Author : Tom
Publisher : ACTA Publications
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780879466664
The best all-time rosters for all 30 current Major League Baseball teams, with in-depth analysis of who would start (and backup) at each position. Current players analyzed but not included in rosters.
Author : Rob Neyer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 19,96 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 : Kassy LaBorie
Publisher : Association for Talent Development
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1953946410
Ignite Online Events and Virtual Training with the Use of Well-Designed and Facilitated Activities Creating outstanding virtual meetings, webinars, and training programs has always been challenging for novice and experienced instructional designers and facilitators alike. Virtual learning experts Kassy LaBorie and Tom Stone understand that the need to interact and engage is more important than ever, as online collaboration becomes the norm rather than the exception. In this new, updated edition of Interact and Engage!, the authors offer more than 75 activities as well as tips and strategies to help you create effective online learning and masterful meetings and webinars. Activities range from warmups and icebreakers to closers and celebrations, and everything in between. LaBorie and Stone cover advanced features and techniques and guide you on how to convert or create your own online activities, no matter what technology you are using now or in the future. An appendix presents two capability models for the positions of virtual facilitator and producer.
Author : Dean Patino
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
"Legends of the Diamond: The All-Time All-Stars" offers a compelling journey through the hallowed annals of baseball, celebrating the extraordinary achievements that have shaped the sport's storied history. This comprehensive tome is an essential addition to any baseball aficionado's library, meticulously cataloging the most outstanding single-season performances across all 30 Major League Baseball franchises. From the legendary 1934 All-Star game feat of Carl Hubbell to modern-day heroes, this book is a tribute to the players who have not only excelled but also transcended the game. Within these pages, you will find a carefully curated list of 840 players, chosen from over 23,000 who have graced the diamond since 1901. These elite athletes, making up approximately the top 3.5% of all players, have been selected for their remarkable single-season achievements. The book highlights two players for each infield position, six outfielders, and twelve pitchers from each team, celebrating a range of legends from iconic Hall of Famers to those who blazed brightly in a single, unforgettable season. Intriguingly, some names recur, having delivered top-tier performances for different teams, highlighting the dynamic nature of trades and free agency in baseball's rich history. This compilation reveals fascinating tales of resilience and excellence. Notably, 69 players have the distinction of recording one of the best seasons twice, 9 have achieved this three times, and an incredible 3 players have peaked in four different franchises, an achievement almost unimaginable in today's competitive market. These stories are not just statistics; they are testaments to the players' enduring legacy and the sometimes-questionable decisions of the owners and GMs who traded them. "Legends of the Diamond: The All-Time All-Stars" is designed for ease of use, with a reader-friendly layout including a table of contents for franchise navigation and an alphabetical index for quick reference. For fans looking to delve deeper, the book extends an invitation to an interactive experience. Readers are encouraged to visit www.BaseballClassics.shop to engage in the Baseball Classics All-Time All-Star Game, allowing them to simulate matchups between these legendary teams. Here, you can bring to life the age-old debates about which all-star team truly reigns supreme. Embark on this fascinating journey through baseball's past, immersing yourself in the stories and triumphs of the legends who have become synonymous with excellence in America's favorite pastime.
Author : Chris Lamb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2022-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496231112
When the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 1955, it put the team and the forces of integration on a collision course with segregation, bigotry, and the southern way of life. White teams refused to take the field with the Cannon Street All-Stars, the first Black Little League team in South Carolina. The Cannon Street team won the tournament by forfeit and advanced to the state tournament. When all the white teams withdrew in protest, the Cannon Street team won the state tournament. If the team had won the regional tournament in Rome, Georgia, it would have advanced to the Little League World Series. But Little League officials ruled the team ineligible to play in the tournament because it had advanced by winning on forfeit and not on the field, denying the boys their dream of playing in the Little League World Series. Little League Baseball invited the Cannon Street All-Stars to be the organization's guests at the World Series, where they heard spectators yell, "Let them play! Let them play!" when the ballplayers were introduced. This became a national story for a few weeks but then faded and disappeared as Americans read of other civil rights stories, including the torture and murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till. Stolen Dreams is the story of the Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars and of the early civil rights movement. It's also the story of centuries of bigotry in Charleston, South Carolina--where millions of enslaved people were brought to this country and where the Civil War began, where segregation remained for a century after the war ended and anyone who challenged it did so at their own risk.
