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Best of Baseball Prospectus: 1996-2011

Best of Baseball Prospectus: 1996-2011

Baseball Prospectus

Since 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.
Baseball Prospectus 2011

Baseball Prospectus 2011

Baseball Prospectus

Baseball Prospectus 2011 EDITED BY STEVEN GOLDMAN WITH BEN LINDBERGH AND STEPH BEE STATISTICS BY COLIN WYERS Tommy Bennett • Clifford J. Corcoran • Ken Funck Steven Goldman • Kevin Goldstein • Jay Jaffe Christina ...
Baseball Prospectus 2003

Baseball Prospectus 2003

Gary Huckabay

In-depth statistics and predictions for every major league team and player.
The Cambridge Companion to Baseball

The Cambridge Companion to Baseball

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COnTEnTS 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  ...
Baseball in Washington,

Baseball in Washington,

Frank Ceresi

Just 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.
Baseball America Almanac

Baseball America Almanac

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A 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.
Who's Better, Who's Best in Baseball?

Who's Better, Who's Best in Baseball?

Elliott Kalb

These 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.
The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign ...

The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign ...

Robert Elias

Samuel 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 Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan

Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan

Peter Morris

This 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
Shoeless Joe

Shoeless Joe

W. P. Kinsella

Ray 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

The Love of Baseball

Paul Adomites

Baseball fans of all ages, all generations, all over the world will cheer for The Love of Baseball.
Barbed Wire Baseball

Barbed Wire Baseball

Marissa Moss

Traces 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.
For the Good of the Country: World War II Baseball in the ...

For the Good of the Country: World War II Baseball in the ...

David Finoli

World 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

The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

Bill James

When 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 ...
Once more around the park: a baseball reader

Once more around the park: a baseball reader

Roger Angell

A 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

The Sport Americana baseball card alphabetical checklist

Dr James Beckett, III

Lists 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

Marquette sports law journal

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Chuck 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); ...
The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2002

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2002

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... 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 ...

Baseball and the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender, and ...

Robert Elias

The 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 ...

The Major League Baseball Book of Fabulous Facts and Awesome ...

Ken Shouler

Baseball 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, ...
Storied Stadiums: Baseball's History Through Its Ballparks

Storied Stadiums: Baseball's History Through Its Ballparks

Curt Smith

A baseball historian traces the history of American major league baseball through personal reminiscences, anecdotes, and facts about its early fields, grandstands, and modern-day stadiums, offering a fascinating tour of more than 125 ...
Baseball at Tulane University

Baseball at Tulane University

S. Derby Gisclair

Nevertheless, the school is proceeding with plans tor a multimillion-dollar renovation and expansion of Turchin Stadium, marking the next growth phase of baseball at Tulane University. The long and rich tradition of baseball at Tulane ...
Baseball For Dummies

Baseball For Dummies

Joe Morgan

This updated 4th Edition brings you the latest information on the players, the places, and above all, the game. Baseball For Dummies is for baseball fans at all levels, from players and coaches to spectators who love the game.
Baseball: A History of America's Game

Baseball: A History of America's Game

Benjamin G. Rader

Evocative 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 ...
South Texas studies

South Texas studies

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L. 2 Bill Rabinowitz, "Baseball and the Great Depression," in Baseball History, ed. Peter Levine (New York: Meckler, 1989), 50. 3 Robert Obojski, Bush League: A Colorful, Factual Account of Minor League Baseball from 1877 to the Present ...
The Baseball Timeline: In Association with Major League Baseball

The Baseball Timeline: In Association with Major League Baseball

Burt Solomon

A comprehensive, chronological history of baseball and its players includes every record and statistic, winners and losers, red-hot bats and golden gloves, memorable games and outstanding moments, and other key aspects of major league ...
The Baseball MEGAPACK ®: 24 Classic Baseball Stories

The Baseball MEGAPACK ®: 24 Classic Baseball Stories

Zane Grey

Here is a classic collection of 20th Century tales by such masters as Zane Gray, Michael Avallone, Octavus Roy Cohen, and others -- including 6 novels in the "Baseball Joe" series!
Baseball America's 1991 Almanac

Baseball America's 1991 Almanac

Baseball America

1B— 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.
Test Your Baseball Literacy

Test Your Baseball Literacy

R. Wayne Schmittberger

Test Your Baseball Literacy Entertaining quizzes on every facet of the Great American Game--from Shoeless Joe to Sadaharu Oh "The questions in Test Your Baseball Literacy really test your knowledge, not just your memory.
Baseball in Europe: A Country by Country History

Baseball in Europe: A Country by Country History

Josh Chetwynd

Organized by country, this heavily researched book delves into the history of baseball in 40 nations, describing not only the efforts to spread the game but also the culture of baseball unique to Europe.

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