Author: John Dewan
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780062732316
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
In-depth qualitative analysis and state-of-the-art computer graphics provide the most thorough evaluation of more than 700 major league players and top minor league prospects, featuring each player's strengths, weaknesses, playing styles, experience, potential, stats for 1993 performances, career records, and more. Illustrations.
The Scouting Report, 1994
Author: John Dewan
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780062732316
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
In-depth qualitative analysis and state-of-the-art computer graphics provide the most thorough evaluation of more than 700 major league players and top minor league prospects, featuring each player's strengths, weaknesses, playing styles, experience, potential, stats for 1993 performances, career records, and more. Illustrations.
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780062732316
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
In-depth qualitative analysis and state-of-the-art computer graphics provide the most thorough evaluation of more than 700 major league players and top minor league prospects, featuring each player's strengths, weaknesses, playing styles, experience, potential, stats for 1993 performances, career records, and more. Illustrations.
A Scout's Report
Author: George Genovese
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476618976
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Many in baseball consider the scout to be the most important figure in any organization: It is the scout's work in the high school and college bleachers that unearths future legends. Few have achieved more--and in such grand style--than George Genovese. In a game that values numbers, Genovese's are staggering. No other scout has been responsible for more players in a single lineup, more home runs by players signed or more All-Star and World Series highlights than Genovese. Genovese's eye for talent is unmatched, his advocacy for the players he discovers is unrivaled, and the investment he makes toward their success is a difference maker. This autobiography is the story of his seven decades in baseball as a player, manager and scout.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476618976
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Many in baseball consider the scout to be the most important figure in any organization: It is the scout's work in the high school and college bleachers that unearths future legends. Few have achieved more--and in such grand style--than George Genovese. In a game that values numbers, Genovese's are staggering. No other scout has been responsible for more players in a single lineup, more home runs by players signed or more All-Star and World Series highlights than Genovese. Genovese's eye for talent is unmatched, his advocacy for the players he discovers is unrivaled, and the investment he makes toward their success is a difference maker. This autobiography is the story of his seven decades in baseball as a player, manager and scout.
The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers
Author: Bill James
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439103771
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer compile information on pitches and their origins, nearly two thousand pitchers, and more in this comprehensive guide. Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them—they’re the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a comprehensive source for such information…until now. Bill James and Rob Neyer spent over a decade compiling the centerpiece of this book, the Pitcher Census, which lists specific information for nearly two thousand pitchers, ranging throughout the history of professional baseball. Their guide also includes a dictionary describing virtually every known pitch, biographies of great pitchers who have been overlooked, and top ten lists for fastballs, spitballs, and everything in between. James and Neyer also weigh in on the debate over pitcher abuse and durability, offer a formula for predicting the Cy Young Award winner, and reveal James’s Pitcher Codes. Learn about the origins and development of baseball’s most important pitches and more knuckleballers and submariners than you ever thought existed! Baseball’s action always starts with the pitchers. Begin to understand them and join in on entertaining debates while having a great deal of fun with the history of the game that captivates so many with this one-of-a-kind guide.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439103771
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer compile information on pitches and their origins, nearly two thousand pitchers, and more in this comprehensive guide. Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them—they’re the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a comprehensive source for such information…until now. Bill James and Rob Neyer spent over a decade compiling the centerpiece of this book, the Pitcher Census, which lists specific information for nearly two thousand pitchers, ranging throughout the history of professional baseball. Their guide also includes a dictionary describing virtually every known pitch, biographies of great pitchers who have been overlooked, and top ten lists for fastballs, spitballs, and everything in between. James and Neyer also weigh in on the debate over pitcher abuse and durability, offer a formula for predicting the Cy Young Award winner, and reveal James’s Pitcher Codes. Learn about the origins and development of baseball’s most important pitches and more knuckleballers and submariners than you ever thought existed! Baseball’s action always starts with the pitchers. Begin to understand them and join in on entertaining debates while having a great deal of fun with the history of the game that captivates so many with this one-of-a-kind guide.
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups
Author: Rob Neyer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743241746
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Presents a series of lineups from each baseball franchise and explores the careers of baseball players both famous and obscure.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743241746
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Presents a series of lineups from each baseball franchise and explores the careers of baseball players both famous and obscure.