Author : Jonah Keri
Publisher : ESPN
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0345517652
What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team’s Cinderella journey from divisional doormat to World Series contender. When former Goldman Sachs colleagues Stuart Sternberg and Matthew Silverman assumed control of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2005, it looked as if they were buying the baseball equivalent of a penny stock. But the incoming regime came armed with a master plan: to leverage their skill at trading, valuation, and management to build a model twenty-first-century franchise that could compete with their bigger, stronger, richer rivals—and prevail. Together with “boy genius” general manager Andrew Friedman, the new Rays owners jettisoned the old ways of doing things, substituting their own innovative ideas about employee development, marketing and public relations, and personnel management. They exorcized the “devil” from the team’s nickname, developed metrics that let them take advantage of undervalued aspects of the game, like defense, and hired a forward-thinking field manager as dedicated to unconventional strategy as they were. By quantifying the game’s intangibles—that extra 2% that separates a winning organization from a losing one—they were able to deliver to Tampa Bay something that Billy Beane’s “Moneyball” had never brought to Oakland: an American League pennant. A book about what happens when you apply your business skills to your life’s passion, The Extra 2% is an informative and entertaining case study for any organization that wants to go from worst to first.
Author : Jimmy Breslin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1453245324
A “hilarious” look back at the worst baseball team in history—the 1962 Mets—by the New York Times–bestselling author (Newark Star-Ledger). Five years after the Dodgers and Giants fled New York for California, the city’s National League fans were offered salvation in the shape of the New York Mets: an expansion team who, in the spring of 1962, attempted to play something resembling the sport of baseball. Helmed by the sagacious Casey Stengel and staffed by the league’s detritus, the new Mets played 162 games and lost 120 of them, making them statistically the worst team in the sport’s modern history. It’s possible they were even worse than that. Starring such legends as Marvin Throneberry—a first baseman so inept that his nickname had to be “Marvelous”—the Mets lost with swashbuckling panache. In an era when the fun seemed to have gone out of sports, the Mets came to life in a blaze of delightful, awe-inspiring ineptitude. They may have been losers, but a team this awful deserves to be remembered as legends. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Author : Michael Tackett
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0544386396
“Field of Dreams was only superficially about baseball. It was really about life. So is The Baseball Whisperer . . . with the added advantage of being all true.” —MLB.com From an award-winning journalist, this is the story of a legendary coach and the professional-caliber baseball program he built in America's heartland, where boys would come summer after summer to be molded into ballplayers—and men. Clarinda, Iowa, population 5,000, sits two hours from anything. There, between the cornfields and hog yards, is a ball field with a bronze bust of a man named Merl Eberly, who specialized in second chances and lost causes. The statue was a gift from one of Merl’s original long-shot projects, a skinny kid from the Los Angeles ghetto who would one day become a beloved Hall-of-Fame shortstop: Ozzie Smith. The Baseball Whisperer traces the “deeply engrossing” story (Booklist, starred review) of Merl Eberly and his Clarinda A’s baseball team, which he tended over the course of five decades, transforming them from a town team to a collegiate summer league powerhouse. Along with Ozzie Smith, future manager Bud Black, and star player Von Hayes, Merl developed scores of major league players. In the process, he taught them to be men, insisting on hard work, integrity, and responsibility. More than a book about ballplayers in the nation’s agricultural heartland, The Baseball Whisperer is the story of a coach who put character and dedication first, reminding us of the best, purest form of baseball excellence. “Mike Tackett, talented journalist and baseball lover, has hit the sweet spot of the bat with his first book. The Baseball Whisperer takes one coach and one small Iowa town and illuminates both a sport and the human spirit.” —David Maraniss, New York Times-bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered
Author : Kassy LaBorie
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781562869366
Engaging online audiences can be challenging. Learn how to break the mold of static lecture-style online training that drives participants to multitask or, worse, tune out. Instructional design experts Kassy LaBorie and Tom Stone cover all the steps necessary to remedy poor online training experiences and ensure that what you teach sticks. Interact and Engage offers proven strategies for captivating your live online audience. With more than 50 activities ranging from openers and icebreakers to closers and recaps, the authors present a framework for igniting online training programs, meetings, and webinars. Within the pages of this book, you will discover how to start events off right and bring them to a fitting end, while achieving the event's goals in the middle--and delve into what facilitators and producers need to do before, during, and after an activity. Light and fun, this book will be your go-to resource when you need that perfect engaging activity.
Author : W. P. Kinsella
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0795311710
The novel that inspired Field of Dreams: “A lyrical, seductive, and altogether winning concoction.” —The New York Times Book Review One of Sports Illustrated’s 100 Greatest Sports Books “If you build it, he will come.” When Ray Kinsella hears these mysterious words spoken in the voice of an Iowa baseball announcer, he is inspired to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield. It is a tribute to his hero, the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson, whose reputation was forever tarnished by the scandalous 1919 World Series. What follows is a timeless story that is “not so much about baseball as it is about dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). “A triumph of hope.” —The Boston Globe “A moonlit novel about baseball, dreams, family, the land, and literature.” —Sports Illustrated
