Category: Baseball

By Don Geng

Makes use of photos of younger athletes to illustrate strategies of the elemental abilities thinking about fielding, throwing, hitting, and baserunning.

By George Kell, Dan Ewald

Whilst George Kell broke in with the previous Philadelphia Athletics again in 1943, by no means did he dream he had simply launched into a 53-year significant league journey. From induction into baseball's corridor of repute to an both finished broadcasting profession, it used to be a gorgeous trip.

By Glenn Stout

By Mike Yorkey, Jesse Florea

Twiddling with function: Mariano Rivera is a narrative of activities and religion for every age. This easy-to-read biography, illustrated with full-color pictures, info the lifetime of baseball’s all-time saves chief who plans to avoid wasting souls in ministry after his storied Yankees profession.

By Chris Epting

I used to do anything just like this for my travels. in general, i would pass stopover at the grave of a corridor of Famer or see the place an previous stadium was.

How cool to determine i am not the single loopy available in the market. and what kind of extra Chris Epting has been in a position to prepare than I ever may possibly (and how a lot paintings he is stored me!). listed here are a few faves:

- The sandlot the place Mickey Mantle was once came across (in Baxter Springs, OK)
- An historic marker for a ballfield the place Abe Lincoln as soon as performed city ball
- The pond the place Babe Ruth driven his piano onto the ice
- All that is left of the Polo Grounds (a hidden stairway)
- the unique Little League box
- the place Ron Necciai's 27-strikeout video game occurred

a few nits:

- Joe Jackson is from Greenville SC, no longer NC
- Lefty O'Doul was once a hitter, now not a glass

there have been additionally a good volume of typos. No biggee, notwithstanding, for one of these nice book.

By Peter C. Bjarkman

EPUB eISBN: 9781613217542

the hot York Mets Encyclopedia presents the whole and interesting tale of modern-era baseball's hottest expansion-age franchise. From these cute losers of 1962 and 1963, to the Miracle Mets of 1969 and 1973, and directly to year-in and year-out contenders of the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, New York's nationwide League Mets have written one of the most interesting and colourful pages in significant League background. this can be the crew that captured the hearts of fanatics in every single place with its often-laughable antics less than colourful and celebrated supervisor Casey Stengel. in basic terms part a dozen years later, the Mets reached baseball's top less than talented supervisor Gil Hodges. This colourful quantity combines precise narrative historical past with archival images, wealthy statistical facts, and intimate photographs of the team's so much memorable personalities. this can be additionally a franchise that has been domestic to the various game's greatest on-field stars. between them are such unforgettable diamond characters as reckless slugger Darryl Strawberry; glue-fingered first sacker Keith Hernandez; baseball's all-world catcher, Mike Piazza; pitching ace Johan Santana; and record-breaking 3rd baseman David Wright. the complete scope of the Mets' fifty-plus-year background is mentioned in an expansive bankruptcy that offers the reader a old precise evaluate and contours a year-by-year Mets chronology and season-by-season opening-day lineups. This newly revised version deals perception on every little thing a Mets fan would need or have to know.

About the Author
Peter C. Bjarkman writes greatly approximately baseball, basketball, and travel-related themes. He has released prior books on Cuban baseball, plus a heritage of baseball in Latin the USA and greater than 3 dozen different titles treating significant League Baseball, NBA basketball, and NCAA basketball. His contemporary paintings contains staff background encyclopedias at the ny Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Celtics, and long island Knicks.

By Mark Gola

Take your video game from bush league to important time with those confirmed options Baseball scouts and coaches at each point wish avid gamers with the data and talent to do all of it. they're searching for anyone who can dominate a online game and exhibit expertise in each one of baseball's 5 crucial abilities: hitting for common, hitting for energy, fielding, arm energy, and velocity. What they wish to discover is The Five-Tool participant. within the Five-Tool participant, you will get the entire drills, step by step pictures, and tips you want to grasp the 5 instruments. you are going to how one can: Hit for prime standard through realizing pitch styles and increasing your hitting area enhance energy on the plate with right strategy, an competitive perspective, and energy education Diversify your shielding abilities by way of studying the nuances of every place bring up your arm energy with right throwing shape and conditioning enhance your base operating with pace education

By Jim Salisbury, Todd Zolecki

Now not for the reason that 1957 has one significant league team's pitching employees boasted 3 pitchers (Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, and Roy Oswalt) within the most sensible Ten in profession winning-percentage. Plus, the Philadelphia Phillies' 2011 rotation additionally occurs to incorporate Cole Hamels—the 2008 NLCS and global sequence MVP—and an alternating 5th starter.

This awe-inducing rotation has been the controversy of baseball considering the fact that coming jointly in December 2010. They have been featured at the hide of Sports Illustrated's 2011 baseball- preview version, interviewed at the MLB community on starting day of spring education, coated within the New York occasions Magazine, and pointed out in several newspapers and magazines nationwide.

Authored through of the main knowledgable and hooked up Phillies beat writers, The Rotation is a remarkably unique day-in-the-life tale of 1 entire season with a huge League Baseball starting-pitching employees. The authors supply deep day-by-day entry to the Phillies avid gamers, coaches, and front-office employees, in addition to the avid gamers and employees of alternative significant league groups and the nationwide baseball media.

With firsthand reporting and huge interviews, plus full-color photograph inserts, it is a interesting and designated inspect the day by day operation of what's arguably the best pitching rotation ever assembled. it's a must-read for Phillies enthusiasts and normal baseball fanatics alike.

By Peter Golenbock

The biography of 1 of the main arguable figures in activities: manhattan Yankees proprietor George SteinbrennerFor 34 years, he berated his avid gamers and tormented Yankees managers and staff. He performed speedy and unfastened with the foundations, and two times can have long past to reformatory. He was once banned from baseball for life—but used to be allowed again within the video game. but George Steinbrenner additionally outfitted the recent York Yankees from a mediocre workforce into the best activities franchise in the USA. The Yankees gained ten pennants and 6 international sequence in the course of his tenure. Now acclaimed sportswriter and long island occasions bestselling writer Peter Golenbock tells the interesting tale of "The Boss," from his Midwestern formative years via his decades-long possession of the Yankees–the longest within the team's history.Draws on greater than 100 interviews with those that have recognized George Steinbrenner all through his existence to inform the full tale of "The Boss" and his lengthy tenure as proprietor of the hot York YankeesGets within Steinbrenner’s numerous supervisor hirings and firings, from Billy Martin to Joe Torre; the mythical feuds and tough emotions related to well-known figures corresponding to Yogi Berra and Dave Winfield; and the ever-spiraling gamers' salariesCovers the astute enterprise offers that reworked the Yankees from a $10 million franchise right into a powerhouse worthy over $1 billion todayWritten by way of Peter Golenbock, one of many nation's best-known activities authors and the writer of 5 big apple occasions bestsellers, together with number one with Billy Martin and The Bronx Zoo with Sparky LylePacked with drama, perception, and engaging front-office information, George is vital analyzing for baseball enthusiasts and someone who loves a good tale good advised.

By Tom Clavin

In The DiMaggios, acclaimed sportswriter Tom Clavin unearths the untold nice American tale of 3 brothers, Joltin’ Joe, Dom, and Vince DiMaggio, and the nice American Game—baseball—that could eat their lives.

A brilliant portrait of a kin and the ways that their moving fortunes and standing formed their relationships, The DiMaggios is a exploration of an period and a culture.

This entire biography that recollects the paintings of Jane Leavy deals a trove of perception into one of many game’s maximum avid gamers and his relatives, bound to be valuable via Yankees enthusiasts, pink Sox lovers, and baseball aficionados round the world.