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Book The High School Pitcher  or  Dick   Co  on the Gridley Diamond

Download or read book The High School Pitcher or Dick Co on the Gridley Diamond written by H. Irving Hancock and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The High School Pitcher; or, Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond' by H. Irving Hancock, readers are immersed in the thrilling world of high school baseball in the early 20th century. The book, written in a straightforward and engaging style, follows the journey of a group of high school boys as they navigate the challenges and triumphs of the baseball season. Hancock's vivid descriptions of the games and the camaraderie among the teammates capture the spirit of youth and competition during that time period. The exciting plot and memorable characters make this book a timeless classic in sports literature. H. Irving Hancock's ability to bring the game of baseball to life on the pages of his book showcases his passion for the sport and his talent as a storyteller. His deep knowledge of the game and experience as a sports writer are evident in the authenticity and realism of the baseball scenes. Fans of sports fiction and coming-of-age stories will appreciate the heartwarming and action-packed adventure that 'The High School Pitcher' offers, making it a must-read for anyone looking to be inspired by the power of teamwork and determination.

Book The High School Pitcher

    Book Details:
  • Author : H. Irving Hancock
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-07-17
  • ISBN : 3752306602
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book The High School Pitcher written by H. Irving Hancock and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The High School Pitcher by H. Irving Hancock

Book The High School Pitcher

    Book Details:
  • Author : H. Irving Hancock
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2020-07-28
  • ISBN : 3752360941
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book The High School Pitcher written by H. Irving Hancock and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The High School Pitcher by H. Irving Hancock

Book The Inside Game

Download or read book The Inside Game written by Keith Law and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Keith Law, baseball writer for The Athletic and author of the acclaimed Smart Baseball, offers an era-spanning dissection of some of the best and worst decisions in modern baseball, explaining what motivated them, what can be learned from them, and how their legacy has shaped the game. For years, Daniel Kahneman’s iconic work of behavioral science Thinking Fast and Slow has been required reading in front offices across Major League Baseball. In this smart, incisive, and eye-opening book, Keith Law applies Kahneman’s ideas about decision making to the game itself. Baseball is a sport of decisions. Some are so small and routine they become the building blocks of the game itself—what pitch to throw or when to swing away. Others are so huge they dictate the future of franchises—when to make a strategic trade for a chance to win now, or when to offer a millions and a multi-year contract for a twenty-eight-year-old star. These decisions have long shaped the behavior of players, managers, and entire franchises. But as those choices have become more complex and data-driven, knowing what’s behind them has become key to understanding the sport. This fascinating, revelatory work explores as never before the essential question: What were they thinking? Combining behavioral science and interviews with executives, managers, and players, Keith Law analyzes baseball’s biggest decision making successes and failures, looking at how gambles and calculated risks of all sizes and scales have shaped the sport, and how the game’s ongoing data revolution is rewriting decades of accepted decision making. In the process, he explores questions that have long been debated, from whether throwing harder really increases a player’s risk of serious injury to whether teams actually “overvalue” trade prospects. Bringing his analytical and combative style to some of baseball’s longest running debates, Law deepens our knowledge of the sport in this entertaining work that is both fun and deeply informative.

Book The High School Pitcher

Download or read book The High School Pitcher written by H. Irving Hancock and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pitcher

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Hazelgrove
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-04
  • ISBN : 9781940192765
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Pitcher written by William Hazelgrove and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Junior Library Guild Selection. OHazelgrove ("Rocket Man") measures out a generous sprinkling of American idealism while weaving in legitimate threads of sorrow, employing the oft-used baseball metaphor to fresh and moving effect.ON"Publishers Weekly."

Book Senior Year

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dan Shaughnessy
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0618729054
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Senior Year written by Dan Shaughnessy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author chronicles his son's senior year of high school baseball, the boy's obsession with and talent for sports, and his efforts to keep his grades up while deciding what college to attend and avoiding problems until graduation.

Book The High School Pitcher  Or Dick Co  On the Gridley Diamond  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The High School Pitcher Or Dick Co On the Gridley Diamond Classic Reprint written by H. Irving Hancock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The High School Pitcher, or Dick Co; On the Gridley Diamond As he bent his head low behind a bulky text book, Dan Dalzell, of the sophomore class, glanced over at Dick Prescott with sparkling mischief gleaming in his eyes. Dick, who was now a sophomore, and one of the assured leaders in sports and fun, guessed that Dan Dalzell was hatching another of the wild schemes for which Dalzell was somewhat famous. Dick even guessed that he knew about what was passing in Dan's mind. Though moderate whispering was permitted, at need, in the assembly room, there was no chance for Dick and Dan to pass even a word at this time, for almost immediately the bell for the fourth period of the morning's work sounded, and the sections rose and filed out to the various recitation rooms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The High School Baseball Hitter s Handbook

Download or read book The High School Baseball Hitter s Handbook written by Dylan Nasiatka and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is to assist baseball players to get the most out of their high school careers, regardless of location, and to help clarify the process of playing beyond high school. The High School Baseball Hitter's Handbook contains information to improve communication, goal setting, focus, enjoyment, and many other facets players are facing. This book is perfect for parents who have a son, or daughter, who is entering high school with the goal of playing baseball or for the player who is craving more for their development.

