The SABR Baseball List & Record Book
Title | The SABR Baseball List & Record Book PDF eBook |
Author | Society for American Baseball Research |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 499 |
Release | 2007-03-20 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1416554564 |
From the authority on baseball research and statistics comes a vast and fascinating compendium of unique baseball lists and records. The SABR Baseball List & Record Book is an expansive collection of pitching, hitting, fielding, home run, team, and rookie records not available online or in any other book. This is a treasure trove of baseball history for statistically minded baseball fans that's also packed with intriguing marginalia. For instance, on July 25, 1967, Chicago's Ken Berry ended Game Two of a doubleheader against Cleveland with a home run in the bottom of the sixteenth inning -- Chicago's second game-winning homer of the day. The comprehensive lists include Most Career Home Runs by Two Brothers (Tommie and Hank Aaron have 768), Most Seasons with 15 or More Wins (Cy Young and Greg Maddux each have 18), and Highest On Base Percentage in a Season by a Rookie (listing every rookie above .400). Unlike other record books that only list the record holders -- say, most RBI by a rookie, held by Ted Williams with 145 -- SABR details every rookie to reach 100 RBI. Other record books might note the last pitcher in each league to steal home; here SABR has included every pitcher to do it. The book also includes a number of idiosyncratic features, such as a rundown of every player who has hit a triple and then stolen home, or every reliever who has won two games in one day. Many of the lists include a comments column for key historical notes and entertaining trivia (Bob Horner hit four home runs in a 1986 game, but his team lost). This is a must-have for every fan's library. Edited by Lyle Spatz, Chairman of the Baseball Records Committee for SABR
Bridging Two Dynasties
Title | Bridging Two Dynasties PDF eBook |
Author | Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2013-04-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0803240945 |
Tells the story of how the 1947 New York Yankees won the pennant that year, set a record with a nineteen-game winning streak, and won the first televised World Series.
The Last Yankee
Title | The Last Yankee PDF eBook |
Author | Society for American Baseball Research (Sabr) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1999-01-30 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780910137775 |
A collection of articles, essays, statistics, and lore on the game of baseball.
Drama and Pride in the Gateway City
Title | Drama and Pride in the Gateway City PDF eBook |
Author | Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 866 |
Release | 2020-02-17 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1496210506 |
By 1964 the storied St. Louis Cardinals had gone seventeen years without so much as a pennant. Things began to turn around in 1953, when August A. Busch Jr. bought the team and famously asked where all the black players were. Under the leadership of men like Bing Devine and Johnny Keane, the Cardinals began signing talented players regardless of color, and slowly their star started to rise again. Drama and Pride in the Gateway City commemorates the team that Bing Devine built, the 1964 team that prevailed in one of the tightest three-way pennant races of all time and then went on to win the World Series, beating the New York Yankees in the full seven games. All the men come alive in these pages--pitchers Ray Sadecki and Bob Gibson, players Lou Brock, Curt Flood, and Bobby Shantz, manager Johnny Keane, his coaches, the Cardinals' broadcasters, and Bill White, who would one day run the entire National League--along with the dramatic events that made the 1964 Cardinals such a memorable club in a memorable year.
Carl Hubbell
Title | Carl Hubbell PDF eBook |
Author | Lowell L. Blaisdell |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0786456515 |
This work is a biography of Carl Hubbell, a baseball legend who was active in the 1930s for the New York Giants and an eight-time All-Star. Hubbell was a left-handed ace from Oklahoma who is still regarded as one of the greatest pitchers of all time and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947. With an emphasis on his pitching career, this biography covers both his personal life and his development as a player.
The Chalmers Race
Title | The Chalmers Race PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Huhn |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2021-09 |
Genre | SPORTS & RECREATION |
ISBN | 149622938X |
The Chalmers Race is the story of Ty Cobb and Napoleon Lajoie and the controversial 1910 batting race.
Historical Dictionary of Baseball
Title | Historical Dictionary of Baseball PDF eBook |
Author | Lyle Spatz |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 505 |
Release | 2012-12-21 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0810879549 |
Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as “our game, the American game,” and George Will compared calling baseball “just a game” to the Grand Canyon being “just a hole.” Countless others have called baseball “the most elegant game,” and to those who have played it, it’s life. The Historical Dictionary of Baseball is primarily devoted to the major leagues it also includes entries on the minor leagues, the Negro Leagues, women’s baseball, baseball in various other countries, and other non-major league related topics. It traces baseball, in general, and these topics individually, from their beginnings up to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on the roles of the players on the field—batters, pitchers, fielders—as well as non-playing personnel—general managers, managers, coaches, and umpires. There are also entries for individual teams and leagues, stadiums and ballparks, the role of the draft and reserve clause, and baseball’s rules, and statistical categories. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of baseball.