Sliding Billy Hamilton
Title | Sliding Billy Hamilton PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Kerr |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2014-11-21 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0786489197 |
Billy Hamilton, whose major league career spanned 1888-1901, holds the all-time record for runs scored in a season (196 in 129 games), number of consecutive games scoring a run (24), and career runs scored per game (1.06); he shares records for most triples in a game (4) and sacrifices in a game (4); and his average of one steal every 1.74 games bests Ricky Henderson's. Despite these records, and his 1961 induction into the Hall of Fame, little has been written about him. This biography covers Hamilton's entire life, including his major league career with the Kansas City Cowboys, Philadelphia Phillies, and Boston Nationals, as well as his later career as a minor league player-manager and bench-manager, team owner, major league scout, and plant foreman. The author exclusively uses primary sources for all information dealing with Hamilton's career and personal life.
Philadelphia Baseball
Title | Philadelphia Baseball PDF eBook |
Author | Max Blue |
Publisher | PublishAmerica |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2012-05-14 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1627728902 |
Baseball Hall of Fame Autographs
Title | Baseball Hall of Fame Autographs PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Keurajian |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2018-10-02 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1476634181 |
Richly illustrated with nearly 1,000 examples of both autographs and forgeries, this new and expanded edition includes signature studies of all Hall of Famers from the 19th century to the present. Collectors can compare signatures to the examples to determine the genuineness of autographs. Shoeless Joe and the rest of the Black Sox are explored in depth, along with Roger Maris, Gil Hodges and the top 50 non-Hall of Fame autographs. A new price guide examines values of various signed mediums. A market population grid lists rare and seldom seen signatures.
Philadelphia's Top Fifty Baseball Players
Title | Philadelphia's Top Fifty Baseball Players PDF eBook |
Author | Rich Westcott |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2013-05-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0803243405 |
Philadelphia’s Top Fifty Baseball Players takes a look at the greatest players in Philadelphia baseball history from the earliest days in 1830 through the Negro Leagues and into the modern era. Their ranks include batting champions, home run kings, Most Valuable Players, Cy Young Award winners, and Hall of Famers—from Ed Delahanty, Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Roy Campanella, Mike Schmidt, and Ryan Howard to Negro League stars Judy Johnson and Biz Mackey and other Philadelphia standouts such as Richie Ashburn, Dick Allen, Chuck Klein, Eddie Collins, and Reggie Jackson. For each player the book highlights memorable incidents and accomplishments and, above all, his place in Philadelphia’s rich baseball tradition.
The Heavenly Twins of Boston Baseball
Title | The Heavenly Twins of Boston Baseball PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Hubbard |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2008-08-07 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0786434554 |
Baseball was a rough sport in the nineteenth century and no one played the game with more vigor (and often violence) than Hall of Famers Hugh Duffy and Tommy McCarthy, dubbed "The Heavenly Twins." This book details their professional history playing for Boston Beaneaters teams and personal experiences with baseball, faith, and legendary Boston baseball scribe Tim Murnane. The book also traces their minor league careers and post-professional baseball activities.
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
Title | The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract PDF eBook |
Author | Bill James |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 1026 |
Release | 2010-05-11 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1439106932 |
When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball's beloved “Sultan of Stats” (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the new millennium. Like the original, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is really several books in one. The Game provides a century's worth of American baseball history, told one decade at a time, with energetic facts and figures about How, Where, and by Whom the game was played. In The Players, you'll find listings of the top 100 players at each position in the major leagues, along with James's signature stats-based ratings method called “Win Shares,” a way of quantifying individual performance and calculating the offensive and defensive contributions of catchers, pitchers, infielders, and outfielders. And there's more: the Reference section covers Win Shares for each season and each player, and even offers a Win Share team comparison. A must-have for baseball fans and historians alike, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is as essential, entertaining, and enlightening as the sport itself.
Game Faces
Title | Game Faces PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Devereaux |
Publisher | Smithsonian Institution |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2018-10-23 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 158834634X |
A charming gift book showcasing baseball cards from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries alongside photos from the early days of the nation's beloved pastime Game Faces showcases rare and colorful baseball cards from the Library of Congress's Benjamin K. Edwards Collection, bringing to life an era of American history that saw the game explode in popularity. Marrying gems from the collection's 2,100 baseball cards to images of American life from 1887 to 1914, the book also offers engaging insights into the players and the game, giving readers an intimate view of both baseball's development and American culture at the turn of the twentieth century. The book highlights cards depicting many of the game's first stars--including Ty Cobb, Cy Young, and Christy Mathewson--as well as less widely known figures, shown with extravagant ornamentation and boldly juxtaposed colors that render the cards works of art in their own right. Game Faces is a rich, engrossing history of the baseball card and the ways that it has illustrated and influenced American culture as a whole. It is a must-have for those who love baseball.