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It's a debate nearly as old as the sport itself. Sure, there have been plenty of great baseball teams--but which was the best ever? While it seems like an unwinnable argument, the authors of Baseball Dynasties have risen to the challenge. They took the...

Sabermetrics, the specialized analysis of baseball through empirical evidence, provides an impartial perspective from which to explore the game. In this work, the third in a series, three mathematicians employ statistical science in an attempt to answer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600783623Author Dan McGrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 468g

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A rare glimpse of professional ballplayers, not as pitchers, hitters, managers, and coaches, but as dads and grandads. Sons of major league baseball players grow up in a unique environment, not only because they are raised in part by professional...

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Sports fans are a devoted bunch. They sit in the wind and the cold watching a team that is hopelessly out of first place, and then they come back for more the next season. What is it that keeps these fans going through all the hard times? Here is a...

In the early 1930s, the Motor City was sputtering from the Great Depression. Then came a talented Detroit Tigers team, steered by player-manager Mickey Cochrane, to inject new pride into the Detroit psyche. It was a cast of colorful characters, with...

Baseball and law have intersected from the very beginnings of the sport in America. In 1791, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance prohibited ball playing near the town's meeting house. A 1794 Pennsylvania statute barred ball playing on Sundays. That...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967103716Author Mike ShatzkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Idea Logical PressPublisher Idea Logical PressWeight(grams) 1324g

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Recent advances in sabermetrics have made it possible to assess the exact contribution of each player to the success of failure of his team. Using the simple metric Wins Above Average-the number of wins that the 2016 Red Sox, for example, added to their...

It has been called the last great American sports story, a quest that has spanned more than a century and captivated millions of fans. In 2016, the Chicago Cubs were at last baseball's champions, breaking the Curse of the Billy Goat and shedding the...

Mike Cramer's first love was baseball cards. Before high school he had a mail-order trading card business. By age 30 he founded Pacific Trading Cards with money he made fishing crab in the Bering Sea. From 1980 to 2004, Pacific created more than 200...

An unforgettable look at a lifetime of baseball packed with humor and passion for the game. With a career that has now touched eight decades, Jim Kaat has had a prime front row seat for baseball's continuing evolution. Not only was he a major-league...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629379159Author Jon WeismanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 9g

For a generation of American League baseball fans, Rod Carew was the definition of "batting champion." An insecure boy from Panama raised by a brutal father, Carew ascended to baseball stardom, tormenting pitchers with a smooth swing from a crouched...

Forty Champions of the Tribe Native Clevelander Russ Schneider has reveled in the successes and lamented the failures of the Cleveland Indians from his earliest childhood. After graduating from high school in 1946 and serving two tours of duty with the U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629378749Author Jay HorwitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 6g

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In The Code: Baseball's Unwritten Rules and Its Ignore-at-Your-Own-Risk Code of Conduct, author Ross Bernstein has pulled back the curtain on baseball's tacit rules regarding retaliation, sportsmanship, and intimidation. The result of dozens of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572439665Author Kevin KernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Triumph Books (IL)Publisher Triumph Books (IL)Weight(grams) 0g

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Base Ball is a peer-reviewed journal published annually. Offering the best in original research and analysis, the journal promotes study of baseball's early history, from its protoball roots to 1920, and its rise to prominence within American popular...

At six-feet-six, the hulking Martin Leo Boutiliere (1872-1944) was hard to miss. Yet the many books written about Babe Ruth relegate the soft-spoken teacher and coach to the shadows. Ruth credited Boutiliere--known as Brother Matthias in the Congregation...

New and expanded edition that includes signatures studies of all hall of famers from the 19th century to the present day. Newly added studies of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the rest of the infamous black sox. Roger Maris, Gil Hodges, and the top 50 non hall...