Author: Ron Smith
Publisher: Contemporary Books
ISBN: 9780892046263
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Rich full-color and black-and-white photographs highlight the third book in The Sporting News Selects series--ranking the great players, the great games, and the greatest moments in the history of baseball.
The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments
Author: Ron Smith
Publisher: Contemporary Books
ISBN: 9780892046263
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Rich full-color and black-and-white photographs highlight the third book in The Sporting News Selects series--ranking the great players, the great games, and the greatest moments in the history of baseball.
Publisher: Contemporary Books
ISBN: 9780892046263
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Rich full-color and black-and-white photographs highlight the third book in The Sporting News Selects series--ranking the great players, the great games, and the greatest moments in the history of baseball.
The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 25 Greatest Teams
Author: Lowell Reidenbaugh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments
Author: Ron Smith
Publisher: Sporting News
ISBN: 9780892047062
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher: Sporting News
ISBN: 9780892047062
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Great Moments in Baseball History
Author: Matt Christopher
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316093874
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Capturing the suspense and play-by-play action of nine major league plays and the personalities of the athletes that made them, a fan's treasury includes Willie May's 1954 World Series catch and Jim Abbott's no-hitter.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316093874
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Capturing the suspense and play-by-play action of nine major league plays and the personalities of the athletes that made them, a fan's treasury includes Willie May's 1954 World Series catch and Jim Abbott's no-hitter.
Major League Turbulence
Author: Douglas M. Branson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476640661
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The decades between the late 1960s counterculture and the advent of steroid use in the late 1980s bought tumult to Major League Baseball. Dock Ellis (Pirates, Yankees) and Dick Allen (Phillies, Cardinals, Dodgers, White Sox) epitomized the era with recreational drug use (Ellis), labor strife (Allen), and the questioning of authority. Both men were Black Power advocates at a time when the movement was growing in baseball. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marvin Miller and the Major League Baseball Players Association fought numerous, mostly victorious battles with MLB and team owners. This book chronicles a turbulent period in baseball, and in American life, that led directly to the performance-enhancing drug era and the dramatically changed nature of the game.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476640661
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The decades between the late 1960s counterculture and the advent of steroid use in the late 1980s bought tumult to Major League Baseball. Dock Ellis (Pirates, Yankees) and Dick Allen (Phillies, Cardinals, Dodgers, White Sox) epitomized the era with recreational drug use (Ellis), labor strife (Allen), and the questioning of authority. Both men were Black Power advocates at a time when the movement was growing in baseball. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marvin Miller and the Major League Baseball Players Association fought numerous, mostly victorious battles with MLB and team owners. This book chronicles a turbulent period in baseball, and in American life, that led directly to the performance-enhancing drug era and the dramatically changed nature of the game.
The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 100 Greatest Players
Author: Ron Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Profiles of 100 of the greatest baseball players of all time.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Profiles of 100 of the greatest baseball players of all time.
Corruption and Scandal in American Sports
Author: Jimmy Sanderson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Scandals about cheating and corruption have dogged amateur and professional sports in the United States since the nation's earliest days. This work examines the most infamous and consequential of these controversies and scandals both on and off the field. Authoritative Individual essays tackle notorious events in popular American sports ranging from the 1919 Black Sox scandal to revelations of sign stealing by the Houston Astros throughout their 2020 championship season, with stops in between to survey horrific sex abuse scandals at Penn State, Baylor, and Michigan State; steroid and drug scandals that brought down once-admired athletes like Mark McGwire and Lance Armstrong; and cheating/betting controversies that tainted individual players (Pete Rose), teams (Boston College, New England Patriots), and entire leagues (including the Little League World Series in 2001). But this work does more than just recount these events; it will also examine the cultural and economic pressures and forces that contributed to these events, as well as the lessons learned and steps taken (if any) to enact reform and help the sport recover.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Scandals about cheating and corruption have dogged amateur and professional sports in the United States since the nation's earliest days. This work examines the most infamous and consequential of these controversies and scandals both on and off the field. Authoritative Individual essays tackle notorious events in popular American sports ranging from the 1919 Black Sox scandal to revelations of sign stealing by the Houston Astros throughout their 2020 championship season, with stops in between to survey horrific sex abuse scandals at Penn State, Baylor, and Michigan State; steroid and drug scandals that brought down once-admired athletes like Mark McGwire and Lance Armstrong; and cheating/betting controversies that tainted individual players (Pete Rose), teams (Boston College, New England Patriots), and entire leagues (including the Little League World Series in 2001). But this work does more than just recount these events; it will also examine the cultural and economic pressures and forces that contributed to these events, as well as the lessons learned and steps taken (if any) to enact reform and help the sport recover.
