Baseball’s All-Time Best Sluggers

Baseball’s All-Time Best Sluggers

Author: Michael J. Schell

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2016-05-31

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0691171114

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Over baseball history, which park has been the best for run scoring? (1) Which player would lose the most home runs after adjustments for ballpark effect? (2) Which player claims four of the top five places for best individual seasons ever played, based on all-around offensive performance? (3) (See answers, below). These are only three of the intriguing questions Michael Schell addresses in Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers, a lively examination of the game of baseball using the most sophisticated statistical tools available. The book provides an in-depth evaluation of every major offensive event in baseball history, and identifies the players with the 100 best seasons and most productive careers. For the first time ever, ballpark effects across baseball history are presented for doubles, triples, right- and left-handed home-run hitting, and strikeouts. The book culminates with a ranking of the game's best all-around batters. Using a brisk conversational style, Schell brings to the plate the two most important credentials essential to producing a book of this kind: an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball and a professional background in statistics. Building on the traditions of renowned baseball historians Pete Palmer and Bill James, he has analyzed the most important factors impacting the sport, including the relative difficulty of hitting in different ballparks, the length of hitters' careers, the talent pool from which players are drawn, player aging, and changes in the game that have raised or lowered major-league batting averages. Schell's book finally levels the playing field, giving new credit to hitters who played in adverse conditions, and downgrading others who faced fewer obstacles. It also provides rankings based on players' positions. For example, Derek Jeter ranks 295th out of 1,140 on the best batters list, but jumps to 103rd in the position-adjusted list, reflecting his offensive prowess among shortstops. Replete with dozens of never-before reported stories and statistics, Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers will forever shape the way baseball fans view the greatest heroes of America's national pastime. Answers: 1. Coors Field 2. Mel Ott 3. Barry Bonds, 2001–2004 seasons


Blastin' the Blues

Blastin' the Blues

Author: LOREN LONG

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1471109615

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#1 New York Times Best Seller LOREN LONG’s illustrations have received two gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and his first picture book, Angela Johnson’s I Dream of Trains, won the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award for Illustrations and his inspired interpretation of Walt Whitman’s When I Heard Learn’d Astronomer was a Golden Kite Honor. A much sought after editorial artist whose work has appeared in Times, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and Atlantic Monthly, Loren is widely known for the illustrations in Madonna’s #1 New York Times Best Seller Mr. Peabody’s Apples. And Watty Piper’s The Little Engine That Could. He lives in West Chester, Ohio, with his wife, Tracy, and two young sons, Griffith and Graham.


Home of the Brave

Home of the Brave

Author: Loren Long

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-02-22

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1416918922

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The Paynes are down at the bottom of their last inning, but are they out? The final book in Loren Long and Phil Bildner's Sluggers!


Magic in the Outfield

Magic in the Outfield

Author: Loren Long

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-02-24

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1439156611

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Griffith, Graham, and Ruby's father passed away in the war. And now they must join their mother and their father's wartime traveling baseball team, The Travelin' Nine, on a tour of America to raise money. No one will tell the kids why the team needs money so badly. Their only clue is a baseball with a hole the size of an acorn in it that their Uncle Owen gave to them the night of their father's funeral. They know very little about its significance except that their father made it with his own two hands and carried it with him throughout the war. And when all three kids hold the ball, strange things begin to happen...


Great Balls of Fire

Great Balls of Fire

Author: Loren Long

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-04-14

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1416918892

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In 1899, the trip to Chicago for Griffith, Ruby, and Graham becomes an adventure in itself after they realize their Uncle Owen has gone missing and the Chancellor has set his sights on the money the Travelin' Nine have been trying to raise.


The Hometown Sluggers

The Hometown Sluggers

Author: Darrell Burrow

Publisher:

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780615851068

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The Hometown Sluggers tells the story of a young boy, Riley, who loves baseball so much that he assembles his own team from everyday kids. Each friend that Riley recruits is unique in his or her own way. Some are drummers. Some are ballerinas. Some have lots of friends, and others don't have any friends at all. But Riley finds a way to bring them all together where they can belong as the Sluggers. Soon the Sluggers are taking on the Skunks for their first big game; one that the town may be talking about for years to come.


The Louisville Slugger Ultimate Book of Hitting

The Louisville Slugger Ultimate Book of Hitting

Author: John Monteleone

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Published: 1997-03-15

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780805044133

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Reveals the collected wisdom of the legends of the game, from Ty Cobb to Tony Gwynn, from Babe Ruth to Barry Bonds, and helps parents, coaches, and players at all levels sort through the advice to find the hitting style that's just right for them.


Sullivan's Sluggers

Sullivan's Sluggers

Author: Mark Andrew Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780988232501

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Long past their former glory, the minor league Sluggers get an invitation to play a baseball game in a cursed small town. After the 7th inning stretch, the sun goes down, and the dysfunctional teammates find themselves fighting for their lives against a town of flesh-eating monsters!