Book Pitch Like a Pro

Download or read book Pitch Like a Pro written by Leo Mazzone and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Mazzone was one of pro baseball's premier pitching coaches. In his years with the Atlanta Braves, he trained several Cy Young Award winners and helped lead his team to the World Series. In Pitch like a Pro, Mazzone and coauthor Jim Rosenthal offer step-by-step instructions for players and coaches in Little League through high school. They teach all of the pitching basics and give athletes advice on how they can use the right training techniques to grow stronger and stay healthier. Contents include: Mazzone's between-starts throwing program How to grip different pitches Proper mechanics and delivery technique Pitching strategies and tactics Field the position Pitch like a Pro offers contributions by such well known pitchers as Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smotz, and Denny Neagle, along with black-and-white instructional photographs.

Book The High School Athlete s Guide to College Baseball

Download or read book The High School Athlete s Guide to College Baseball written by Wayne Mazzoni and published by Mazz Marketing Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tips from over 70 college baseball coaches and pro scouts describing how to market yourself to the college of your dreams. -from front cover

Book K  A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches

Download or read book K A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches written by Tyler Kepner and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From The New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today. The baseball is an amazing plaything. We can grip it and hold it so many different ways, and even the slightest calibration can turn an ordinary pitch into a weapon to thwart the greatest hitters in the world. Each pitch has its own history, evolving through the decades as the masters pass it down to the next generation. From the earliest days of the game, when Candy Cummings dreamed up the curveball while flinging clamshells on a Brooklyn beach, pitchers have never stopped innovating. In K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, Tyler Kepner traces the colorful stories and fascinating folklore behind the ten major pitches. Each chapter highlights a different pitch, from the blazing fastball to the fluttering knuckleball to the slippery spitball. Infusing every page with infectious passion for the game, Kepner brings readers inside the minds of combatants sixty feet, six inches apart. Filled with priceless insights from many of the best pitchers in baseball history--from Bob Gibson, Steve Carlton, and Nolan Ryan to Greg Maddux, Mariano Rivera, and Clayton Kershaw--K will be the definitive book on pitching and join such works as The Glory of Their Times and Moneyball as a classic of the genre.

Book Dalko  The Untold Story of Baseball s Fastest Pitcher

Download or read book Dalko The Untold Story of Baseball s Fastest Pitcher written by Bill A. Dembski and published by Influence Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gripping and tragic, Dalko is the definitive story of Steve “White Lightning” Dalkowski, baseball’s fastest pitcher ever. Dalko explores one man’s unmatched talent on the mound and the forces that kept ultimate greatness always just beyond his reach. For the first time, Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball’s Fastest Pitcher unites all of the eyewitness accounts from the coaches, analysts, teammates, and professionals who witnessed the game’s fastest pitcher in action. In doing so, it puts readers on the fields and at the plate to hear the buzzing fastball of a pitcher fighting to achieve his major league ambitions. Just three days after his high school graduation in 1957, Steve Dalkowski signed into the Baltimore Orioles system. Poised for greatness, he might have risen to be one of the stars in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Instead, he spent his entire career toiling away in the minor leagues. An inspiration for the character Nuke LaLoosh in the classic baseball film Bull Durham, Dalko’s life and story were as fast and wild as the pitches he threw. The late Orioles manager Earl Weaver, who saw baseball greats Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax pitch, said “Dalko threw harder than all of ‘em.” Cal Ripken Sr., Dalkowski’s catcher for several years, said the same. Bull Durham screenwriter Ron Shelton, who played with Dalkowski in the minor leagues, said “They called him “Dalko” and guys liked to hang with him and women wanted to take care of him and if he walked in a room in those days he was probably drunk.” This force on the field that could break chicken wire backstops and wooden fences with his heat but racked up almost as many walks as strikeouts in his career, spent years of drinking all night and showing up on the field the next day, just in time to show his wild heat again. What the Washington Post called “baseball’s greatest what-If story” is one of a superhuman, once-in-a-generation gift, a near-mythical talent that refused to be tamed. Steve Dalkowski will forever be remembered for his remarkable arm. Said Shelton, “In his sport, he had the equivalent of Michaelangelo’s gift but could never finish a painting.” Dalko is the story of the fastest pitching that baseball has ever seen, an explosive but uncontrolled arm.

Book The High School Pitcher  Or  Dick   Company on the Gridley Diamond

Download or read book The High School Pitcher Or Dick Company on the Gridley Diamond written by Harrie Irving Hancock and published by . This book was released on 1910* with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick tries to juggle the responsibilities of being the star pitcher of the school baseball team and his job as a reporter for the local newspaper.

Book The High School Pitcher

    Book Details:
  • Author : H. Irving Hancock
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-06-23
  • ISBN : 9781534831247
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book The High School Pitcher written by H. Irving Hancock and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]

Book A Pitcher s Guide

Download or read book A Pitcher s Guide written by Arjun Alwis and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pitcher’s Guide: The Essentials for Throwing Hard & Reaching the Next Level By: Arjun Alwis What must an amateur do to play baseball at a high level, especially if they not built like a prototype pitcher? A Pitcher’s Guide: The Essentials for Throwing Hard & Reaching the Next Level is a collection of advice from a former college pitcher who, unfortunately, started everything discussed in this book too late in his career. But now he’s proposing a path to how an undersized pitcher can make it to a high-level of play. The author shares his understanding of how someone who is not built like a prototypical pitcher can find success and play at a higher level. Included are personal anecdotes of what the author was feeling during his growth in the sport. Perhaps readers will learn that if they truly commit to their goal of pitching at a high level, no matter what their physical limitations are, they can accomplish their goal if they train properly.