Baseball's Ultimate Power
Title | Baseball's Ultimate Power PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Jenkinson |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2010-03-16 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0762762470 |
The tape measure home run is the greatest single act of power in the game of baseball, and the tales of these homers are the most cherished legacies players and fans hand down through the generations. Fully illustrated with photos of the players and aerial ballpark photos showing the landing spots of each stadium's longest homers.
Baseball's All-time Best Sluggers
Title | Baseball's All-time Best Sluggers PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Schell |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 9780691115573 |
A feast of stories and statistics about players, ballparks, and teams--all arranged so that calculations can be skipped by general readers but consulted by statisticians eager to follow Schell's methods or to introduce students to the basic concepts of statistics. Illustrations.
The Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records
Title | The Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records PDF eBook |
Author | Major League Baseball |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2013-10-15 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0771057350 |
Since the first pitch was thrown, MLB has tracked the performance of every team and player, documented every hit and measured every home run. And while some plays are part of the everyday game, there are moments in baseball when a player's performance reaches a new level of greatness and new records are made. The Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records catalogs the game's most remarkable achievements, as well as some of the less traditional and quirky stats that all play a part in the game. MLB's team of in-house writers, researchers and historians have scoured the history of the game and written the most accurate, complete and definitive record of baseball stats and achievements. Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records documents the absolute best of the best and packs each achievement into this lavishly illustrated book where fans will be treated to never-before-seen photographs of their favourite players. Double-page spreads will show Henderson racing to second base to claim the stolen base record, while another full color spread celebrates Bond's crushing hit that set a new threshold for most home-runs. All the records are here, each with an account of events and spectacular photographs that make this truly the most spectacular baseball book ever published.
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 |
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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 Game
Title | The Game PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Pessah |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 694 |
Release | 2015-05-05 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0316242217 |
The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty years. In the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their decades-long battle with the players has turned America against both sides, and the players' growing addiction to steroids will threaten the game's very foundation. It is a tipping point for baseball, a crucial moment in the game's history that catalyzes a struggle for power by three strong-willed men: Commissioner Bud Selig, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and union leader Don Fehr. It's their uneasy alliance at the end of decades of struggle that pulls the game back from the brink and turns it into a money-making powerhouse that enriches them all. This is the real story of baseball, played out against a tableau of stunning athletic feats, high-stakes public battles, and backroom political deals -- with a supporting cast that includes Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, Joe Torre and Derek Jeter, George Bush and George Mitchell, and many more. Drawing from hundreds of extensive, exclusive interviews throughout baseball, The Game is a stunning achievement: a rigorously reported book and the must-read, fly-on-the-wall, definitive account of how an enormous struggle for power turns disaster into baseball's Golden Age.
All the Babe's Men
Title | All the Babe's Men PDF eBook |
Author | Eldon L. Ham |
Publisher | Potomac Books, Inc. |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2011-03 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1597979392 |
How home runs transformed baseball--and America
The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip, 2nd
Title | The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip, 2nd PDF eBook |
Author | Josh Pahigian |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2012-03-27 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 0762783915 |
The most entertaining and comprehensive guide to every baseball fan’s dream road trip—including every new ballpark since the 2004 edition—revised and completely updated!