Chasing the Big Leagues
Chasing the Big Leagues

Author: Brett Baker

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0253038952

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Three years after earning a full-ride baseball scholarship to Ohio State, "Golden" Jake Standen has burned out. Working as a furniture mover and bouncing between meaningless relationships, he's convinced that his baseball dreams are over. But after the 1994 Major League Baseball strike prematurely ends the season, the playoffs, and even the World Series, Jake is about to get his lucky break. Strike be damned, the owners will have a team for the '95 season, even if they have to open tryouts and spring training to anyone who can hit or throw the ball. After scoring contracts for the Toronto Blue Jays, Jake, his best friend Brian Sloan, and an unlikely cast of new teammates have just six weeks to learn how to play like never before, amid a slowly building crescendo of public curiosity, media scrutiny, and a labor dispute that could put them on the field come Opening Day—or dash their dreams at any minute. Based on the true stories of the 1994–95 replacement players, Chasing the Big Leagues is an exciting novel about shared dreams and competing interests, best friends and second chances, growing up and finding love.

Chasing the Dream
Chasing the Dream

Author: Joe Torre

Publisher: Bantam Dell Publishing Group

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780553106589

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The manager of the world champion New York Yankees describes his life and career and what finally reaching the World Series meant to him

Welcome to the Big Leagues
Welcome to the Big Leagues

Author: Dan Hettinger

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1614483663

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Darrel Chaney made it to the Big Leagues. He played for 7 years on one of the best teams ever to take the field, the Cincinnati Reds—the Big Red Machine. He played in 4 National League Championship Series and 3 World Series. He was in the game that the Major League Baseball Network considered the best game of the last 50 years—game 6 of the 1975 World Series. But Darrel had a nagging frustration that eroded his belief in his significance. Disappointments, setbacks and opposition attacked his dream. He was a utility player among superstars. Most men are utility players. They face the same battles that Darrel faced. They get frustrated and lose enthusiasm for work and life itself. But, when a man discovers his God given significance, he enjoys life more and does better in it. Then, whatever his game, he is in the Big Leagues.

Hal Chase
Hal Chase

Author: Martin Donell Kohout

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0786450436

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Hal Chase is considered by many to be one of the best first basemen ever to play the game of baseball. He was able to make the routine look spectacular, the spectacular look routine. But Chase will never have his plaque in Cooperstown because he has gone down in history as the biggest crook in baseball. Chase was repeatedly accused of throwing games, bribing players, betting against his own team, and various other crimes, yet with his relaxed nature he always managed to get off the hook for his misdeeds by working his charm. His major league career lasted from 1905 to 1919, and by the mid-1930s he was a destitute alcoholic living off friends. The last fifteen years of Chase's life saw him hospitalized repeatedly for a variety of ailments, living off a sister and brother-in-law who loathed him. This work traces the turbulent life and times of Hal Chase from his humble beginnings to his sad end.

Chasing Moonlight
Chasing Moonlight

Author: Brett Friedlander

Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher

Published: 2011-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780895874153

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In Chasing Moonlight, Brett Friedlander and Robert Reising prove that truth is more interesting than fiction. The real-life Moonlight Graham didn't play just a half-inning for John McGraw's New York Giants, as depicted in Field of Dreams. Neither did he retire from baseball after his lone major league appearance. Rather, he became a fan favorite during a noteworthy professional career, all the while juggling baseball with medical residencies.

Big Leagues
Big Leagues

Author: Stephen R. Fox

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780803268968

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Discusses the evolution of baseball, football, and basketball and offers new perspectives on established legends

The Art of Scouting
The Art of Scouting

Author: Art Stewart

Publisher: Ascend Books Llc

Published: 2014-07

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780991275618

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The heart and soul of Kansas City's major league baseball franchise is a 5-foot 6 and impeccably dressed man you probably haven't heard of. You don't know the Royals history and successes until you know him. His name is Art Stewart and he helped bring Bo Jackson to the Royals on a hunch. He fell in love with baseball when he snuck into his attic and found his late father's baseball gloves, and his seven decades on the wild ride of major league baseball make him a living, breathing, storytelling personification of America's pastime. From George Brett to Frank White, Bret Saberhagen to Bo Jackson, Carlos Beltran to Eric Hosmer, the Royals' history is Art's history. Art just tells it better than anyone else.

The Fix Is In
The Fix Is In

Author: Daniel E. Ginsburg

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2004-03-08

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780786419203

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On September 27, 1865, gambler Kane McLoughlin paid William Wansley $100 to ensure that the Brooklyn Eckfords would beat the Mutuals of New York. Wansley bribed Mutuals shortstop Tom Devyr and third baseman Ed Duffy to join the plot. The result was a 23-11 win by the Eckfords in a game marked by "passed balls and...muffed easy flys." Baseball was faced with its first gambling scandal. This is a comprehensive account of gambling and game fixing scandals that have gripped the nation. Attention is rightly focused on the best known incidents (e.g., the Black Sox scandal and the Pete Rose case), but the lesser known scandals are covered in-depth as well. Included are two chapters on game fixing scandals in the minor leagues.