Download or read book Great Baseball Feats Facts Firsts written by David Nemec and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Baseball Feats Facts Firsts 2010 written by David Nemec and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes scores, records, statistics, and stories of baseball, from the earliest years of the sport through the current season.
Download or read book Great Baseball Feats Facts and Firsts 2011 written by David Nemec and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of major league baseball history, statistics, and records from 1846 through the 2010 postseason.
Download or read book Great Baseball Feats Facts and Firsts 2005 written by David Nemec and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one-volume guide to all the offbeat feats, historic moments, and one-of-a-kind characters that have kept baseball flying for over 150 years.
Download or read book Great Baseball Feats Facts and Firsts written by David Nemec and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2004-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now expanded and updated through the 2009 postseason and beyond, this comprehensive volume features all the need-to-know stats, scores, and strikeouts every diehard baseball fan wants. Revised reissue.
Download or read book Great Baseball Feats Facts and Firsts 2009 written by David Nemec and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a grand-slam perennial seller knocks another one out of the park From K-Rod to A-Rod...spring training to the World Series...here are the latest winners and losers, most amazing games, stars, scandals, and scores Discover the unconventional plays, the offbeat feats, the historic moments, and the one-of-a-kind characters that have made baseball America’s game for more than 150 years. This comprehensive and updated volume features all the need-to-know stats, scores, and strikeouts every diehard baseball fan wants.
Download or read book Baseball s Iconic 1 0 Games written by Warren N. Wilbert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although very few baseball games end with a final score of one to zero, and such a score line might suggest a contest devoid of drama, nothing could be further from the truth. Since the 1876 inaugural season of professional baseball, many 1-0 games have proved as compelling as those featuring a parade of pitchers and a plethora of home runs. In Baseball's Iconic 1-0 Games Warren Wilbert has chronicled the tensest 1-0 nail-biters that have occurred since baseball's first professional season. Organized thematically, Baseball's Iconic 1-0 Games starts by examining 1-0 games achieved on Opening Day, with the finest selected from the more than 50 that have occurred since 1876. Regular season games, in which less than three percent result in a 1-0 score, are then detailed, including those games pitched by such greats as John "Jocko" Flynn and Randy Johnson. Championship play, from the first inning of playoffs to the final out of the World Series, has its own share of 1-0 drama, and this, too, is covered extensively. These chapters are then followed by a look at the elusive perfect 1-0 game, of which only eight have been pitched since 1871--seven with a single pitcher. Pitching titans such as Walter Johnson, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Bert Blyleven, Christy Mathewson, Dean Chance, Ed Walsh, Guy White, and Cy Young have had more than their fair share of 1-0 victories, and an additional chapter examines these pitchers and their 1-0 games. Appendixes include a full list of pitchers to have thrown a no-hit 1-0 game, pitching greats who have amassed ten or more career 1-0 victories, and 1-0 games in both the Negro Leagues and the Japanese Major Leagues. Featuring more than 30 photographs, Baseball's Iconic 1-0 Games is sure to fascinate all baseball fans, players, and historians.
Download or read book Touching All the Bases written by Thomas D. Phillips and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Exits: The Premature Endings of Baseball Careers by Brian McKenna (Scarecrow, 2006), 304 pages, paper, $50. LTD sales: 244 ($7,463 net)A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball by Peter Morris (IRD, Apr 2010), 664 pages, paper, $26.95 LTD sales: 1,552 ($21,007 net)Out by a Step: The 100 Best Players Not in the Baseball Hall of Fame by Mike and Neil Shalin (Taylor Trade, 2002), 240 pages, cloth, $26.95 LTD sales: 2,311 ($32,369 net)
Download or read book The Shutout in Major League Baseball written by Warren N. Wilbert and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shutout--a game in which a team prevents its opponent from scoring--remains relatively rare. Of the roughly 200,000 regular season games that have been played since the origins of the major leagues, only about 10 percent have been shutouts. Gold Glove defense, astonishing pitching talent, and the combined efforts of a team working toward baseball artistry must all come together. This work covers every shutout from the beginning of professional baseball through the 2010 World Series, including no-hitters and perfect games. With in-depth statistics and play-by-play descriptions to bring to life the action on the field, it is the definitive history of one of baseball's premier achievements.
