Download or read book The Sporting News Selects Baseball s 25 Greatest Pennant Races written by Lowell Reidenbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spine title: Baseball's 25 greatest pennant races. Presents the rankings of history's 25 best pennant races.
Download or read book The Sporting News Selects Baseball s 25 Greatest Pennant Races written by Lowell Reidenbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sporting News Selects Baseball s 25 Greatest Moments written by Ron Smith and published by Contemporary Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich full-color and black-and-white photographs highlight the third book in The Sporting News Selects series--ranking the great players, the great games, and the greatest moments in the history of baseball.
Download or read book The Sporting News Selects Baseball s 25 Greatest Teams written by Lowell Reidenbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sporting News Selects Baseball s 25 Greatest Teams written by Lowell Reidenbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boom and Bust in St Louis written by Jon David Cash and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The St. Louis Cardinals, despite winning more World Series than any Major League franchise except for the New York Yankees, have seen their share of dry spells when they were shut out of the postseason. Like the American economy, the Cardinals have seen their fortunes cycle through prolonged ups and downs, with booms in 1885-1888, 1926-1946, 1964-1968, 1982-1987 and 1996-2011, and busts in 1889-1925, 1947-1963, 1969-1981 and 1988-1995. Drawing on years of research, this book chronicles the Cardinals' periods of success and failure and explains the reasons behind them.
Download or read book The Whiz Kids and the 1950 Pennant written by Robin Roberts and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every generation or so, a team comes along whose march toward victory is so improbable that you can't help but root them along. The 1950 Philadelphia Phillies was that kind of team; young and spirited, the Whiz Kids played a raw, emotional brand of baseball, nipping the Brooklyn Dodgers on the final day of the season to bring the National League's perennial doormat its first title in 35 years. Hall-of-Fame member Robin Roberts, the team's ace starter, peppers his recollections with snippets of oral history from his teammates to produce a book as lively as the team itself.--
Download or read book The Sporting News Selects Baseball s 50 Greatest Games written by Lowell Reidenbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sporting News Selects Baseball s 50 Greatest Games written by Lowell Reidenbaugh and published by Sporting News. This book was released on 1988-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts memorable games, top individual performances, and the most significant games in baseball history, and includes box scores and background information
Download or read book Baseball and the Blame Game written by John Billheimer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-07-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most baseball fans know what links Fred Merkle, Fred Snodgrass, Mickey Owen and Bill Buckner. It's a pantheon of public failure. They would be harder put to say what links Eric Byrnes, Tony Fernandez, and Babe Ruth, though these players made misplays every bit as egregious. In this smart, highly readable history of scapegoating, John Billheimer identifies the elements that combine to condemn one player to a life sentence while another gets a wrist slap for the same offense. As it turns out, the difference between a lower-case e in some forgotten box score and a lifetime of ignominy can hinge on a number of factors, including timing, geography, reputation, misunderstanding, media bias, and just plain bad luck.
Download or read book Sports Fan s Connection written by and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get in touch with leading sources of sports information in the United States with the help of this Gale resource. Included is information about US leagues, teams, organizations, associations, colleges, halls of fame, events, media, books, videos and publications.
Download or read book Corruption and Scandal in American Sports written by Jimmy Sanderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scandals about cheating and corruption have dogged amateur and professional sports in the United States since the nation's earliest days. This work examines the most infamous and consequential of these controversies and scandals both on and off the field. Authoritative Individual essays tackle notorious events in popular American sports ranging from the 1919 Black Sox scandal to revelations of sign stealing by the Houston Astros throughout their 2020 championship season, with stops in between to survey horrific sex abuse scandals at Penn State, Baylor, and Michigan State; steroid and drug scandals that brought down once-admired athletes like Mark McGwire and Lance Armstrong; and cheating/betting controversies that tainted individual players (Pete Rose), teams (Boston College, New England Patriots), and entire leagues (including the Little League World Series in 2001). But this work does more than just recount these events; it will also examine the cultural and economic pressures and forces that contributed to these events, as well as the lessons learned and steps taken (if any) to enact reform and help the sport recover.
Download or read book The Sporting News Selects Baseball s 50 Greatest Games written by Lowell Reidenbaugh and published by Sporting News. This book was released on 1986 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts memorable games, top individual performances, and the most significant games in baseball history, and includes box scores and background information
Download or read book Baseball and American Culture written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1995 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other sport, baseball has become a ubiquitous part of popular culture in the United States. Even nonfans can be heard using the game's terminology to describe everyday situations. Writings on the sport reflect the nature of society, from sobering statistical studies to business analyses, from acclaimed novels on the sport to poetry about the game. The 4,500 works here are arranged by 25 broad categories, such as art, commercialization, drug use and abuse, ethnic diversity, heroic images, humor, innovation and change, songs, American values, and women in baseball. Compiled from a wide range of magazines, journals, newspapers, and books, the work gives full bibliographic information for each entry. Comprehensive author and subject indexes are provided for further ease of use.
Download or read book Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 2056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 2056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diamond Classics written by Mike Shannon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1989 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each work, chosen with exquisite care by an expert, is analyzed and summarized. Its greatness as baseball literature, its place in the genre, its peculiarities, weaknesses, strengths, how the critics went for it--all are discussed in such a way, with quotations, that reading or browsing Shannon's book is equivalent to absorbing a rich history of the sport.
