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Let's
Do It : A Fundamental Guide to Slow-Pitch Softball by Richard Aligo
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| Book Description An indispensable resource for anyone who wants to play competitive slow-pitch softball. Includes- How to form a team, Evaluating players, How to play each position, Batting fundamentals, Practice drills, Scouting reports, Game bookkeeping, 10 to 20 Team Double Elimination Tournament Charts ... Read more |
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Hitter
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| Amazon.com This definitive biography of Ted Williams provides a balanced portrait of the man, the ballplayer, the war veteran, and the hitter. This last side of Williams--the man in the batter's box, the last player to hit .400, the Splendid Splinter--is the most widely and fondly remembered. But Linn also... Read more |
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Three
Men on Third : A Book of Baseball Anecdotes, Oddities, and
Curiosities by Allen H. Smith, et al
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The
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In this generously illustrated, well-written, and very entertaining study of baseball and its intricacies, Gutman examines virtually every detail of the game via text and diagrams. Of special note in this current season of home-run madness is a chapter on the historical composition of balls: how... Read more |
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The
Ball : Mark McGwire's 70th Home Run Ball and the Marketing of the American
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| Amazon.com "The Ball" begins innocently enough in a Costa Rican factory as a Rawlings baseball, like thousands of others each year, is wound and sewn for use in the major leagues. The story ends months later at auction, when that very ball is sold for more than $3 million. Between those two events, Cardinal... Read more |
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A
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| Book Description Baseball needs no defense, but it does occasionally need an intepreter, particularly because it is our national sport...and pastime. Most definitely the latter. Roger Kahn decided to spend some serious time with practitioners of his favorite sport. In the event, he invested an entire season -- from... Read more |
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Subway
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| Book Description A Tale of One City It was the best of times, it was the best of times; it was a season of pinstripes, it was a season of amazin'; it was the autumn of Sinatra, it was the autumn of Baha Men; it was a time of the 7 train, it was a time of the 4 and the D. In short, the period was so like other... Read more |
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Fenway
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| Book Description Fenway Saved is a lovingly drawn portrait, in text and photographs, of Boston's fabled Fenway Park. It features interviews, essays, and the unique never before published photographs of Mike Ross. Fenway Park, the oldest major league stadium in use today, saw the exploit of baseball greats from early... Read more |
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| 59. | Just
Let Me Play: The Story of Charlie Sifford, the First Black PGA Golfer
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| Synopsis At age 69, Charlie Sifford still blasts his way through the PGA racial barriers and has opened up the world of golf to a new generation of blacks, such as Pete Brown and Lee Elder. This quiet man finally speaks out about the game and about the bigotry that lurks in the shadows of every tournament.... Read more |
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In
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| Amazon.com An oral history with academic credentials behind it, In the Ballpark is a clever hybrid of sober scholarship and good fun. Conceived by a practicing anthropologist who once played Minor League ball, the book takes you into the game's corners to tell the stories of the people, most of whom you don't... Read more |
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Tales
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Told by Mike Shannon, Mark Shannon
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| Synopsis Following his successful "Tales from the Dugout", Mike Shannon continues to delight baseball fans with memorable anecdotes from the sport's past and present. 20 illustrations. Read more |
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Bunts
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| Amazon.com "Bunts," explains peripatetic political commentator and baseball rhapsodist George Will, "are modest and often useful things." So is his latest, fittingly titled foray into the National Pastime. Unlike his splendid Men at Work, which offered long, detailed exegeses on the way... Read more |
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Small-Town
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| The New York Times Book Review,
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Minor
League Baseball and Local Economic Development (Sport and Society)
by Arthur T. Johnson, Arthur T. Johnston
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 Excellent Resource for Local Communities When it comes to considering, funding and building minor league baseball stadiums, economic development agencies and local governments don't need to reinvent the wheel. This book outlines the experiences of other communities in relatively useful detail. Learn from their experiences and establish a... Read more
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Splendor
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by Rich Westcott
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My
Baseball Diary (Writing Baseball) by James T. Farrell, Joseph Durso
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| Amazon.com More than 40 years old, and inconceivably out of print for 30 of them, Farrell's Baseball Diary, one of the first gems in a new series of baseball reissues from Southern Illinois University Press, is as rare as a starter who can go nine these days: an ancient text that stays fresh on the wizardry of... Read more |
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The
Baseball Astrologer : And Other Weird Tales by John B. Holway
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| Amazon.com Baseball Astrologer is actually a misnomer for this odd little book; the section on astrology (Capricorns are great at stealing bases but make lousy batters, Sagittarians make great batters but lousy pitchers, etc.) is the briefest--and least interesting--in the book. Where Baseball Astrologer... Read more |
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The
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| Book Description Before the modern era, the closest fans could get to big-league action during the long winters was sitting around the hot stove in general stores and barber shops, exchanging bits of baseball history and anecdotes from the uplifting to the unseemly. These fascinating true stories are collected in ... Read more |
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The
500 Home Run Club: From Aaron to Williams by Bob Allen, Bill Gilbert
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| Book Description The 500 Home Run Club tells the stories of the 15 men who hit more than 500 home runs-out of 14,000 major leaguers who played the game-in their own words talking about themselves and about each other. Over 180 former major leaguers, from Yogi Berra to Don Zimmer, have been interviewed to get their... Read more |
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Baseball
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| Synopsis The wittiest, most insightful and best known words uttered and written about America's favorite pastime. Perfect for gift-giving or collecting, this small-scale volume represents the same attention to detail as high-quality full-size books. Color. Read more |
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The
Man in the Dugout : Baseball's Top Managers and How They Got That Way
by Leonard Koppett
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, February 1, 1993 Veteran sports journalist Koppett (Sports Illusion, Sports Reality, 1981, etc.) breaks new ground with this massive study of baseball managers from the 1840's to the present. The first manager, says Koppett, was Harry Wright, a former cricket star who founded the first professional baseball team,... Read more |
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The
Boston Red Sox Trivia Book by David S. Neft, et al
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 Good, but dated The Red Sox Trivia Book was published in 1993, so it only covers history until 1992. It does provide a brief (50-page) history of the Red Sox, followed by crossword puzzles and trivia questions, and an all-time player list as of 1992. The questions themselves might be challenging for the average... Read more
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They
Call Me Sparky by Sparky Anderson(Introduction), Dan Ewald(Contributor)
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| Amazon.com If statistics alone were the measure of a man's worth, it would be impossible to set a value on Sparky Anderson's accomplishments. He managed two teams, the Detroit Tigers and the Cincinnati Reds, for 26 Major League seasons; only Connie Mack, John McGraw, and Bucky Harris managed longer, and only... Read more |
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A
Bittersweet Journey : America's Fascination with Baseball by Richard C. Phalen, Rick Phalen
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| Pete Williams, Fox Sports
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The
Men in Blue : Conversations With Umpires by Larry R. Gerlach, Larry R. Geriach
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| Paul Bohannon, July
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Dealing with the Men in Blue Every high school player should read this book. So should every college player or pedestrian professional baseball player. Men in Blue provides sound insight from the men who made the call on what makes them mad, makes them like a player, and how they make the rules fit the situation. Gerlach... Read more
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