Now a major film starring Jon Hamm, this is the wonderful story of two young Indians who became pro baseball pitchers. JB Bernstein seemed to have it all. One of the top sports agents in the US, he worked hard and enjoyed the bachelor lifestyle to the full. But he hankered for more, and when he set himself a challenge - to unearth someone in India capable of becoming a pro baseball pitcher - most people thought he was mad and doomed to face a costly and public failure. The reality show Milli...
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...
Science of Coaching Baseball makes complex scientific principles understandable and shows how to apply them in everyday coaching situations. Jerry Kindall combines forces with a team of sport scientists to explain these sport sciences: Motor learning, Exercise physiology, Sport psychology, Sports medicine, Biomechanics, Nutrition. A chapter is devoted to each discipline, and each chapter contains sections on why the sport science is important for coaches, special application concerns for basebal...
Complete Conditioning for Baseball (Complete Conditioning)
by Pat Murphy and Jeff Forney
One of the premier college coaches and a major league strength and conditioning coach explains how to develop strength, power, speed, agility, and flexibility. Includes 85 drills and exercises, photographs showing correct exercise technique, and conditioning programs.
Baseball (Best Strategies Exercises Nutrition & Training) (Best of Baseball History Stories Games)
by Ace McCloud
