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BABE & me A Baseball Card Adventure
IT’S THE GREATEST MYSTERY IN THE HISTORY OF SPORTS. It’s one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century. And I was the only person in the world who could solve it. These are the facts: The date: October 1, 1932 The place: Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois The situation: The Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees played Game Three of the World Series on this day. In the fifth inning, Babe Ruth belted a long home run to straightaway centerfield.
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Out of the Shadows
No moment in baseball history is more important than the April day in 1947 when Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field, ending a ban that had extended back to 1882 prohibiting African Americans from fully participating in the National Pastime. “Cap” Anson’s dictum, in 1882, of “Get that nigger off the field,” referring to the presence of black player Moses Fleetwood Walker on a Major League ground, merely reflected the overwhelming social attitude of the day. But in 1947 baseball no longer followed custom, but changed it. Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson’s integration plans went beyond challengingMajor League baseball’s apartheid policies, their actions set in motion and preceded, by...
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HONUS & me A Baseball Card Adventure
THE FIRST TIME I TOUCHED A BASEBALL CARD, I FELT A strange tingling sensation all over my body. It was sort of like the feeling you get when you touch your fingers lightly against a television screen when the set is on. Static electricity jumps off the glass and onto your skin, or something like that. I’ll never forget it. I must have been four or five the first time this happened, but ever since then I’ve felt that feeling whenever I touched certain baseball cards. It’s kind of creepy.
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JIM A Baseball Card Adventure
“SEE THE BALL. HIT THE BALL,” OUR COACH, FLIP Valentini, was telling the guys when I skidded my bike up to the dugout at Dunn Field. “Catch it. Throw it. And show up on time or you don’t play. It’s a simple game, boys.” Flip ought to know. He pitched for the Brooklyn Dodgers in their glory years. He was with Cincinnati and Pittsburgh too for a while. Flip won 287 games and struck out almost 3,000 batters during his career. He’s in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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The Cubs and the White Sox
“The Wilderness.” That is how author and Cubs fan David Claerbaut described Chicago Cub history between 1946 and 1966 in his book, Durocher’s Cubs: The Greatest Team That Didn’t Win.1 Claerbaut’s imagery of a team wandering in an expansive, unknown land is perfect. In that forgettable two-decade period, the Cubs had only three seasons with a .500 or better record. Their best year followed the 1945 World Series when they registered an 82–71 mark. In 1952, the Cubs finished even at 77–77, and in 1963 the team crept over the .500 mark at 82–80. Those numbers only partially tell the story of Cub futility in the immediate post–World...
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Baseball Superstars Andruw Jones
Andruw Jones, all of 19 years old, nonchalantly waved his bat toward Andy Pettitte, the New York Yankees’ starting pitcher in Game 1 of the 1996 World Series. It was the second inning, and the game was scoreless. Neither the young Braves phenom nor the crafty Yankee left-hander knew it, but baseball history was about to be made. That was all right, because nobody else expected anything special, either.
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Baseball before we knew it
The front page of the Sunday New York Times is a forum reserved for the most important news of our nation and culture. So it seems fitting that the edition of July 8, 2001, carried a story on the discovery of evidence showing that young men were playing an organized brand of baseball in Manhattan as early as 1823. This, of course, was twentythree years before the New York Knickerbockers played the first match under a written set of rules at Hoboken, New Jersey, long considered a watershed moment for the organization of formal baseball teams. It was also sixteen years before the mythic date of 1839, when...
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Dominate Your Fantasy Baseball League
I’ve been a diehard baseball fan since I was old enough to turn on the TV—which was a little harder back then since there were no remotes. There was also no fantasy baseball, which meant I grew up watching games and reading box scores just for the fun of it. That’s probably why, truth be told, I never had much use for the fantasy game. I had always regarded myself as something of a purist, and I fi gured fantasy baseball served mainly to muddle the traditional concept of simply being a fan of your team and its players....
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The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Major League Baseball
The authoritative compendium of facts, statistics, photographs, and analysis that defines baseball in its formative first decades. This comprehensive reference work covers the early years of major league baseball from the first game—May 4, 1871, a 2-0 victory for the Fort Wayne Kekiongas over the visiting Cleveland Forest City team—through the 1900 season. Baseball historian David Nemec presents complete team rosters and detailed player, manager, and umpire information, with a wealth of statistics to warm a fan’s heart. Sidebars cover a variety of topics, from oddities—the team that had the best record but finished second—to analyses of why Cleveland didn’t...
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WINNERS How Good Baseball Teams Become Great Ones
Your team is a loser. They’re not irredeemably awful—they have a handful of elite performers, and there are worse clubs. But your team isn’t within hailing distance of the truly great teams of the day. They’re graced with the odd All-Star and what seems to be a spare menagerie of haphazardly identified prospects, but your team’s high command does a poor job of filling out the roster and navigating the club through the treacherous shoals of the late season. They either mindlessly adhere to the tactical approaches of the past or, on occasion, fecklessly ape the strategy du jour. They misread the markets, judge hitters with flawed metrics, and fail...
