (Library Journal): the story of how Satchel Paige, Dizzy Dean, and Bob Feller introduced integrated baseball to America. Before Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball in 1947, black and white ballplayers had been playing against one another for decades--even, on rare occasions, playing with each other. Interracial contests took place during the off-season, when major leaguers and Negro Leaguers alike fattened their wallets by playing exhibitions in cities and towns across America. These barnstorming tours reached new heights, however, when...
"A new classic baseball book" (Library Journal): the story of how Satchel Paige, Dizzy Dean, and Bob Feller introduced integrated baseball to A...
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87,38 |
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The Ultimate Philadelphia Athletics Reference Book 1901-1954
ISBN: 9781450025720 / Angielski / Twarda / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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158,27 |
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Major League Careers Cut Short: Leading Players Gone by 30
ISBN: 9780786447435 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1876, approximately 16,000 young men have enjoyed at least a taste of glory by appearing in big league games, many of them only a few times. By the end of the 2009 season, out of the millions who have aspired, fewer than three thousand individuals will have had the good fortune to be a major league regular for five or more seasons. Most of these reached the big leagues in their late teens or early twenties, peaked in their late twenties, and played into their mid or late thirties. The median age at which they hung up their spikes was 35. However, there have been 197 young men who played...
Since 1876, approximately 16,000 young men have enjoyed at least a taste of glory by appearing in big league games, many of them only a few times. By ...
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New York Baseball in 1951: The Dodgers, the Giants, the Yankees and the Telescope
ISBN: 9780786448302 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Brooklyn Dodgers were leading the pennant race by 13 games in August when the New York Giants installed a telescope in their clubhouse and aimed it at the opposing catcher, enabling a Giants coach to steal the signs and signal them to the Giants bullpen, which would then flash them to the Giants batter--Provided by publisher.
The Brooklyn Dodgers were leading the pennant race by 13 games in August when the New York Giants installed a telescope in their clubhouse and aimed i...
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Major League Baseball Players of 1884: A Biographical Dictionary
ISBN: 9780786459056 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work presents biographical and career sketches of each of the 637 participants in the 1884 Major League Baseball season. It also includes more than 100 photographs and 110 charts of the players' performances on National Association, National League, American Association, Union Association, Players League and American League clubs, and one age chart and one mortality chart.
This work presents biographical and career sketches of each of the 637 participants in the 1884 Major League Baseball season. It also includes more th...
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218,89 |
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Fred Hutchinson and the 1964 Cincinnati Reds
ISBN: 9780786459421 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This biography of Fred Hutchinson recounts the life of the former manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Facing a diagnosis of terminal lung cancer in December 1863, Hutchinson and his team pressed on with their season. A late streak of wins gave them a chance to take the pennant.
This biography of Fred Hutchinson recounts the life of the former manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Facing a diagnosis of terminal lung cancer in Decemb...
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The Great Red Sox Spring Training Tour of 1911: Sixty-Three Games, Coast to Coast
ISBN: 9780786461240 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1911, the Red Sox embarked on the most ambitious spring training trip ever taken before or since. In the days when travel was by train, and even the automobile was relatively new, the Red Sox traveled from Boston to California and back again, playing 63 spring training games up and down the West Coast, and then as they traveled east in an almost bewildering number of locations--many of which have never seen a major-league team in the 100 years since the Red Sox visited.
In 1911, the Red Sox embarked on the most ambitious spring training trip ever taken before or since. In the days when travel was by train, and even th...
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The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris
ISBN: 9781594485053 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A fantastic social history" from the author of Salt and Cod (USA Today)
In the Dominican Republic town of San Pedro de Macoris, baseball is often seen as the only way to a better life. For those who make it, the million-dollar paychecks from Major League Baseball mean that not only they, but their entire families as well, have been saved from grinding poverty. The successful few set an example that dazzles the neighbors they left behind. But for the majority, this dream is illusory. In The Eastern Stars, New York Times bestselling author Mark... "A fantastic social history" from the author of Salt and Cod (USA Today)
In the Dominican Republic town of San Pedro... |
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91,22 |
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Wizardry: Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed
ISBN: 9780195397765 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much of the credit for helping the Red Sox win the World Series went to a more scientific approach to baseball statistics, dubbed "sabermetrics" by its greatest proponent, Bill James. But one aspect of the game has defied quantification: the number of runs individual fielders save. Traditional fielding statistics count errors and plays made, but not hits fielders 'should' have reached. Major League teams have recently addressed this gap using proprietary records of the location of every batted ball, but the underlying data has been kept secret and will never exist for the first century of...
