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Baseball America Almanac
More editionsA companion volume to Baseball America's Directory, this annual reference reviews the previous year's major and minor league baseball season and includes complete statistics and a summary of college and amateur baseball. Original.
Baseball America's 1991 Almanac
Baseball America1B— Nikco Riesgo, St. Lucie. 2B— Jeff Kent, Dunedin. 3B— Fred Samson, Charlotte. SS— Keith Kimberlin, Lakeland. UTIL INF— Javier Ocasio, Sarasota. OF— D.J. Dozier, St. Lucie; Kenny Lofton, Osceola; Jacob Brumfield, Baseball City.
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America
Joe PosnanskiThe Soul of Baseball is as much the story of Buck O'Neil as it is the story of baseball. Driven by a relentless optimism and his two great passions—for America's pastime and for jazz, America's music—O'Neil played solely for love.
Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan
Peter MorrisThis detailed history of early baseball in rural Michigan focuses on the evolution of America's pastime from child's game to organized sport and challenges the notion that baseball's development was strictly an East Coast phenomenon
Baseball America's 1995 Directory
Baseball AmericaScouts: Stan Boroski (Kissimmee, FL), Ralph Bratton (Dripping Springs, TX), F.H. DeFord (Manchester, TN), Chuck Edmondson (Texarkana, AR), Orlando Estevez (Miami, FL), Ben Galante (Houston, TX), Brian Granger (Dickson, TN), Sterling ...
Baseball: A History of America's Game
Benjamin G. RaderEvocative of the final days of baseball in the 1950s is David Halbert- stom, Summer of '49 (New York, 1989). Also useful are Bill Rabinowitz, "Baseball and the Great Depression," and Clark Nardinelli, "Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis and the ...
Baseball from A to Z
Michael P. SpradlinLearning about baseball has never been so much fun! From a pitching Ace to a strike Zone, this energetic alphabet book covers all the bases of America's favorite pastime.
The Cambridge Companion to Baseball
PreviewCOnTEnTS List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgments Baseball: a chronology Introduction 1 leonard cassuto 1 The rules of baseball 9 steven p. gietschier 2 Baseball in literature, baseball as literature 21 stephen partridge and ...
Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball
Rebecca Trachtenberg AlpertAn eye-opening look at one of baseball's little known stories : the relationship between Jews & Black baseball in Jim Crow America, this text explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs, political radicals & a team of black Jews called the ...
Baseball in Washington,
Frank CeresiJust 13 years after Alexander Cartwright codified baseball's rules, the Washington Nationals Baseball Club formed and in 1867 toured the country spreading the "baseball gospel.
Who's Better, Who's Best in Baseball?
Elliott KalbThese are just a few of the hotly debated questions in Who's Better, Who's Best in Baseball? that will fire the blood of baseball fans. Ornery, opinionated, and brimming with baseball intelligence, Elliott Kalb, a.k.a.
Best of Baseball Prospectus: 1996-2011
Baseball ProspectusSince 2003, Baseball Prospectus has published dozens of exclusive articles every month to subscribers to its groundbreaking Baseball Prospectus Premium service. Now, we're taking the next step by bringing the BP archives to your bookshelf.
The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign ...
Robert EliasSamuel O. Regalado, Viva Baseball! Latin American Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998); Samuel O. Regalado, “Viva Baseball! The Beginnings of Latin American Baseball,” in Baseball History ...
Baseball America's ... Baseball Directory
More editionsArea Scouts: Stan Boroski (Kissimmee, FL), Ralph Bratton (Dripping Springs, TX), Jug DeFord (Manchester, TN), Doug Deutsch (Costa Mesa, CA), Chuck Edmondson (Texarkana, AR), Orlando Estevez (Pembroke Pines, FL), Brian Granger ...
Official Baseball Annual: Rules, Teams, Photos
National Baseball Congress of America... Ft ...j John J. Kellet Commissioner he hill for the P itarted for Cherok ♢ OREGON ♢ BEND SCORES EARLY TO COP FIRST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP 1 Q ^*3 Champions — Bend J.VOO Runners-up — Prineville Commissioner : Joe Proulx.
Shoeless Joe
W. P. KinsellaRay Kinsella's fanatic love of baseball drives him to build a baseball stadium in his corn field and kidnap the author, J.D. Salinger, and bring him to a baseball game
The Love of Baseball
Paul AdomitesBaseball fans of all ages, all generations, all over the world will cheer for The Love of Baseball.
Barbed Wire Baseball
Marissa MossTraces the childhood dream of Japanese-American baseball pioneer Kenichi Zenimura of playing professionally and his family's struggles in a World War II internment camp where he introduces baseball to raise hope.
American Jews and America's Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy ...
Larry RuttmanSol Gittleman First-Generation Jewish American, Realizing the American Dream T here can be no question that the United States. 22. Tufts University professor of baseball history and baseball author Sol Gittleman, the poor man's Dustin ...
For the Good of the Country: World War II Baseball in the ...
David FinoliWorld War II Baseball in the Major and Minor Leagues David Finoli. 17. Gary Bedingfield's Baseball in Wartime Bibliography web site: http:// baseballinwartime .freeservers.com/bibliography.htm. 18. Pg. 420 Baseball Timeline by Burt Solomon.
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
Bill JamesWhen Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball's beloved “Sultan of Stats” (The Boston ...
Official Baseball Annual: Rules, Teams, Photos
National Baseball Congress of AmericaManager Johnny Norris (If), Dave Harvey (ss), Ed Phillips (cf), Tom Gott (rf), Larry Foley (p), Johnny Norris Jr. (batboy). Not shown: Ken Dyson (p), and Towell Lucas (p). SCOBEY PLAINSMEN— 1960 Montana Champions Standing: Larry ...
Once more around the park: a baseball reader
Roger AngellA collection of twenty-one of the best of this "New Yorker" writer's baseball essays offers a unique perspective on baseball's last twenty years
The Sport Americana baseball card alphabetical checklist
Dr James Beckett, IIILists all of the baseball cards printed for each professional baseball player, including minor league players, team cards, and world series cards
Marquette sports law journal
More editionsChuck Gormley, USA Today, May 5, 1995. 14. Baseball's antitrust exemption has come from a trilogy of Supreme Court cases: Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore, Inc. v. National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, 259 U.S. 200 (1922); ...
Baseball Americas 1995 Almanac: A Comprehensive Review of ...
Baseball America2 Bob Kamrneyer, Columbus 2 2 Steve Balboni, Col 2 Boomer Wells, Toledo 2 Brian Dayett, Col 19 2 tied at 2 Jim Wilson, Maine .22 2 tied at 75 197 Craig McMurty, Richmond .. B 192 2 tied at 75 .. 19 Jerry 19jdur, Maine 19 191 2 tied at 19 19 ...
The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2002
Preview... Cal Ripken, Jr. Roberta Newman Assessing Outcomes of Baseball Labor Negotiations Paul D. Staudohar Letting the Gini Out of the Bottle: A Look at Inequality in Major League Baseball Since ¡985 Brian O'Roark and G. Dirk Mateer PART 3.
Baseball and the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender, and ...
Robert EliasThe early baseball experiences of Asian Americans and other ethnics during the first half of the twentieth century are described by historian Joel Franks, and filmmaker Kerry Yo Nakagawa traces the history of Japanese American baseball and ...
The Major League Baseball Book of Fabulous Facts and Awesome ...
Ken ShoulerBaseball aficionados test their knowledge of the game in a challenging collection of facts and trivia, presented in a question-and-answer format that features more than five hundred entries on baseball statistics, record-breakers, players, ...
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