Author: Lee Lowenfish
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496214811
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"A comprehensive look at professional baseball scouting from post WWII to the present day"--
Baseball Animals
Author: Christopher Jordan
Publisher: Fenn-Tundra
ISBN: 177049474X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
"An official MLB publication"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: Fenn-Tundra
ISBN: 177049474X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
"An official MLB publication"--Page 4 of cover.
Baseball's Endangered Species
Author: Lee Lowenfish
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496214811
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"A comprehensive look at professional baseball scouting from post WWII to the present day"--
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496214811
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"A comprehensive look at professional baseball scouting from post WWII to the present day"--
Fuzzy Baseball #5
Author: John Steven Gurney
Publisher: Fuzzy Baseball
ISBN: 1545810052
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Fernwood Fuzzies prepare for their spookiest game yet!
Publisher: Fuzzy Baseball
ISBN: 1545810052
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Fernwood Fuzzies prepare for their spookiest game yet!
The Baseball Gods
Author: Ronald DiFabbio
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595397328
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Have you ever watched a baseball game and wondered why on some days every good call or lucky bounce goes in favor of the team you're rooting for, while on the other days it seems like there is a grand conspiracy perpetuated by some higher power to keep them from winning? Or maybe you've wondered why some players always seem to get the big hit in the clutch, while others wilt when the spotlight shines on them? Or on a more personal level, maybe you're someone who can't figure why your life is not what you had always hoped it would be and you feel powerless to do anything about it? The questions of baseball and life are as mysterious as the compulsions that drive us to answer them, but there are a group of beings that make their home on the ball fields of our youth and in the landscape of our dreams who can answer all our questions and teach us to live to a better life. They are the Baseball Gods and this is the story of how I met them, how they have changed my life.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595397328
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Have you ever watched a baseball game and wondered why on some days every good call or lucky bounce goes in favor of the team you're rooting for, while on the other days it seems like there is a grand conspiracy perpetuated by some higher power to keep them from winning? Or maybe you've wondered why some players always seem to get the big hit in the clutch, while others wilt when the spotlight shines on them? Or on a more personal level, maybe you're someone who can't figure why your life is not what you had always hoped it would be and you feel powerless to do anything about it? The questions of baseball and life are as mysterious as the compulsions that drive us to answer them, but there are a group of beings that make their home on the ball fields of our youth and in the landscape of our dreams who can answer all our questions and teach us to live to a better life. They are the Baseball Gods and this is the story of how I met them, how they have changed my life.
Baseball Before We Knew It
Author: David Block
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803262553
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
It may be America?s game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable information has been in short supply?until now, when Baseball before We Knew It brings fresh new evidence of baseball?s origins into play. David Block looks into the early history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation for the most notorious myth of all?the Abner Doubleday?Cooperstown story. ΓΈ Block?s book takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the centuries in search of clues to the evolution of our modern National Pastime. Among his startling discoveries is a set of long-forgotten baseball rules from the 1700s. Block evaluates the originality and historical significance of the Knickerbocker rules of 1845, revisits European studies on the ancestry of baseball which indicate that the game dates back hundreds, if not thousands of years, and assembles a detailed history of games and pastimes from the Middle Ages onward that contributed to baseball?s development. In its thoroughness and reach, and its extensive descriptive bibliography of early baseball sources, this book is a unique and invaluable resource?a comprehensive, reliable, and readable account of baseball before it was America?s game.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803262553
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
It may be America?s game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable information has been in short supply?until now, when Baseball before We Knew It brings fresh new evidence of baseball?s origins into play. David Block looks into the early history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation for the most notorious myth of all?the Abner Doubleday?Cooperstown story. ΓΈ Block?s book takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the centuries in search of clues to the evolution of our modern National Pastime. Among his startling discoveries is a set of long-forgotten baseball rules from the 1700s. Block evaluates the originality and historical significance of the Knickerbocker rules of 1845, revisits European studies on the ancestry of baseball which indicate that the game dates back hundreds, if not thousands of years, and assembles a detailed history of games and pastimes from the Middle Ages onward that contributed to baseball?s development. In its thoroughness and reach, and its extensive descriptive bibliography of early baseball sources, this book is a unique and invaluable resource?a comprehensive, reliable, and readable account of baseball before it was America?s game.
