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The acclaimed New Yorker sportswriter examines the inner working of professional baseball, in these essays from the spring of 1977…
to the summer of 1981.Late Innings takes fans far beyond the stadium view of the field and into the substrata of baseball as it is experienced by the people who make it happen. Celebrated as one of the game&’s finest chroniclers, Roger Angell shares his commentary on the money, fame, power, traditions, and social aspects of baseball during the late seventies and early eighties. Covering monumental events such as Reggie Jackson&’s three World Series home runs and the bitter ordeal of the 1981 players&’ strike, Angell offers a timeless perspective on the world of baseball to be enjoyed by fans of all ages.
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&“Baseball&’s most eloquent analyst&” demonstrates why he has &“long since attained the status of national treasure,&” in this classic essay…
collection (The New York Times Book Review). Roger Angell's famous explorations of the summer game are built on acute observation and joyful participation, conveyed in a prose style as admired and envied as Ted Williams&’s swing. Here is Angell on Fenway Park in September, on Bob Gibson brooding in retirement, on Tom Seaver in mid-windup, on the abysmal early and recent Mets, on a scout at work in backcountry Kentucky, on Pete Rose and Willie Mays and Pedro Martinez, on the astounding Barry Bonds at Pac Bell Park, and more. With twenty-nine essays divided between spring, summer, and fall, Game Time carries readers through the arc of the season with refreshed understanding and pleasure. With an introduction by Richard Ford, this collection represents Angell&’s best writings, from spring training in 1962 to the explosive World Series of 2002.A New York Times Notable Book
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This essay collection covers more than forty years of history, fandom, and insider analysis from &“the best baseball writer of…
our time—maybe ever&” (Newsweek) The celebrated baseball chronicler has selected his favorite pieces from the last forty years to create Once More Around the Park, a definitive volume of his most memorable work. Here are the extraordinary games Roger Angell has witnessed and written about, as well as compelling insights that deepen our love and understanding of the sport. This book includes such timeless essays as &“The Interior Stadium,&” on the complex attractions of baseball; &“In the Country,&” on a friendship that began with a fan letter and took Angell far from the big stadiums and big money; &“The Arms Talks,&” on contemporary pitching strategy and the arrival of the split-finger delivery; and many others. Angell&’s conversations with past and present players and managers, scouts and coaches, rookies and Hall of Famers enhance his expertise and critical appreciation, defining him as &“baseball&’s most eloquent analyst&” (The New York Times Book Review).
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Sports and games, Baseball
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A former sportswriter for the 'Herald Tribune' writes about the Brooklyn Dodgers of Ebbets Field. He also tells what happened…
to Jackie Robinson, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, Preacher Roe, and the other baseball greats of the team. 1972
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In one of the most memorable moments of Major League Baseball, Dave Dravecky pitched a winning gameless than a year…
after undergoing cancer surgery on his pitching arm. But his comeback was short-lived. Just five days after his winning game, Dravecky broke his armand would later lose it entirely as the cancer returned. Daves true comeback would come lateras a bestselling author and inspirational speaker offering strength, hope, and comfort inspired by Christian teachings and his own experience with suffering and loss. This book recounts the thrilling details of Daves two comebacksfrom his early baseball career and brief return to the pitching mound to his ultimate triumph over adversity through unflagging determination and deep Christian faith.
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The story of a paradoxical American sports hero, one who achieved a once-unfathomable celebrity while suffering the harsh injustices of…
a racially intolerant world, Chief Bender’s Burden is an eye-opening and inspiring narrative of a unique American life
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Minnesota Twins: The Complete Illustrated History provides an in-depth and entertaining look at the team, its players, its stadiums, and…
the memorable moments through the years. Illustrated with photos from the Star Tribune's archives, it is the ultimate celebration of a beloved franchise
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In The Code: Baseball's Unwritten Rules and Its Ignore-at-Your-Own-Risk Code of Conduct, author Ross Bernstein has pulled back the curtain…
on baseball's tacit rules regarding retaliation, sportsmanship, and intimidation. The result of dozens of interviews with some of the biggest names in the game, this work is a systematic description of every major "unwritten rule" in the game today—from brushback pitches, bunting during a no-hitter, and running up the score, to home-run celebrations, stealing signs, and the use of performance-enhancing drugs
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In his first diary since Ball Four, Jim Bouton recounts his amazing adventure trying to save a historic ballpark in…
Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Host to organized baseball since 1892, Wahconah Park was soon to be abandoned by the owner of the Pittsfield Mets, who would move his team to a new stadium in another town--an all too familiar story. Enter Bouton and his partner with the best deal ever offered to a community--a locally owned professional baseball team and a privately restored city-owned ballpark at no cost to the taxpayers. The only people who didn't like Bouton's plan were the Mayor, the Mayor's hand-picked Parks Commissioners, a majority of the City Council, the only daily newspaper, the city's largest bank, it's most powerful law firm, and a guy from General Electric. Everyone else--or approximately 98% of the citizens of Pittsfield--loved it. The "good old boys" hated Bouton's plan because it would put a stake in the heart of a proposed $18.5 million baseball stadium--a new stadium that the citizens of Pittsfield had voted against three different times! In what one reviewer called "that same humane, sarcastic voice" Bouton unmasks a mayor who brags that "the fix is in," a newspaper that lies to its readers, and a government that operates out of a bar. But maybe the most incredible story is what happened after Foul Ball was self-published--a story in itself. Invited back by a new mayor, Bouton and his partner raise $1.2 million, help discover a document dating Pittsfield's baseball origins to 1791, and stage a vintage game that's broadcast live by ESPN-TV. Who could have guessed what would happen next? And that this time it would involve the Massachusetts Attorney General? "What Foul Ball shares with Ball Four," wrote John Feinstein, "is Bouton's humor... and a remarkable tale that--if you didn't trust the author--you would find difficult to believe." ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jim Bouton was born in Newark, NJ, in 1939. He grew up in Rochelle Park, a blue-collar town that was too small for Little League. The result was that kids learned to play baseball without uniforms, parents, coaches, or umpires. In high school, his nickname was "warm up Bouton" because he never got into the games. Advised that becoming a major league pitcher was "unrealistic," Bouton wrote his Careers Week report on the life of a forest ranger. He got a C on his report and an A on the cover--a nice drawing of a squirrel in a tree. Bouton was an All-Star pitcher and won 20 games for the Yankees in 1963. The next year he won 18 games and beat the Cardinals twice in the World Series. Eventually a sore arm got him sold to the Seattle Pilots--for a bag of batting practice balls. That's when he began taking notes for his diary Ball Four, published in 1970. In the 1970s he was a top-rated TV sportscaster in New York City, acted in a Robert Altman film called The Long Goodbye, and made a brief comeback with the Atlanta Braves. In 2003 Bouton wrote and self-published Foul Ball, a diary of his battle to save a historic ballpark in Pittsfied, MA. Bouton says he only writes when he's bursting to say something. "Ball Four was a book I wanted to write," he says. "Foul Ball was a book I had to write. Today Bouton lives in a forest in western Massachusetts.
