Author : Manoj Badale
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 2020-09-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781913568504
An essential read for all those with a passion for cricket and an interest in the business of sport, this book is as innovative and ambitious as a Steve Smith century.
Author : Roger Angell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1504081668
The acclaimed New Yorker sportswriter examines the inner working of professional baseball, in these essays from the spring of 1977 to the summer of 1981. Late Innings takes fans far beyond the stadium view of the field and into the substrata of baseball as it is experienced by the people who make it happen. Celebrated as one of the game’s finest chroniclers, Roger Angell shares his commentary on the money, fame, power, traditions, and social aspects of baseball during the late seventies and early eighties. Covering monumental events such as Reggie Jackson’s three World Series home runs and the bitter ordeal of the 1981 players’ strike, Angell offers a timeless perspective on the world of baseball to be enjoyed by fans of all ages.
Author : Barry Nicholls
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1925816451
Life is like facing an opening bowler: the pitch is unknown, the ball is new, and you don't know what will be delivered. A reflection on Barry Nicholls's life, Second Innings explores the author's struggle with mental health and the road to recovery, using his love of the game of cricket to make sense of it all. Set partly in the present, Second Innings includes flashbacks through five decades of life and focuses particularly on the lives of the men across the generations of Barry Nicholls' own family, and tells the story of Barry's journey from teacher to print journalist to broadcaster.
Author : Roger Angell
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2008-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0446554227
Baseball's best writer offers an extraordinarily candid and thorough exploration of the inner craft of pitching from one of the game's best, David Cone. There is no big league pitcher who is more respected for his skill than David Cone. In his stellar career Cone has won multiple championships andcountless professional accolades. Along the way, the perennial all-star has had to adjust to five different ballclubs, recover from a career-threatening arm aneurysm, cope with the lofty expectations that are standard for the games highest paid players, and overcome a humbling three-month, eight-game losing streak in the summer of 2000. Cone granted exclusive and unlimited access to baseballs most respected writer Roger Angell of the New Yorker. The result is just what baseball fans everywhere would expect from Angell: an extraordinary inside account of a superstar.
Author : Dean A. Sullivan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803242371
This compilation of 120 primary writings documents baseball’s first century, from a loosely organized village social event to the arrival of the National League. Collecting from a wide range of sources—including newspaper accounts, letters, folk poetry, songs, and annual guides—Dean A. Sullivan of Fairfax, Virginia, progresses chronologically from the earliest known baseball reference (1825) to the creation of the Doubleday Myth (1908).
Author : Tiki Barber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442457287
Batter up! Football, basketball, and now baseball—is there anything the Barber brothers won’t try their best to do? The Barbers join the baseball team in this home-run adventure from NFL superstars and bestselling authors Tiki and Ronde Barber. Tiki and Ronde have their sights set on a big diamond—a baseball diamond! Sure, they’re experienced athletes, but they’ve never played baseball before. Do they have what it takes to make the team?
Author : Alan M. Gratz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101014806
1845: Felix Schneider, an immigrant from Germany, cheers the New York Knickerbockers as they play Three-Out, All-Out. 1908: Walter Snider, batboy for the Brooklyn Superbas, arranges a team tryout for a black pitcher by pretending he is Cuban. 1945: Kat Snider of Brooklyn plays for the Grand Rapids Chicks in the All-American Girls Baseball League. 1981: Michael Flint fi nds himself pitching a perfect game during the Little League season at Prospect Park. And there are fi ve more Schneiders to meet. In nine innings, this novel tells the stories of nine successive Schneider kids and their connection to Brooklyn and baseball. As in all family histories and all baseball games, there is glory and heartache, triumph and sacrifi ce. And it ain?t over till it?s over.
Author : The Baseball Prospectus
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0465029183
In 1996, a brassy young team of fansproduced a guide to baseball statistics.Printed on a photocopier, its distribution,which was in the low hundreds, was limited tofriends, family, and die-hard stat heads. Sixteenyears later, the Baseball Prospectus annualregularly hits best-seller lists and has becomean indispensable guide for the serious fan. In Extra Innings, the team at Baseball Prospectusintegrates statistics, interviews, and analysis todeliver twenty arguments about today's game.In the tradition of their seminal book, BaseballBetween the Numbers, they take on everything fromsteroids to the amateur draft. They probe theimpact of managers on the game. They explainthe critical art of building a bullpen. In an erawhen statistics matter more than ever, Extra Inningsis an essential volume for every baseball fan.
Author : David Whitford
Publisher : Harpercollins
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780060164591
Chronicles the first season of baseball's senior league for retired major league ballplayers and includes comments from the league's founder and the star players who returned to the game
Author : James Preller
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 142994045X
A Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year A game in the life of a Little League team playing their championship game – and two best friends whose bond is put to the test. Two teams, six innings, one game. A lively cast of characters—baseball-loving boys between the ages of eleven to thirteen—are playing the biggest game of their lives. With acrobatic catches, clutch hits, dramatic whiffs, and costly errors, this game is full of action. But as the book unfolds, pitch by pitch, a deeper story emerges, with far more at stake: Sam and Mike, best friends, are trying to come to terms with Sam's newly diagnosed cancer. And this baseball diamond becomes the ultimate testing ground of Sam and Mike's remarkable friendship as they strive to find a way to both come out winners. This is for the championship. This is for life.
