Author: USA Today
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786881130
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Based on America's most popular baseball publication, this new edition provides the baseball lover with all new statistics, profiles, and analyses in addition to editorial essays on high salaries and top draft prospects. Original.
USA Today Baseball Weekly 1996 Almanac
Author: USA Today
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786881130
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Based on America's most popular baseball publication, this new edition provides the baseball lover with all new statistics, profiles, and analyses in addition to editorial essays on high salaries and top draft prospects. Original.
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786881130
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Based on America's most popular baseball publication, this new edition provides the baseball lover with all new statistics, profiles, and analyses in addition to editorial essays on high salaries and top draft prospects. Original.
USA Today Baseball Weekly 2000 Almanac
Author: Baseball Weekly
Publisher: Total Sports
ISBN: 9781892129161
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Unrivaled coverage of the year in baseball offers full player statistics sorted by team and position, fantasy values for every major league player, and postseason wrap-ups from the staff of USA Today Baseball Weekly. 300 tables. Illustrations.
Publisher: Total Sports
ISBN: 9781892129161
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Unrivaled coverage of the year in baseball offers full player statistics sorted by team and position, fantasy values for every major league player, and postseason wrap-ups from the staff of USA Today Baseball Weekly. 300 tables. Illustrations.
The Santurce Crabbers
Author: Thomas E. Van Hyning
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476614075
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The first owner of the Santurce Crabbers, Pedrin Zorrilla, was a visionary, with many Negro League and big league contacts (he signed up Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Ray Dandridge and Leon Day in the first decade). Santurce was the most successful winter league team of the 1950s, with three Caribbean Series titles. Roberto Clemente, Ruben Gomez, Willie Mays, Willard Brown and Bob Thurman played for the Crabbers. Tom Lasorda used to pitch for them. Santurce set up working agreements with the Giants, Orioles, Dodgers and Astros, among other teams. Earl Weaver and Frank Robinson were team managers; several Hall of Famers were early-career Crabbers. Orlando Cepeda and Tony (Tany) Perez played their entire winter league careers with Santurce.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476614075
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The first owner of the Santurce Crabbers, Pedrin Zorrilla, was a visionary, with many Negro League and big league contacts (he signed up Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Ray Dandridge and Leon Day in the first decade). Santurce was the most successful winter league team of the 1950s, with three Caribbean Series titles. Roberto Clemente, Ruben Gomez, Willie Mays, Willard Brown and Bob Thurman played for the Crabbers. Tom Lasorda used to pitch for them. Santurce set up working agreements with the Giants, Orioles, Dodgers and Astros, among other teams. Earl Weaver and Frank Robinson were team managers; several Hall of Famers were early-career Crabbers. Orlando Cepeda and Tony (Tany) Perez played their entire winter league careers with Santurce.
USA Today Baseball Weekly 1994 Alamanac
Author: Paul White
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9781562827953
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Packed with all the statistics, analyses, profiles, and prognostications that national pastime lovers have come to expect, the 1994 edition of this instant home run success includes a historical section, essays on salaries and draft picks, sidebars, graphics, and more. Photos.
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9781562827953
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Packed with all the statistics, analyses, profiles, and prognostications that national pastime lovers have come to expect, the 1994 edition of this instant home run success includes a historical section, essays on salaries and draft picks, sidebars, graphics, and more. Photos.
ESPN Sports Almanac 1998
Author: Inso Corporation
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786882960
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
ESPN has taken the original Information Please Sports Almanac, known for its thorough stats, compelling facts, and commentary, and added ESPN's unique voice, point of view, and contributions of network personalities. Taking on the witty "quick-hits" tone ESPN is famous for, the new ESPN almanac includes "Inside the Numbers" statistics, expanded quotes, rule changes, ESPN coverage of the top 40 stories and personalities of the year--with continued annual coverage of college, pro, international and Olympic Sports, bizarre sports occurrences, Hall of Fame awards, Who's Who, parks and arenas, business and media, plus much, much more.
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786882960
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
ESPN has taken the original Information Please Sports Almanac, known for its thorough stats, compelling facts, and commentary, and added ESPN's unique voice, point of view, and contributions of network personalities. Taking on the witty "quick-hits" tone ESPN is famous for, the new ESPN almanac includes "Inside the Numbers" statistics, expanded quotes, rule changes, ESPN coverage of the top 40 stories and personalities of the year--with continued annual coverage of college, pro, international and Olympic Sports, bizarre sports occurrences, Hall of Fame awards, Who's Who, parks and arenas, business and media, plus much, much more.
The Baseball Chronology
Author: David Nemec
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780785340744
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780785340744
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
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.
Index to American Reference Books Annual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American reference books annual
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American reference books annual
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Baseball America 2007 Almanac
Author: Baseball America (Firm)
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1932391134
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Baseball America's 2007 Almanac offers a complete recap of the 2006 baseball season from the World Series to the major, minor, college, high school, independent, and amateur leagues. The Almanac has organization, team, and player statistics and season reviews covering all of professional, amateur, and youth baseball. It is also the only volume to feature in-depth coverage of the annual draft of players at all levels.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1932391134
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Baseball America's 2007 Almanac offers a complete recap of the 2006 baseball season from the World Series to the major, minor, college, high school, independent, and amateur leagues. The Almanac has organization, team, and player statistics and season reviews covering all of professional, amateur, and youth baseball. It is also the only volume to feature in-depth coverage of the annual draft of players at all levels.
American Sports Empire
Author: Frank P. Jozsa
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313039569
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
How did the professional baseball, basketball, football, and hockey leagues become the most successful sports organizations in the United States? Jozsa investigates the major leagues' histories with unparalleled depth and rigorous economic analysis. He marshals relevant data, facts, statistics that measure the performance of professional sports teams and players, the strategies of franchise owners, and the loyalties of fans. Delineating the development, maturation, and revitalization of the leagues throughout the 20th century, he highlights significant events and reforms of the era and discusses the future of sports leagues in the marketplace. Sports fanatics, casual fans, professional coaches and players, journalists, economists, administrators, and owners will discover a goldmine of information in this unique volume. Readers will learn about key owners, investors, coaches, managers, and players of teams that won divisions, conference titles, and league championships from the 1950s through the 1990s. The book includes information on attendance, operating incomes, payrolls, win-loss percentages, and the estimated market value of individual teams. Specific franchise owners are noted for their wealth and success factors. The author also predicts that league commissioners, franchise owners, local business and community leaders, and government officials will be forced to bargain in good faith and compromise on the question of whether to use taxpayer money to invest in sports facilities.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313039569
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
How did the professional baseball, basketball, football, and hockey leagues become the most successful sports organizations in the United States? Jozsa investigates the major leagues' histories with unparalleled depth and rigorous economic analysis. He marshals relevant data, facts, statistics that measure the performance of professional sports teams and players, the strategies of franchise owners, and the loyalties of fans. Delineating the development, maturation, and revitalization of the leagues throughout the 20th century, he highlights significant events and reforms of the era and discusses the future of sports leagues in the marketplace. Sports fanatics, casual fans, professional coaches and players, journalists, economists, administrators, and owners will discover a goldmine of information in this unique volume. Readers will learn about key owners, investors, coaches, managers, and players of teams that won divisions, conference titles, and league championships from the 1950s through the 1990s. The book includes information on attendance, operating incomes, payrolls, win-loss percentages, and the estimated market value of individual teams. Specific franchise owners are noted for their wealth and success factors. The author also predicts that league commissioners, franchise owners, local business and community leaders, and government officials will be forced to bargain in good faith and compromise on the question of whether to use taxpayer money to invest in sports facilities.