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The
Baseball Chronicles: A Decade-by-Decade History of the
All-American Pastime
by Larry Burke
A beautifully illustrated
look at baseball's storied past, combining essays, chronologies of
events, boxes of statistics, and lists of the most memorable games, the best
World Series, what was in and what was out, and much more.
Believe
It
edited by Reid Laymance
From the newspaper that
covered every 86 years along the way to a Red Sox's World Championship
comes the official keepsake of The Boston Globe's 2004 World Series
Championship celebration season. The columnists, writers, editors and
photographers who witnessed first hand the private moments and momentous
events that led to one of the most historic and unforgettable championship
drives in the history of sport.
When
Women Played Hardball
by Susan E. Johnson
The years between 1943 and
1954 marked the magical era of the All-American Girls Professional
Baseball League-which proved beyond doubt that women can play
hardball. With skill and style, more than 500 women took to the
baseball diamonds of the Midwest dazzling fans and becoming a visible
and supported part of our national pastime.
The
Physics of Baseball
by Robert K. Adair, Ph.D.
Blending scientific fact and sports trivia, Robert Adair examines what a
baseball or player in motion does-and why. How fast can a batted ball
go? What effect do stitch patterns have on wind resistance? How far does
a curve ball break? Who reaches first base faster after a bunt, a right-
or left-handed batter? The answers are often surprising -- and always
illuminating.
The
Way Baseball Works
by Dan Gutman
If baseball is America's national pastime, surely our national genius is
in tinkering: taking things apart to see how they are put together and
how they work. The Way Baseball Works combines these two
expressions of Yankee (to say nothing of Dodger) ingenuity to break the
game down into its component parts and examine it through text, charts,
computer-generated illustrations, and photos.
Moneyball:
The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by
Michael Lewis
The
Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not
bought.
What these geek numbers show—no, prove—is that
the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally
flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial
importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information has been around
for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And
then came.................. Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics.
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