Book Description
Assesses the top fifteen baseball teams of the twentieth century, including such legendary squads as the 1927 Yankees and the 1970 Orioles, to determine which team was the greatest of the modern era.
Author : Rob Neyer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780393320084
Assesses the top fifteen baseball teams of the twentieth century, including such legendary squads as the 1927 Yankees and the 1970 Orioles, to determine which team was the greatest of the modern era.
Author : Hanna Altergott
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,48 MB
Release : 2005-12-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781410914910
Discusses ten of the greatest baseball teams ever and explains what it was that made each one so great.
Author : Hanna Altergott
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 2005-12-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781410914842
What are greatest teams in baseball and what made them stand out? Learn statistics about Hall of Fame players and the records of unstoppable teams. Discover how players came together to beat their opponents. Read about changes that were constantly being made to keep up with the growing sport. From talented players to dynamic managers, this book spans almost a century to find the best in baseball history.
Author : Lyle Spatz
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 2012-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803239920
Tells the story of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers in contextualized biographies of the players, managers, and everyone else important to the team.
Author : Robert W. Cohen
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : 9781592284023
Certain to create new controversies, and stir up some old ones, here is a fascinating historical and comparative look at the national pastime and its greatest players over the past one hundred years.
Author : Eric Enders
Publisher : Mlb Insiders Club
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 9781581594126
Author : Chris Holaday
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1476608679
The best baseball team of the 20th century? How about the 1906 Cubs? Or the 1998 Yankees? Don't forget the 1929 A's, or the 1976 Reds. Some say the Yanks had a pretty good squad in 1927. There were so many great teams in the last century, it would be hard to compile a list of the 25 best--much less rank those clubs--but that's what the authors have done! This is an endlessly fascinating tome, sure to prompt spirited discussions around the water cooler or above the dugout. Let the arguments (and the fun!) begin!
Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 1999-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781883013288
Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers. The Yankees with Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle. The Celtics in the Bill Russell and Larry Bird eras. The Montreal Canadiens with Maurice Richard and Jacques Plante. Here, from the leader in sports news and coverage, is a tribute to the best teams ever to play pro football, basketball, hockey and baseball -- as well as a handy compendium of championship records and key statistics.
Author : Lowell Reidenbaugh
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
Author : Joe Posnanski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1982180609
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year “An instant sports classic.” —New York Post * “Stellar.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A true masterwork…880 pages of sheer baseball bliss.” —BookPage (starred review) * “This is a remarkable achievement.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singular, and masterly book that took a lifetime to write. The entire story of baseball rings through a countdown of the 100 greatest players in history, with a foreword by George Will. Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,? The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski. In the book’s introduction, Pulitzer Prize–winning commentator George F. Will marvels, “Posnanski must already have lived more than two hundred years. How else could he have acquired such a stock of illuminating facts and entertaining stories about the rich history of this endlessly fascinating sport?” Baseball’s legends come alive in these pages, which are not merely rankings but vibrant profiles of the game’s all-time greats. Posnanski dives into the biographies of iconic Hall of Famers, unfairly forgotten All-Stars, talents of today, and more. He doesn’t rely just on records and statistics—he lovingly retraces players’ origins, illuminates their characters, and places their accomplishments in the context of baseball’s past and present. Just how good a pitcher is Clayton Kershaw in the 21st-century game compared to Greg Maddux dueling with the juiced hitters of the nineties? How do the career and influence of Hank Aaron compare to Babe Ruth’s? Which player in the top ten most deserves to be resurrected from history? No compendium of baseball’s legendary geniuses could be complete without the players of the segregated Negro Leagues, men whose extraordinary careers were largely overlooked by sportswriters at the time and unjustly lost to history. Posnanski writes about the efforts of former Negro Leaguers to restore sidelined Black athletes to their due honor and draws upon the deep troves of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and extensive interviews with the likes of Buck O’Neil to illuminate the accomplishments of players such as pitchers Satchel Paige and Smokey Joe Williams; outfielders Oscar Charleston, Monte Irvin, and Cool Papa Bell; first baseman Buck Leonard; shortstop Pop Lloyd; catcher Josh Gibson; and many, many more. The Baseball 100 treats readers to the whole rich pageant of baseball history in a single volume. Engrossing, surprising, and heartfelt, it is a magisterial tribute to the game of baseball and the stars who have played it.