Download or read book Bats Balls Bubble Gum Cards written by George Altemose and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball fans of all persuasions will enjoy this book as much as a good hitter likes a fastball down the middle. For those who have played the game as amateurs, there are great stories by author George Altemose of playing in the first days of the Mens Senior Baseball League (MSBL), the Stan Musial League, and the Roy Hobbs League, with tournaments all over the country in fields in Cooperstown, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Boston, Chicago, and Florida. George's opponents in these games included major leaguers Rico Carty, Ron Santo, Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Phil "The Vulture" Regan, and Oil Can Boyd, and his teammates included Dante Bichette and Rusty Meacham. There are fascinating encounters with a number of legendary baseball figures, including Leo Durocher, Charlie Grimm, Specs Toporcer, Tom Seaver, and authors Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ritter. But the main players in the stories are the ordinary players, those who were not destined to play professionally, but who played single games on Saturday and doubleheaders on Sunday, simply because they loved to play. To pass the time during cold winters and rainy afternoons, George also collected baseball cards and other memorabilia, including bubble gum cards from the 1950s and 1960s and tobacco cards from the T205 and T206 series of 1909 to 1911. Stories of how these cards were acquired, as well as a brief but interesting history of baseball cards over the years from the late 1800s to the present day, will bring a smile to the face of anyone whose mother threw out his cards while he was still in high school. Whether baseball is played at the highest levels, such as we see at Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, or down at the sandlot level on a poorly maintained junior high school field, it is still the same game. Nowhere is this shown more clearly than in this great story of baseball and those who love it.
Download or read book The Great American Baseball Card Flipping Trading and Bubble Gum Book written by Brendan C. Boyd and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 1973 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on collecting baseball cards in childhood accompany remarks on the skills and achievements of players whose pictures were found in bubble gum packages
Download or read book Baseball and Bubble Gum written by Tom Zappala and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball & Bubble Gum: The 1952 Topps Collection details the most iconic postwar baseball set in hobby history. With the end of World War II, the advent of television, and an explosion of love for our National Pastime, the players making up this historic collection became bigger than life. Mantle, Berra, Robinson, and Spahn are just a few of the stars who helped Americans forget the ravages of war and who opened the door to Major League Baseball's desegregation that was closed for so many years.Each player narrative in this book gives you a glimpse of what life was like for these athletes during and after World War II. Many of these men fought overseas, and some of them were even Purple Heart recipients. Organized in chapters by the Hall of Famers, the Commons, and the Uncommons, it's interesting to see that the love of baseball was the common thread between players like Hall of Famer Duke Snider; an uncommon player like Bobby Shantz, who, although is not in Cooperstown, had a wonderful career; and a typical common player like Jim Busby, who played day in and day out without any fanfare.The last chapter of the book discusses the great appeal of the 1952 Topps set; how the collection was developed; the nuances of particular cards, along with the scarcity, popularity, and in some cases, the card value. This set became the template for card collecting, and it is still going strong after 68 years. Kids and adults have been trading and collecting their favorite players for years.Today, collecting has become a big business, but when all is said and done, we are all still kids who love those little cardboard pieces of art. This book is a fun read for baseball lovers, card collectors, and baseball historians. Grab yourself some bubble gum, sit back, and enjoy the journey into the decade of "The Whiz Kids," "Dem Bums," and "The Bronx Bombers."
Download or read book Boys Bat Balls written by Bruce L. Barber and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-22 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old Little League Coach reflects on his 10 years coaching boys baseball Techniques that worked and created winning boys baseball teams. The history of baseball and Little League history to date.
Download or read book Before There Was Bubble Gum Our Favorite Pre World War I Baseball Cards written by Dean Hanley and published by Dean's Cards. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bubble Gum Card War written by Dean Hanley and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classic Baseball Cards written by Bert Randolph Sugar and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1977 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are reproductions of 98 authentic baseball cards representing 104 great players of baseball's Golden Age, from 1880 to 1940. Included are superstars such as Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Dizzy Dean, and many other famous names in the history of baseball, from John McGraw and Connie Mack to Rudy York and Leo Durocher. Each card is an authentic reproduction of the original, with a full-color illustration of the player on one side and the original information and advertising on the reverse. This book represents a collection of rare baseball cards which would take years of searching and thousands of dollars to match.
