Download or read book Tim McCarver s Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans written by Tim McCarver and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1999-03-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From pitching to baserunning from defending the bunt to making a trip to the mound, the authors have every aspect of the game covered.
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 Cancer on the Brain written by Jay Lefevers and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 Mental Game Of Baseball written by H. A. Dorfman and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, authors H.A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl present their practical and proven strategy for developing the mental skills needed to achieve peack performance at every level of the game.
Download or read book The Performance Cortex written by Zach Schonbrun and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A must-read for the cerebral sports fan . . . like Moneyball except nerdier. Much nerdier.” —Sports Illustrated Why couldn’t Michael Jordan, master athlete that he was, crush a baseball? Why can’t modern robotics come close to replicating the dexterity of a five-year-old? Why do great quarterbacks always seem to know where their receivers are? On a quest to discover what actually drives human movement and its spectacular potential, journalist, sports writer, and fan Zach Schonbrun interviewed experts on motor control around the world. The trail begins with the groundbreaking work of two neuroscientists in Major League Baseball who are upending the traditional ways scouts evaluate the speed with which great players read a pitch. Across all sports, new theories and revolutionary technology are revealing how the brain’s motor control system works in extraordinarily talented athletes like Stephen Curry, Tom Brady, Serena Williams, and Lionel Messi; as well as musical virtuosos, dancers, rock climbers, race-car drivers, and more. Whether it is timing a 95 mph fastball or reaching for a coffee mug, movement requires a complex suite of computations that many take for granted—until they read The Performance Cortex. Zach Schonbrun ushers in a new way of thinking about the athletic gifts we marvel over and seek to develop in our own lives. It’s not about the million-dollar arm anymore. It’s about the million-dollar brain.
Download or read book Baseball Buzz written by CC Joven and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackson is ready for his first baseball game, but a pesky bee might just ruin his big day. This Starting Line Reader is sure to be a home run for every new reader.
Download or read book NeverGiveUp written by Ryan Dempsey and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruppert Jones is an eleven-year Major League Baseball veteran, a two-time MLB All-Star outfielder, and a World Series Champion. He came from nothing to fulfill his dream of playing Major League Baseball. He battled injuries throughout his career but repeatedly bounced back stronger. In 1980, Ruppert collided with the outfield wall while chasing down a fly ball. The result was a traumatic brain injury that went undiagnosed for over 30 years, during which his personality slowly changed. He turned to drugs and alcohol. He flirted with suicide. His life spiraled out of control, and he lost his family and friends, but he never gave up. Ruppert's story is about a search for answers during a time when there were no answers. Ruppert's story is more common today than ever, though now the effects of traumatic brain injuries and CTE are well known, and athletes are doing everything possible to prevent head injuries. The story of Ruppert Jones is not just an athlete memoir - it's a story intended to help those who have suffered a similar fate and don't understand what's happening to them.
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 Keep Your Eye On the Ball written by Robert G. Watts and published by W. H. Freeman. This book was released on 2000-03-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Keep your eye on the ball!" may be good advice--but it is impossible to do. The batter can track the ball until it is about five feet in front of the plate, but then he falls behind because the ball is moving too fast. In Keep Your Eye on the Ball, Robert G. Watts and A. Terry Bahill--engineers by vocation, baseball fans by avocation--have devised a series of experiments that put some of baseball's most cherished myths to the test. By applying physics, psychology, physiology, and other scientific principles to baseball, the authors have resolved, once and for all, some of the controversial issues that have intrigued fans for decades, including: * Do curveballs really curve? Do fastballs rise? * How do knuckleballs and spitballs work? * What exactly happens when the ball hits the bat? * Does corking the bat really help a hitter? * Are aluminum bats more dangerous than wooden bats? * Can certain physiological factors help predict success for a hitter? * Why are more home runs being hit than ever before? * Are today's players better than yesterday's? Completely revised and updated to include recent statistics, new research, and additional historical commentary, Keep Your Eye on the Ball is a highly informative and entertaining guide to the science of baseball that all fans of the game--regardless of scientific background--will enjoy.
Download or read book The Soul of Baseball written by Joe Posnanski and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When legendary Negro League player Buck O'Neil asked Joe Posnanski how he fell in love with baseball, the renowned sports columnist was inspired by the question. He decided to spend the 2005 baseball season touring the country with the ninety-four-year-old O'Neil in hopes of rediscovering the love that first drew them to the game. The 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. In an era when greedy, steroid-enhanced athletes have come to characterize professional ball, Posnanski offers a salve for the damaged spirit: the uplifting life lessons of a truly extraordinary man who never missed an opportunity to enjoy and love life.
Download or read book Pure Baseball written by Keith Hernandez and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keith Hernandez, former superstar, teaches how to watch a baseball game by focusing on each pitch and each play in two games in June, 1993.
Download or read book Bouncing Back written by Brandon Carter and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever feel like life is kicking you while you're down? That there's no light at the end of the tunnel, and you want to give up hoping?My inspirational story is about achieving success in baseball, undergoing life threatening brain surgery on a small, benign tumor the the last 9 years of my life. From learning to walk again, becoming a youth leader and youth coach in my church, getting a 4.0 GPA after a year in college, to becoming a Scoutmaster.Medical Professionals explained to me that my surgery would be smooth and all would go well. To my surprise, I woke up in the I.C.U. with tubes coming out of me, double vision, and had lost the ability to walk.This story is one of hope, and proves that anything is possible no matter who tells you that you can't do it!
Download or read book The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture 2013 2014 written by William M. Simons and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generally acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research and pedagogy. This collection of 17 new essays is selected from the approximately 100 presentations of the 2013 and the 2014 symposia, covering topics whose importance extends beyond the ballpark. Presented in six themed parts, the essays consider the congruence of culture and baseball, the importance of ballpark itself, the myths, legends and icons of the baseball imagination, international and ethnic game variations, the work of baseball museum curators and a context for the game's rules of play and labor.
Download or read book Brain Compatible Mathematics written by Diane Ronis and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students' brains are wired to make them natural, curious learners. The mathematical world around them offers a vast classroom, filled with textiles, shapes, spaces, quantities, and experiences to discover and explore, all leading to the construction of understanding. Teachers can use this natural curiosity to tap the inborn neural mechanisms that motivate students to learn--to make relevance and meaning of their surroundings. Brain-Compatible Mathematics, Second Edition bridges the findings from the realms of brain research and improved mathematics instruction through teaching samples, standards, newest research findings, and integration to other content areas.
Download or read book Baseball s Heartland War 1902 1903 written by Dennis Pajot and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1901, a number of baseball owners decided to break away from the Western League and form a new league called the American Association. This "outlaw league" refused to recognize organized baseball's reserve clause, but vowed to respect contracts. Unfortunately, organized baseball did not reciprocate. Over the next two years, the leagues battled each other for players, fans, and financial superiority. This narrative of that struggle details the business operations of the different clubs, the difficulties of securing property for ball parks, and the problem of players jumping contracts. It also chronicles the two playing seasons during the conflict and describes the rowdy behavior of both players and umpires that characterized baseball at the time. Although the American Association would go on to a longer and more successful life, this study shows that outcome was by no means certain in the early 20th century.
