Author: James A. Riley
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN: 9780786709595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Briefly traces the history of the Negro Baseball League, and identifies over four thousand of its players.
The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues
Author: James A. Riley
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN: 9780786709595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Briefly traces the history of the Negro Baseball League, and identifies over four thousand of its players.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN: 9780786709595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Briefly traces the history of the Negro Baseball League, and identifies over four thousand of its players.
The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Major League Baseball
Author: David Nemec
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817314997
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1057
Book Description
The authoritative compendium of facts, statistics, photographs, and analysis that defines baseball in its formative first decades This comprehensive reference work covers the early years of major league baseball from the first game—May 4, 1871, a 2-0 victory for the Fort Wayne Kekiongas over the visiting Cleveland Forest City team—through the 1900 season. Baseball historian David Nemec presents complete team rosters and detailed player, manager, and umpire information, with a wealth of statistics to warm a fan’s heart. Sidebars cover a variety of topics, from oddities—the team that had the best record but finished second—to analyses of why Cleveland didn’t win any pennants in the 1890s. Additional benefits include dozens of rare illustrations and narrative accounts of each year’s pennant race. Nemec also carefully charts the rule changes from year to year as the game developed by fits and starts to formulate the modern rules. The result is an essential work of reference and at the same time a treasury of baseball history. This new edition adds much material unearthed since the first edition, fills gaps, and corrects errors, while presenting a number of new stories and fascinating details. David Nemec began the lifetime labor that helped produced this work in 1954 and admits it may never end, as there always will be some obscure player whose birth date has not yet been found. Until perfection is achieved, this work offers state-of-the-art accuracy and detail beyond that supplied by even modern baseball encyclopedias. As Casey Stengel, who was born during this era, was wont to say, “you could look it up.” Now you can.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817314997
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1057
Book Description
The authoritative compendium of facts, statistics, photographs, and analysis that defines baseball in its formative first decades This comprehensive reference work covers the early years of major league baseball from the first game—May 4, 1871, a 2-0 victory for the Fort Wayne Kekiongas over the visiting Cleveland Forest City team—through the 1900 season. Baseball historian David Nemec presents complete team rosters and detailed player, manager, and umpire information, with a wealth of statistics to warm a fan’s heart. Sidebars cover a variety of topics, from oddities—the team that had the best record but finished second—to analyses of why Cleveland didn’t win any pennants in the 1890s. Additional benefits include dozens of rare illustrations and narrative accounts of each year’s pennant race. Nemec also carefully charts the rule changes from year to year as the game developed by fits and starts to formulate the modern rules. The result is an essential work of reference and at the same time a treasury of baseball history. This new edition adds much material unearthed since the first edition, fills gaps, and corrects errors, while presenting a number of new stories and fascinating details. David Nemec began the lifetime labor that helped produced this work in 1954 and admits it may never end, as there always will be some obscure player whose birth date has not yet been found. Until perfection is achieved, this work offers state-of-the-art accuracy and detail beyond that supplied by even modern baseball encyclopedias. As Casey Stengel, who was born during this era, was wont to say, “you could look it up.” Now you can.
Total Baseball
Author: Pete Palmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781892129031
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Total Baseball VI is a complete baseball library in a single book. World famous for its originality and comprehensive reference value, this encyclopedia inspired the formation of Total Sports, Inc., and the publication of Total Hockey and Total Football. Now updated with the latest stats, records, rosters, registers, histories, and insightful essays, it makes a great gift for any baseball fan. This latest edition includes Bob Creamer's special commemorative tribute to Casey Stengle and a special section on the history of the home run.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781892129031
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Total Baseball VI is a complete baseball library in a single book. World famous for its originality and comprehensive reference value, this encyclopedia inspired the formation of Total Sports, Inc., and the publication of Total Hockey and Total Football. Now updated with the latest stats, records, rosters, registers, histories, and insightful essays, it makes a great gift for any baseball fan. This latest edition includes Bob Creamer's special commemorative tribute to Casey Stengle and a special section on the history of the home run.
The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball
Author: Lloyd Johnson
Publisher: Baseball America
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher: Baseball America
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The Baseball Encyclopedia
Author: BASEBALL ENCYCLOPEDIA.