A High Five for Glenn Burke
Author: Phil Bildner
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374312745
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
A 2021 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 A 2021 ALA Rainbow Book A Bank Street Best Book of 2021 A heartfelt and relatable novel from Phil Bildner, weaving the real history of Los Angeles Dodger and Oakland Athletic Glenn Burke--the first professional baseball player to come out as gay--into the story of a middle-school kid learning to be himself. When sixth grader Silas Wade does a school presentation on former Major Leaguer Glenn Burke, it’s more than just a report about the irrepressible inventor of the high five. Burke was a gay baseball player in the 1970s—and for Silas, the presentation is his own first baby step toward revealing a truth about himself he's tired of hiding. Soon he tells his best friend, Zoey, but the longer he keeps his secret from his baseball teammates, the more he suspects they know something’s up—especially when he stages one big cover-up with terrible consequences. A High Five for Glenn Burke is Phil Bildner’s most personal novel yet—a powerful story about the challenge of being true to yourself, especially when not everyone feels you belong on the field.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374312745
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
A 2021 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 A 2021 ALA Rainbow Book A Bank Street Best Book of 2021 A heartfelt and relatable novel from Phil Bildner, weaving the real history of Los Angeles Dodger and Oakland Athletic Glenn Burke--the first professional baseball player to come out as gay--into the story of a middle-school kid learning to be himself. When sixth grader Silas Wade does a school presentation on former Major Leaguer Glenn Burke, it’s more than just a report about the irrepressible inventor of the high five. Burke was a gay baseball player in the 1970s—and for Silas, the presentation is his own first baby step toward revealing a truth about himself he's tired of hiding. Soon he tells his best friend, Zoey, but the longer he keeps his secret from his baseball teammates, the more he suspects they know something’s up—especially when he stages one big cover-up with terrible consequences. A High Five for Glenn Burke is Phil Bildner’s most personal novel yet—a powerful story about the challenge of being true to yourself, especially when not everyone feels you belong on the field.
61*
Author: Ron Smith
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
ISBN: 9780892046621
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Join The Sporting News for a fascinating journey through one of baseball's most magical seasons--the Summer of '61.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
ISBN: 9780892046621
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Join The Sporting News for a fascinating journey through one of baseball's most magical seasons--the Summer of '61.
Baseball’S Brotherhood Team
Author: Bryan Steverson
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1973616874
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
In the Book of Genesis, when Cain is confronted by God regarding the death of his brother, he replies, Am I my brothers keeper? Within these pages, players respond affirmatively to this centurys age old question. They took stands against prejudice during times in our country when it was not the norm. Their courage serves as a model for all of us today. These players lived the biblical challenge of loving your neighbor. This is the third book by the author of inspirational stories about players from our national pastime. Fifteen members of our National Baseball Hall of Fame are here as well as others of lesser fame. The examples include 19th century baseball, Babe Ruth and Pete Rose. Each player was special. Each story inspirational.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1973616874
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
In the Book of Genesis, when Cain is confronted by God regarding the death of his brother, he replies, Am I my brothers keeper? Within these pages, players respond affirmatively to this centurys age old question. They took stands against prejudice during times in our country when it was not the norm. Their courage serves as a model for all of us today. These players lived the biblical challenge of loving your neighbor. This is the third book by the author of inspirational stories about players from our national pastime. Fifteen members of our National Baseball Hall of Fame are here as well as others of lesser fame. The examples include 19th century baseball, Babe Ruth and Pete Rose. Each player was special. Each story inspirational.