Download or read book The Principle of Baseball written by John F. Paciorek and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John's Book looks at Baseball, and its two most precious elements of Batting and Throwing, from the multiple standpoints of the 'superficially' physical and mental; from the 'meta-physically' scientific; and from the 'all-inclusiveness' of Spirituality. Therefore, Baseball's most enduring and endearing attributes can be perceived on multiple levels of conscious awareness, and thus arouse the 'dormant understanding' of all enthusiastic fanfare to more than just the mundane interests of the 'ordinary' sports - spectator. Change the way you think about the things you see, and the things you now observe will have changed proportionably and substantially to the quality, intensity, and expectancy of your thoughts." The game of baseball enlists few physical impediments that limit success; they are mostly mental. Any simple-minded person can achieve baseball success. Simplicity is the integration and coordination of lifes infinite array of variables within the realm of understanding. Simplicity is not the beginning of primitive evolvement but rather the culminating effect of organizationnot merely the discovery of the wheel but its maximum utility by expanded thinking. The way to describe the best of ball players at his position or at bat is that he makes it look simple. Although it is not really simple, abiding by a strict discipline of simple mechanics, the best players have perfected the techniques for their particular positions through arduous, repetitive labor, from which the human physical endeavor eventually appears effortless and instinctive. (In the words of Thomas Edison, 10 percent inspiration, 90 percent perspiration.) When mere strength and natural ability reach the limits for peak performance, conscientious devotees will find technique to add to their effectiveness and longevity. The universe (one voice) sings in simple chords of harmonious function, changing chaos into order.
Download or read book Reglas Oficiales Del Beisbol written by Tom Lepperd and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Only Rule Is It Has to Work written by Ben Lindbergh and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller about what would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball team It’s the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- with real players, in a real ballpark, in a real playoff race. That’s what baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an independent minor-league team in California, the Sonoma Stompers, offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics. Their story in The Only Rule is it Has to Work is unlike any other baseball tale you've ever read. We tag along as Lindbergh and Miller apply their number-crunching insights to all aspects of assembling and running a team, following one cardinal rule for judging each innovation they try: it has to work. We meet colorful figures like general manager Theo Fightmaster and boundary-breakers like the first openly gay player in professional baseball. Even José Canseco makes a cameo appearance. Will their knowledge of numbers help Lindbergh and Miller bring the Stompers a championship, or will they fall on their faces? Will the team have a competitive advantage or is the sport’s folk wisdom true after all? Will the players attract the attention of big-league scouts, or are they on a fast track to oblivion? It’s a wild ride, by turns provocative and absurd, as Lindbergh and Miller tell a story that will speak to numbers geeks and traditionalists alike. And they prove that you don’t need a bat or a glove to make a genuine contribution to the game.
Download or read book Making Learning Whole written by David Perkins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in Paperback! Make learning more meaningful by teaching the "whole game" David Perkins, a noted authority on teaching and learning and co-director of Harvard's Project Zero, introduces a practical and research-based framework for teaching. He describes how teaching any subject at any level can be made more effective if students are introduced to the "whole game," rather than isolated pieces of a discipline. Perkins explains how learning academic subjects should be approached like learning baseball or any game, and he demonstrates this with seven principles for making learning whole: from making the game worth playing (emphasizing the importance of motivation to sustained learning), to working on the hard parts (the importance of thoughtful practice), to learning how to learn (developing self-managed learners). Vividly explains how to organize learning in ways that allow people to do important things with what they know Offers guidelines for transforming education to prepare our youth for success in a rapidly changing world Filled with real-world, illustrative examples of the seven principles At the end of each chapter, Perkins includes "Wonders of Learning," a summary of the key ideas.
Download or read book The Book written by and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball "by The Book."
Download or read book The Theory of Modern Baseball written by Masaru Kanemoto and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The count is 3-2. Where should the pitcher target his pitch? How close does the pitch have to be for the batter to swing? Should the batter swing at all? Only sabermetrics can provide the answer to these critical strategic questions. But the amount of material on this subject is relatively limited, and until now, players and coaches have been left to guess.The Theory of Modern Baseball addresses this gap in the baseball literature. Using a straightforward sabermetric framework to measure the value of each pitch in each situation, the book presents the theoretically correct approach to each count, based on the skills and tendencies of actual MLB pitchers and hitters.With an understanding of how players approach an at-bat - and how they should - the book then analyzes some of the key strategic elements in modern baseball, including The Shift, The Opener, Hot and Cold Zones, pitch sequencing, platoon effects, weather adjustments, and more.While most of modern baseball strategy is based on sound principles, teams and players are still making massive strategic errors every single game, far worse than an extra sacrifice bunt or intentional walk or two. A dedicated coach or player willing to apply the knowledge contained in The Theory of Modern Baseball is likely to gain a significant edge over the competition.
Download or read book Play Baseball the Ripken Way written by Cal Ripken (Jr.) and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features illustrated guidelines on baseball fundamantals as drawn from the late Cal Ripken, Sr.'s years as a coach and manager and Cal Ripken Jr.'s record-making career, in a primer with complementary information for parents and coaches.
Download or read book The 10 Commandments of Baseball written by J. D. Thorne and published by Sporting Chance Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winning in Baseball and Business written by Earl Bell and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to know how your business can score a home run? Earl Bell, successful businessman, entrepreneur, and Little League coach is just the coach you need to take your business to the Major Leagues. Now for the first time, Earl Bell reveals his coaching secrets in Winning in Baseball and Business, a book that uses metaphor to show that everything you need to know in business you can learn from lessons in youth baseball. The book is divided into two sections the first about Little League, the second about how to apply baseball principles to your business. Earl's love of both games baseball and business shine through as he talks about strategies, goals, how his Little League team achieved hall of fame results, and how you can do the same for your business. As an added bonus, twenty stories of successful entrepreneurs from teenagers to historical business icons are included as inspirational models. After reading Winning in Baseball and Business, your game will never be the same.
