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Fair
Ball : A Fan's Case for Baseball by Bob Costas
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Amazon.comThis isn't a commentator's diatribe against the sport, but rather a fan's case for baseball. What do I want? I think the same thing that most baseball fans want: To see the game prove worthy of our devotion. Bob Costas loves baseball. And he's worried about the state of the game--superstar players... Read more |
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Red
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| Amazon.com It was Smith who once deemed 90 feet between bases the most perfect measurement in the universe. Those who feasted on his columns in, most notably, The New York Herald-Tribune and The New York Times until his death in 1982 would have no trouble ascribing the same measurement of perfection to his... Read more |
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The
Physics of Baseball by Robert Kemp Adair
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| From Book News,
Inc. , April 1, 1990 Adair (physics, Yale U. and physicist to the National League, 1987-89) offers the physics and formulae along with examples and anecdotes from pro ball play. If you follow the game, you ought to understand the principles. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Read more |
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The
Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said by Yogi Berra
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| Amazon.com If the subtitle of this delicious collection of Yogi-isms has you scratching your head, it has done its job as stunningly as Berra used to do his behind the plate at Yankee Stadium. The Hall of Fame MVP catcher for the pinstriped dynasties of the late 1940s through the '50s and into the '60s, Berra... Read more |
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The
Mental Game of Baseball : A Guide to Peak Performance by H. A. Dorfman, Karl Kuehl(Contributor)
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mirza79, November
21, 2000
 This book deserves more than 5 stars I am not a baseball player and I have just started reading the book. However, what I have read so far in those first 30-40 pages was enough to convince me that this book is simply great. I am actually a Division I tennis player and I was reccomended the book by my coach. At first I wondered how I... Read more
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Nolan
Ryan's Pitcher's Bible : The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term
Performance by Nolan Ryan, Tom House(Contributor)
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| Book Description How does Nolan Ryan still do it? At 43 years old, Nolan Ryan is a marvel. He is still blowing his fastballs by hitters at an age when most pitchers have long since retired -- or have learned to depend on guile instead of power. But the Ryan express keeps chugging on, getting more unhittable, not... Read more |
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The
Little League Guide to Tee Ball by Ned McIntosh
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| A reviewer, March
27, 2000
Just What Was Needed This was just the book I needed to take on the task of managing my sons Tee Ball team. Simple, easily read and understood, and most important age appropriate for the little guys and gals. Read more
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Every
Pitcher Tells a Story : Letters Gathered by a Devoted Baseball Fan
by Seth Swirsky
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| Amazon.com Gods--as John Updike once wrote of Ted Williams--do not answer letters, but it's amazing how many ballplayers actually do. In his previous Baseball Letters, Swirsky mailed off questions to contemporaries and old-timers alike, and then published the medley of mostly handwritten missives he got back.... Read more |
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Tales
from the Dodger Dugout by Carl Erskine(Editor)
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| From Kirkus Reviews Brooklyn's beloved Oisk recalls life in Ebbetts Field and after.Erskine was a pitcher for the legendary Brooklyn Dodgers teams of the '40s and '50s, a 12-year major-league veteran who logged 122 victories, including a pair of no-hitters. As one of the famed Boys of Summer, he appeared in six World... Read more |
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Summer
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| Amazon.com With the airwaves saturated with so much sporting choice, it's hard to imagine how, not that long ago, baseball so completely dominated the landscape and captured imaginations. Given the 1949 season that veteran journalist David Halberstam meticulously recreates, maybe it's not so hard after all. It... Read more |
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Tales
from the Red Sox Dugout by Jim Prime, Bill Nowlin
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| Book Description The Boston Red Sox are one of the storied sports franchises in North America. Steeped in tradition, they represent a veritable treasure trove of baseball lore. From the earliest days of a promising young pitcher named Babe Ruth, through the glory years of Foxx, Williams, and Yastrzemski, to the... Read more |
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Heads-Up
Baseball : Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time (Spalding Sports
Library) by Ken Ravizza(Contributor), Tom Hanson
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| Todd Fairbourne
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Heads Up Baseball This will be short and sweet. I coach a college softball team. This is mandatory reading each year for my team. We study it as a team. I believe the mental aspects of the game are of utmost importance, usually being the difference in championship caliber contests. This book not only addresses with... Read more
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Search
for the Perfect Swing by John Stobbs(Contributor), et al
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| Book Description Search For the Perfect Swing presents a logical, scientifically researched model of the swing that is easy to understand. Read more |
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Baseball's