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Baseball Superstars Albert Pujols
Let’s begin with the sound of a bat hitting a baseball. Nothing is as distinctive as the sound of a well-hit ball coming off the sweet spot of a wooden bat. It is a sound that rouses baseball fans everywhere to stand up in excited anticipation of runs about to be scored. It can send fielders scurrying in one direction or another, trying to get a jump on the ball. It also tells the catcher, still in his squat, that the last pitch he called was probably a huge mistake. Today in Major League Baseball, nobody produces that distinctive “thwack” as consistently as Albert Pujols, the first baseman for...
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ZIM A BASEBALL LIFE
It had taken him nearly six weeks to make the call. After contemplating the pain in his knee and the aftereffects of a severe case of the flu (brought on by a half-dozen cross-country trips at the end of the season), he decided he would come back for his 53rd year in baseball. On this day, Don Zimmer found himself strolling among the images of the game's immortals in the Hall of Fame. Outside, the grounds were covered with a fresh coating of snow, temperatures hovering in the 20s, and all those summers in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Washington, Tokyo, San Diego, Boston, Texas, Chicago, Denver, and the Bronx never seemed so...
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THE ENTITLED A novel by Frank Deford
FOR HOWIE, IT WAS, at last, neither resignation on the one hand, nor anger on the other. No, it was simply awful, horrible disappointment that tore him apart. That it all must end this way. No, not this way. Any way it ended would be a calamity, for despair would follow, and Howie understood himself well enough to know that he did not possess the creative resources ever to really overcome that despair. “I’m a dead man. I know I won’t get outta Baltimore alive.”
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Practicing Sabermetrics
Hello, my name is Gabe Costa. My co-authors, Michael R. Huber and John T. Saccoman, and I are grateful that you are looking at this book. Practicing Sabermetrics is a follow-up to Understanding Sabermetrics, which was published in early 2008 by McFarland. Mike, John and I are professors of mathematics and life-long fans of the national pastime. We have been fortunate to combine our interests in a singular way: by teaching courses on sabermetrics for over twenty years. The term “sabermetrics” was coined by the noted baseball author and researcher Bill James, who defined it as the search for objective knowledge about baseball (the “saber” part comes from the...
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BASEBALL: THE GOLDEN AGE
A STRANGE help-wanted ad appeared in a New York newspaper in 1903. It asked for a boy who had never seen a baseball game and did not know the difference between first and third base. Struck by this unlikely request, the Washington Post commented that if such a youngster could be found, he would be fit only to crawl off somewhere and die and become a subject for some bugologist's experiment.
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BASEBALL: THE PEOPLE'S GAME
T his book of baseball history is unique. It is the first one devoted entirely to those players and teams who played baseball outside so-called Organized Baseball—that is, the professional major and minor leagues—up to World War II. For baseball may be likened to a large house containing many rooms occupied by a wide variety of baseball tenants—college players, members of the armed forces, industrial players, semipros, blacks, women, Indians, town team players, and softballers. Five chapters are devoted to blacks before segregation compelled them to form their own professional leagues. The story of women has also required an equal number of chapters. Organized Baseball is mentioned only incidentally,...
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The BASEBALL TALMUD
If there’s one thing Jews like to do, it’s argue. Many of you reading this book are nodding sagely in agreement. Some of you, however, rose to your feet indignantly to dispute my blatant generalization. Either way, my point is proven. Our passions are often brought to bear on the great issues of the day facing our people. What will be done to bring about peace for Israel? How do we resolve the fundamental questions of what Judaism will be in the 21st century? Is intermarriage something to embrace, or will it tear our community apart forever?...
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Baseball Superstars Hank Aaron
There is no greater feeling in sports than the one a player gets when his teammates are genuinely excited over one of his own personal accomplishments—excited just to be his teammate. What I remember is that everybody was right there celebrating with me, as if my record was their record, too. A player can’t ask for any more than that.
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The Official Rules for Winning Management in Any Field
Management consultant by day, major–league-baseball writer by night, I didn’t see the connection between my two jobs. Then came the day I witnessed a remarkably self-destructive client insist on a foolish decision—and in the evening watched the worst manager of post–World War II baseball destroy his team’s slender chances for the season with a boneheaded move hauntingly identical to my client’s.
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How Baseball Managers Use Math
It’s the last inning of an important game. A powerful hitter comes up to the plate. Will the pitcher be able to get the batter out? Another man walks out of the home team’s dugout. He walks to the pitcher’s mound. He tells the pitcher what to do. The other man is the manager. A manager is the head coach of a baseball team. He decides which players play in games. He decides when to take a player out of a game. He studies information about the team his players are facing and uses that information to give his players instructions....
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A Biographical Dictionary of the Baseball Hall of Fame
This is a reference book. The reader has the right to expect a clearly defined scope, specific criteria for inclusion, and 100 percent inclusion of everything that meets those criteria. Those were the objectives of A Biographical Dictionary of the Baseball Hall of Fame when the first edition was published in 2000. They remain the same with this second edition—which has been updated to include more than 50 new biographies of players, managers, umpires, baseball executives, broadcasters and writers who have earned their place among the greats of the game in the past eight years. Those objectives are easily met in this work, as they were in...