Scouting and Scoring
Author: Christopher J. Phillips
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691217165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring, Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic divisions. He shows how both scouts and scorers rely on numbers, bureaucracy, trust, and human labor to make sound judgments about the value of baseball players. Tracing baseball’s story from the nineteenth century to today, Phillips explains that the sport was one of the earliest fields to introduce numerical analysis, and new methods of data collection were supposed to enable teams to replace scouting with scoring. But that’s not how things turned out. From the invention of official scorers and Statcast to the creation of the Major League Scouting Bureau, Scouting and Scoring reveals the inextricable connections between human expertise and data science, and offers an entirely fresh understanding of baseball.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691217165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring, Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic divisions. He shows how both scouts and scorers rely on numbers, bureaucracy, trust, and human labor to make sound judgments about the value of baseball players. Tracing baseball’s story from the nineteenth century to today, Phillips explains that the sport was one of the earliest fields to introduce numerical analysis, and new methods of data collection were supposed to enable teams to replace scouting with scoring. But that’s not how things turned out. From the invention of official scorers and Statcast to the creation of the Major League Scouting Bureau, Scouting and Scoring reveals the inextricable connections between human expertise and data science, and offers an entirely fresh understanding of baseball.
The Scouting Report, 1996
Author: Baseball Workshop
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780062733603
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Completely updated for 1996, this definitive guide to all the Big League players--and the best prospects of the minor leagues--has the state-of-the-art computer-generated graphics and statistics that make it the best book of its kind and a vital reference for fantasy league players. 700 b&w photos.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780062733603
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Completely updated for 1996, this definitive guide to all the Big League players--and the best prospects of the minor leagues--has the state-of-the-art computer-generated graphics and statistics that make it the best book of its kind and a vital reference for fantasy league players. 700 b&w photos.
Tales from the Cubs Dugout
Author: Pete Cava
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9781583820445
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Have so many ever cheered so much for so little? The Chicago Cubs last won the World Series in 1908 and last appeared in the Fall Classic the year World War II ended.Yet Cubs fans are among the most loyal, most knowledgeable, and most rabid in baseball. The teams they have loved and the players they have cherished have provided some of the game's finest moments, as well as a treasure trove of baseball lore. The Cubs' home park, Wrigley Field, is as much a national landmark as the Empire State Building or the Golden Gate Bridge. A charter member of the National League, the Cubs were born in 1876 -- the same year the Seventh Cavalry fought at Little Big Horn. Cap Anson, baseball's first superstar and possibly the finest player of the 19th century, played for early Cubs squads. In the early years of the 20th century, the fantastic double-play combination of Tinkers to Evers to Chance was immortalized in verse. Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, Grover Cleveland Alexander, and Fergie Jenkins rank among baseball's greatest pitchers, while hitters Kiki Cuyler, Hack Wilson, Billy Herman, Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Sammy Sosa have put up amazing numbers. But the Cubs transcend baseball much the same way that Paris transcends Europe. The story of the Cubs is part legend, part pathos, often heroic, and, on occasion, hilarious.
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9781583820445
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Have so many ever cheered so much for so little? The Chicago Cubs last won the World Series in 1908 and last appeared in the Fall Classic the year World War II ended.Yet Cubs fans are among the most loyal, most knowledgeable, and most rabid in baseball. The teams they have loved and the players they have cherished have provided some of the game's finest moments, as well as a treasure trove of baseball lore. The Cubs' home park, Wrigley Field, is as much a national landmark as the Empire State Building or the Golden Gate Bridge. A charter member of the National League, the Cubs were born in 1876 -- the same year the Seventh Cavalry fought at Little Big Horn. Cap Anson, baseball's first superstar and possibly the finest player of the 19th century, played for early Cubs squads. In the early years of the 20th century, the fantastic double-play combination of Tinkers to Evers to Chance was immortalized in verse. Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, Grover Cleveland Alexander, and Fergie Jenkins rank among baseball's greatest pitchers, while hitters Kiki Cuyler, Hack Wilson, Billy Herman, Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Sammy Sosa have put up amazing numbers. But the Cubs transcend baseball much the same way that Paris transcends Europe. The story of the Cubs is part legend, part pathos, often heroic, and, on occasion, hilarious.
Benoit
Author: Steven Johnson
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1554903157
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Four noted wrestling writers discuss the life and death of Chris Benoit, a Canadian professional wrestler who became one of the most popular athletes in professional wrestling before committing a double-murder suicide in 2007.
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1554903157
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Four noted wrestling writers discuss the life and death of Chris Benoit, a Canadian professional wrestler who became one of the most popular athletes in professional wrestling before committing a double-murder suicide in 2007.
1999 Sports Collectors Almanac
Author: Sports Collectors Digest
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873417440
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A complete, one-stop sourcebook for all new-issue cards in football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and motor sports. Crisp photos make identifying cards fun and easy.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873417440
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A complete, one-stop sourcebook for all new-issue cards in football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and motor sports. Crisp photos make identifying cards fun and easy.
The Baseball Anthology
Author: Joseph Wallace
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810991798
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Little-known writings are combined with the greatest commentaries on the sport in this comprehensive anthology, which also includes a six-page gatefold timeline, highlighting critical moments in baseball history from 1869 to 1994.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810991798
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Little-known writings are combined with the greatest commentaries on the sport in this comprehensive anthology, which also includes a six-page gatefold timeline, highlighting critical moments in baseball history from 1869 to 1994.