Download or read book All new Baseball Brainteasers written by Michael A. Morse and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was a run ever scored that went unnoticed by everyone on both teams--and the official scorer, too? Can a runner from first base be tagged out stealing second when the batter is walked? Fans of the Great American Pastime want to know! This second edition of Baseball Brain Teasers features 60 challenging rules situations that occurred in real-life Major League games, with each incident broken into three parts. First comes the problem, with all the basic details; then a description of the actual game where the play happened; and finally an explanation of the correct call. Readers can just enjoy the entertaining stories--or the baseball-savvy can test their knowledge and see if they're smarter than the professionals who were actually involved.
Download or read book Baseball Brain Teasers written by Dom Forker and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents puzzling or ambiguous baseball questions derived from real events, such as "Can two pitchers be in the same team's lineup at the same time?" and gives the answers based on the rule book.
Download or read book The Big Book of Baseball Brainteasers written by Wayne Stewart and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenging puzzlers presented here will have you playing armchair manager or umpire; reading about strange, unusual, and trick plays; and matching up quotes with the people who originated them.
Download or read book Brain Games Baseball Puzzles written by Publications International Ltd and published by . This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can flex your mental muscle and learn interesting facts about baseball with Brain Games Baseball Puzzles. All the puzzles are related to baseball and are sure to provide a season's worth of fun. Enjoy word searches full of common baseball terms, All-Star picture puzzles, major league mazes, and more. Offers a variety of puzzles including: anagrams, crosswords, language puzzles, logic puzzles, mazes, memory puzzles, visual logic puzzles, word searches. Different puzzles stretch different parts of the brain and can enhance the following cognitive functions: analysis, attention, computation, creative thinking, general knowledge, language, logic, planning, problem solving, spatial reasoning, spatial visualization, visual logic, visual search. 200 puzzles, divided into five levels, from easy to difficult. Spiral-bound, 192 pages. Yogi Berra famously said, Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical. And like in baseball, where teams hold spring training to get ready for a long season, you need brain training to sharpen your mind and protect it from decline. Hone your mental capacity to ensure that you stay on the top of your game with Brain Games Baseball Puzzles. The book, part of the popular Brain Games series, is designed to make you feel the burn (mentally, of course) by working different cognitive functions.
Download or read book Baseball Gift Pack written by Dom Forker and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the essential Spring Training companion: two great books-- "Baseball Brain Teasers and "Big League Baseball Puzzlers , plus an audiotape of the zany Abbott and Costello classic "Who's on First?" Stump your favorite bleacher bum with puzzlers like this: Was there ever a ground rule triple? (Yes, in the 1903 World Series). Then, thrill them by reciting record-breaking feats by unknowns and Hall-of-Famers alike: a 12-inning perfect game-- "lost in the 13th inning; the longest home run (730 feet); and scores of other dizzy, dramatic diamond doings. Finally, plug in your tape player and listen to the antics of baseball's favorite comedy team, Abbot and Costello. If you've never heard Bud send Lou around the bases, and even if you have, get ready for a barrage of giggles that won't let you out of the laugher's box until the last swing. Two Books with Cassette.
Download or read book Tim McCarver s Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans written by Tim McCarver and published by Villard. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim McCarver, major league baseball's premier analyst, has been surprising and delighting viewers for years with his remarkable insight. Fans who once were content to merely watch baseball were stimulated into wanting to think baseball as well. McCarver brings to the booth a combination of twenty-one years of major league service and nearly twenty more in broadcasting. There is nobody better at explaining the game than McCarver, and it is a rare game in which the viewer does not learn something new and unusual. Now he is putting down on paper all he knows about the sport, producing this unique perspective on how America's pastime should be played and watched. With his unmistakable wit and storytelling verve, McCarver succinctly explains the fundamentals and proper mechanics of baseball at the level necessary for success in the major leagues. Once the skills have been learned, the viewer can devise smart strategies, getting into the heads of the players, coaches, and managers: When should a player or manager be conservative or aggressive; what factors change as the count goes deeper; how do you set up an effective running game, and how can a defense try to sabotage it? This book is a gold mine for all fans, from brain surgeons and rocket scientists to beginners who want to start with the basics. (Even major leaguers will be able to pick up some pointers.) With a deeper knowledge and understanding of baseball, any fan will be able to watch it like a pro.