Nature and Outdoor Life ...: Sports and games. Pets and hobbies
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Dogs Who Play Baseball
Author: Thomas Louis Carroll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736633939
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736633939
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Speaking of Animals
Author: Robert Palmatier
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313368384
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
No other nonhuman source has served as the basis for more metaphors than animals. Speaking of Animals is a dictionary of animal metaphors that are current in American English. It is comprehensive, historical, and metaphor-based. Each entry refers to the other dictionaries that catalog that same metaphor, and the dates of first appearance in writing are supplied, where possible, for both the metaphor and the name of the source. The main text is organized alphabetically by metaphor rather than by animal or animal behavior; all the metaphors are classified according to their animal source in a list at the end of the book. An animal metaphor is a word, phrase, or sentence that expresses a resemblance or similarity between someone or something and a particular animal or animal class. True metaphors are single words, such as the noun tiger, the verb hog, and the adjective chicken. Phrasal metaphors combine true metaphors with other words, such as blind tiger, hog the road, and chicken colonel. Other animal metaphors take the form of similes, such as like rats leaving a sinking ship and prickly as a hedgehog. Still others take the form of proverbs, such as Don't count your chickens before they hatch and Let sleeping dogs lie. The horse is the animal most frequently referred to in metaphors, followed closely by the dog. The Bible is the most prolific literary source of animal metaphors, followed closely by Shakespeare.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313368384
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
No other nonhuman source has served as the basis for more metaphors than animals. Speaking of Animals is a dictionary of animal metaphors that are current in American English. It is comprehensive, historical, and metaphor-based. Each entry refers to the other dictionaries that catalog that same metaphor, and the dates of first appearance in writing are supplied, where possible, for both the metaphor and the name of the source. The main text is organized alphabetically by metaphor rather than by animal or animal behavior; all the metaphors are classified according to their animal source in a list at the end of the book. An animal metaphor is a word, phrase, or sentence that expresses a resemblance or similarity between someone or something and a particular animal or animal class. True metaphors are single words, such as the noun tiger, the verb hog, and the adjective chicken. Phrasal metaphors combine true metaphors with other words, such as blind tiger, hog the road, and chicken colonel. Other animal metaphors take the form of similes, such as like rats leaving a sinking ship and prickly as a hedgehog. Still others take the form of proverbs, such as Don't count your chickens before they hatch and Let sleeping dogs lie. The horse is the animal most frequently referred to in metaphors, followed closely by the dog. The Bible is the most prolific literary source of animal metaphors, followed closely by Shakespeare.
Our Dumb Animals
Author: George Thorndike Angell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Great Ball Game
Author: Rebecca Sheir
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1635866332
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The Great Ball Game, a classic folktale originating from the Cherokee, Creek, Ojibway and Menominee people of North America, is adapted for a contemporary audience by Rebecca Sheir, host of the award-winning Circle Round podcast, and accompanied by the vibrant illustrations of Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, an Ojibwe Woodland artist. A dispute between the animals and the birds over who is best leads to a ball game challenge. When the game is disrupted by the arrival of a tiny creature named Bat, who doesn't seem to fit on either team, all the participants learn the value of diversity and celebrating those who seem "different." The accompanying activities and prompts encourage children to develop their own storytelling skills.
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1635866332
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The Great Ball Game, a classic folktale originating from the Cherokee, Creek, Ojibway and Menominee people of North America, is adapted for a contemporary audience by Rebecca Sheir, host of the award-winning Circle Round podcast, and accompanied by the vibrant illustrations of Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, an Ojibwe Woodland artist. A dispute between the animals and the birds over who is best leads to a ball game challenge. When the game is disrupted by the arrival of a tiny creature named Bat, who doesn't seem to fit on either team, all the participants learn the value of diversity and celebrating those who seem "different." The accompanying activities and prompts encourage children to develop their own storytelling skills.