Forgotten Heroes : One Fan's Search for the Game's Most Interesting Overlooked
Players by Tony Salin
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| J.K. Kelley, July
4, 2000
the author's dedication shows throughout This is a book written by someone with a lot of love for the game of baseball. It will mostly benefit others with the same love: Salin has found sufficiently obscure figures that I had only heard of half of them. Where feasible, he lets them tell their own stories, thus preserving their style of... Read more
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Confessions
of a Baseball Purist : What's Right--And Wrong--With Baseball, As Seen from
the Best Seat in the House by Jon Miller, Mark Hyman(Contributor)
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| Amazon.com Broadcaster Jon Miller didn't know he was a baseball "purist" until acting commissioner Bud Selig accosted him with the moniker on national TV in 1993. "At one time," writes Miller in retrospect, "the label 'baseball purist' could've been worn as a badge of honor. Any... Read more |
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Men
at Work : The Craft of Baseball by George F. Will
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| Amazon.com In Men at Work, political pundit George Will breaks baseball down, parsing it into essential tasks: hitting, fielding, pitching, and managing. Why do some succeed grandly while others are more apt to whiff? By analyzing the way Tony Gwynn, Cal Ripken, Orel Hershiser, and Tony LaRussa approach the... Read more |
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Baseball
America 2000 Directory : The Complete Pocket Baseball Guide (Baseball America's
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Kurt, August 23,
2000
 Good Baseball Information Resourse This is a book that I refer to often. It is a very good tool for finding out all sorts of important info on Major and Minor League teams, such as directions to the stadiums, names of personnel and schedules, etc. I am a former radio producer and publications editor for the Fort Myers Miracle, a... Read more
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A
Great and Glorious Game : Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti
by A. Bartlett Giamatti, et al
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| Amazon.com By far the most literate of baseball's commissioners, the late Bart Giamatti, former president of Yale, was the game's most unashamedly vocal fan both before and during his tenure as chief executive. The child of immigrants, he embraced baseball's very Americanness, and ascribed to its simple... Read more |
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Tales
from the Dugout : The Greatest True Baseball Stories Ever Told by Mike Shannon
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| Amazon.com If baseball from a fan's perspective is the answer to a lazy summer day, then Tales from the Dugout is the answer to lazy days the rest of the year. Pick it up and open to any page and you'll find the delightful yarns, quotes, foibles, and folklore that wrap the grand old game like so much twine... Read more |
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Keep
Your Eye on the Ball: Curveballs, Knuckleballs, and Fallacies of Baseball,
Revised and Updated by Robert G. Watts, et al
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| David Baldwin, Ph.D., Enterprise
Data Solutions "The authors explore the fascinating gaps between physics and perception that make hitting a baseball such an interesting challenge. Their book provides the layman with entertaining explanations of some of baseball's most cherished assumptions-the curvatures of pitched balls, the behavior of batters... Read more |
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Baseball:
Four Decades of Sports Illustrated's Finest Writing on America's Favorite
Pastime by George Plimpton, Frank Deford
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| Amazon.com If you've ever stood in the batter's box and put good wood on the ball, snapping a liner on a rope to left, or thrilled at the crack of the bat as your favorite player did, you know that baseball is a great game. A beautiful and timeless game that is as unique to American culture as the throaty... Read more |
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Off
Base : New Insights into an Old Game by Andrew Torrez, C. David Burgin(Editor)
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| Amazon.com Torrez, a Harvard-educated lawyer, begins his dressing-down of old-time baseball philosophy with a sentence designed to inflame the fan's emotions: "Everything you think you know about baseball is wrong." If the claim is incendiary, so is much of what follows. He picks apart the game's... Read more |
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Fairball
[UNABRIDGED] by Bob Costas(Reader)
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Amazon.comThis isn't a commentator's diatribe against the sport, but rather a fan's case for baseball. What do I want? I think the same thing that most baseball fans want: To see the game prove worthy of our devotion. Bob Costas loves baseball. And he's worried about the state of the game--superstar players... Read more |
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Little
League Confidential : One Coach's Completely Unauthorized Tale of
Survival by William Geist, Bill Geist
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| Amazon.com Journalist Bill Geist, who is familiar to viewers of the CBS Evening News, used to be a Little League coach in New Jersey. And he somehow lived to tell about it. When first published in 1992, Little League Confidential assumed cult status as a baseball classic, though some just considered it one... Read more |
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Baseball
Letters : A Fan's Correspondence With His Heroes by Seth Swirsky
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| Book Description Baseball Letters did not start out as a book. When the baseball players went on strike in the summer of 1994, Seth Swirsky, missing the game he loved, wrote letters to hundreds of players -- past and present, famous and not so famous -- asking interesting questions pertaining to their lives and... Read more |
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