Download or read book Baseball State by State written by Chris Jensen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a fresh approach to the familiar concept of all-time baseball teams, this exhaustive work ranks more than 2,500 players by state of birth and includes both major league and Negro League athletes. Each chapter covers one state and opens with the all-time team, naming a top selection for each position followed by honorable mentions. Also included are all-time stat leaders in nine categories--games, hits, average, RBI, home runs, stolen bases, pitching wins, strikeouts and saves--a brief overview of the state's baseball history, notable player achievements, historic baseball places to see, potential future stars, a comprehensive list of player nicknames, and the state's all-time best player.
Download or read book Arlie Latham written by L.M. Sutter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of early baseball's most popular celebrities, Arlie Latham played for the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s. A brainy hitter and base-runner, he was also the sport's brashest, funniest player, his "fresh" personality bringing him as much trouble as reward. He played with the 19th century's greatest names, and was friends with everyone from King Kelly to King George V. He parlayed his stardom into a vaudeville career and the first official major league coaching job. In his fifties he carried the game he loved into world war to cheer Allied troops and in his seventies went to work for the Yankees. Arlie Latham's baseball odyssey is made more compelling by the parade of players, gamblers, boxers, actors, women and mascots that passes through it, providing a unique glimpse into America's game and the people who loved it.
Download or read book The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball written by David Nemec and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this volume, David Nemec completes his remarkable trilogy of 19th-century baseball biographies, covering every major league player, manager, umpire, owner and league official. It provides in-depth information on many figures unknown to most historians. Each detailed entry includes vital statistics, peer-driven analysis of baseball-related skills, and an overview of the individual's role in the game. Also chronicled are players' first and last major league games, most important achievements, movements from team to team, and much more. By bringing attention to these overlooked baseball personalities, this reference work immeasurably enriches our knowledge of 19th century major league baseball.
Download or read book The 25 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time written by Len Berman and published by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berman of the "Today" show steps up to the plate and lays out who he thinks are the 25 greatest baseball players in history. Full color.
Download or read book Baseball s Top 100 written by Kerry Banks and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a collection of achievements on the baseball diamond. From the most grand slams in a career to the most consecutive stolen bases, from the familiar to the unfamiliar record holders, the best of the best is all here.
Download or read book The USA TODAY College Football Encyclopedia 2009 2010 written by Bob Boyles and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive resource on college football ever published.
Download or read book Nobody s Perfect written by Armando Galarraga and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Detroit Tigers, an umpire, a pitcher, and a mistake—one of the “classic, human, baseball stories” (Ken Burns, creator of the PBS mini-series Baseball). The perfect game is one of the rarest accomplishments in sports. In nearly four hundred thousand contests in over 130 years, it has happened only twenty times. On June 2, 2010, Armando Galarraga threw baseball’s twenty-first. Except that’s not how it entered the record books. That’s because Jim Joyce, voted the best umpire in the game in 2010 and 2011, missed the call on the final out. But rather than throwing a tantrum, Galarraga simply turned and smiled, went back to the mound, and finished the game. “Nobody’s perfect,” he said later in the locker room. “You might think everything that could have been said, replayed, and revealed about that night has already been uttered, logged, and exposed. You would, however, be as wrong as the unfortunate Mr. Joyce” (The Detroit News). In Nobody’s Perfect, Galarraga and Joyce come together to tell the personal story of a remarkable game that will live forever in baseball lore, and to trace their fascinating lives in sports. The result is “a masterpiece”, an absorbing insider’s look at two careers in baseball, a tremendous achievement, and an enduring moment of pure grace and sportsmanship (The Huffington Post).
