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The Pride of Havana A History of Cuban Baseball
The publication of The Pride of Havana in the spring of 1999 coincided with the home and away series that the Baltimore Orioles played against the Cuban National Team. The Orioles beat the Cubans narrowly in Havana before a handpicked crowd of the regime's faithful. A month later, in Baltimore, a pumped-up Cuban team routed the listless Orioles, who were last in the American League and reluctant to play on an off-day. The media saw it as a historic event; those who took the time to read The Pride of Havana- knew that major league teams had lost regularly over the years to both professional and amateur Cuban...
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Baseball Superstars Lou Gehrig
Wrigley Field was not yet Wrigley Field on June 26, 1920, the day Lou Gehrig stood awestruck within the 18,000- seat major-league ballpark. Cubs Park it was called, home of the National League’s Chicago Cubs. No matter the name, surely 17-year-old Lou must have wondered how he had come so far, so soon. At almost six feet tall and 180 pounds, Lou, a senior, was here with his teammates from New York City’s High School of Commerce to play against Chicago’s Lane Tech High School. The nation’s unofficial inter-city high school baseball championship was on the line. Just one game would be held....
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Baseball Superstars Mickey Mantle
It was a brisk October day, one that saw Commerce High School sophomore Mickey Mantle charging hard, playing his second-favorite sport—football. Cradling the ball low, the darting 14-year-old halfback never saw him coming, the tackler who accidentally kicked Mickey on the left shin. What followed soon after almost ended Mickey Mantle’s future professional career—as a baseball player.
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BaseBall superstars Ted Williams
Theodore Samuel Williams, 18 years old and but six months out of high school, was, in the summer of 1937, deep into his first prolonged batting slump—as a professional ballplayer. Having signed with the Class AAA Pacific Coast League San Diego Padres on June 26, 1936, while still a Hoover High School senior, Ted was now in his second year in the minors, earning an impressive $150 a month in the midst of the Great Depression. But having failed to hit in his last 18 times at bat, Ted Williams, the future “Splendid Splinter,” “Teddy Ballgame,” and “King of Swing,” was a most unhappy young man, indeed....
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BASEBALL Volume 1 Hank Aaron–Mark McGwire
Five decades after reaching my own pinnacle of success in sports, I still get a thrill watching other athletes perform. I have competed with and against some of the greatest athletes in the world, watched others up close and from a distance, and read about still others. I admire the accomplishments of all of them, for I know something of what it takes to achieve greatness in sports, and I especially admire those who inspire others. This revised edition of Great Athletes provides a wonderful opportunity for young readers to learn about the finest athletes of the modern era of sports. Reading the stories of the men and women in these pages carries...
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Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
As I began this book, many Americans were beginning to be cautious about whom they called a hero. Athletes, actors, entrepreneurs, and celebrities had casually and carelessly been described as such. To do so after September 11, 2001, seemed preposterous. In the weeks following the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., and the foiled attack that sent a plane crashing into western Pennsylvania, Americans saw the grim and affecting faces of genuine heroes— and they were caked in ash, blood, tears, toil, and sweat....
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A Splintered History of WOOD
When we think of wood—and few of us do—most of us picture the stacks of two-by-fours in the aisles of our local home center or the stuff we throw into the fireplace on cold winter nights. Wood doesn’t rank much higher on our “things-that-amaze-us” list than water or air. We chop our onions on it, pick our teeth with it, pin our skivvies to the clothesline with it. Most people think of wood as just another “thing”—and they’re correct.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF Major League Baseball Clubs VOLUME I & II
The cornerstone of Major League Baseball has been the leagues and their teams. The majors are comprised of the National League, which dates back to 1876, and the American League, which became a major operation in 1901. The NL was itself predated by the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (1871–75), which was arguably the fi rst major league. The NL itself operated in conjunction with the American Association, a major league from 1882 to 1891, and was rivaled by the short-lived Union Association in 1884 and the Players’ League in 1890. Since then the only other league to proclaim itself a major league was the Federal...
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Playing for Their Nation Baseball and the American Military during World War II
On October 6, 1941, the New York Yankees concluded the Major League Baseball season by defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers 3–1 in the final game of that year’s World Series. It was a Fall Classic short on offense— both teams combined for only twenty-eight runs in five games—but certainly not short on drama. With the Dodgers trailing in the series two games to one, Brooklyn catcher Mickey Owen committed one of the most infamous gaffes in big league history during the pivotal fourth game. Owen dropped what should have been the third strike and final out of the game in the ninth inning with the Dodgers leading 4–3. The Yankees...
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Baseball Superstars Jackie Robinson
During the summer of 1939, young Jackie Robinson played a lot of softball, not baseball. The 20-year-old college student was in the physical prime of his life, and he had honed his skills by playing several sports for Pasadena Junior College, from football to baseball to track. He had secured admission to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and planned to play on at least two of its teams in the fall. Until then, the long California summer days and evenings were spent playing softball. It was a productive way to ease his stress, worries, and sorrow....
