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English
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MLB Network host and commentator Brian Kenny uses stories from baseball's present and past to examine why we sometimes choose ignorance over information, and how tradition can trump logic, even when directly contradicted by evidence.
Emmy Award-winning sportscaster Brian Kenny wants to reshape the way we think about baseball. The biggest proponent of sports analytics in the mainstream media, Kenny says that groupthink and tradition are standing in...
7) Billyball
Author
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Description
276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
xvii, 232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"ESPN baseball commentator Tim Kurkjian is fascinated by sacrifice flies. In fact, he is fascinated by so many aspects of baseball that he's written a book to show baseball fans where this fascination comes from and how they, too, can find it. In the aftermath of the Steroid Era that stained the game, at a time when so many players are so rich and therefore have a sense of entitlement that they haven't earned, Kurkjian shows readers how to love the...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
No sports fans are more in touch with the history and ephemera of their game than baseball fans. Hitting the sweet spot of our national pastime, The Baseball Fans Bucket List presents a list of 162 absolute must things to do, see, get, and experience before you kick the bucket. Entries range from visiting Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ (site of the first pro baseball game), to starting a baseball card collection; experiencing Opening Day; attending...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
xviii, 445 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A love letter to the game of baseball from one of America's foremost scribes. Bob Ryan has scored every baseball game he's attended, at every level, since the start of the 1977 season. It's a deeply personal tradition still going strong at more than 1,400 games and counting. The tattered scorebooks he's filled are worn from age, travel, and countless summer days, but their grids and scrawled symbols tell the stories of milestones, rivalries, rare...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
xx, 225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Longtime sportswriter and baseball fan Stan Fischler goes beyond the generic sports tale, recounting the funniest, most incredible stories from throughout the Great American Pastime's long history."--Page [2] of cover.
Series
Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures volume no. 38
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
ix, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Description
v, 305 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book examines the multitude of times small ball activities have secured victories through aggressive base running, sacrifice hits, squeeze bunts, stolen bases, productive outs and hit-and-run plays, as well as games in which aggressive small ball activity led to defeat, and covers the most important small ball players, managers and teams"--Provided by publisher.
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