Author : Dom Forker
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 2005-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781402721465
Armchair athletes who love the history, strategy, and unpredictability of baseball will find this compilation almost as much fun as watching nine innings. It will inform, entertain, and test their knowledge of sport. The trivia questions cover all the rules of batting, pitching, fielding, base running, and catching. "Who Said It?" match-ups feature quips by the game's most colorful managers and players, and memorable "Baseball Quotables" appear throughout.
Author : Mike Shenk
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,17 MB
Release : 2005-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781402718250
Here's some simple fun to while away the time for solvers who are otherwise occupied. These are easy crosswords, ones that won't strain the brain or take too long to complete. There's no arcane "crosswordese," the answers are relatively short (many just 5 or 6 letters), and the each puzzle is small. Among the clues: "Wood used for model planes," "Dance that 'takes two,'" and "Murder on the Orient Express sleuth." Answers: Balsa, Tango, Poirot
Author : Wayne Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1626368937
Taking a cue from the legendary TV game show Name That Tune, Wayne Stewart's Name That Ballplayer is a unique baseball quiz book. This is not just a list of questions followed by the answers. Readers are given three sets of clues to help them name the ballplayer in question. If they get the player on the first clue, they are awarded five points. If they require a second clue, they get only three points. And if they need the final clue they're still rewarded, but with only one point. Not only are the clues given in "tiers," but the book's four chapters run from extremely easy (e.g., identifying the likes of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron) to much more obscure (where was Mickey Mantle born? what do you remember about Johnny Bench?).
Author : Wayne Stewart
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1602397937
"You're the umpire" tests your knowledge about the rules of Major League Baseball.
Author : Wayne Stewart
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1616083859
Presents strategic situations in football where the reader is encouraged to determine the legality of each play, from pass interference calls to the rules of fumbles and illegal touching.
Author : Wayne Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1510743340
Do you think you know basketball? Do you think you know it well enough to take the court as an NBA or NCAA referee and accurately make the really tough calls? Well, here’s your chance to prove how much you really know about the history and rules of one of the world’s most popular sports. You’re the Basketball Ref, newly updated with a dozen fresh scenarios, is designed to inform, challenge, and entertain basketball fans. A brief introduction to the history of basketball is followed by an overview of NBA and NCAA matters. Topics range from situations that typically come up in games—traveling and shot clock violations, for example—to rules that are just a bit more unusual or, for the casual fan, more obscure. Then quiz yourself on what call you would make in each scenario! Many of the situations in You’re the Basketball Ref come from real games, but some scenarios are made up to illustrate specific points or rules. So don your stripes, grab your whistle, and take your position on the court. After all, you’re the ref!
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author : Joseph K. Blitzstein
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1466575573
Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and tools for understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, medicine, computer science, and information theory. The print book version includes a code that provides free access to an eBook version. The authors present the material in an accessible style and motivate concepts using real-world examples. Throughout, they use stories to uncover connections between the fundamental distributions in statistics and conditioning to reduce complicated problems to manageable pieces. The book includes many intuitive explanations, diagrams, and practice problems. Each chapter ends with a section showing how to perform relevant simulations and calculations in R, a free statistical software environment.
Author : Mike McGovern
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780028639635
For the sports fan, this guide offers fascinating facts and tidbits on baseball, football, basketball, hockey, the Olympic Games, tennis, figure skating, soccer, and more. It contains special sections on women's sports, young people's sports, and the Special Olympics, and includes listings of winners of the World Series, the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup, and other major competetions.
Author : Robert Elias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,92 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1317325184
A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and
