Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball, Warren Jay Goldstein
Автор: Warren Jay Goldstein Название: Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball ISBN: 0801418291 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801418297 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 8408.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increasingly disciplined labor of skilled player-employees. Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century.
Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades.
Автор: Toole, Justin Название: 9 in 9 ISBN: 1626466904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781626466906 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3301.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Enss Chris, Kazanjian Howard Название: Playing for Time: The True Story of the Death Row All Stars ISBN: 0762787562 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780762787562 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 2743.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The amazing true story of the men on Wyoming`s death row in the nineteen-teens who believed they`d be granted reprieves as long as they kept winning baseball games.
Most baseball fans want to hear about stellar players and spectacular plays, statistics and storied franchises. Level Playing Fields sheds light on a usually unnoticed facet of the game, introducing fans and historians alike to the real fundamentals of baseball: dirt and grass. In this lively history, Peter Morris demonstrates that many of the game’s rules and customs actually arose as concessions to the daunting practical difficulties of creating a baseball diamond.
Recovering a nearly lost and decidedly quirky chapter of baseball history, Level Playing Fields tells the engaging story of Tom and Jack Murphy, brothers who made up baseball’s first great family of groundskeepers and who played a pivotal role in shaping America’s national pastime. Irish immigrants who tirelessly crafted home-field advantages for some of baseball’s earliest dynasties, the brothers Murphy were instrumental in developing pitching mounds, permanent spring training sites, and new irrigation techniques, and their careers were touched by such major innovations as tarpaulins and fireproof concrete-and-steel stadiums. Level Playing Fields is a real-life saga involving craftsmanship, resourcefulness, intrigue, and bitter rivalries (including attempted murder!) between such legendary figures as John McGraw, Connie Mack, Honus Wagner, and Ty Cobb. The Murphys’ story recreates a forgotten way of life and gives us a sense of why an entire generation of American men found so much meaning in the game of baseball.
Описание: Studies the effects of the sports media spotlight (and its absence) on the fortunes of teams in pennant races and Hall of Fame inductees. Along the way, the author brings to light accomplished players most non-fans have probably never heard of.
Автор: Junwei Yu Название: Playing in Isolation: A History of Baseball in Taiwan ISBN: 0803211406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803211407 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4117.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Despite the political instability characterizing twentieth-century Taiwan, the value of baseball in the lives of Taiwanese has been a constant since the game was introduced in 1895. The game first gained popularity on the island under the Japanese occupation, and that popularity continued after World War II despite the withdrawal of the Japanese and an official lack of support from the new state power, the Chinese Nationalist Party. The remarkable success of Taiwanese Little League teams in the 1970s and 1980s cemented Taiwan’s relationship with the game.
Taiwanese native Junwei Yu’s Playing in Isolation presents a comprehensive account of that relationship. While giving due credit to the great successes in Taiwanese baseball, Yu also addresses the scandals and controversies that have plagued the sport, including game fixing, improper recruitment practices, and the age-deception fiasco that tainted Taiwan’s seventeen Little League World Series wins. In addition Yu draws attention to the influence traditional culture exerts on parental support of sports versus education and more sedentary occupations.
Drawing on detailed research and personal experience, Yu provides a rare, honest look at the reality of baseball in Taiwan and offers an insider’s perspective on a unique part of baseball history.
Автор: Brandon Kruse, Brent Hershey, Ray Murphy, Ron Shandler Название: Ron Shandler`s 2023 Baseball Forecaster: And Encyclopedia of Fanalytics ISBN: 1637271867 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781637271865 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3881.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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For more than thirty years, the very best in baseball predictions and statistics.
The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts. Rather than predicting batting average, for instance, this resource looks at the elements of skill that make up any given batter's ability to distinguish between balls and strikes, his propensity to make contact with the ball, and what happens when he makes contact—reverse engineering those skills back into batting average. The result is an unparalleled forecast of baseball abilities and trends for the upcoming season and beyond.
Описание: The hit 1992 film A League of Their Own made the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League famous. But the players` stories remain largely untold. The 600 women who played for the AAGPBL through the 1940s and 1950s enjoyed a rare opportunity to lead independent lives as well-paid professional athletes.
Автор: Gmelch George Название: Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties ISBN: 1496219589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496219589 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2376.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In 1965 George Gmelch signed a contract to play professional baseball with the Detroit Tigers organization. Gmelch grew up sheltered in an all-white, affluent San Francisco suburb, and he knew little of the world outside. Over the next four seasons, he came of age in baseball’s Minor Leagues through experiences ranging from learning the craft of the professional game to becoming conscious of race and class for the first time. Playing with Tigers is not a typical baseball memoir. Now a well-known anthropologist, Gmelch recounts a baseball education unlike any other as he got to know small-town life across the United States against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, civil rights protests, and the emergence of counterculture. The social and political turmoil of the times spilled into baseball, and Gmelch experienced the consequences firsthand as he played out his career in the Jim Crow South. Playing with Tigers immerses the reader in the life of the Minor Leagues, capturing the gritty, insular, and humorous life and culture of Minor League baseball during a period when both the author and the country were undergoing profound changes.
Автор: Jeremy Deloney, Rob Gordon Название: 2024 Minor League Analyst ISBN: 1637273223 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781637273227 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2772.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The best resource for projecting future performance of minor league athletes—essential for fantasy league baseball players.
The first book of its kind to fully integrate sabermetrics and scouting, the 2024 Minor League Baseball Analyst provides a distinctive brand of analysis for more than 1,000 minor league baseball players. Features include scouting reports for all players, batter skills ratings, pitch repertoires, performance trends, major league equivalents, and expected major league debuts. A complete sabermetric glossary is also included. This one-of-a-kind reference is ideally suited for baseball analysts and those who play in fantasy leagues with farm systems.
Автор: Brandon Kruse, Brent Hershey, Ray Murphy, Ron Shandler Название: Ron Shandler`s 2024 Baseball Forecaster: And Encyclopedia of Fanalytics ISBN: 1637273193 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781637273197 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3742.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: For more than 35 years, the very best in baseball predictions and statistics
The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts.
Rather than predicting batting average, for instance, this resource looks at the elements of skill that make up any given batter's ability to distinguish between balls and strikes, his propensity to make contact with the ball, and what happens when he makes contact—reverse engineering those skills back into batting average.
The result is an unparalleled forecast of baseball abilities and trends for the upcoming season and beyond.
Автор: Ron Shandler Название: Fantasy Expert ISBN: 163727548X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781637275481 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3881.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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An entertaining and incisive chronicle from one of the foremost authorities in fantasy baseball
Ron Shandler is a self-described rotoholic. In the beginning, he hoarded newspaper box scores and pored over every number at his disposal. Then came the compulsion to create his own numbers. A monthly newsletter expanded into an annual Baseball Forecaster book, which spawned a media company, websites, tournaments, and more.
Part memoir, part madcap history, Fantasy Expert is a fascinating and wide-ranging look at the modern growth and development of the game that went from cottage industry to national obsession.
In chronicling his own escalating journey from rotisserie baseball hobbyist to professional authority, Shandler tells parallel tales of the rise of fantasy sports, the expanding baseball information industry, the increasingly sophisticated technology employed to gain an edge, and the fellow rotoholics who make it all possible. He also delves into the impact of fantasy baseball on the sport of baseball itself.
Written with humor, honesty, and a deep passion for baseball, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the history, progression, and future of fantasy baseball.
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