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Baseball Superstars Randy Johnson
It was eight o’clock in the morning on Monday, January 10, 2005, in Midtown Manhattan, when Randy Johnson emerged from the front doors of the Four Seasons hotel. The day was going to be a busy one. First he had to visit the doctor’s office for a general physical evaluation. Wearing a gray sweat suit, he would soon be wearing the navy-blue pinstripes of New York’s most successful baseball team; it was his first week as an official member of the famous New York Yankees.
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Coaching Baseball FOR DUMmIES
Welcome to Coaching Baseball For Dummies, a book dedicated to helping and teaching all the wonderful volunteer coaches who sign up to introduce kids to this magnificent sport that is played and enjoyed by millions around the world. Youngsters love the thrill of putting on the colorful uniform on game day, exchanging high-fives with teammates and coaches after making great catches and delivering clutch hits, and collecting grass stains diving for ground balls and sliding into second base. As a coach, you’ll forge friendships with players, parents, and opposing coaches as you help youngsters build confidence, enhance skills, become good sports, and most importantly, have barrels of fun along...
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Baseball Great
J O S H W O N D E R E D W H Y E V E R Y time something really good happened, something else had to spoil it. It had been like this since he could remember, like biting into a ruby red apple only to find a brown worm crawling through the crisp, white fruit. For the first time since he’d moved to his new neighborhood, he had been recognized, and his unusual talent had been appreciated. So why was it that that same fame had kicked up the muddy rumor that got a high school kid looking to bash his teeth in?...
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Baseball Superstars Babe Ruth
On the brink of the twentieth century, baseball was still quite young. Legend has it that the game was invented by a man called Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York. Doubleday was credited with naming baseball and creating its rules, although no proof has ever existed to back the story. In reality, the game that would become America’s pastime evolved over time from similar games like cricket and rounders, which had their origins in the United Kingdom. In 1845, Alexander Joy Cartwright drafted the first published rules of the game, and in 1867, a player by the name of Candy Cummings threw baseball’s very first curveball....
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In Rare Form A Pictorial History of Baseball Evangelist Billy Sunday
The photograph facing this page is an extraordinary image. Billy Sunday is poised to deliver a dramatic blow to the chin of Satan. Sunday used this pose and other active postures regularly in his promotional materials and sermons to illustrate the spiritual combat all individuals fight against sin. Rare among early prints, this photograph is date stamped. Taken as a publicity photograph in March 1918 by the Chicago Daily News, this image of Sunday would have been displayed in the newspaper as a cutout figure without any background during his Chicago revival. For our purposes, however, the backdrop remains as salient as his figure, for he is standing in...
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Opening Pitch Professional Baseball’s Inaugural Season, 1871
Among the many people who helped make this book possible, those whose names follow were especially helpful. They gave of their time, expertise, and support to help uncover not only the necessary data and factual information, but those little things that help make stories colorful and compelling. I owe these folks a great debt of gratitude. Hopefully, these few lines of acknowledgment will convey my heartfelt appreciation.
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MATHLETICS How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football
If you have picked up this book you surely love sports and you probably like math. You may have read Michael Lewis’s great book Moneyball, which describes how the Oakland A’s used mathematical analysis to help them compete successfully with the New York Yankees even though the average annual payroll for the A’s is less than 40 percent of that of the Yankees. After reading Moneyball, you might have been curious about how the math models described in the book actually work. You may have heard how a former night watchman, Bill James, revolutionized the way baseball professionals evaluate players....
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Out of the Shadows African American Baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson
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Baseball Superstars Roger Maris
Roger Eugene Maras (he changed his name to Maris in 1955) was born on September 10, 1934, in Hibbing, Minnesota, a small mining town in the northeast region of the state. People once called Hibbing the “Iron Capital of the World” because of the large amounts of iron ore discovered there. Roger’s ancestors came to Hibbing in the early 1900s from Croatia, which is east of Italy across the Adriatic Sea. Around 1910, Roger’s grandfather, Steve Maras, left Croatia for the United States. Once in Hibbing, Steve worked for his brother, who had already come from Croatia, at a saloon. Steve made a life for himself and his family, which included...
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Colonial Project, National Game
in March 2009, Taiwan’s national baseball team faced its bitter rival, the Chinese national team, in the Asia round of theWorld Baseball Classic at the Tokyo dome. Baseball, an integral part of Taiwanese culture for more than a century, is still relatively unpopular and unknown in the People’s republic of China (PrC). But that did not stop the PrCteam,managed byAmericanTerryCollins, fromdefeatingTaiwan (the republic of China, or roC) by a decisive score of 4–1, the second straight Chinese upset of Taiwan....
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GROWING THE GAME The Globalization of Major League Baseball
Work is a journey laced with acts of kindness great and small. Some barely know you but expend great effort to pave your way. More often, a word put in on your behalf opens a door; or the few moments people give you make the difference between success and failure. Each has happened in this work; and to all, my deepest gratitude. My friends and colleagues continue to play a supportive role. Milton Jamail of the University of Texas has helped me since the beginning back in 1987 and continues to be a lifeline. Joseph Maguire, George Gmelch, Tim Wendel, Mark Melnik, and Arnie Arluke all played roles...