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Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
These past few years, all you had to do was turn on a radio or flip to a sports cable channel, and you could count on hearing some blowhard give you his opinion about steroids and baseball and what it says about our society and blah blah blah. Well, enough already. I'm tired of hearing such short-sighted crap from people who have no idea what they're talking about. Steroids are here to stay. That's a fact. I guarantee it. Steroids are the future. By the time my eight-year-old daughter, Josie, has graduated from high school, a majority of all professional...
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Major League Baseball Expansions and Relocations
To conclude my doctoral studies as a graduate student in economics at Georgia State University in 1977, I completed a dissertation titled “An Economic Analysis of Franchise Relocation and League Expansion in Professional Team Sports, 1950–1975.” Then 22 years later, I co-authored with John J. Guthrie, Jr., a book named Relocating Teams and Expanding Leagues in Professional Sports: How the Major Leagues Respond to Market Conditions. That volume, in turn, analyzed the expansions of various leagues and movements of their teams from 1950 to 1995. The book highlighted the strategies of such American-based professional sports organizations as Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Football League....
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Playing in Isolation: A History of Baseball in Taiwan
Ever since Taiwan captured its fi rst Little League Baseball world series title in 1969, baseball has been a sport in which the Taiwanese people have taken deep pride. Over the next twenty-seven years Taiwan appeared in the annual tournament twenty-one times and captured seventeen titles. I have followed Taiwanese national teams since I was small. Like many fellow islanders, I watched live Little League tournament games on television late into the night as I sipped instant noodles, a favorite snack in Taiwan. Thankfully, tournaments were held during summer vacations so that I didn’t have to worry about school. I was fi lled with excitement and joy at that time,...
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The Conscience of the Game: Baseball's Commissioners from Landis to Selig
I am most grateful to the following people who generously agreed to personal interviews: Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig and former commissioners Bowie Kuhn, Peter Ueberroth, and Fay Vincent; as well as Tal Smith, Roland Hemond, Cal McLish, Cliff Kachline, Bob Smith, Sal Artiaga, Bob Lurie, David Osinsky, Milt Bolling, Dan Wilson, Mike Moore, Stan Brand, the late Mickey Owen, Marty Marion, William Marshall, and Senator Mike Dewine.
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The American Game BASEBALL AND ETHNICITY
On 15 April 1997, at Shea Stadium in New York, Major League Baseball honored the great Jackie Robinson by celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of his historic entry into the big leagues. At that time, I said, The day Jackie Robinson stepped on a major league field will forever be remembered as baseball's proudest moment. Jackie's achievement, so ably assisted by Branch Rickey, was a seminal event not only for baseball but also for the entire country. For the first time, baseball, long hailed as our national pastime, truly became the game that represented all of America....
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Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball
A confession: for almost two decades I hated baseball (well, not exactly hated, more like couldn’t care less). The game—in the Bigs, at least—was virtually unrecognizable to me, what with the “errors” that are astronomical salaries, cookie-cutter stadiums, and free agency. Take, for example, the designated hitter rule: it is, frankly, a sin, venial at a minimum. If you’re a ballplayer, friends, then pick up the lumber and go to work with the rest of the fellows in sanitaries. And while you’re at it, take George Steinbrenner, the Daddy Warbucks of the sport. How the devil are my Cleveland Indians going to compete against a swashbuckler who’s got...
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Branch Rickey Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman
“Do you think you can run me out of my job?” schoolteacher Branch Rickey bellowed at a scowling student, squeezing hard on the defi ant youngster’s shoulder blades. “Well, you just can’t do it. I need the money, I need the job, so sit down!” It was early in the fall of 1899, and the notoriously tough students in Turkey Creek in Scioto County were living up to their reputation as incorrigible and uneducable. The post offi ce address of Turkey Creek might be Friendship, Ohio, but the name was quite ironic. The sons of Turkey Creek’s loggers, farmers, and moonshiners had spat upon, physically attacked, and run...
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AFRICAN AMERICAN PIONEERS OF BASEBALL: A Biographical Encyclopedia
On March 2, 2005, President George W. Bush greeted Rachel Robinson in the Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C., and gently placed into her hand the Congressional Gold Medal in the name of her deceased husband, Jack Roosevelt Robinson. The ceremony of awarding the gold medal—the highest civilian honor that can be presented by Congress—took place nearly fi fty-eight years after Robinson played his fi rst Major League baseball game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. On that day in April 1947, Robinson’s presence in the lineup represented a giant step for integration. Merely by setting foot on the fi eld of play, Robinson broke the sport’s color barrier and...
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GATEWAY to the MAJORS
The most gratifying aspect of finishing a book is the opportunity for the author—or authors in our case—to express thanks to those individuals and institutions that assisted in the endeavor. If writing a book can be compared to indentured servitude, then all authors are perpetual debtors. Our bills are long overdue and our list of collectors long. Both authors are grateful to the management, administrators, and staff of the James V. Brown Library, Lycoming County Historical Society, Grit Publishing Company, and the Williamsport Sun-Gazette for allowing us unfettered access to their valuable archival and photograph collections, and providing efficient reference assistance. Without their collective generosity and expertise this...
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