Book Description
A qualitative analysis of today's baseball players, providing a photograph of each, with a judgement of their abilities, statistics, and computer-generated assessments.
Author : Staff Stats Inc
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 1991-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780062730022
A qualitative analysis of today's baseball players, providing a photograph of each, with a judgement of their abilities, statistics, and computer-generated assessments.
Author : STATS, Inc. Staff
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 1993-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780062731920
Now thoroughly updated for the 1993 season--a comprehensive guide with qualitative analyses of major league players and up-and-coming minor league prospects for baseball fans who love the game as well as the numbers. In addition to more than 700 charts and graphs, a detailed essay analyzes each player's 1992 strengths and weaknesses, style, experience, and potential. 720 halftones.
Author : John Dewan
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 1992-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780062731265
Now thoroughly updated for the 1992 season, here's the only guide with qualitative analyses of major league players and minor league prospects for baseball fans who love the game as well as the numbers.
Author : Tim Wendel
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0306822768
From acclaimed author Tim Wendel, the behind-the-headlines story of the ÒBest World Series Ever,Ó and the watershed season that propelled two of baseballÕs worst teams to dominance and ushered in baseballÕs Òmodern era.Ó
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Page : 676 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Basketball
ISBN : 9781561734337
Author : Bill James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1439103771
Preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer compile information on pitches and their origins, nearly two thousand pitchers, and more in this comprehensive guide. Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them—they’re the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a comprehensive source for such information…until now. Bill James and Rob Neyer spent over a decade compiling the centerpiece of this book, the Pitcher Census, which lists specific information for nearly two thousand pitchers, ranging throughout the history of professional baseball. Their guide also includes a dictionary describing virtually every known pitch, biographies of great pitchers who have been overlooked, and top ten lists for fastballs, spitballs, and everything in between. James and Neyer also weigh in on the debate over pitcher abuse and durability, offer a formula for predicting the Cy Young Award winner, and reveal James’s Pitcher Codes. Learn about the origins and development of baseball’s most important pitches and more knuckleballers and submariners than you ever thought existed! Baseball’s action always starts with the pitchers. Begin to understand them and join in on entertaining debates while having a great deal of fun with the history of the game that captivates so many with this one-of-a-kind guide.
Author : Milton H. Jamail
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780809323104
In his comprehensive and vibrant picture of baseball in Cuba, Milton H. Jamail explores the sport's relationship to U.S. baseball. Jamail, whose personal love of the game matches that of the Cubans, examines the roots and traditions of baseball on the island and explains why Cubans play such excellent baseball. His analysis of the development of Cuban baseball after the 1959 takeover by Fidel Castro includes a detailed description of the formation of the Cuban amateur baseball system that has dominated international competitions for more than three decades. Before 1961, when the U.S. government severed diplomatic relations with Cuba and Castro abolished professional baseball, Cuba provided the bulk of the foreign players in the major leagues (more than one hundred since the color barrier was lifted in 1947). Major league interest in Cuban baseball remains high, Jamail notes, as he examines the changes necessary, both in the United States and Cuba, to return Cuban ballplayers to professional baseball in the United States. He discusses Cuban defectors, including Liván Hernández, and describes the intrigue surrounding agent Joe Cubas's courting of Cuban players and his attempts to spirit them away when the Cuban national team plays outside the country. An academic trained in Latin American politics, Jamail has spent twelve years as a Spanish-speaking journalist writing about Latinos and baseball. To write this book, he conducted extensive interviews with baseball officials, journalists, players, and fans in Cuba, as well as Cuban players who have defected. He also talked to scouts and front office people from U.S. baseball organizations.
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Page : 762 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Government publications
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Page : 652 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN :
Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
Author : Adam Raider
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803286414
In 1967 the National Hockey League decided to double its size from six teams to twelve. This expansion was the first of its kind, and Minnesota, with its rich hockey history, was a natural choice for a new franchise. Thus the Minnesota North Stars were born. Frozen in Time examines the organization’s signature seasons, from the late 1970s, when the club was at its worst, to its two surprising runs to the Stanley Cup Finals. The book recalls the exploits of characters such as Wren Blair, the firebrand ex-scout who would become the team’s first coach and general manager, and owner Norm Green, the man who moved the team to Texas in 1993, making him one of the most hated men in Minnesota. Here, too, is the tragic story of Bill Masterton, an original North Star whose death in 1968 as the result of an on-ice injury remains the only one in the history of the league. The team’s engaging history is brought to life with vivid recollections from former players and legends, including Cesare Maniago, Tom Reid, and Bobby Smith, and from journalists, broadcasters, front office executives, and faithful fans. Also including season-by-season summaries, player profiles, and statistics, Frozen in Time offers an authoritative and nostalgic look at Minnesota’s still-beloved North Stars and a bygone era of pro hockey.