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THE BASEBALL MANIAC’S ALMANAC
Trivia. The very word is chameleon-like, brimming with many meanings, almost like Humpty Dumpty saying to Alice, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” According to Noah Webster, the word itself derives from the Latin trivium, singular for trivia, “that which comes from the street,” which meant that when three streets came together in a town plaza, those who met there joined in a three-man debating society exchanging views. Webster’s heirs, paying no never mind to their ancestral patron, have invested the word with another meaning, that of being “insignificant” or “inessential.”...
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BEYOND THE SHADOW OF THE SENATORS
Griffith Stadium is packed for a doubleheader between the Washington Senators and the New York Yankees. The two teams are battling for first place, and the atmosphere at the stadium, located in the heart of Washington’s black community, is electric. In the first game, while chasing a foul ball off the bat of Senators first baseman Joe Judge, Yankees legend Babe Ruth knocks himself unconscious running into the right-field retaining wall—directly in front of the pavilion reserved for the Senators’ black fans. A photographer perched in foul territory captures a classic image of the black fans peering down at the sprawled-out slugger. Trainers rush from both dugouts with water buckets...
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Studies in African American History and Culture
Long before the Civil Rights movement, before Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, before the Harlem Renaissance, before Reconstruction, before the Civil War between the states, newspapers provided black people with a voice. The black press was the redeeming document of black America. This press educated an audience about social concerns and racist attitudes while fighting against incredible odds merely to survive. This press hoped to maintain an African American identity by revealing astonishing facts about minority life....
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Baseball Superstars Johnny Damon
Johnny Damon ambled up to home plate, blocking out the steady boos and shrill catcalls from seemingly every one of the 56,000-plus fans packing Yankee Stadium. The date was October 20, 2004, and only one year before, Damon had experienced one of the most crushing disappointments of his life: The Yankees had stormed back from a Game 7 deficit against Damon’s Boston Red Sox and pitcher Pedro Martínez, winning the American League Championship Series with a walk-off home run in the eleventh inning....
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CrazY '08 How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
one of the pleasures of writing a book is the independence of it: the author gets to call ’em as she sees ’em. One of the difficulties is the isolation of it. So I am grateful for the team who helped me through this. The staffs of the New York Public Library and Tim Wiles and Claudette Burke at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown were all professional and helpful. My informal writing seminar—Mary Child, Timothy Dumas, Humphrey Hawksley, Christopher Hunt, and Margaret O’Connor— helped me through some rough patches. Robert Creamer not only wrote a warm introduction, but also read the manuscript with his characteristic eye for...
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THE TEAM AMERICA LOVES TO HATE Why Baseball Fans Despise the New York Yankees
For some, the title of this book might convey the impression that my desire is to hear the world respond resoundingly in the affirmative; to raise its collective voice in a passionate declaration of antipathy toward that most storied team in Major League Baseball. Not so. While I have always been reasonably confident that a significant number of baseball fans harbor significant antipathy for the New York Yankees, confirming to some degree that this is the case does not constitute the fulfillment of some personal wish. ItÊs just the way things are, and even if things werenÊt that way, it is certainly not my intention in writing this...
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The Locations of America’s Baseball Landmarks Second Edition
The book was originally dedicated to my “home team”: wife, Jean; son, Charlie; and daughter, Claire. Also to Richard “Dick” Davis of Chanute, Kansas. Dick’s tremendous heart and dedication toward recognizing and establishing the historic sites in Humboldt, Kansas, for Walter Johnson and George Sweatt only begin to tell the story. His passion for the history and glory of the game is matched only by his courage and sparkling optimism, and it is because of people like Dick (and his wife, Gloria) that a book like this can exist in the first place. Thank you, my friend. The game is better for having you here. It was also dedicated...
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EVALUATING BASEBALL’S MANAGERS
The purpose of this book is to use sabermetric methods to appraise the overall performance and particular tendencies of baseball’s field generals—its managers. Although this is not the first sabermetric study of managers to be done, it is a bit different from much of what has come before it. Most other attempts to quantify managerial performances focused on the ingame decisions made. Individuals much smarter than myself have looked at very specific decisions managers make—such as sacrifice bunting, issuing intentional walks, attempting to steal, etc. These studies normally focus on how managers manage the game, but the people skills and basic management portions of the jobs are generally...
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BASIC Baseball STRATEGY AN INTRODUCTION FOR COACHES AND PLAYERS
To put first things first, I’d like to make it plain that I believe playing baseball should be fun, especially for the young. For their individual development, as well as for the enjoyment of doing for themselves and by themselves, they should have the minimum of parental playing-field supervision and adult instruction. It’s absolutely essential that boys—and girls, if they’re part of the gang or playing softball among themselves—spend their early years learning to swing a bat and catch a ball. The fundamentals (and the fun) must come first....
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