Download or read book Modern Baseball Strategy written by Paul Richards and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 So You Think You Know Baseball A Fan s Guide to the Official Rules written by Peter E. Meltzer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential for armchair umpires and scorekeepers, this guide challenges aficionados on every significant part of the Official Baseball Rules. Few sports lovers are as obsessed with rules and statistics as baseball fans. In So You Think You Know Baseball?, lifelong baseball enthusiast Peter E. Meltzer catalogues every noteworthy baseball rule from the Major League rulebook and illustrates its application with actual plays, from the historical to the contemporary. You can read the book from start to finish or consult it while watching a game to understand the mechanics of a play or how it should be scored. Meltzer analyzes the entire Official Baseball Rules using hundreds of Major League plays involving both plays on the field situations and plays which have involved the official scorer. This is the first book ever written which analyzes the entire rulebook in this fashion and which is based on actual plays. With Meltzer’s unique and thoroughly entertaining guide in hand, which includes a foreword by baseball rules expert Rich Marazzi, you’ll never have to scratch your head over an umpire or scorekeeper’s call again.
Download or read book May the Best Team Win written by Andrew Zimbalist and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Science of Baseball written by Norman D. Graubart and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball is a game of numbers, angles, and physics. Science, technology, engineering, and math come together in the game of baseball—from the design of the stadium to the ways a pitcher throws and a batter swings. As readers discover the science behind this popular sport, colorful photographs show important areas of STEM curricula in action at the ballpark. Informative text, graphic organizers, and sidebars help readers learn that science concepts can be seen all around them, including their next baseball practice or trip to see a Major League Baseball game.
Download or read book The Rules Abide written by Jim Tosches and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every baseball player, coach and fan should know the rules of their beloved game, but there's just one problem, the rule book is an intolerable read that often raises as many questions as it answers. As a student of the game, and more recently an official, Jim set out to reconstruct the rules of baseball and explain the theory behind them in a logical and fun way, as the game unfolds around the diamond; illustrated with history, game situations and personal observations. If that makes you think “I get it, baseball for dum-dums”, you couldn't be more wrong. An ode to the national pastime, that armchair enthusiasts will enjoy, it will also educate and entertain the many players, coaches, parents and officials involved in the serious, and sometimes not-so-serious, business of baseball in America. From little league to the pros, the game remains the same.Baseball endures, and the rules abide!
Download or read book Baseball Metaphysics written by Daniel F. McNeill and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball expresses basic Christian themes: a primary state of innocence, the batter setting himself at the plate; a temptation, the offering of the ball by the pitcher; a fall, the self-condemnation by hitting the ball to the diminished role of a base runner; sin, the passive touching of a base; faith, running the bases or taking a lead off base; grace, a sudden unmerited aid that leads to advancement on the bases or scoring a run; and the final redemption of reaching the place at home plate where a player was at the beginning. The game evolved throughout the nineteenth century to the form we know today. The way a baseball game works and the way people of the time lived were so closely interrelated that no one needed then to think symbolically about baseball. A man who struck out at the plate failed. No one needed to tell him that he risked failure both in life and in a game. He risked striking out in both. Americans understood they were living in a tough survival-of-the-fittest free-enterprise economy and it was probably obvious to them that baseball was a survival-of-the-fittest game. But white American Protestants of the time were a people of the bible. Even irreligious and skeptical people knew their bible. They failed economically or succeeded economically but they also failed or succeeded religiously. Did they see expressed in baseball what they read about in their bibles? If they did, no one except Mark Twain wrote about baseball as a symbol. He called baseball "the very symbol, the outward and visible expression, of the nineteenth century." In our twenty-first century it is difficult to see the symbolism in baseball because we think of it as one game when in reality it is two games combined, the ball game between pitchers and batters and the base game when batters reach base and become runners. The ball game began 3000 years ago in what is now Mexico when the Olmec people learned how to make rubber balls. The invention of the ball led to the invention of the ancient American ball game. A man on one team on a ball court threw his body against the descending ball sent towards him by an enemy player to shoot it back up into the heavens. His body achieved a degree of immortality by becoming an instrument to assure that the ball did not strike the ground and mimic the disaster of a planet in the sky falling to earth. White American Protestants took this basic ball game played for centuries in North America, revised it and made the extraordinary creative leap of adding the diamond-shaped pathways to the bases around the ball game at the center. Pitching and batting, the ball game part of baseball, has its origin in an ancient ball game full of symbols. The ball still flies from the member of one team, the pitcher, to a member of another team, a batter, who tries to hit the ball up into the sky. Once the ball is hit, the baseball players on the defense like the ancient ball players try not to let the ball hit the ground. The introduction to this basic ball game - the game between batters and a pitcher - of the diamond-shaped base paths is a radical change and expansion of the basic ball game. There is no logical connection between pitching/batting, one game, and running the bases, the second game. Many batters do not reach a base. But it was a stroke of genius to combine two distinct types of activities that nonetheless work harmoniously together. Two separate games, pitching/batting and running the bases, are somehow synthesized artistically in baseball like two melodies combined in one musical piece. This book argues that the ingenious game of baseball that resulted is art. Baseball is art because it refashions life into a purer image of itself. Baseball is the American national theater because it expresses the most fundamental dramatic themes of the American experience. Baseball is art because it has a symbolic structure that presents to us creative images of life worthy of being pondered and contemplated.