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 1560
Book Description
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 1560
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Clubs
Author: Steven Riess
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313083061
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 1103
Book Description
From exploits on the field, to machinations in the front office, to data on the cities where they play, the Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Clubs presents the team history of each of the 30 MLB teams. Intelligent, in-depth essays provide social and economic histories of each club that go beyond the recounting of team glories or failures year by year. Team origins, annual campaigns, and players and managers all figure into the story, but so do owners, financiers, politicians, neighborhoods and fans. Teams are also looked at as business enterprises, with special attention given to labor issues like the reserve clause and free agency, as well as stadium construction and financing. Social and political issues are covered as well, including racism and integration, ethnic makeup of fans and players, gambling, liquor sales, and Sunday play. National events, like World War I, World War II, the Great Depression and the Cold War, and their impact on the national pastime, are also brought into the picture where they are relevant. Media coverage and broadcasting rights are discussed, as is the great influence the flood of media money has had on the sport. As America's sport, baseball reflects not just our ideas and beliefs about competition, it also reflects our national and regional identities. Readers will be able to find useful information about: important players, managers, owners; community relations/charity work; business and labor issues (television income, free agency); race relations; baseball/sports economics (including stadium construction, team relocations; and teams in local and national culture (Fenway Park, Wrigley Field as local icons, Yankees as a national team). Every essay is signed, and concludes with suggested readings and a bibliography. The work is illustrated, has a comprehensive bibliography, and is thoroughly indexed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313083061
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 1103
Book Description
From exploits on the field, to machinations in the front office, to data on the cities where they play, the Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Clubs presents the team history of each of the 30 MLB teams. Intelligent, in-depth essays provide social and economic histories of each club that go beyond the recounting of team glories or failures year by year. Team origins, annual campaigns, and players and managers all figure into the story, but so do owners, financiers, politicians, neighborhoods and fans. Teams are also looked at as business enterprises, with special attention given to labor issues like the reserve clause and free agency, as well as stadium construction and financing. Social and political issues are covered as well, including racism and integration, ethnic makeup of fans and players, gambling, liquor sales, and Sunday play. National events, like World War I, World War II, the Great Depression and the Cold War, and their impact on the national pastime, are also brought into the picture where they are relevant. Media coverage and broadcasting rights are discussed, as is the great influence the flood of media money has had on the sport. As America's sport, baseball reflects not just our ideas and beliefs about competition, it also reflects our national and regional identities. Readers will be able to find useful information about: important players, managers, owners; community relations/charity work; business and labor issues (television income, free agency); race relations; baseball/sports economics (including stadium construction, team relocations; and teams in local and national culture (Fenway Park, Wrigley Field as local icons, Yankees as a national team). Every essay is signed, and concludes with suggested readings and a bibliography. The work is illustrated, has a comprehensive bibliography, and is thoroughly indexed.
The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball
Author: Hy Turkin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Total Baseball
Author: John Thorn
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 2372
Book Description
A hefty reference containing records of every major league player, team rosters of the Negro Leagues, two dozen or so essays, statistics and diagrams for every major league ballpark, batting stats for all major league pitchers, stats that reveal the game's best managers, awards and honors, rules and scoring, registers of managers, coaches, umpires, and owners. (See review of the CD-ROM version in the August 1992 Reference and Research Book News. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 2372
Book Description
A hefty reference containing records of every major league player, team rosters of the Negro Leagues, two dozen or so essays, statistics and diagrams for every major league ballpark, batting stats for all major league pitchers, stats that reveal the game's best managers, awards and honors, rules and scoring, registers of managers, coaches, umpires, and owners. (See review of the CD-ROM version in the August 1992 Reference and Research Book News. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Baseball Encyclopedia
Author:
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 2928
Book Description
Provides complete statistics for every major league player since 1876, includes Negro league statistics for more than a hundred players, and also offers the official team records of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 2928
Book Description
Provides complete statistics for every major league player since 1876, includes Negro league statistics for more than a hundred players, and also offers the official team records of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Clubs: The American League
Author: Steven A. Riess
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780313329937
Category : Baseball teams
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780313329937
Category : Baseball teams
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description