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Presents a history of the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals, a team filled with a cast of colorful characters, including Dizzy…
Dean, Leo Durocher, and Branch Rickey, and their improbable World Series victory
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A fun biography of Christian Yelich, one of baseball's rising stars on the Milwaukee Brewers. For grades 2-4
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Sports and games, Biography, Women biography, Baseball
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The true story of Effa Manley, the first and only woman in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and highlights her…
ownership role in the Negro Leagues leading up to the integration of Major League Baseball. For grades 5-8. 2021
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Biography, Sports and games, Women biography, Baseball, Sports biography, Customs and cultures, General non-fiction
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A journalist presents a biography of the first woman to play professional baseball on men's teams. It chronicles her baseball…
career, which included years in the semi-pro circuit and a stint in the Negro Leagues in the 1950s. It also details her experiences of racial and gender descrimination. Some strong language. 2010
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Sports and games, Biography, Addiction and substance abuse, Baseball
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An often painful account of a young man trying to find his individuality. A large portion of the text concentrates…
on the treatment Dodgers pitcher Welch received at an alcholic rehabilitation center in Arizona and how he is presently dealing with his problems. Some strong language
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Sports and games, Baseball
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The exciting year the color barrier was broken in baseball by bringing the first black man, Jackie Robinson, to the…
big leagues. It is also the story of the 1947 pennant races to the World Series, with such colorful performers as Joe Di Maggio and Phil Rizzuto of the New York Yankees and Pee Wee Reese and Burt Shotton of the Brooklyn Dodgers
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Memoir of a bumptious baseball umpire turned TV broadcaster includes descriptions of brawls, catcalls, dugout jokes, on-the-field pratfalls, and conversations with baseball's greats. Bestseller 1982.
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That old baseball saying is right: It is a funny game. No other sport can compare to the national pastime's…
vast catalog of silly quips and quotations, unforgettable characters, memorable nicknames, and inventive pranks.The Funniest Baseball Book Ever captures it all between two covers. It's simply the most complete, contemporary resource for baseball humor. This compendium expertly draws on a century of history and several hundred sources to lend the game a new, hilarious perspective. With over 90 percent of its material never before collected in a single volume, The Funniest Baseball Book Ever will entertain and surprise everyone from casual fans to diehards, and from newcomers to veterans.The Funniest Baseball Book Ever is the perfect antidote for those who'd prefer to laugh along with the fun and games--it's one book that lives up to its title's promise.
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The finer points of the game, as examined by the Society for American Baseball Research. This collection includes articles on…
the greatest games, double plays, base stealing, homeruns, famous fans, the first black in organized baseball, and the first woman owner. 1983.
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Story of the desegregation of professional baseball, centering on Dodger manager Branch Rickey's hiring of black player Jackie Robinson in…
the late 1940s. Also incorporates the history of black players from the late nineteenth century to the present
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Spanish speakers can now learn more about the most famous championship series in all of baseball: the World Series!Los hispanohablantes…
pueden ahora conocer más sobre la serie más famosa del campeonato de béisbol: ¡la Serie Mundial!"Strike three, you're out!" "He's safe!" "Home run!" Every October, millions of baseball fans around the country anxiously wait to see which team wins baseball's biggest championship. But the original games of the 1900s hardly looked like they do today. Take a look back over one hundred years and discover the history of baseball's greatest series. With triumphs, heartbreak, and superstitious curses, this action-packed book brings America's Pastime to life. "Tercer strike, ponchado&”. &“Quieto&”. &“Jonrón&”. Cada octubre, millones de aficionados al béisbol de todo el país esperan ansiosamente ver qué equipo gana la mayor competencia del béisbol. Pero los partidos originales de la década de 1900 difícilmente se parecían a los de hoy. Echa un vistazo a más de cien años atrás y descubre la historia de las mejores series del béisbol. Con triunfos, desengaños y maldiciones supersticiosas, este libro lleno de acción, da vida al pasatiempo de Estados Unidos.