Baseball category: 2631 books
Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot?
And Other Unsolved Mysteries of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Advance Praise for Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot?
"Aron has found the Rosetta stone to all of baseball's enduring mysteries, and he skips it along the pond with utter disregard for the ducks. His fortunate readers will have so much fun they may not even notice that they are becoming, page...
by Vince Gennaro
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Diamond Dollars is a fresh, provocative, insightful and analytical look at the business of baseball by author Vince Gennaro, a consultant to MLB teams. In doing so, Gennaro addresses some key questions that affect how teams make decisions, how they assemble their roster, and ultimately, their bottom...
Incredible Baseball Stats
The Coolest, Strangest Stats and Facts in Baseball History
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
As America's pastime since the mid-1800s, baseball offers the sights, sounds, and even smells that are deeply entrenched in our culture. But for some, the experience can be less sensory. Some, such as Ryan Spaeder and Kevin Reavy, live for baseball statistics. Stats give the game historical context...
by Hal Bodley, George Will
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Examining the connection between baseball and our society as a whole, How Baseball Explains America is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through America's pastime. Longtime USA TODAY baseball editor and columnist Hal Bodley explores just how essential baseball is to understanding the American experience....
by D. F. Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Once in a life time somthing comes along most of the time we miss it.Not this one Dave heard somthing, it made somthing else click. Dave a youth baseball Coach off and on for over forty years. It was to simple but maybe it was logical. Simple, logical, unigue,and its works for all ages. Fast and simple....
The Hidden Game of Baseball
A Revolutionary Approach to Baseball and Its Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Long before Moneyball became a sensation or Nate Silver turned the knowledge he’d honed on baseball into electoral gold, John Thorn and Pete Palmer were using statistics to shake the foundations of the game. First published in 1984, The Hidden Game of Baseball ushered in the sabermetric revolution...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Presenting more than two hundred of the greatest haiku ever written about the game.
There are moments in every baseball game that make fans catch their breath: the pause while a pitcher looks in for the sign, the moment a cocksure rookie gets picked off first, or the instant a batter lashes...
The Best Pitcher in Baseball
The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest black heroes was at last firmly established. A world-class pitcher, a formidable manager, and a brilliant administrator, Rube Foster was arguably more influential in breaking...
by Society for American Baseball Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
The flagship publication of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the Baseball Research Journal is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed publication presenting the best in SABR member research on baseball. History, biography, economics, physics, psychology, game theory, sociology and culture,...
The Zen of Zim
Baseball, Beanballs and Bosses
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Don Zimmer is baseball. His first book, Zim-A Baseball Life, was a New York Times bestseller and one of the best baseball memoirs ever published. Now, in The Zen of Zim, one of baseball's most beloved figures offers readers an insightful look into the baseball of yesterday and today. Baseball fans...
Baseball Hitting Mechanics Explained
A Parent’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Ted Williams once said, "Hitting a baseball is the single most difficult thing to do in sport." He was the last major leaguer to average .400 over a season. Even at lower levels of play, hitting the ball safely four times out of ten chances is a terrific accomplishment. This tells us something:...
Cuban Baseball Legends: Baseball's Alternative Universe
SABR Digital Library, #40
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Minnie Minoso. Martin Dihigo. Luis Tiant Sr. and Jr. Orlando "El Duque" and Livan Hernandez. These are only a few of the leading lights profiled in Cuban Baseball Legends: Baseball's Alternative Universe. The 47 individuals profiled here represent only a small handful of the legions of...
by Lyle Spatz
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as “our game, the American game,” and George Will compared calling baseball “just a game” to the...
The Intangibles
A Guide to Evaluating the Non Physical Side of the Game of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
"The Intangibles" is the Ultimate Guide for Evaluating the Non-Physical Side of the Game of Baseball! The term intangible is an abstract word that benefits from clarification. Intangibles are a cluster of non-physical attributes, traits, and habits. Because the concept of an intangible is...