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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...

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 9781600789403Author George EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 267g

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...

Written for coaches, this book-in its expanded 3rd edition-presents more than 200 baseball and softball games and activities for young children and adolescents, focusing on teaching, improvement of skills and enjoyment. Games emphasizing base running,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967103709Author Mike ShatzkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 664Imprint Idea Logical PressPublisher Idea Logical PressWeight(grams) 1465g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780803290877Author David KrellFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781074023799Author Na SrFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

For the St. Louis Cardinals and their fans, there was a great deal of uncertainty going into the 1985 season. The situation looked bleak for St. Louis but the season turned out to be nothing like the predictions. The Cards found themselves in a battle...

The players' strike and owners' lockout in 1994 and 1995 brought the game under great scrutiny, revealing a side of baseball that is not admirable, honorable or enjoyable. Nor is this darker side of ""America's Favorite Pastime"" a...

In 1941, his first full season, Pete Reiser became the youngest batting champion in history, winning the NL title with a .343 average, and led the league in runs, doubles, triples, total bases, and slugging average. By July of 1942, the popular...

During the 1890s, Cleveland's National League team, called the Blues and later the Spiders, built a reputation as baseball's roughest, toughest club. Baseball became a war in the Gay Nineties, full of cheating, intimidation, and violence on and off the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014436566Author William T LaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738510262Author Robin Van AukenFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 295g

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The Red Sox are World Champions again. Their outfield of Andrew Benintendi, Jackie Bradley Jr., and Mookie Betts, was one of the most productive in baseball history. Celebrate the superb outfielders who are known collectively as the "Killer B's," with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781074020347Author Na SrFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 259g

With highlights Shohei Ohtani's best games on the mound and at bat for the Los Angeles Angels from each month of his rookie season-as well as anecdotes of his life in America-this is one book that every fan of Major League Baseball will want.Rarely does...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781072988359Author Carter AmadorFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738516141Author S Derby GisclairFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 161g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738516103Author Bill BallewFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 164g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738512013Author Michael J. BiewalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991373260Author Joshua Adam WeiselbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 674Imprint Buried Values Media GroupPublisher Buried Values Media GroupWeight(grams) 885g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996936750Author Ron PolkFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint Compete PublishingPublisher Compete PublishingWeight(grams) 1220gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544310902Author Daniel OkrentFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935938371Author Charles HellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint LuckySportsPublisher LuckySports

In a new afterword Rob Ruck looks at the current state of baseball in the country that has produced Sammy Sosa and many other major league stars.About the AuthorRob Ruck teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of Sandlot...

In 1993 successful psychologist and journalist Hank Davis undertook an epic journey exploring the atmosphere and culture of both minor league baseball and the small towns that embrace it. Davis shows us the warmth, quirkiness, and desperate energy of...

Baseball's Natural is John Theodore's true account of the slick-fielding first baseman who played for the Cubs and the Phillies in the 1940s and became immortalized in baseball lore as the inspiration for Bernard Malamud's The Natural. Eddie Waitkus grew...

Propounding his "small ball theory" of sports literature, George Plimpton proposed that "the smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature." Of course he had the relatively small baseball in mind, because its literature is formidable-vast and...

It was the first (and last) season of professional baseball in Israel. Aaron Pribble, twenty-seven, had been out of Minor League Baseball for three years while he pursued a career in education when, at his coach's suggestion, he tried out for the newly...

Three-time winner of the National League's Most Valuable Player award, Roy Campanella was catcher for the Brooklyn (soon to be Los Angeles) Dodgers in January 1958, when a car accident left him permanently paralyzed. It's Good to Be Alive describes his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692210178Author Jim LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ere PublicationsPublisher Ere PublicationsWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615900148Author Associate Professor Anup SinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Anupam SinhaPublisher Anupam SinhaWeight(grams) 152g