Download or read book Baseball on the Brain written by Dennis Purdy and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's trivia, and then there's knowledgeÑdeep, extensive, obsessive knowledgeÑmasquerading as trivia. It's the kind of trivia that, if you know the answer, makes you feel triumphant, and if you don't, gives you an education. The kind of trivia based not on what we shouldn't be expected to know, but on what we shouldÑif we're to consider ourselves true fans. Dennis Purdy, author of the just-published Team-by-Team Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball, has been collecting baseball trivia since before he could shave, and now presents the best of the best: a massive collection of over 1,000 trivia games. Not solo questions, but half-page games, every one involving matching multiple players to their accomplishments, or evaluating multiple clues to discover a mystery subject's identity, or digging deep into a round-up of terms, nicknames, phrases, awards, events, individual teams, locations, and more. The games cover three centuries of baseball history. Home run calls and the announcers who made them famous. The peculiar geography of a baseball fieldÑ where's the garden? the gateway? the firing line? Inimitable slang: cackler, chucker, clinker, and squibber. The lesser-known career feats of baseball's ÒBig 3,Ó Ruth, Aaron, and Bonds. World Series potpourriÑThey won the first night game in World Series history. . . . The team that lost the most World SeriesÑ13 . . . The only American League team to lose the World Series in three consecutive seasons . . . And much, much, much more.
Download or read book Babe Ruth and the Creation of the Celebrity Athlete written by Thomas Barthel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his first year in the majors, George Herman "Babe" Ruth knew he could profit from celebrity. Babe Ruth Cigars in 1915 marked his first attempt to cash in. Traded to the Yankees in 1920, he soon signed with Christy Walsh, baseball's first publicity agent. Walsh realized that stories of great deeds in sports were a commodity, and in 1921 sold Ruth's ghostwritten byline to a newspaper syndicate for $15,000 ($187,000 today). Ruth hit home runs while Walsh's writers made him a hero, crafting his public image as a lovable scalawag. Were the stories true? It didn't matter--they sold. Many survive but have never been scrutinized until now. Drawing on primary sources, this book examines the stories, separating exaggerated facts from clear falsehoods. This book traces Ruth's ascendance as the first great media-created superstar and celebrity product endorser.
Download or read book Baseball Word Search written by Lemon Bookery and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hours of Fun with Baseball Word Search and Word Scrambles! Great for gifts, travel, and staying alert. Don't miss this fun and entertaining book that will remind you of your favorite baseball movies, players, teams and Hall of Famers. Inside: 40 pages of Word Searches with themes like baseball movies, World Series winners, and Hall of Fame legends. 20 bonus pages of word search with themes like baseball equipment, special days in baseball, defensive plays, batting and pitching. Scroll up and Click "Add to Cart" to order your copy right away. Follow my Author page and don't miss the free offers in the book.
Download or read book Sports Brain Teasers written by Cynthia Holzschuher and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Ballpark written by John A. Wood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most baseball fans know of the amazing accomplishments Hall of Fame members achieved on the field, from Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hit streak to Cy Young’s 511 career wins. But few are as familiar with the ballplayers’ lives away from the diamond—especially those icons who played before the Internet and 24/7 media coverage. Beyond their baseball statistics, what kind of individuals were they? How did they conduct themselves out of the spotlight? What made them tick? In Beyond the Ballpark: The Honorable, Immoral, and Eccentric Lives of Baseball Legends, John A. Woodlooks at the personal lives of fifty members of the Hall of Fame, examining their childhoods, families, influences, life-changing events, defining moments, and more. The players range from the really good guys to bizarre characters and even the downright immoral. The author considers how tragedies may have impacted players, such as the shooting of Ty Cobb’s beloved father by his own mother, and seeks to explain the dispositions of others, such as why the great Rogers Hornsby couldn’t seem to get along with anybody. By taking a closer look at who the players were as men, Beyond the Ballpark captures the essence of these fifty Hall of Famers. Including such names as Cy Young, Walter Johnson, Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig, and Babe Ruth, this book is for all fans who are interested in more than just a ballplayer’s statistics.
