Book Description
Contains play-by-play details of nine of the best baseball games ever played.
Author : Dan Gutman
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 1996
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ISBN : 9780613095266
Contains play-by-play details of nine of the best baseball games ever played.
Author : Alan Schwarz
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780618731275
Critically acclaimed author Schwarz assembles a delightful collection of personal memories about baseball from some of the game's all-time legends. Lavishly illustrated and handsomely designed, this is a one-of-a-kind collective reminiscence.
Author : Danny Peary
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 1994-04-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
This incredible gathering of first-hand remembrances brings a fascinating and enlightening new perspective to the period of baseball's greatest peak and ultimate turning point--when bigotry and exploitation still ran rampant among the clubs and the sport was irrevocably being changed into a business. 100 photos.
Author : The Editors of Sports Illustrated
Publisher : Sports Illustrated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781618930552
Who's the greatest slugger of all time, Babe Ruth or Ted Williams? Where do Derek Jeter and Cal Ripken Jr. rank on the list of the best shortstops? At third base, would you rather have Mike Schmidt or Brooks Robinson? Is Fenway or Wrigley the better ballpark? This book will end many arguments-and start some new ones. Sports Illustrated's has polled its Major League Baseball experts to determine the ultimate Top 10 in more than 20 categories. The rankings appear alongside stunning photography and classic stories from SI's archives. This is the best of the best in the major leagues, or, more simply, Baseball's Greatest.
Author : Stephen Wong
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1588345718
Game Worn: Baseball Treasures from the Game's Greatest Heroes and Moments is a richly illustrated exploration and first-of-its-kind compendium study of the world's most coveted and precious baseball uniforms worn by Major League ballplayers during the twentieth century. This coffee-table book features many of the most historically significant uniforms, jackets, hats, as well as other treasured baseball collectibles that tell us as much about the history and soul of America as they do about the game and the players. Some of the extraordinary highlights featured in this book include: Babe Ruth's road jersey from his first season with the New York Yankees (1920), the sole surviving uniform from the infamous 1919 World Series, Joe DiMaggio's rookie uniform from 1936, the Boston Red Sox road uniform Ted Williams wore during his epic 1941 season, Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn Dodgers home jersey from the 1952 season, Bill Mazeroski's Pittsburgh Pirates home uniform worn to hit the game-winning home run in game 7 of the 1960 World Series, and a visual feast of rare uniform styles. Each of the 71 entries includes sumptuous photography of the uniform and associated memorabilia, as well as a poignant and lively narrative highlighting its significance. The book also features a first-of-its-kind illustrated compendium with elaborate definitions of relevant terms that every baseball fan and collector needs to know, ranging from the All Star Game Uniform to the Zig-Zag Stitch. This book is an absolute must-have for anyone who has ever loved the game of baseball.
Author : Bob May
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category : African American baseball players
ISBN : 1457512211
A look at the first ninety games of a simulated baseball season featuring Negro league players versus major league players using a baseball board game.
Author : Jim Kaplan
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : 9781600783418
Intertwines the personal histories of baseball Hall of Famers Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn with the events of their sixteen-inning pitching duel at San Francisco's Candlestick Park in the summer of 1963.
Author : John P. Carmichael
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803263680
My Greatest Day in Baseball, one of the earliest collections of the game’s oral histories, presents forty-seven famous stars from the golden age of baseball relating their most unforgettable moments in the sport. Ty Cobb vividly recreates the seventeenth-inning tie between the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers with the 1908 pennant at stake. Grover Cleveland Alexander describes the day he saved the 1926 world championship for the St. Louis Cardinals. Babe Ruth recalls hitting the homer he had promised to the crowd at a 1932 World Series game. Dizzy Dean recounts a run-in with Ford Frick and a record-setting day in 1933 when he struck out seventeen Chicago Cubs. Among the other celebrated baseball figures telling their dramatic stories are Leroy “Satchel” Paige, Casey Stengel, Leo “The Lip” Durocher, Honus Wagner, Johnny Evers, Lefty Gomez, Tris Speaker, Cy Young, Pepper Martin, George Sisler, Billy Southworth, Enos Slaughter, Connie Mack, Walter Johnson, and Rogers Hornsby.
Author : Dan Gutman
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 1995-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780785765561
Showcases some of baseball's worst moments with true stories of men like Fred Snodgrass, who dropped a fly ball in 1912, and Bill Buckner, who let an easy grounder dribble through his legs to blow the '86 World Series
Author : Andy Strasberg
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781423431886
This special-edition book/CD--authored by three baseball insiders and history experts--relates how Take Me Out to the Ball Game" has won a unique and permanent place in the cultural landscape.