Author : Meadowbrook
Publisher : Meadowbrook Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 1997-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780671575403
An . . . instant source of statistical data on every player in baseball. A must to have within reach at all times.--Joe McIlvaine, president, New York Mets.
Author : Baseball America (Firm)
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2007-01-02
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 1932391134
Baseball America's 2007 Almanac offers a complete recap of the 2006 baseball season from the World Series to the major, minor, college, high school, independent, and amateur leagues. The Almanac has organization, team, and player statistics and season reviews covering all of professional, amateur, and youth baseball. It is also the only volume to feature in-depth coverage of the annual draft of players at all levels.
Author : Daniel R. Levitt
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1612342817
An essential experience of being a baseball fan is the hopeful anticipation of seeing the hometown nine make a run at winning the World Series. In Paths to Glory, Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt review how teams build themselves up into winners. What makes a winning team like the 1900 Brooklyn Superbas or the 1917 White Sox or the 1997 Florida Marlins? And how are these teams different? What makes each championship team a unique product of its time? Armour and Levitt provide the historical context to show how the sport's business side has changed dramatically but its competitive environment remains the same. Utilizing new statistics to evaluate a player's value and career patterns, Armour and Levitt explore the teams that took risks, created their own opportunities, and changed the game. How did the Washington Senators achieve the unthinkable and blow past Babe Ruth's Yankees in 1924 and 1925? How did the 1965 Minnesota Twins quickly rise to the top and why did they just as suddenly fall? Did Charlie Finley assemble the last old-fashioned championship team before free agency, or was the Moustache Gang another example of winning by building from within? Why did the star-laden Red Sox of the 1930s keep falling short? In exploring these teams and more, Armour and Levitt analyze the players, the managers, and the executives who built teams to win and then lived with the consequences.
Author : Robert F. Lewis II
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2010-03-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1496800680
Smart Ball follows Major League Baseball's history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB's challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing with other sports and diversions in a burgeoning global economy. Baseball researcher Robert F. Lewis II argues that MLB for years abused its legal insulation and monopoly status through arrogant treatment of its fans and players and static management of its business. As its privileged position eroded eroded in the face of increased competition from other sports and union resistance, it awakened to its perilous predicament and began aggressively courting athletes and fans at home and abroad. Using a detailed marketing analysis and applying the principles of a "smart power" model, the author assesses MLB's progression as a global business brand that continues to appeal to a consumer's sense of an idyllic past in the midst of a fast-paced, and often violent, present.
Author : Jon C. Stott
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786411306
"This history and analysis traces the emergence of independent leagues and teams and follows them year by year. It profiles in detail one team from each of the leagues operating in 1999: the Bridgeport (Connecticut) Blue Fish of the Atlantic League, the Kalamazoo (Michigan) Kodiaks of the Frontier League, the Tri-City (Washington) Posse of the Western League, the Ozark (Missouri) Mountain Ducks of the Texas-Louisiana League, and the Duluth-Superior (Minnesota) Dukes of the Northern League West. Also included are profiles of individual players, managers, owners, umpires, and fans."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Baseball America (Firm)
Publisher : Baseball America
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 2002-01-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780945164210
Who else are you going to depend on to wrap up the 2001 season? From the major leagues, to the minor leagues, to the college and high school ranks, no one covers the game more thoroughly than Baseball America. And no book offers you a more complete recap of the previous season than BA's annual Almanac, now in its 20th year. The 2002 Almanac is our largest ever -- 464 pages. It has all the major league news and statistics, an overview of each organization's season, the minor league year in review, comprehensive college coverage, a full recap of the 2001 draft and foreign and winter league coverage. You'll see lots of baseball annuals, but there are none as comprehensive as Baseball America's Almanac. Book jacket.
Author : Jon C. Stott
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2004-04-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786417595
In 1990, 25.2 million people watched minor league baseball games. In 2001, that number had increased to 38.8 million thanks in large part to the "new minors." In addition to the die-hard fans, families and business associates and church, social and school groups come to eat crab cakes and sushi and drink lattes, take in the between-inning contests such as "Race the Mascot," see entertainers such as the Blues Brothers of Wisconsin, and watch post-game fireworks. This book examines the concept of the "new minors" as it has developed over the past fifteen years. Part One traces and analyzes the changes in the organization and operation of minor league franchises and the shifting relationship between the majors and the members of the National Association. Part Two focuses on the people, places and events of the 2003 season and playoffs. Special attention is paid to the personnel of the minor league franchises, the coaches and players, the player development departments of the major league clubs, and the relationships between them. Part Three offers general observations about the future of the "new minors." The Edmonton Trappers of the Pacific Coast League, the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the California League, the Billings Mustangs of the Pioneer League, the El Paso Diablos of the Texas League, the Lansing Lugnuts of the Midwest League, and the Mahoning Valley Scrappers of the New York-Pennsylvania League are highlighted.
Author : Will Lingo
Publisher : Baseball America
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781932391183
Offering a complete recap of the 2007 baseball season from the World Series to the major, minor, college, high school, and amateur leagues, the almanac also features player statistics and season reviews.
Author : Joel A. Rippel
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873515580
For athletes, fanatics, and trivia buffs alike, Minnesota's first and only comprehensive sports almanac features 125 glorious years of winning, losing, and playing the game.
Author : Baseball America (Firm)
Publisher : Baseball America
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781932391077
The 2005 season was one to remember at all levels of baseball. And no book offers you a more complete recap of the season than BA's annual Almanac, now in its 24th year. All the stories, all the stats-from the major leagues to the minor leagues to college and high school ranks, no one covers the game more thoroughly than Baseball America.
