Search results for “[Subject: baseball-general]”

• Author(s): Trey Strecker | Steven P. Gietschier | Mitchell Nathanson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The study of baseball history and culture shows the national past...

• Author(s): Don Jensen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Offering the best in original research and analysis, Base Ball is an annually published book series that promote...

• Author(s): Conor Kelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The position of catcher in baseball requires a broad set of physical and mental skills. This handbook, by a fo...

• Author(s): David P. Gerard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Gross Productivity Average, or GPA, is a new baseball statistic that measures performance. Accounting for t...

• Author(s): David Kaiser • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Recent advances in baseball statistical analysis have made it possible to assess the totality of contribution ...

• Author(s): Josh Pahigian • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Spring training is a time of renewal for baseball, when teams and fans descend on Florida and Arizona to begi...

• Author(s): Andres Wirkmaa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Many fans enjoy keeping track of baseball action with easy abbreviations written on simple grids. Serious sc...

• Author(s): G. Richard McKelvey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Baseball players, like teams, have their ups and downs. Pitchers inexplicably lose their command of the...

• Author(s): Dirk Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Written for coaches, this book--in its expanded third edition--presents more than 200 baseball and softball game...

• Author(s): Chris Holaday | Marshall Adesman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The best baseball team of the 20th century? How about the 1906 Cubs? Or the 1998 Yankees? ...

• Author(s): Bill Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General During his playing career, a baseball player's every action on the field is documented--every at bat, every hit, e...

• Author(s): David M. Jordan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Though the players make the highlight reels, for fans of Major League Baseball the actual ballparks are oft...

• Author(s): Charlie Bevis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Award-winning author Charlie Bevis explores the long history of the major league doubleheader from its beginn...

• Author(s): Andrew Goldblatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Thirty years into baseball's sabermetric revolution, relatively little attention has been paid to the impa...

• Author(s): Andrew Goldblatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Giant-Dodger rivalry was considered the best in baseball by 1890 and remains the game's oldest and mos...

• Author(s): Andrew O'Toole • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Branch Rickey was one of the most important and charismatic figures in all of baseball, the archetype for all general ma...

• Author(s): William Blewett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This book presents a scientific but easy to understand explanation of pitching power. Illustrated with anec...

• Author(s): Craig Allen Cleve • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General More than 5000 major and minor league baseball players left the baseball diamond to serve in the military...

• Author(s): Chris Jensen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Offering a fresh approach to the familiar concept of all-time baseball teams, this exhaustive work ranks more ...

• Author(s): Paul Votano • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Relief pitchers have important roles in baseball today, often coming in to pitch at some of the game's most cri...

• Author(s): Mike Shannon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General It is widely, and wrongly, assumed that books are never so valuable as when they lie unopened before us, waiti...

• Author(s): Russell Roberts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The stolen base is one of the most fascinating plays in all of sports. In what other game can one player, e...

• Author(s): Kelly J. Pfaff | Peder N. Piering • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Integrating sport psychology with the personal testimonies of baseball players, this help...

• Author(s): Peter Ephross | Martin Abramowitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Between 1870 and 2010, 165 Jewish Americans played Major League Baseball. This work prese...

• Author(s): Bo Durkac • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The way to becoming a professional ballplayer is not an easy one. So many factors are out of a player's control. ...

• Author(s): Kenneth Hogan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Mariners were not Seattle's first major league baseball team. In 1937, Seattle businessman Emil Sick boug...

• Author(s): Warren N. Wilbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The shutout--a game in which a team prevents its opponent from scoring--remains relatively rare. Of the r...

• Author(s): William M. Simons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2009-2010 is an anthology of scholarly essays...

• Author(s): Gregory J. Tully • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Covering nine teams from Divisions I, II and III, NAIA, and junior college, this book provides a view of c...

• Author(s): Ken Ross • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Probability & Statistics - GeneralIn A Mathematician at the Ballpark, professor Ken Ross reveals the math behind the stats. Thi...

• Author(s): Jason Aronoff • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - GeneralThough Willie Mays' World Series catch of Vic Wertz's long drive in 1954 immediately comes to mind, there are ...

• Author(s): Alan Maimon | Chuck Myron • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General If unpredictability is so much of what makes sports compelling, the baseball draft might be the b...

• Author(s): David L. Fleitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Almost from professional baseball's birth more than 130 years ago, the batting championship has been one of...

• Author(s): Bob Vanderberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The book follows the colorful career of Frank Lane, who as baseball's busiest general manager during the 195...

• Author(s): Lou Hernández • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Major League Baseball today would be unrecognizable without the large number of Latin American players and ma...

• Author(s): Rick Swaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History For major league baseball, the decade following Jackie Robinson's 1947 debut was one of slow yet persistent cha...