With extraordinary photographs and fact-filled essays, "Far From Home" gives the sports fan and the historian alike reason to celebrate the incredible rise of the number of Latino players in American baseball and the courage and conviction they have needed to accomplish this feat. In three compelling essays, Tim Wendel tells the story from the first game in Cuba in 1898 and the subsequent diaspora of baseball in the Caribbean all the way through the decades of player development and up to today...
A False Spring (Fireside sports classic) (Hungry Mind Find)
by Pat Jordan
In A False Spring, Pat Jordan traces the falling star of his once-promising pitching career, illuminating along the way his equally difficult personal struggles and quest for maturity. When the reader meets Jordan, he is a hard-throwing pitcher with seemingly limitless potential, one of the first "bonus babies" for the Milwaukee Braves organization. Jordan's sojourn through the lower levels of minor-league ball takes him through the small towns of America: McCook, Waycross, Davenport, Eau Claire...
Baseball Batter Up, Composition Notebook, College Ruled
by Slo Treasures
Composition Book 100 Sheet/200 Pages 8.5 X 11 In.-Wide Ruled- Fashion Red
by Goddess Book Press
The Seventh Inning Stretch, by noted baseball expert Josh Pahigian addresses all of the most interesting baseball arguments, however frivolous, that fans have been engaging in for decades, and even a few they may have never stopped to consider before.
Watching Baseball, Updated & Revised (Watching Baseball: Discovering the Game Within the Game)
by Jerry Remy
The" Boston Globe"'s Number One bestseller is back, revised and updated for the 2005 season. Jerry Remy's name and face are already known to millions of fans. Every night during the baseball season, 400,000 or more households tune in to listen to his broadcast of the Red Sox game. But fans learned to love him years ago, when he was traded to the Red Sox in 1978, earning a trip to the All-Star Game in his first year with the team; Remy hit .278, scored eighty-seven runs, and stole thirty bases. I...
Christy Mathewson (1880-1925) was the greatest baseball pitcher of his day, a hero with appeal reaching beyond sports. A college-educated player from Pennsylvania farm country, he restored respectability to a game tarnished by the rowdies who had dominated baseball in the 1890s. Pitching in a Pinch, originally published in 1912, is an insider's account blending anecdote, biography, instruction, and social history. It celebrates baseball as it was played in the first decade of the twentieth centu...
Composition Book 100 Sheet/200 Pages 8.5 X 11 In.Wide Ruled-Rabbits-Blue/Dark Bl
by Goddess Book Press
Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift
by Harvey Araton
Composition Book 200 Sheet/400 Pages 8.5 X 11 In.-Wide Ruled Baseball-Yellow
by Goddess Book Press
Chicago's Wrigley Field opened in 1914 as Weeghman Park, the new North Side stadium erected for use by the Federal League's Chicago team, which would eventually be called the Whales. It was built in just 50 days, with an rectangular shape in the style of New York's Polo Grounds, designed to fit the odd dimensions of the lot which formerly housed a seminary school that Whales owner "Lucky" Charley Weeghman had purchased with a 99-year lease at a little over $300,000. In all, it took $250,000 and...
Composition Book 100sheet/200 Pages 8.5 X 11 In.Wide Ruled Baseball Gloves Light
by Goddess Book Press
Unbreakable gives fans the fascinating stories behind incredible records and the players who made them and provides a basis for comparing players of the Deadball era with those of today. Most importantly, it gives the true baseball fan quantitative objective data to bring to arguments about players and their records. It is almost impossible to fathom how Jack Chesbro could have won 41 games in 1904 when pitchers today don't even make that many starts in a season. Ed Walsh pitched 464 innings in...
Braves Win! Braves Win! Braves Win! (The Sabr Baseball Library, #75)
by Len Levin