Download or read book A House of Cards written by John Bloom and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scoring from Second written by Philip F. Deaver and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do accomplished writers (and grown-ups) like Ron Carlson, Rick Bass, and Michael Chabon (to name but a few of those represented here) still obsess over their baseball days? What is it about this green game of suspense that not only moves us but can also move us to flights of lyrical writing? In Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball some of the literary lights of our day answer these questions with essays, reminiscences, and meditations on the sport that is America's game but also a deeply personal experience for player, observer, and fan alike. Here writers as different as Andre Dubus and Leslie Epstein, Chabon and Floyd Skloot, Michael Martone and William Least Heat-Moon reflect on the game they grew up with, the players who thrilled them, and the lessons that baseball holds for us all. From the one-season wonder to the long-haul heroes to the hall of fame, the game that has framed so many American summers-and lives-comes to quirky, instructive, and always entertaining life in these pages. Philip F. Deaver is the author of How Men Pray and Silent Retreats and winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He is writer-in-residence and associate professor of English at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Lee K. Abbott is the author of seven collections of short stories, including Wet Places at Noon and All Things, All at Once: New & Selected Stories. He is a professor of English at The Ohio State University in Columbus. Contributors: Jocelyn Bartkevicius, Rick Bass, Larry Blakely, Earl S. Braggs, Christopher Buckley, Rick Campbell, David Carkeet, Ron Carlson, Michael Chabon, Mick Cochrane, Hal Crowther, Andre Dubus, Leslie Epstein, Gary Forrester, Lee Gutkind, Jeffrey Hammond, Jeffrey Higa, Peter Ives, Richard Jackson, William Least Heat-Moon, Lee Martin, Michael Martone, Cris Mazza, Kyle Minor, Dan O'Neill, Susan Perabo, Rachael Perry, Kurt Rheinheimer, Louis D. Rubin Jr., Luke Salisbury, Floyd Skloot, Tom Stanton, Michael Steinberg, Tim D. Stone, and Robert Vivian.
Download or read book Before There Was Bubble Gum written by Dean Hanley and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thoughts of Life written by Steve Soto and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-02-16 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a conglomeration of poems and quotations I’ve written over the last fifty years. I also included some arguable essays I’ve written. I think some are on point and others are confrontational, hence the name. I have always enjoyed poems, and I find quotations very inspiring for the succinct manner in which you can relay thoughts, and hopefully inspiration. I included what I call arguable essays. I call them arguable because I’m sure some people won’t agree with me on my reasoning and conclusions. I hope you enjoy my writings.
Download or read book Once a Fan written by Jim Chernesky and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Chernesky's first documented act in the sports world was making his own baseball cap in kindergarten in 1955. His involvement would not end there. In fact, sports have played an important role throughout his life. In Once a Fan, Chernesky narrates his lifelong interest in sports along with the thrills, the disappointments, and the lessons shared with fans and participants of all ages and skills. In this memoir, Chernesky explores watching, participating in, and coaching sports. Once a Fan illustrates his personal exposure to a simpler time of life and the excitement of watching favorite sports heroes when they represented all that was good about life and growing up. It documents his personal participation in sports from an early age through adulthood recounting learning the game, developing skills, and participating with friends and teammates. He discusses sharing the sporting opportunity with a new generation through coaching and teaching. Once a Fan explores the memories and the lessons learned of what sports was, what it is now, and what it could be again.
Download or read book The Card written by Michael J. O'Keeffe and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two award-winning sports journalists tell the astonishing story of one of the country's most prized icons--the legendary Honus Wagner baseball card--and bring to light the myths, lore, rumors, and facts that have shaped this card's legend.
Download or read book Hall of Fame Baseball Cards written by Bert Randolph Sugar and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1978 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-color, detachable facsimile reproductions, both front and back, of 92 authentic baseball cards. Among the players are Hornsby, Young, McGraw, Stengel, Rickey, Gehrig, Williams, Mantle, Spahn, Robinson, Musial, Koufax, Clemente, and many more. There is no duplication of cards with Sugar's Classic Baseball Cards.
Download or read book Cardboard Gods written by Josh Wilker and published by Seven Footer Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilker marks the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. He captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game.
Download or read book The Great American Baseball Card Flipping Trading and Bubble Gum Book written by Brendan C. Boyd and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 200 cards with humerous biographies, a look at baseball in the 50's.
Download or read book Teaching Hitting written by Dirk Baker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explanation, demonstration, correction and repetition are essential to the activity of teaching. Successful coaches must be able to effectively and consistently incorporate each of these teaching methods into lessons for their teams. Ideal for any age group, the concepts in this guide help coaches to master these basic principles as they focus on the most important elements of how to teach hitting. Introduced with the author's own teaching-coaching philosophy, this work offers 21 chapters covering a hitting coach's every need. When to Start, Bat Size, Grip, Stance, Swing, Drills and Station Work, Bat Speed, Mental Preparation and Confidence, Pinch Hitting and Running a Hitting Clinic are a few examples of the many specific instructional sections included here. There are 137 photographs that supplement the text.
