Download or read book Road Tripping the South Atlantic League written by Walter Triebel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive visitor's guide to the teams of baseball's South Atlantic League lays out the methods needed to plan efficient, cost-effective and rewarding road trips to see home games at ballparks throughout the league. It provides carefully planned travel routes, including lists of interesting eateries and attractions (both baseball-related and otherwise) in or near each team's city. The text traces the history of the league, profiles each current team in detail, describes each ballpark and identifies players who have led the league in batting or pitching. Team profiles list more than 300 players who played with a South Atlantic League team and went on to have a successful major league career. Information about nearby teams outside the SAL is also included for travelers wanting to broaden their baseball road trip experience.
Download or read book The Ultimate Minor League Baseball Road Trip written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthusiastic, irreverent, but exhaustive guidebook to all the stadiums of Minor League Baseball, following up on the success of the first Ultimate Baseball Road Trip book, which was dedicated to Major League stadiums.
Download or read book The South Atlantic League 1904 1963 written by Marshall D. Wright and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents season-by-season information for the original South Atlantic Baseball League, which operated for 60 years in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. (In 1963, with the collapse of the Southern Association, the league was promoted to Double-A status and renamed the Southern League.) Each chapter opens with a season summary and is followed by league standings, team records and rosters, and statistics for each player.
Download or read book Up from the Minor Leagues written by Donald Honig and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven major league baseball players relate the trials and rewards of their minor league experiences that culminated in the thrill of being called to the majors.
Download or read book The North Carolina Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Don t Care If We Never Get Back written by Ben Blatt and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two friends take a wild month-long road trip to hit every Major League Baseball stadium in America: “A fun ride” (The Boston Globe). Ben, a sports analytics wizard, loves baseball. Eric, his best friend, hates it. But when Ben writes an algorithm for the optimal baseball road trip, an impossible dream of every pitch of thirty games in thirty stadiums in thirty days, who will he call on to take shifts behind the wheel, especially when those shifts will include nineteen hours straight from Phoenix to Kansas City? Eric, of course. On June 1, 2013, they set out to see America through the bleachers and concession stands of America’s favorite pastime. Along the way, human error and Mother Nature throw their mathematically optimized schedule a few curveballs. A mix-up in Denver turns a planned day off in Las Vegas into a twenty-hour drive. And a summer storm of biblical proportions threatens to make the whole thing logistically impossible, and that’s if they don’t kill each other first. I Don’t Care if We Never Get Back is a book about the love of the game, the limits of fandom, and the limitlessness of friendship. “Moneyball-worthy mathematical algorithms and the sharp, hilarious prose that has made Lampoon alums famous for generations . . . Nate Silver numbers and James Thurber wit turn what should be a harebrained adventure into a pretty damn endearing one.” —Kirkus Reviews “Evokes the spirit of sports stunt journalist George Plimpton and the dazed road-trip fever of Hunter S. Thompson, minus the mind-altering substances . . . . It’s great watching Blatt and Brewster race home.” —The Boston Globe “A cross between The Cannonball Run and The Great Race, with portions of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World thrown in for good measure . . . The dynamic and back-and-forth tension and sarcasm between Blatt and Brewster is funny . . . Worth reading.” —The Tampa Tribune
Download or read book Blue Highways written by William Least Heat-Moon and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why, Arizona; Whynot, Mississippi." His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amount to a revelation of the true American experience.
Download or read book Stanford written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Green Diamonds written by Jay Acton and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While major league owners squabble over astronomical player salaries, TV revenue, their commissioner and each other, minor league teams across the country are playing the game of baseball the way it used to be played. In this world, owners know the fans by name, players willingly stay after the game to sign autographs, and a family of four can spend three hours at the ballpark - including the cost of soft drinks, beer, hot dogs plus a fireworks show after the game - for under twenty bucks." "America's 150 minor league teams provide family entertainment at bargain prices - and they're profitable. This just might be the kind of business you'd like to put some money in. The teams aren't traded on the New York Stock Exchange, and it's a good bet your broker doesn't know anything about the baseball business. But Jay Acton does, and in this funny, lively, informative book, he will tell you all about it." "But even if you never invest any more than the price of a ticket, Green Diamonds is must reading. Here's an inside look at the game that most informed fans know little about: the crazy promotions that pack minor league fans into the stadiums; the details of the way a team makes (and sometimes loses) money; why minor league owners and general managers believe working for a minor league team is the best job in the world." "If you're a potential investor, Green Diamonds will tell you all you need to know about the business side of baseball. If you just love the game of baseball, Green Diamonds belongs on your shelf as one of the most unusual and informative baseball books of this or any other season."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book It s Your Call written by Baseball America and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is guaranteed to drive any baseball fan batty. Compiled by the editorial staff of Baseball America, It's Your Call puts the reader in the role of the umpire to provide the correct--and instantaneous--judgment. Illustrated.
Download or read book African American Pioneers of Baseball written by Lew Freedman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents brief portraits of twenty legendary African American baseball players who contributed to the integration of Major League baseball.
Download or read book INSIDE PITCH PB written by GMELCH GEORGE and published by Smithsonian. This book was released on 2002-01-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Gmelch describes what life is like for professional baseball players, describing their everyday routines and traditions.
Download or read book The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pete Rose written by Mike Towle and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after being banned from Major League Baseball "for life" because of alleged sports gambling, Pete Rose continues to be a colorful and controversial newsmaker. His frequent appeals to Commissioner Bud Selig for reinstatement have had the overwhelming support of fans, reflecting the enthusiasm Rose brought to the game and the passion he has generated over the years. Rose played twenty-four seasons before retiring in 1986 with numerous records: most career hits (4,256), most games played (3,562), most at-bats (14,053), most seasons with 200 or more hits (10), and most winning games played in (1,972). During a career with the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, and Montreal Expos, Rose was the National League's Rookie of the Year in 1963 and its Most Valuable Player in 1973. In addition to winning three batting titles and two Gold Glove Awards, he also was the World Series MVP with Cincinnati's "Big Red Machine" team that won the 1975 world championship. In Pete Rose: Baseball's Charlie Hustle, dozens of the people who know him best -- teammates, opposing players, friends, fans, hometown acquaintances, and baseball experts -- share their memories of the man and the player. Among the many aspects of his life explored are his competitive zeal even as a Little Leaguer, his athletic success in high school, his on-field scrapes and collisions, his leadership role on the Big Red Machine, his leaving the Reds to join the Phillies, his record-setting 44-game hitting streak, his pursuit of Ty Cobb's all-time hits record, his turbulent days as manager of the Reds, his banishment from baseball, and his various enterprises after baseball. Book jacket.
Download or read book Arizona Highways written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
