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.
Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951
Author: William Marshall
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813187702
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
With personal interviews of players and owners and with over two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall tells of the players, the pennant races, and the officials who shaped one of the most memorable eras in sports and American history. At the end of World War II, soldiers returning from overseas hungered to resume their love affair with baseball. Spectators still identified with players, whose salaries and off-season employment as postmen, plumbers, farmers, and insurance salesmen resembled their own. It was a time when kids played baseball on sandlots and in pastures, fans followed the game on the radio, and tickets were affordable. The outstanding play of Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Bob Feller, Don Newcombe, Warren Spahn, and many others dominated the field. But perhaps no performance was more important than that of Jackie Robinson, whose entrance into the game broke the color barrier, won him the respect of millions of Americans, and helped set the stage for the civil rights movement. Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 also records the attempt to organize the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Mexican League's success in luring players south of the border that led to a series of lawsuits that almost undermined baseball's reserve clause and antitrust exemption. The result was spring training pay, uniform contracts, minimum salary levels, player representation, and a pension plan—the very issues that would divide players and owners almost fifty years later. During these years, the game was led by A.B. "Happy" Chandler, a hand-shaking, speech-making, singing Kentucky politician. Most owners thought he would be easily manipulated, unlike baseball's first commissioner, the autocratic Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis. Instead, Chandler's style led one owner to complain that he was the "player's commissioner, the fan's commissioner, the press and radio commissioner, everybody's commissioner but the men who pay him."
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813187702
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
With personal interviews of players and owners and with over two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall tells of the players, the pennant races, and the officials who shaped one of the most memorable eras in sports and American history. At the end of World War II, soldiers returning from overseas hungered to resume their love affair with baseball. Spectators still identified with players, whose salaries and off-season employment as postmen, plumbers, farmers, and insurance salesmen resembled their own. It was a time when kids played baseball on sandlots and in pastures, fans followed the game on the radio, and tickets were affordable. The outstanding play of Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Bob Feller, Don Newcombe, Warren Spahn, and many others dominated the field. But perhaps no performance was more important than that of Jackie Robinson, whose entrance into the game broke the color barrier, won him the respect of millions of Americans, and helped set the stage for the civil rights movement. Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 also records the attempt to organize the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Mexican League's success in luring players south of the border that led to a series of lawsuits that almost undermined baseball's reserve clause and antitrust exemption. The result was spring training pay, uniform contracts, minimum salary levels, player representation, and a pension plan—the very issues that would divide players and owners almost fifty years later. During these years, the game was led by A.B. "Happy" Chandler, a hand-shaking, speech-making, singing Kentucky politician. Most owners thought he would be easily manipulated, unlike baseball's first commissioner, the autocratic Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis. Instead, Chandler's style led one owner to complain that he was the "player's commissioner, the fan's commissioner, the press and radio commissioner, everybody's commissioner but the men who pay him."
USA Today Baseball Weekly 1992 Almanac
Author: Paul White
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9781562829780
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Combines statistics, analysis, and historical material into one exciting companion to the baseball season that includes information on the minor leagues, fantasy leagues, collectibles, and more in a simpler, more accessible format.
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9781562829780
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Combines statistics, analysis, and historical material into one exciting companion to the baseball season that includes information on the minor leagues, fantasy leagues, collectibles, and more in a simpler, more accessible format.
USA Today Baseball Weekly 1993 Almanac
Author: Paul White
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9781562829193
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A comprehensive annual baseball guide for the serious fan covers the major and minor leagues and offers statistics, player profiles, last year's highlights, and predictions for the forthcoming 1993 baseball season. Original.
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9781562829193
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A comprehensive annual baseball guide for the serious fan covers the major and minor leagues and offers statistics, player profiles, last year's highlights, and predictions for the forthcoming 1993 baseball season. Original.
The 1996 Information Please Sports Almanac
Author: Mike Meserole
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers
ISBN: 9780395665671
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Profiles the record breakers and record makers, statistics and facts for professional and amateur sports, as well as highlighting both summer and winter olympics.
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers
ISBN: 9780395665671
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Profiles the record breakers and record makers, statistics and facts for professional and amateur sports, as well as highlighting both summer and winter olympics.
Basketball Almanac, 1996-97
Author: Publications International
Publisher: Consumer Guide Books
ISBN: 9780451191199
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Basketball is the fastest growing spectator sport in America--and with good reason! Now readers can have a courtside seat for the new season with this book, the ultimate source for facts, stats and records for every NBA and NCAA basketball team.
Publisher: Consumer Guide Books
ISBN: 9780451191199
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Basketball is the fastest growing spectator sport in America--and with good reason! Now readers can have a courtside seat for the new season with this book, the ultimate source for facts, stats and records for every NBA and NCAA basketball team.
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.
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.
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.