Download or read book Baseball Homestand the National Pastime written by David Faris and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To prepare for Baseball Homestand: The National Pastime, the author attended all 81 home games of the Los Angeles Dodgers during the 2010 baseball season. The book contains a summary of each game and includes comments about notable plays during the game and other happenings of interest. Thus during the entire season many if not all of the amazing athletic accomplishments of the players on the field are described.
Download or read book Baseball the New York Game written by Anthony Morante and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BASEBALL The New York Game is organized as a linear narrative of facts and events that marries America's illustrious history with the rich background of baseball, our national pastime, beginning in the early nineteenth century until the present. The narrative includes many watershed moments that illustrate the importance of baseball during many crises and global conflicts, including the aftermath of September 11, 2001. The reader will integrate concepts that are offered to promote an ongoing discourse of our country's popular culture. One will witness how leisure and exercise evolved into the structure of fraternities and the formation of an organized sport that became the national pastime. In addition, following the main body of the text is an article on the military in baseball. This is the story of how American history and baseball intertwined as an integral part of our popular culture.
Download or read book Creating the National Pastime written by G. Edward White and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not simply a professional sport, baseball has been treated as a focus of childhood rituals & an emblem of American individuality & fair play throughout much of the 20th century. It started out, however, as a marginal urban sport associated with drinking & gambling. Here, White describes baseball's progression to an almost mythic status as an idyllic game, popular among people of all ages & classes. He then recounts the owners' concerted efforts, often supported by the legal system, to preserve this image. Presents a wonderfully persuasive analysis of the often irrational bus. decisions, inspired by nostalgia & self-interest, which led a group of remarkable entrepreneurs to establish the mythology of baseball as the uniquely American experience. Ill.
Download or read book Perfect Pitch written by Joseph L. Price and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate baseball and sing the national anthem for more than 100 minor league baseball games during a single summer, Joe Price drove more than 25,000 miles through forty states. Accompanied on the zig-zagging, cross-continental trek in an RV by his wife who had not been a baseball fan, he often shared games and baseball stories with relatives and friends along the way. Serendipitously in multiple ballparks across the nation, Price met college alumni and former Whittier residents whom he had not previously known. Throughout the journey he experienced how baseball brings people together. Grounded in their respective communities, each ballpark reflected specific products, habits, and values associated with its location, and often evoked and formed distinct baseball memories and stories. Some provided high drama with walk-off home runs, others featured bungled plays on the diamond, and a few celebrated outlandish promotions for fans' entertainment, like the antics of BirdZerk in Fort Wayne, the flight of the first human home run in Lowell, and the crooked race by armadillos in Tulsa. Blending baseball lore, travel narrative, and personal memoir, Perfect Pitch explores America through a lens of minor league baseball as it chronicles Price's anthem adventure. The book includes more than fifty photographs and maps.
Download or read book Inside Baseball written by Arthur Daley and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baseball written by United States. National Archives and Records Administration and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This e-book tells the story of our national pastime through documents, photographs, audio, video, and other records preserved at the National Archives. It covers of the role of baseball during the two world wars, contract disputes, civil rights, equal access and opportunity on and off the playing field, the steroids era, the universal appeal of the game to players and fans, Presidential involvement, improvements to the sport, Little League, Spring Training, Opening Day, and celebrations along the way.
Download or read book The Last Yankee written by Society for American Baseball Research (Sabr) and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles, essays, statistics, and lore on the game of baseball.
Download or read book All that Once was Good written by Howard Rothman and published by Pendleton Clay Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baseball written by Maggie J. Witte and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Pastime written by Barry Svrluga and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major League Baseball returned to Washington, D.C., in 2005 and created a bang that no one had anticipated. The Washington Nationals enjoyed astonishing success from the get-go; by midseason they were in first place in the highly competitive National League East. The team, composed mainly of former Montreal Expos and managed by one of the best players in the history of the game—the feisty, outspoken Frank Robinson—captured the attention of baseball fans not just in the nation’s capital but throughout the country. Barry Svrluga, beat reporter for The Washington Post, has followed the saga of the Nationals from the early, intense wrangling over bringing the team to Washington to the surprising success of their first-ever season. Granted exclusive access to the team, he brings the players to life in wonderful anecdotes about their lives on and off the field, interviews fans from around the city, and offers his own astute analyses of the team’s ups and downs throughout the season. A savvy observer of both Washington and Major League politicking, he covers the conflicts that undermined the existence of a D.C. team for more than three decades, including battles about financing the franchise and the building of a new stadium (now scheduled to be completed in 2008), as well as bitter opposition from the neighboring Baltimore Orioles and others inside the baseball establishment.
Download or read book Remember When written by Tom Owens and published by Metro Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insider's view of America's favorite game begins in the late nineteenth century and continues to the present day.
Download or read book The National Pastime as Industry written by Robert A. Morris and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baseball Memories and Dreams written by The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and published by National Baseball Hall of Fame Books. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories and Dreams celebrates the iconic moments, heroes, and trends that define baseball for its millions of fans This compendium of baseball writing covers it all--recollections of Hall of Famers and narratives from top baseball writers; stories on the rich iconography and history of the game across the full diversity of players, teams, and leagues; and reflections on the way America's Pastime has shaped our culture. Selected from the Baseball Hall of Fame's member magazine, Memories and Dreams brings to life the best of baseball.
Download or read book Remember When written by Thomas S. Owens and published by . This book was released on 1996-12-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember when the Dodgers played in Brooklyn? When Willie Mays stole home? When Babe Ruth called his home run in the 1932 World Series? Or when Rickey Henderson broke Lou Brock's single season stolen-base record? Here is a stroll down baseball's memory lane. Starting with baseball's beginnings in the late 19th cent. and continuing to 1995, this book takes a nostalgic look at the game, emphasizing the human side of the sport and the players who made lasting impressions on their fans, not only with their abilities but with their personalities. Packed with full-color and B&W photos and accompanied by an insightful narrative, each chapter is further highlighted with anecdotes from fans about their most memorable baseball experiences.
Download or read book What Baseball Means to Me written by Curt Smith and published by Warner Books (NY). This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All the Babe s Men written by Eldon L. Ham and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are Americans obsessed with the home run in sports, business, and even life? What made the steroid era inevitable? Revisiting the great home run seasons of Babe Ruth through those of Barry Bonds, All the Babe's Men answers these and other provocative questions. Baseball, and particularly the long ball itself, evolved via accident, necessity, and occasional subterfuge. During the dead-ball era, pitching ruled the game, and home run totals hovered in the single digits. Then a ban on the spitball and the compression of stadium dimensions set the stage for new sluggers to emerge, culminating in Ruth's historic sixty-homer season in 1927. The players, owners, and fans became hooked on the homer, but our addiction took us to excess. As the home run became the ultimate goal for hitters, players went to new lengths to increase their power and ability to swing for the fences. By the time Barry Bonds set a new single-season record in 2001, Americans had to face the fact that their national pastime had become corrupted from within. Through a play-by-play analysis of the game's historic long-ball seasons, its superstars, and the contemporary legal nightmares and tainted records, All the Babe's Men divulges how America evolved into a home run society where baseball is king.
