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Baseball's Bonus Babies: Conversations with 24 High-Priced Ballplayers Signed from 1953 to 1957 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Containing twenty-four interviews, this volume focuses on players signed under the bonus rule of 1953-1957.... Læs mere
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Baseball and the Mythic Moment: How We Remember the National Game (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines how certain baseball moments became mythic, and why some moments are culturally persistent while others are limited in importance to the confines of sport.
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Baseball in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching the National Pastime (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays, where professors from different disciplines explain how they have used baseball in higher education. Organized by... Læs mere
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Base Ball in Philadelphia: A History of the Early Game, 1831-1900 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Starting with the formation of the first baseball club in America, the Olympic Town Ball Club, this work concludes with the final year of... Læs mere
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Baseball and the Blame Game: Scapegoating in the Major Leagues (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Documents the most muffled moments and botched plays of baseball history by telling the stories of the men who became legendary failures... Læs mere
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Baseball Over the Air: The National Pastime on the Radio and in the Imagination (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Contains the documentation and interpretation of two imaginative pastimes (radio and baseball) and illuminates each in a different manner. This book integrates radio and baseball historically, sociologically, and culturally using the common themes of imaginative expression.
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Base Ball on the Western Reserve: The Early Game in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, Year by Year and Town by Town, 1865-1900 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Digs into the roots of baseball in and around Cleveland, starting in the 1840's and closing with the end of the century in 1900. This book also contains a story of baseball on the Western Reserve, from its infancy as an amateur game through its growth into a professional sport.
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Bear Flag and Bay State in the Civil War: The Californians of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Second Massachusetts Cavalry included the only organized group (5 companies totaling 504 men) from... Læs mere
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Baseball in Crisis: Spiraling Costs, Bad Behavior, Uncertain Future (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Polls have placed football well ahead of baseball in terms of popularity. Do the numbers reflect football's rise or, as many suggest, baseball's decline? Why has the national pastime fallen behind other so-called major sports? This book addresses these important questions.
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Baseball Ratings: The All-Time Best Players at Each Position, 1876 to the Present, 3d ed. (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A ranking book that ranks batters, fielders and pitchers from various major leagues since 1876 by position, and pitchers,... Læs mere
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Baseball Visions of the Roaring Twenties: A Fan's Photographs of More Than 400 Players and Ballparks of the Era (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Collects more than 400 of the author's photographs of baseball from the twenties, along with the stories of the ballplayers and ballparks depicted. This book also includes his homerun log, a record of the 1,503 homers that he witnessed at 66 different ballparks from 1922 to 1974.
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Baseball's Offensive Greats of the Deadball Era: Best Producers Rated by Position, 1901-1919 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ty Cobb, Nap Lajoie, and Honus Wagner were among the greatest hitters who ever played major league baseball.... Læs mere
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