Fungoes, Floaters, and Fork Balls
Author: Patrick Ercolano
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
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The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition)
Author: Paul Dickson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2011-06-13
Total Pages: 1001
ISBN-13: 0393073491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.
The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary
Author: Paul Dickson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9780156005807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStill not sure what makes a sinker different from a curve? Can't remember when the M&M boys played with the Yankees? Want to know where the "seventh-inning stretch" comes from? Then you've done the right thing by picking up this book - the most complete collection of baseball terms and slang to be found between two covers. Impeccably researched, The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary covers all the bases.
Quoth the Maven
Author: William Safire
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-11-09
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 0307799743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist discusses contemporary figures of speech, from witty stories about expressions such as "kiss and tell" and "stab in the back" to the evolution of "read my lips." NOTE: This edition does not include illustrations.
Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot?
Author: Paul Aron
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2008-04-21
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0470322128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdvance Praise for Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot? "Aron has found the Rosetta stone to all of baseball's enduring mysteries, and he skips it along the pond with utter disregard for the ducks. His fortunate readers will have so much fun they may not even notice that they are becoming, page by page, real experts. Here is surefire water-cooler ammo." --JOHN THORN, editor of Total Baseball "Paul Aron puts a distant replay on the most famous controversies in baseball history. This is more fun than if he'd been there with a camcorder." --ALLEN BARRA, author of Clearing the Bases and Brushbacks and Knockdowns "Paul Aron has hit a home run for baseball fans. He dissects the evidence on baseball's 28 most charming mysteries. The result is a well-written, enjoyable, enlightening tour of the last hundred years of baseball history." --ANDREW ZIMBALIST, author of Baseball and Billions "Paul Aron's book on elements of baseball is both wise and fun, illuminating and entertaining." --ROBERT ADAIR, author of The Physics of Baseball "The essential last word for every fan who loves to debate baseball fact and fiction." --MICHAEL SHAPIRO, author of The Last Good Season
George Weiss
Author: Burton A. Boxerman
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-07-21
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1476624895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New York Yankees were the strongest team in the majors from 1948 through 1960, capturing the American League Pennant 10 times and winning seven World Championships. The average fan, when asked who made the team so dominant, will mention Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford or Mickey Mantle. Some will insist manager Casey Stengel was the key. But pundits at the time, and respected historians today, consider the shy, often taciturn George Martin Weiss the real genius behind the Yankees' success. Weiss loved baseball but lacked the ability to play. He made up for it with the savvy to run a team better than his competitors. He spent more than 50 years in the game, including nearly 30 with the Yankees. Before becoming their general manager, he created their superlative farm system that supplied the club with talented players. When the Yankees retired him at 67, the newly franchised New York Mets immediately hired him to build their team. This book is the first definitive biography of Weiss, a Hall of Famer hailed for contributing "as much to baseball as any man the game could ever know."
Inside Pitch
Author: George Gmelch
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2006-10-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780803233867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the spark of ambition to play baseball professionally to the necessity of reinventing life after baseball, the anthropologist and former Minor Leaguer George Gmelch describes the lives of the men who work at America's national game. Twenty-four years after his own final road trip as a minor leaguer, Gmelch went back on the road with ballplayers, this time with a pen and pad to record the details of life around the diamond. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with Major and Minor League players, coaches, and managers, Gmelch explores players' experiences throughout their careers: being scouted, becoming a rookie, moving through or staying in the Minors, preparing mentally and physically to play day after day, coping with slumps and successes, and facing retirement. He examines the ballplayers' routines and rituals, describes their joys and frustrations, and investigates the roles of wives, fans, and groupies in their lives. Based on his own experience as a player in the 1960s, Gmelch charts the life cycle of the modern professional ballplayer and makes perceptive comparisons to a previous generation of players.
The Forgotten Marlins
Author: Sam Zygner
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2013-06-06
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0810891395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Forgotten Marlins pays tribute to the original Miami Marlins of the AAA International League, bringing to life one of the most colorful and flamboyant teams to play in baseball’s minor leagues. During their five years of existence, the Marlins featured prominent personalities such as eccentric manager Pepper Martin, zany Mickey McDermott, and maverick promoter Bill Veeck. Including rarely-heard stories about baseball icon and Hall-of-Famer Satchel Paige’s years in Miami, and containing interviews between the author and several of the surviving ballplayers, this book is a unique and comprehensive account of a truly original baseball team. The Forgotten Marlins is an entertaining and engaging read for all baseball fans and historians.
Base Stealers
Author: Renardo Barden
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780865931268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the phenomenon of stealing bases in baseball and particular games and players noted for this activity.
The Name of the Game
Author: Lafe Locke
Publisher: Betterway Books
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains the origins and derivations of words and phrases in over twenty-five sports, relating them to the development of the sports themselves.
