Sit & Solve Baseball Trivia
Sit & Solve Baseball Trivia

Author: Dom Forker

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005-04

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781402721465

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Armchair athletes who love the history, strategy, and unpredictability of baseball will find this compilation almost as much fun as watching nine innings. It will inform, entertain, and test their knowledge of sport. The trivia questions cover all the rules of batting, pitching, fielding, base running, and catching. "Who Said It?" match-ups feature quips by the game's most colorful managers and players, and memorable "Baseball Quotables" appear throughout.

Sit and Solve Easy Crosswords
Sit and Solve Easy Crosswords

Author: Mike Shenk

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005-04

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781402718250

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Here's some simple fun to while away the time for solvers who are otherwise occupied. These are easy crosswords, ones that won't strain the brain or take too long to complete. There's no arcane "crosswordese," the answers are relatively short (many just 5 or 6 letters), and the each puzzle is small. Among the clues: "Wood used for model planes," "Dance that 'takes two,'" and "Murder on the Orient Express sleuth." Answers: Balsa, Tango, Poirot

Name That Ballplayer
Name That Ballplayer

Author: Wayne Stewart

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-05-12

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1626368937

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Taking a cue from the legendary TV game show Name That Tune, Wayne Stewart's Name That Ballplayer is a unique baseball quiz book. This is not just a list of questions followed by the answers. Readers are given three sets of clues to help them name the ballplayer in question. If they get the player on the first clue, they are awarded five points. If they require a second clue, they get only three points. And if they need the final clue they're still rewarded, but with only one point. Not only are the clues given in "tiers," but the book's four chapters run from extremely easy (e.g., identifying the likes of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron) to much more obscure (where was Mickey Mantle born? what do you remember about Johnny Bench?).

You're the Umpire
You're the Umpire

Author: Wayne Stewart

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2010-04-28

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1602397937

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"You're the umpire" tests your knowledge about the rules of Major League Baseball.

You're the Ref
You're the Ref

Author: Wayne Stewart

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2011-09

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1616083859

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Presents strategic situations in football where the reader is encouraged to determine the legality of each play, from pass interference calls to the rules of fumbles and illegal touching.

You're the Basketball Ref
You're the Basketball Ref

Author: Wayne Stewart

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1510743340

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Do you think you know basketball? Do you think you know it well enough to take the court as an NBA or NCAA referee and accurately make the really tough calls? Well, here’s your chance to prove how much you really know about the history and rules of one of the world’s most popular sports. You’re the Basketball Ref, newly updated with a dozen fresh scenarios, is designed to inform, challenge, and entertain basketball fans. A brief introduction to the history of basketball is followed by an overview of NBA and NCAA matters. Topics range from situations that typically come up in games—traveling and shot clock violations, for example—to rules that are just a bit more unusual or, for the casual fan, more obscure. Then quiz yourself on what call you would make in each scenario! Many of the situations in You’re the Basketball Ref come from real games, but some scenarios are made up to illustrate specific points or rules. So don your stripes, grab your whistle, and take your position on the court. After all, you’re the ref!

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sports History & Trivia
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sports History & Trivia

Author: Mike McGovern

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2001-09-01

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780028639635

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For the sports fan, this guide offers fascinating facts and tidbits on baseball, football, basketball, hockey, the Olympic Games, tennis, figure skating, soccer, and more. It contains special sections on women's sports, young people's sports, and the Special Olympics, and includes listings of winners of the World Series, the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup, and other major competetions.

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica

Author: Hugh Chisholm

Publisher:

Published: 1910

Total Pages: 1090

ISBN-13:

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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.

Introduction to Probability
Introduction to Probability

Author: Joseph K. Blitzstein

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2014-07-24

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 1466575573

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Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and tools for understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, medicine, computer science, and information theory. The print book version includes a code that provides free access to an eBook version. The authors present the material in an accessible style and motivate concepts using real-world examples. Throughout, they use stories to uncover connections between the fundamental distributions in statistics and conditioning to reduce complicated problems to manageable pieces. The book includes many intuitive explanations, diagrams, and practice problems. Each chapter ends with a section showing how to perform relevant simulations and calculations in R, a free statistical software environment.

Baseball and the American Dream
Baseball and the American Dream

Author: Robert Elias

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1317325184

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A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and