Baseball as America Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 44,9 Mb
• Release Date : 14 May 2024

A celebration of America's romance with baseball, this is the official companion volume to the National Baseball Hall of Fame's unprecedented national traveling exhibition. Over 200 archival photos.

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 35,5 Mb
• Release Date : 25 February 2001

From Simon & Schuster comes Donald Honig's Baseball America where he shares the stories of the heroes of the beloved game of baseball and the times of their glory. The New

• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• File Size : 38,7 Mb
• Release Date : 14 May 2024

"... McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack (several of which are aimed at his beloved, and beleaguered, Montreal Expos). Literary baseball may be a

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• File Size : 20,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 April 2020

Why do we sometimes refer to a left-handed pitcher as a “southpaw?” Why are major league pitchers normally limited to 100 pitches per game? Why was Jack Roosevelt Robinson the first

• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• File Size : 36,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 May 2021

An engaging history of the 1962 baseball season and a tumultuous American year.

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• File Size : 20,8 Mb
• Release Date : 04 June 2007

Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in organized baseball from the beginning. In this

• Publisher : Baseball America
• File Size : 27,7 Mb
• Release Date : 11 October 2016

Baseball America invented coverage of the baseball draft. So who better than Baseball America to chronicle 50 years of draft history? As the baseball draft grows in prominence and more and

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
• File Size : 28,8 Mb
• Release Date : 30 October 2018

In this fourth edition, Benjamin G. Rader updates the text with a portrait of baseball's new order. He charts an on-the-field game transformed by analytics, an influx of Latino and

• Publisher : Chronicle Books
• File Size : 44,9 Mb
• Release Date : 04 October 2007

Includes multiple choice questions about baseball. Embedded in the book is a special computerized quiz module that lets you compete against yourself or a friend.

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 33,8 Mb
• Release Date : 14 May 2024

One of the great bards of America's Grand Old Game gives a rousing account ofbaseball, from its pre-Republic roots to the present day.