Much of the credit for helping the Red Sox win the World Series went to a more scientific approach to baseball statistics, dubbed "sabermetrics" by it...
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Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity: The National Pastime and American Identity During the War on Terror
ISBN: 9780817317102 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Baseball has long been considered America s national pastime, touted variously as a healthy diversion, a symbol of national unity, and a model of democratic inclusion. But, according to Michael Butterworth, such favorable rhetoric belies baseball s complicity in the rhetorical construction of a world defined by good and evil.
"Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity" is an investigation into the culture and mythology of baseball, a study of its limits and failures, and an invitation to remake the game in a more democratic way. It pays special attention to baseball s role in the reconstruction of... Baseball has long been considered America s national pastime, touted variously as a healthy diversion, a symbol of national unity, and a model of demo...
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Pumpsie & Progress: The Red Sox, Race, and Redemption
ISBN: 9781579401757 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Built around a biographical essay on the life and career of Pumpsie Green, the first African American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last major-league baseball team to integrate, Pumpsie & Progress offers essays from a half-dozen authors on matters ranging from Jackie Robinson to the Red Sox of today. Contributing authors include George Mitrovich, David Muchnick and Frances Muchnick Goldstein, David Nevard and David Marasco, Bill Nowlin, Glenn Stout, and Chris Wertz.
Built around a biographical essay on the life and career of Pumpsie Green, the first African American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last major-l...
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Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story
ISBN: 9781597976619 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1950, Vin Scully broadcast his first major league baseball game for the then-Brooklyn Dodgers. Nearly sixty years later he still invites a listener to "pull up a chair," completing a record fifty-ninth consecutive year of play-by-play. Recruited and mentored by the legendary Red Barber, the New York-born Scully moved with the Dodgers to Los Angeles in early 1958. His instantly recognizable voice has described players from Duke Snider to Orel Hershiser to Manny Ramirez, with hundreds in between.At one time or another, Scully has aired NBC Television's Game of the Week, twelve All-Star...
In 1950, Vin Scully broadcast his first major league baseball game for the then-Brooklyn Dodgers. Nearly sixty years later he still invites a listener...
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Matzoh Balls and Baseballs
ISBN: 9780982285343 / Angielski / Miękka / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As "America's favorite pastime," perhaps no sport has chronicled the rise of an immigrant nation like baseball. From German-American parents came Babe Ruth, Italian-Americans proudly point to Joe DiMaggio, and Jackie Robinson shattered the color barrier for African Americans that had kept them out of the game since the 1880s. Certainly, almost every Jewish baseball fan knows the names of Hall of Famers Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax, but Jews have played professional baseball in the United States since the earliest days of the sport. Indeed, over 160 Jews are known to have played...
As "America's favorite pastime," perhaps no sport has chronicled the rise of an immigrant nation like baseball. From German-American parents came Babe...
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Las Estrellas Orientales: Como El Beisbol Cambio El Pueblo Dominicano de San Pedro Demacoris
ISBN: 9781594485145 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Este es un clasico de Kurlansky: erudito, impredecible, compasivo, y se lee compulsivamente. . . . Una reveladora meditacion sobre el deporte, la nacion, y tambien sobre el mundo."
-Junot Diaz, autor de La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao " Que tienen en comun Rico Carty, Alfredo Griffin, Pedro Guerrero, George Bell, Julio Franco, Juan Samuel, Sammy Sosa, Alfonso Soriano, y Robinson Cano? Que todos proceden de San Pedro de Macoris, la pequena ciudad azucarera en la Republica Dominicana. Una coincidencia? Dificilmente." -National Public Radio Al final de la... "Este es un clasico de Kurlansky: erudito, impredecible, compasivo, y se lee compulsivamente. . . . Una reveladora meditacion sobre el deporte, la nac...
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91,22 |
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St. Louis Cardinals IQ: The Ultimate Test of True Fandom
ISBN: 9780982675939 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pujols, Carpenter, Wainwright ... they're all here And so are the greatest legends from Cardinals history ... Musial, Dean, Flood, Tudor, Slaughter, McGee, Smith, Brock, Gibson, and many more. It's your Cardinals IQ, the ultimate trivia test that will illuminate once and for all the true level of your fandom "The St. Louis Cardinals are one of the premiere franchises in all of professional sports. To create a book of trivia and history that approaches the same standard of excellence that Cardinals' fans have come to expect from their team is no small feat, but that's precisely what the...
Pujols, Carpenter, Wainwright ... they're all here And so are the greatest legends from Cardinals history ... Musial, Dean, Flood, Tudor, Slaughter, ...
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