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Official Baseball Annual: Rules, Teams, Photos
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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 ...
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.
Sweet '60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates
PreviewSources. The National Baseball Congress ofAmerica, 1955 Official Baseball Annual Private database of José A. Crescioni, the late SABR member who compiled statistics for the Puerto ...
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
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); ...
Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era
Charles C. AlexanderBreaking the Slump is the story of baseball during the 1930s when the National Pastime came of age as a business, an entertainment, and a passion, and when the teams of the American and National Leagues fielded perhaps the greatest rosters ...
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 in Crisis: Spiraling Costs, Bad Behavior, Uncertain ...
Frank P. Jozsa, Jr.Information about baseball's history, and the sport's business opportunities and problems, are included in such books as Frank P. Jozsa, Jr., Baseball, Inc.: The National Pastime as Big Business (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006); Scott Barzilla, ...
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 ...
Understanding Baseball: A Textbook
Trey Strecker,The study of baseball history and culture shows the national pastime to be a forum of debate where issues of sport, labor, race, character and the ethics of work and play are decided.
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 Gold: Mining Nuggets from Our National Pastime
Dan SchlossbergConsisting entirely of bits and pieces of baseball’s offbeat history, this volume covers teams and a myriad of players, owners, managers, and broadcasters—from their exploits on the field to those behind clubhouse doors.
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.
Jackie Robinson: Breaking Baseball's Color Barrier
Budd BaileyJackie Robinson fought racism in the army before integrating baseball when it was our national pastime.
What Baseball Means to Me: A Celebration of Our National Pastime
Curt SmithTo create this marvelous book, more than 150 writers, athletes, celebrities, politicians, presidents, and pundits were asked what baseball means to them. The answers came back with richness, wonder, insight, and poetry.
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.
Baseball Research Journal
More editionsMitchell S. Soivenski Table 1. Expansion Year One Won-Lost Records Table 2. Winning. A JL MS the National League prepares for its first expansion in 24 years in 1993, baseball fans in general and those in Florida and Colorado in particular ...
Baseball, Inc.: The National Pastime as Big Business
Frank P. Jozsa, Jr.Focusing on the last fifty years, this work examines the past and present commercial elements of organized baseball, emphasizing the dual roles--competitive sport and profitable business--which the sport must now fulfill.
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 ...
Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the ...
Erik S. GellmanSee Risa Goluboff, “The Thirteenth Amendment and the Lost Origins Of Civil Rights,” Duke Law Journal 50, no. 6 (April 2001). 70 “Peonage Fight Received Support of NAACP and National Congress,” CD, nation edition, March 9, 1940; “ stop ...
Indian National Congress and the Struggle for Freedom, 1885-1947
Amales TripathiThis volume presents an analytical history of India's struggle for freedom and the role played in it by the Indian National Congress.
America the Beautiful Passport Act of 1992: Hearing Before ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public LandsA Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests ...
Paul W. HirtU.S. Congress. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture. Hearing on HR 1972. "Disposition of Moneys from the National Forests." 83rd Cong., 1st sess ., March 1 1, 12, 1953. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and ...
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