Work, Fight, or Play Ball: How Bethlehem Steel Helped Baseball`s Stars Avoid World War I, William Ecenbarger

Автор: Jonathan Mayo
Название: Smart, Wrong, and Lucky: Scouting Baseballs Unexpected Stars
ISBN: 1629378984 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781629378985
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: A fascinating look at how Major League Baseball searches for diamonds in the rough

In the plainest of terms, baseball scouts are tasked with seeing the future—a distant future, at that. Baseball's long developmental arc leaves room for plenty of twists and turns on the way to The Show.

Some prospects shoot like arrows toward their projected potential, while others fizzle out or chart an unexpected course. Batting champion Charlie Blackmon was once coveted for his left arm more than his offensive potential. Catcher Buster Posey was first scouted as a pitcher and shortstop.

Smart, Wrong, and Lucky explores how first impressions measure up to their aftermaths: the draft, years of progression, and for a talented few, major-league success.

MLB.com writer Jonathan Mayo profiles a diverse range of modern stars and looks at them through the eyes of those who noticed them first as prospects.

Featuring exclusive interviews with scouts, players, coaches, and more, this fascinating collection of origin stories is an ode to baseball's endless possibilities.

Автор: Chris Lamb
Название: Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball`s Civil War
ISBN: 1496219457 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496219459
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: When the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 1955, it put the team and the forces of integration on a collision course with segregation, bigotry, and the southern way of life. White teams refused to take the field with the Cannon Street All-Stars, the first Black Little League team in South Carolina. The Cannon Street team won the tournament by forfeit and advanced to the state tournament. When all the white teams withdrew in protest, the Cannon Street team won the state tournament. If the team had won the regional tournament in Rome, Georgia, it would have advanced to the Little League World Series. But Little League officials ruled the team ineligible to play in the tournament because it had advanced by winning on forfeit and not on the field, denying the boys their dream of playing in the Little League World Series. Little League Baseball invited the Cannon Street All-Stars to be the organization’s guests at the World Series, where they heard spectators yell, “Let them play! Let them play!” when the ballplayers were introduced. This became a national story for a few weeks but then faded and disappeared as Americans read of other civil rights stories, including the torture and murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till.

Stolen Dreams is the story of the Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars and of the early civil rights movement. It’s also the story of centuries of bigotry in Charleston, South Carolina—where millions of enslaved people were brought to this country and where the Civil War began, where segregation remained for a century after the war ended and anyone who challenged it did so at their own risk.
 

Автор: Rosengren John
Название: The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro Turned Baseball`s Ugliest Brawl Into a Story of Forgiveness and Redemption
ISBN: 076278847X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780762788477
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: The story of baseball`s most violent incident-August 22, 1965-when Giants pitcher Juan Marichal clobbered Dodgers catcher John Roseboro with his bat: the stories of the players, the American cultural backdrop, and the baseball competition and culture that led to the explosive moment, plus the incident`s lasting effects.

Автор: Deane Bill
Название: Finding the Hidden Ball Trick: The Colorful History of Baseball`s Oldest Ruse
ISBN: 144224433X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442244337
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Through many years of research, Bill Deane has documented 260 successful hidden-ball tricks-putting the rarity of the play roughly in the class of the no-hitter. Along the way, he has collected the often-hilarious stories of these plays and the men who pulled them.

Автор: Reinstein Ted
Название: Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball`s Color Barrier
ISBN: 1493051210 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493051212
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Описание: For philosophers, the gift fascinates because it demands disinterested generosity. Yet anthropology offers another view. Reciprocity, rather than disinterestedness, Henaff shows, is central to ceremonial giving, alliance, and the social bond. From actual gift practices, Henaff develops an original and profound theory of symbolism, the social, and the relationship between self and other.