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Baseball and Richmond: A History of the Professional Game, 1884-2000
ISBN: 9780786414895 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early baseball in Richmond, Virginia, was very much about business. The game was a means of promoting Richmond and its various industries and attractions, but it was plagued by instability as a result of competing interests fighting for control of its fortunes in the city and frequent changes in ownership also due to competing interests vying to make a profit in any way they could on the game. As time passed, baseball became more established and eventually found its place in the city. Richmond's affiliation with baseball, from the years 1884 to 2000, is chronicled in this work. It covers the...
Early baseball in Richmond, Virginia, was very much about business. The game was a means of promoting Richmond and its various industries and attracti...
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Ebbets to Veeck to Busch: Eight Owners Who Shaped Baseball
ISBN: 9780786415625 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text concerns the owners of baseball teams - the men and women who invested their time and their fortunes in the sport. The book focuses on eight owners and examines their lasting influence on the game.
This text concerns the owners of baseball teams - the men and women who invested their time and their fortunes in the sport. The book focuses on eight...
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Armando Marsans: A Cuban Pioneer in the Major Leagues
ISBN: 9780786415847 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Armando Marsans joined the Cincinnati Reds in 1911, the first Cuban to play Major League baseball. Part biography, part sociological study, this is an introduction to a physically gifted player that also examines a young, powerful America struggling to find its own identity in a new ethnic makeup.
Armando Marsans joined the Cincinnati Reds in 1911, the first Cuban to play Major League baseball. Part biography, part sociological study, this is an...
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139,34 |
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Stand and Deliver: A History of Pinch-Hitting
ISBN: 9780786415885 / Angielski / Miękka / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Princeton Charlie Reilly, the first pinch-hitter ever, to today's pinnacle in pinch-hitting, Lenny Harris, this book enumerates the exploits and records of the best in this craft through the 2001 season. Among the statistics are many anecdotes of their performances. The decade-by-decade study of pinch-hitting begins in 1892 when it first became permissible to substitute players in major league baseball for reasons other than injury. In addition to focusing on the substitute batters who were the leaders in each era, there are chapters devoted to the characteristics of an effective...
From Princeton Charlie Reilly, the first pinch-hitter ever, to today's pinnacle in pinch-hitting, Lenny Harris, this book enumerates the exploits and ...
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September Streak: The 1935 Chicago Cubs Chase the Pennant
ISBN: 9780786415915 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chronicles the Chicago Cubs' 1935 season and the many on- and off-field events that impacted the game for years to come. Fans who had once turned to baseball for heroes and men of character now laughed at players' uncouth antics and fun-loving carousing reported in the morning newspapers.
Chronicles the Chicago Cubs' 1935 season and the many on- and off-field events that impacted the game for years to come. Fans who had once turned to b...
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Major League Baseball in the 1970s: A Modern Game Emerges
ISBN: 9780786415922 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the most powerful trends in baseball today have their roots in the 1970s. Baseball entered that decade seriously behind the times in racial relations, attitudes toward conformity versus individuality, and the manager-player relationship. In a sense, much of the wrenching change that American society as a whole experienced in the 1960s was played out in baseball in the following decade. Additionally, the game itself was rapidly evolving, with the inauguration of the designated hitter rule in the American League, the evolution of the closer, the development of the five-man starting...
Many of the most powerful trends in baseball today have their roots in the 1970s. Baseball entered that decade seriously behind the times in racial re...
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The Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History, 1954-1967
ISBN: 9780786416103 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Athletics spent thirteen seasons in Kansas City before moving to Oakland - a colorful history despite one of the worst records in baseball history. Even so, many of the players who were part of the world championship teams in Oakland in the 1970s began their careers in Kansas City. This work presents the relatively short history of the Kansas City franchise from 1954, when Arnold Johnson purchased the Philadelphia Athletics and moved the team to Kansas City because of the financial benefits the city provided, to 1967, when Charles Finley moved to team to Oakland (after unsuccessful...
The Athletics spent thirteen seasons in Kansas City before moving to Oakland - a colorful history despite one of the worst records in baseball history...
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The 1917 White Sox: Their World Championship Season
ISBN: 9780786416226 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chronicling the 1917 Chicago White Sox, this work looks at the team that took Charles Comiskey - one of the founding fathers of the American league - back to the World Series and restored the White Sox to the status of one of the game's elite.
Chronicling the 1917 Chicago White Sox, this work looks at the team that took Charles Comiskey - one of the founding fathers of the American league - ...
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The Giants and the Dodgers: Four Cities, Two Teams, One Rivalry
ISBN: 9780786416400 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Giants-Dodgers rivalry began in the 1840s, was considered to be the best in baseball by 1890, and continues to be the game's oldest and most storied rivalry today. This account covers both teams and their players, including all the greats.
The Giants-Dodgers rivalry began in the 1840s, was considered to be the best in baseball by 1890, and continues to be the game's oldest and most stori...
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The Great Shutout Pitchers: Twenty Profiles of a Vanishing Breed
ISBN: 9780786416769 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout baseball's history, only 20 pitchers have thrown 50 or more complete game shutouts. It is likely, the author contends, this list of baseball elite has likely seen its last inductee, as the emergence of relief pitchers and the increasing brevity of playing careers have changed the game.
Throughout baseball's history, only 20 pitchers have thrown 50 or more complete game shutouts. It is likely, the author contends, this list of basebal...
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A Tale of Four Cities: Nineteenth Century Baseball's Most Exciting Season, 1889, in Contemporary Accounts
ISBN: 9780786416783 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1889 baseball season is unique in the history of baseball. This work presents accounts from the major newspapers of each of the four teams' cities - the New York Times, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the Boston Herald, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch - to capture the day-by-day excitement of the 1889 pennant race.
