Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball`s Color Barrier, Reinstein Ted

Автор: Frommer Harvey
Название: Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball`s Color Barrier
ISBN: 1630760021 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781630760021
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Описание: Using exclusive rare interviews, Frommer evokes the lives of Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson by describing how they worked together to shatter baseball`s color line. Rickey and Robinson is a dual biography tracing the convergence of the lives of two of baseball`s most influential individuals in a marker moment in sports and cultural history.

Автор: Constantino Rocco
Название: Beyond Baseball`s Color Barrier: The Story of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Past, Present, and Future
ISBN: 1538149087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538149089
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Beyond Baseball`s Color Line celebrates Black players throughout the history of Major League Baseball. The book not only provides a comprehensive history dating back to the 1800s, but also highlights accomplishments, personalities, participation trends of African American players, and insight into what the future may hold.

Автор: White Gaylon H.
Название: Singles and Smiles: How Artie Wilson Broke Baseball`s Color Barrier
ISBN: 1538107902 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538107904
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Описание: Artie Wilson once was considered the best shortstop in baseball. But during much of his career, Organized Baseball passed Artie by because he was black. This book brings to light the story of a Negro League and minor league star, his struggles to make it in the majors, and his crucial role in integrating baseball`s premier minor league.

Автор: Leibforth Bill
Название: Baseball`s Forgotten Black Heroes
ISBN: 1977205194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781977205193
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Описание: In 1947, Jackie Robinson changed the game of baseball by becoming the first black player on a modern day major league team. Jackie made history with the Brooklyn Dodgers and this story is about Jackie and the seventeen players who followed him. These Black Heroes challenged the status quo and policies of team owners and were part of the first wave of black players who played on the sixteen major league teams that existed in 1947. It was not until 1959 (three years after Jackie retired) that the last of the sixteen teams added a black player to their roster.

Автор: Bill Deane
Название: Baseball`s Who`s Who of What Ifs: Players Derailed en Route to Cooperstown
ISBN: 1476684790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476684796
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Presenting a `who`s who of what-ifs` this book focuses on 40 well known non-inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame, such as Tony Conigliaro, Denny McLain and Jose Fernandez, along with many others all but lost to history, such as Ross Barnes, Charlie Ferguson and Hal Trosky. Also included are more than 100 `honourable mentions`.

Автор: Johnson Richard A.
Название: The Knuckleball Club: The Extraordinary Men Who Mastered Baseball`s Most Difficult Pitch
ISBN: 1442261692 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442261693
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Описание: The knuckleball-an unusual pitch that few can master-has been a part of major league baseball since the early 1900s, and continues to be used to this day. This book is a detailed account of the best knuckleball pitchers in the history of baseball, including Hoyt Wilhelm, Phil Niekro, Dutch Leonard, Jim Bouton, Tim Wakefield, and R.A. Dickey.

Автор: Lee Lowenfish
Название: Baseball`s Endangered Species: Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It
ISBN: 1496214811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496214812
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Описание: Scouting has been called pro baseball’s personalized way of renewing itself from year to year and a pathway to the game’s past. It takes a very special person to be a baseball scout: normal family life is out of the question because travel is a constant companion. Yet for those with the genuine calling for it, there could be no other life. Hearing the special thwack off the bat that indicates a raw prospect may be the real deal is the dream that keeps true scouts going. Scouts have the difficult task of not only discovering and signing new players but envisioning the trajectory of raw talent into the future. But the place of the traditional scout has become increasingly dire.

In 2016 Major League Baseball eliminated the MLB Scouting Bureau that had been created in the 1970s to augment the regular scouting staffs of individual teams. On the eve of the 2017 playoffs that saw the Houston Astros crowned as World Series champions, the team dismissed ten professional scouts and by 2019 halved the number of all their scouts to less than twenty. More and more teams are replacing their experienced talent hunters with people versed in digital video and analytics but who have limited field knowledge of the game, driven by the Moneyball-inspired trend to favor analytics, data, and algorithms over instinct and observation.

In Baseball’s Endangered Species Lee Lowenfish explores in-depth how scouting has been affected by the surging use of metrics along with other changes in modern baseball business history: expansion of the Major Leagues in 1961 and 1962, the introduction of the amateur free agent draft in 1965, and the coming of Major League free agency after the 1976 season. With an approach that is part historical, biographical, and oral history, Baseball’s Endangered Species is a comprehensive look at the scouting profession and the tradition of hands-on evaluation. At a time when baseball is drenched with statistics, many of them redundant or of questionable value, Lowenfish explores through the eyes and ears of scouts the vital question of “makeup”: how a player copes with failure, baseball’s essential, painful truth.
 

Автор: Golenbock Peter
Название: Whispers of the Gods: Tales from Baseball`s Golden Age, Told by the Men Who Played It
ISBN: 1538154870 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538154878
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Bestselling author Peter Golenbock brings to life baseball greats from the 1940s, `50s, and `60s with Whispers of the Gods. Like the enduring classic The Glory of Their Times, this book is based on hundreds of hours of taped interviews featuring the likes of Roy Campanella, Ted Williams, Phil Rizzuto, Jim Bouton, Stan Musial, and more.