Author: Burnham Holmes
Publisher: Silver Burdett Press
ISBN: 9780895470560
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Describes the development of rules for baseball and the first game played "by the rules" in Hoboken, New Jersey, on June 19, 1846.
Author: Roger I. Abrams
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555536442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Recapturing the drama and color of this historic sporting event, Roger I. Abrams shows how the first world series (Boston Americans vs. Pittsburgh Pirates) provided a unique lens to view American life and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century. It is a fascinating story brimming with colorful, larger-than-life characters: legendary players Honus Wagner, Cy Young, Jimmy Collins, Fred Clarke, Big Bill Dineen, and Deacon Phillippe on the field; and Mike "Nuf Ced" McGreevey, "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, and the boisterous Boston Royal Rooters, cheering, chanting, and singing in the grandstands. This is also the story of how the post-season play gave disparate classes in society--Brahmins, industrialists, Irish politicians, Jewish immigrants--the rare opportunity to join in common support of their local teams and heroes.
Author: Katie Kawa
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1433973065
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Beginning readers follow along as one family experiences the fun and excitement of a trip to the ballpark—from the first bite of a hot dog to the last home run. This fictionalized approach to a common childhood experience helps young readers find enjoyment on each page while strengthening vocabulary skills. Accessible text and a helpful picture glossary are accompanied by bright illustrations that bring the thrill of a great baseball game to all readers.
Author: Bernham Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878952656
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Describes the development of rules for baseball and the first game played "by the rules" in Hoboken, New Jersey, on June 19, 1846.
Author: Armando Galarraga
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802195598
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The Detroit Tigers, an umpire, a pitcher, and a mistake—one of the “classic, human, baseball stories” (Ken Burns, creator of the PBS mini-series Baseball). The perfect game is one of the rarest accomplishments in sports. In nearly four hundred thousand contests in over 130 years, it has happened only twenty times. On June 2, 2010, Armando Galarraga threw baseball’s twenty-first. Except that’s not how it entered the record books. That’s because Jim Joyce, voted the best umpire in the game in 2010 and 2011, missed the call on the final out. But rather than throwing a tantrum, Galarraga simply turned and smiled, went back to the mound, and finished the game. “Nobody’s perfect,” he said later in the locker room. “You might think everything that could have been said, replayed, and revealed about that night has already been uttered, logged, and exposed. You would, however, be as wrong as the unfortunate Mr. Joyce” (The Detroit News). In Nobody’s Perfect, Galarraga and Joyce come together to tell the personal story of a remarkable game that will live forever in baseball lore, and to trace their fascinating lives in sports. The result is “a masterpiece”, an absorbing insider’s look at two careers in baseball, a tremendous achievement, and an enduring moment of pure grace and sportsmanship (The Huffington Post).
Author: Jon Pessah
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316242217
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty years In the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their decades-long battle with the players has turned America against both sides, and the players' growing addiction to steroids will threaten the game's very foundation. It is a tipping point for baseball, a crucial moment in the game's history that catalyzes a struggle for power by three strong-willed men: Commissioner Bud Selig, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and union leader Don Fehr. It's their uneasy alliance at the end of decades of struggle that pulls the game back from the brink and turns it into a money-making powerhouse that enriches them all. This is the real story of baseball, played out against a tableau of stunning athletic feats, high-stakes public battles, and backroom political deals--with a supporting cast that includes Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, Joe Torre and Derek Jeter, George Bush and George Mitchell, and many more. Drawing from hundreds of extensive, exclusive interviews throughout baseball, The Game is a stunning achievement: a rigorously reported book and the must-read, fly-on-the-wall, definitive account of how an enormous struggle for power turns disaster into baseball's Golden Age.
Author: Chris Singleton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781638190912
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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It might be America's favorite pastime, but baseball isn't just an American sport! From Cuba to Japan, Taiwan to Ireland, learn about the diverse melting pot of countries and cultures have embraced the ole ballgame.
Author: David Vincent
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803292734
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Examines the history of All-Star baseball, providing play-by-plays, rosters, and box scores of each game; and discusses how All-Star games have been influenced by racial integration, expansion teams, and the designated hitter.
Author: John Thorn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743294041
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Did baseball even have a father--or did it just evolve from other bat-and-ball games? John Thorn, baseball's preeminent historian, examines the creation story of the game and finds it all to be a gigantic lie. From its earliest days baseball was a vehicle for gambling, a proxy form of class warfare. Thorn traces the rise of the New York version of the game over other variations popular in Massachusetts and Philadelphia. He shows how the sport's increasing popularity in the early decades of the nineteenth century mirrored the migration of young men from farms and small towns to cities, especially New York. Full of heroes, scoundrels, and dupes, this book tells the story of nineteenth-century America, a land of opportunity and limitation, of glory and greed--all present in the wondrous alloy that is our nation and its pastime.--From publisher description.
Author: Randy Ryan
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1617399205
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Hunter loves baseball more than anything. In fact, he dreams of being a professional baseball player when he grows up. But nothing can prepare Hunter for the out-of-this-world thrill he will experience at his first professional baseball game. Join author Randy Ryan on the mound for a magical night of mystery in My First Baseball Game. First-time author Randy Ryan is a junior in college and resides in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He lives with his family and his dog, Griswald.