The 1889 baseball season is unique in the history of baseball. This work presents accounts from the major newspapers of each of the four teams' cities...
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192,55 |
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The League That Lasted: 1876 and the Founding of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs
ISBN: 9780786417551 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early 1870s, baseball was chaos, mired in mismanagement and corruption. William Hulbert, the owner of Chicagos National Association team, believed that a league run efficiently with honest competition wouldsurvive and flourish. Hulbert, relying on his pragmatic philosophy of molasses now, vinegar later and working with his prize recruit Albert Spalding, founded the National League in 1876.
That inaugural season of the National League is chronicled in this heavily documented work. The league fell far short of Hulberts dreams in its first season, but he stuck to his belief that... In the early 1870s, baseball was chaos, mired in mismanagement and corruption. William Hulbert, the owner of Chicagos National Association team, belie...
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192,55 |
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Baseball's Retired Numbers: Major and Minor Leagues
ISBN: 9780786417629 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work covers retired numbers in baseball's major and minor leagues. In the major league section of the book, a player's name is followed by his retired number, the name of the team that retired it, the year that it was retired, the player's primary position, and the teams he was affiliated with during his playing career.
This work covers retired numbers in baseball's major and minor leagues. In the major league section of the book, a player's name is followed by his re...
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218,89 |
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The Texas League in Baseball, 1888-1958
ISBN: 9780786418022 / Angielski / Miękka / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For over 100 years, the Texas League has been one of the top five minor leagues in the Southwest. This work is a statistical history of the Texas League from its inception in 1888 through 1958, when Houston, Fort Worth and Dallas left for higher aspirations in Triple A and major league baseball. The book is arranged by year, and each chapter begins with a short introduction that also highlights a player, team, or aspect of the game that season. The teams are then presented in standings order, and the author provides statistics for each player (games, at bats, runs, hits, runs batted in,...
For over 100 years, the Texas League has been one of the top five minor leagues in the Southwest. This work is a statistical history of the Texas Leag...
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272,11 |
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The Cubs Win the Pennant!: Charlie Grimm, the Billy Goat Curse, and the 1945 World Series Run
ISBN: 9780786418169 / Angielski / Miękka / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Cubs' journey to the National League pennant in 1945 is detailed here. The author interviewed nine surviving members of the 1945 Cubs, including pitchers Erickson, Hank Borowy, Hank Wyse and Claude Passeau, second baseman Don Johnson, shortstop Lenny Merullo, backup catcher Dewey Williams, first baseman Phil Cavaretta, and more.
The Cubs' journey to the National League pennant in 1945 is detailed here. The author interviewed nine surviving members of the 1945 Cubs, including p...
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Beating the Breaks: Major League Ballplayers Who Overcame Disabilities
ISBN: 9780786418282 / Angielski / Miękka / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few baseball fans are aware of the number of players with disabilities who have succeeded in the majors. Much of this unawareness is due to the affected players themselves who downplay weaknesses and tend to minimize their disabilities
Few baseball fans are aware of the number of players with disabilities who have succeeded in the majors. Much of this unawareness is due to the affect...
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The Lean Years of the Yankees, 1965-1975
ISBN: 9780786418466 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New York Yankees' history is filled with great achievements, outstanding performances, and unprecedented success. For more than 40 years, from 1921 to 1964, the Yankees and their fans had much to cheer about - the team won 29 pennants and 20 world championships and featured such greats as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Bill Dickey, Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford. Yankee haters waited endlessly for the fall of the seemingly unbeatable team from New York, and finally, in 1965, the Yankees began to flounder. The team didn't win anything for the next ten years. Each losing...
The New York Yankees' history is filled with great achievements, outstanding performances, and unprecedented success. For more than 40 years, from 192...
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Diamond Classics: Essays on 100 of the Best Baseball Books Ever Published
ISBN: 9780786418534 / Angielski / Miękka / 471 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each work is analysed and summarized. Its greatness as baseball literature, its place in the genre, its peculiarities, weaknesses, strengths, how the critics went for it - all are discussed in such a way, with quotations, that reading or browsing Shannon's book is equivalent to absorbing a rich history of the sport.
Each work is analysed and summarized. Its greatness as baseball literature, its place in the genre, its peculiarities, weaknesses, strengths, how the ...
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272,11 |
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Textile League Baseball: South Carolina's Mill Teams, 1880-1955
ISBN: 9780786418756 / Angielski / Miękka / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the Civil War, the Yankee textile industry began a steady transfer south, bringing with it the tradition of a mill village, usually owned by the mills owner, where the workers and their families lived. The new game of baseball quickly became a foundation of mill village life.
A rich tradition of textile league baseball in South Carolina is here reconstructed from newspaper accounts and interviews with former players and fans. Players such as Shoeless Joe Jackson and Champ Osteen made their marks as lintheads in these semipro leagues. The fierce rivalries between competing mills and... After the Civil War, the Yankee textile industry began a steady transfer south, bringing with it the tradition of a mill village, usually owned by the...
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Pete Reiser: The Rough-And-Tumble Career of the Perfect Ballplayer
ISBN: 9780786418763 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1941, his first full season, Pete Reiser became the youngest batting champion in history, winning the NL title with a.343 average, and led the league in runs, doubles, triples, total bases, and slugging average. By July of 1942, the popular Brooklyn outfielder was flirting with.400 and was easily baseball's fastest rising star. But a jarring collision with the outfield wall in St. Louis sent his season into a tailspin. the league in stolen bases, battling dizziness and headaches throughout the season. Ten more collisions with the outfield wall - each adding a shoulder separation, muscle...
In 1941, his first full season, Pete Reiser became the youngest batting champion in history, winning the NL title with a.343 average, and led the leag...
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