Baseball Teams Facts for Fun!
Baseball Teams Facts for Fun!

Author: Wyatt Michaels

Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC

Published: 2013-03-27

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1630226807

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Baseball team fans, just how extensive is your understanding of America's pastime? Can you name which team has played the youngest player ever to play in a major league game? Or the team that was a National League champion but refused to play in the World Series? What about for which team did two of the three top home-run hitters play? Baseball has been considered America's pastime for a number of years. Baseball history is long and colorful. Its players and teams have played in games before the Great Depression to our current day and age. Families and communities gather to watch their children play at the local ballpark or sit around the living room to watch a national game on television. The game has been shaped by the numerous teams that have played in it. Like in every popular sport, fans love to show off their knowledge about the teams and famous games. With this book, you'll be able to see who, you, or a friend or family member, is the bigger baseball fan. This interactive book focuses on the National League portion of Major League Baseball. You're sure to have a great time. Book 1 is also available with more questions about the same teams.

How Baseball Happened
How Baseball Happened

Author: Thomas W. Gilbert

Publisher: Godine+ORM

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1567926886

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The untold story of baseball’s nineteenth-century origins: “a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat” (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal). You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. They didn’t. Perhaps you’ve read that baseball’s color line was first crossed by Jackie Robinson in 1947. Nope. Baseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. They were hundreds of uncredited, ordinary people who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They worked, built businesses, and fought against the South in the Civil War. In this myth-busting history, Thomas W. Gilbert reveals the true beginnings of baseball. Through newspaper accounts, diaries, and other accounts, he explains how it evolved through the mid-nineteenth century into a modern sport of championships, media coverage, and famous stars—all before the first professional league was formed in 1871. Winner of the Casey Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year

20 Fun Facts About Football
20 Fun Facts About Football

Author: Ryan Nagelhout

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2015-12-15

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 148243976X

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The National Football League is America’s favorite sports league. Football is fast-paced and full of big hits and even bigger plays from its superstars. These players have set some impressive records over the years. From the amazing seasons running backs have had breaking the 2,000-yard rushing mark, or quarterbacks gunning for the single-season touchdown record, learning about the stats and facts that make up football’s history fun! Graphics and photographs show how the game’s rules, equipment, and even its field have changed over the years, letting readers dive into the huddle and explore football at their own pace.

Cellar Dwellers
Cellar Dwellers

Author: Jonathan Weeks

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2012-07-20

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0810885336

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In 1890, baseball’s Pittsburgh Alleghenys won a measly 23 games, losing 113. The Cleveland Spiders topped this record when they lost an astonishing 134 games in 1899. Over 100 years later, the 2003 Detroit Tigers stood apart as the only team in baseball history to lose 60 games before July in a season. These stories and more are told in Cellar Dwellers: The Worst Teams in Baseball History, a colorful tribute to the sport’s least successful clubs. Cellar Dwellers spans three centuries of professional baseball, recounting the seasons of those teams whose misadventures have largely been forgotten over time. Chapters not only cover the stories of the luckless teams, they also include reams of statistics and detailed player profiles of those who helped the clubs—and those who helped them fail. In addition to the Alleghenys, Spiders, and Tigers, the cellar dwellers of baseball include: 1904 and 1909 Washington Senators 1916 Philadelphia Athletics 1928 and 1941 Philadelphia Phillies 1932 Boston Red Sox 1935 Boston Braves 1939 St. Louis Browns 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates 1962 New York Mets While many books revel in the glories of teams whose exploits have become legendary, the stories found in this volume offer an engaging alternative to the thrill of victory. Embellished with comical and amusing anecdotes alongside historical perspectives, Cellar Dwellers will entertain baseball fans and fascinate those who love baseball history.

20 Fun Facts About Congress
20 Fun Facts About Congress

Author: Joan Stoltman

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2018-07-15

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1538219026

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Who makes the laws for our country? Congress does. Readers learning about Congress in school will get a much-needed jolt of excitement thanks to this book. Filled with factoids about strange members of Congress, unbelievable laws, fascinating fights, and other events from the history of Congress, this book draws even the most reluctant readers into history. Each fact is accompanied by an image that allows for further visual comprehension and a caption that adds a splash more of learning and fun.

Root for the Home Team
Root for the Home Team

Author: Tim Hagerty

Publisher: Cider Mill Press

Published: 2012-05-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781604332094

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Delve deep into to the grass roots of baseballs—the Minor League—and you’ll find Cannibals, Shoemakers, and Zephyrs! From the Coal Sox Nation to the Texarkana Casketmakers, Root for the Home Team brings you the most oddly original team names and the stories behind them. Root for the Home Team includes profiles of more than 150 teams and lists of hundreds more—plus fun facts, action shots, and team logos. Impress your baseball buddies with your depth of knowledge! Did you know? - The Altoona Curve were dubbed without ever throwing a breaking ball, thanks to local railroad history. - The Wichita Izzies had a fan so fanatical they named the team after him. - The Mudville Nine were named after the fictitious team in the poem “Casey at the Bat.” Root for the Home Team is a unique book any baseball fan will love.

A Team for the Ages
A Team for the Ages

Author: Robert W. Cohen

Publisher: Globe Pequot

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781592284023

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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.

Baseball Before We Knew It
Baseball Before We Knew It

Author: David Block

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2006-03-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780803262553

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It may be America?s game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable information has been in short supply?until now, when Baseball before We Knew It brings fresh new evidence of baseball?s origins into play. David Block looks into the early history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation for the most notorious myth of all?the Abner Doubleday?Cooperstown story. ø Block?s book takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the centuries in search of clues to the evolution of our modern National Pastime. Among his startling discoveries is a set of long-forgotten baseball rules from the 1700s. Block evaluates the originality and historical significance of the Knickerbocker rules of 1845, revisits European studies on the ancestry of baseball which indicate that the game dates back hundreds, if not thousands of years, and assembles a detailed history of games and pastimes from the Middle Ages onward that contributed to baseball?s development. In its thoroughness and reach, and its extensive descriptive bibliography of early baseball sources, this book is a unique and invaluable resource?a comprehensive, reliable, and readable account of baseball before it was America?s game.

Baseball Teams Facts for Fun! National League
Baseball Teams Facts for Fun! National League

Author: Wyatt Michaels

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-06-26

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781490533445

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Baseball team fans, just how extensive is your understanding of America's pastime? Can you name the baseball team that won the World Series in one of the biggest upsets in World Series history? Or the team that has won more games than any other professional sports team in North America? What about which team was the fastest expansion team to win a World Series? Baseball has been considered America's pastime for a number of years. Baseball history is long and colorful. Its players and teams have played in games before the Great Depression to our current day and age. Families and communities gather to watch their children play at the local ballpark or sit around the living room to watch a national game on television. The game has been shaped by the numerous teams that have played in it. Like in every popular sport, fans love to show off their knowledge about the teams and famous games. With this book, you'll be able to see who, you, or a friend or family member, is the bigger baseball fan. This interactive book focuses on the National League portion of Major League Baseball. You're sure to have a great time. More of the same teams but different questions are available in book 2!