Download or read book Baseball Word Search written by Sasha Winters and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hours of Fun with Baseball Word Search and Word Scrambles! Great for gifts, travel, and staying alert. Don't miss this fun and entertaining book that will remind you of your favorite baseball movies, players, teams and Hall of Famers. Inside: - 40 pages of Word Searches with themes like baseball movies, World Series winners, and Hall of Fame legends. - 20 bonus pages of word search with themes like baseball equipment, special days in baseball, defensive plays, batting and pitching. Scroll up and Click "Add to Cart" to order your copy right away.
Download or read book Baseball Word Search written by Lemon Bookery and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hours of Fun with Baseball Word Search and Word Scrambles! What's Your Favorite Baseball Movie? Don't miss this fun and entertaining book that will remind you of your favorite Baseball Movies, Star Players and Legends, teams and Hall of Famers. Who can forget 'The Natural', 'Field of Dreams', or 'A League of Their Own?' Find the actors, places, times and characters in the Word Searches. What's Inside? 40 pages of Word Searches with themes like baseball movies, World Series winners, and Hall of Fame legends. 20 bonus pages of Word Scrambles with themes like baseball equipment, special days in baseball, defensive plays, and batting & pitching terms. Scroll up and Click "Add to Cart" to order your copy right away. Check out the Special, Free Book Offer inside! Follow my Author page and don't miss the free offers in the book.
Download or read book Bucketfoot Al written by Clifton Blue Parker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al Simmons, at top form in the Roaring Twenties, sparked one of baseball's greatest dynasties, the Philadelphia Athletics, to multiple championships, before becoming just another ballplayer. While his achievements demonstrated greatness, he was not an easy man to like--for those competing against him or with him--and he seemed to play to the level of team expectation. Contemporary accounts and other recollections give us a sense of Al Simmons the person and the ballplayer, his connections to people, his teams and his ability to capture the fans' imagination in his halcyon days.
Download or read book Nine Minute Baseball Mysteries written by Adam X. Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vengeful batter who breaks up a no-hitter without getting a hit! The disgruntled player whose manager is upset with him-until he strikes out on purpose! The ornery closer who demands to pitch in the fourth inning of a nine-inning game! You will encounter these and many more perplexing scenarios in NINE-MINUTE BASEBALL MYSTERIES, which will put your knowledge of baseball-and your ability to think creatively-to the ultimate test. The book contains 40 original hardball conundrums, each with a completely logical explanation, guaranteed to both baffle and delight even the most fanatical of fans and savviest of experts. Why 9 minutes? Well, 9 is a magical number in baseball: 9 innings, 9 fielders, 9 spots in a lineup...and 9 minutes for each mystery! The brain teasers in NINE-MINUTE BASEBALL MYSTERIES are presented in a three-section format: first read the scenario in the Puzzles section, then develop your theory utilizing the hints in the Clues section, and finally, see if your explanation is correct in the Solutions section. Each puzzle is delicately crafted to be devious but fair, and all are written in an engaging, colorful manner, befitting of our national pastime. The puzzles start out towards the easier end of the spectrum and increase in difficulty as the book progresses, and each draws upon a singular aspect of baseball's rich tapestry. At the end of each solution any applicable rules from the 2018 edition of the Official Baseball Rulebook are cited. This unique and original book will appeal to puzzlers and baseball enthusiasts of any age and aptitude. Whether you're a fan of baseball history, trivia, strategy or statistics, this book will have something for you, and you are guaranteed to learn something about the game and look at it in a new, more appreciative light. So what are you waiting for? Put on your Baseball Detective Cap and let's get to solving these NINE-MINUTE BASEBALL MYSTERIES!
Download or read book Brain Games Baseball Puzzles written by Publications International Ltd. Staff and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These books are crammed w/ puzzles designed to stimulate each of your brain's cognitive functions, keeping it strong and fit.
Download or read book Baseball Crosswords Vol 2 written by Frank Virzi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 70 all-new relaxing and entertaining baseball-themed crosswords will challenge your knowledge about our national pastime. Puzzle titles include Topps, Leading Off, Outside Pitch, Top of the Eighth, Talkin' Baseball, and "Put Me In, Coach!"
