Baseball transactions--trades, sales, purchases, free-agent activities--ignite passions. Whether it is the purchase or sale of a veteran star during the heat of a pennant race, a multi-player trade in the dead of winter, or the scramble for des...Daugiau...
Baseball transactions-trades, sales, purchases, free agents coming or leaving-have always had the ability to stir the interest and passion of fans. Whether it is the purchase or sale of a veteran star during the heat of a pennant race, a multi-play...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-May-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496238962)
A biography of early twentieth-century baseball player and actor Mike Donlin, one of the best hitters and most colorful players in the history of the game. Haunted by tragedy, he was a showman and an alcoholic, married one of the nations most famous...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Apr-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496222022)
The careers of pitchers Jack Quinn and Howard Ehmke began in the Deadball Era and peaked in the 1920s. They were teammates for many years, with both the cellar-dwelling Boston Red Sox and later with the world champion Philadelphia Athletics, managed...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Apr-2020, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496219664)
The story of New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert and manager Miller Huggins, who from 1918 to 1929 partnered to build the Yankees into the nation&;s dominant sports franchise. From the team&;s inception in 1903,...Daugiau...
The New York Yankeesfirst known as the Highlandersare perhaps baseballs most storied team. They first played at Hilltop Park, then moved to the Polo Grounds, then Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium and back to the renovated Yankee Stadium. They also ope...Daugiau...
Hugh Casey was one of the most colorful members of the iconic Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1940s. He played with the likes of Jackie Robinson, Dixie Walker, Joe Medwick, and Pete Reiser, and along the way he helped redefine the role of the rel...Daugiau...
The Historical Dictionary of Baseballcontains a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced e...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-May-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9780803248656)
From their inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering team that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. With four winning seasons to date, the team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, Cap Til Hus...Daugiau...
In addition to being one of baseballs most accomplished batters, Willie Keeler was an integral part of two memorable teams: the Baltimore Orioles of the mid-1890s and the Brooklyn Superbas of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This...Daugiau...
Lyle Spatz, Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
Serija: Memorable Teams in Baseball History
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Apr-2013, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9780803240940)
Tells the story of how the 1947 New York Yankees won the pennant that year, set a record with a nineteen-game winning streak, and won the first televised World Series....Daugiau...
Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as our game, the American game, and George Will com...Daugiau...
Lyle Spatz, Mark Langill, Maurice Bouchard, Leonard Levin, Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
Serija: Memorable Teams in Baseball History
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Apr-2012, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9780803239920)
Tells the story of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers in contextualized biographies of the players, managers, and everyone else important to the team....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Mar-2012, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9780803239999)
At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, the two teams tha...Daugiau...
Fred Dixie Walker was the only player to have been a teammate of both Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson. Walker is remembered for the charge that he tried to keep Robinson from joining the Dodgers. This biography covers Walkers career, revealing him...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Apr-2010, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9780803220607)
At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a Major League game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, two...Daugiau...
Trading, buying and selling players have always been key in building better baseball teams, and few things stir the interest and passion of fans so much as a blockbuster trade. This work exhaustively chronicles the Babe Ruth purchase as well as the...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
A compendium of more than one thousand unique baseball lists and records features such marginalia as lead-off home runs that proved to be the only runs of the game, would-be no-hitters that were broken up in extra innings, and more, in an updated edi...Daugiau...
He was often nonchalant and unfocused, showing up minutes before a game. He was rumored to get himself ejected so he could get to the racetrack. He was feisty, and abusive towards umpires even by todays standards. And hes among the best shortstops...Daugiau...
David W. Vincent, Lyle Spatz, David W. Smith, Leonard Koppett
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Feb-2001, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9780803292734)
Examines the history of All-Star baseball, providing play-by-plays, rosters, and box scores of each game; and discusses how All-Star games have been influenced by racial integration, expansion teams, and the designated hitter. Since its...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Trading, buying and selling players have always been key in building better baseball teams, and few things stir the interest and passion of fans so much as a blockbuster trade. This work exhaustively chronicles the Babe Ruth purchase as well as the...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
From 1903 through to 1996, the New York Yankees opening game for each season is fully covered in this book. The game descriptions are described almost inning-by-inning, highlighting the big plays and the top performances....Daugiau...
