Bottom of the 33rd

Bottom of the 33rd
Title Bottom of the 33rd PDF eBook
Author Dan Barry
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 318
Release 2011-04-12
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0062079026

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In “a worthy companion to . . . Boys of Summer,” a Pulitzer prize winning journalist “exploits the power of memory and nostalgia with literary grace” (New York Times). From award-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball history—a tale celebrating not only the robust intensity of baseball, but the aspirational ideal epitomized by the hard-fighting players of the minor leagues. On April 18, 1981, a ball game sprang eternal. For eight hours, the night seemed to suspend a town and two teams between their collective pasts and futures, between their collective sorrows and joys—the shivering fans; their wives at home; the umpires; the batboys approaching manhood; the ejected manager, peering through a hole in the backstop; the sportswriters and broadcasters; and the players themselves—two destined for the Hall of Fame (Cal Ripken and Wade Boggs), the few to play only briefly or forgettably in the big leagues, and the many stuck in minor-league purgatory, duty bound and loyal forever to the game. With Bottom of the 33rd, Barry delivers a lyrical meditation on small-town lives, minor-league dreams, and the elements of time and community that conspired one fateful night to produce a baseball game seemingly without end. An unforgettable portrait of ambition and endurance, Bottom of the 33rd is the rare sports book that changes the way we perceive America’s pastime—and America’s past. “Destined to take its place among the classics of baseball literature.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough.” —Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax

SABR 50 at 50

SABR 50 at 50
Title SABR 50 at 50 PDF eBook
Author Bill Nowlin
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Pages 626
Release 2020-09-01
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1496222687

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SABR 50 at 50 celebrates and highlights the Society for American Baseball Research’s wide-ranging contributions to baseball history. Established in 1971 in Cooperstown, New York, SABR has sought to foster and disseminate the research of baseball—with groundbreaking work from statisticians, historians, and independent researchers—and has published dozens of articles with far-reaching and long-lasting impact on the game. Among its current membership are many Major and Minor League Baseball officials, broadcasters, and writers as well as numerous former players. The diversity of SABR members’ interests is reflected in this fiftieth-anniversary volume—from baseball and the arts to statistical analysis to the Deadball Era to women in baseball. SABR 50 at 50 includes the most important and influential research published by members across a multitude of topics, including the sabermetric work of Dick Cramer, Pete Palmer, and Bill James, along with Jerry Malloy on the Negro Leagues, Keith Olbermann on why the shortstop position is number 6, John Thorn and Jules Tygiel on the untold story behind Jackie Robinson’s signing with the Dodgers, and Gai Berlage on the Colorado Silver Bullets women’s team in the 1990s. To provide history and context, each notable research article is accompanied by a short introduction. As SABR celebrates fifty years this collection gathers the organization’s most notable research and baseball history for the serious baseball reader.

Baseball's Longest Games

Baseball's Longest Games
Title Baseball's Longest Games PDF eBook
Author Philip J. Lowry
Publisher McFarland
Pages 371
Release 2010-04-23
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0786457341

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Baseball is the only major team sport that doesn't feature a clock, and there's a familiar saying among fans that as long as outs remain, the game can, theoretically, go on forever. Every now and again, it nearly does, as author Phil Lowry demonstrates. The product of more than four decades of research, this book catalogs baseball games from around the world and throughout history that lasted 20 or more innings, stretched five or more hours, or ended after 1:00 am. Lowry also examines probability models to predict how often games of unusual length will occur.

Me and the Spitter

Me and the Spitter
Title Me and the Spitter PDF eBook
Author Gaylord Perry
Publisher Scarborough, Ont. : New american Library of Canada
Pages 222
Release 1974
Genre Baseball
ISBN

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The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs

The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs
Title The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs PDF eBook
Author Bill Jenkinson
Publisher Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Pages 434
Release 2007-02-09
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN

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In an unprecedented look at Babe Ruth's amazing batting power, sure to inspire debate among baseball fans of every stripe, one of the country's most respected and trusted baseball historians reveals the amazing conclusions of more than twenty years of research. Jenkinson takes readers through Ruth's 1921 season, in which his pattern of battled balls would have accounted for more than 100 home runs in today's ballparks and under today's rules. Yet, 1921 is just tip of the iceberg, for Jenkinson's research reveals that during an era of mammoth field dimensions Ruth hit more 450-plus-feet shots than anybody in history, and the conclusions one can draw are mind boggling.

The Book

The Book
Title The Book PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Potomac Books, Inc.
Pages 458
Release 2007
Genre Baseball
ISBN 1597973653

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Baseball "by The Book."

Pages from Baseball's Past

Pages from Baseball's Past
Title Pages from Baseball's Past PDF eBook
Author Craig R. Wright
Publisher ACTA Publications
Pages 231
Release 2013-11-01
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 9780879465155

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Stories from baseball's past that most people have never heard, including the story of a mascot named "Baseball," who turned out to be a man's best friend. All the stories are written Craig T. Wright, the Dean of Baseball Storytellers, who has hosted a radio show and website of the same name for many years.