Baseball Dynasties

Author : Rob Neyer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320084
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball Dynasties written by Rob Neyer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the top fifteen baseball teams of the twentieth century, including such legendary squads as the 1927 Yankees and the 1970 Orioles, to determine which team was the greatest of the modern era.

Author : Jonathan Weeks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442261579
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them written by Jonathan Weeks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball has had its fair share of one-and-out champions, but few clubs have dominated the sport for any great length of time. Given the level of competition and the expansive length of the season, it is a remarkable accomplishment for a team to make multiple World Series appearances in a short timespan. From the Baltimore Orioles of the 1800s who would go to any length to win—including physically accosting opponents—to the 1934 Cardinals known as the “Gashouse Gang” for their rough tactics and determination, and on to George Steinbrenner’s dominant Yankees of the late twentieth century, baseball’s greatest teams somehow found a way to win year after year. Spanning three centuries of the game, Baseball’s Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them examines twenty-two of baseball’s most iconic teams. Each chapter not only chronicles the club’s era of supremacy, but also provides an in-depth look at the players who helped make their teams great. Nearly two hundred player profiles are included, featuring such well-known stars as Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Sandy Koufax, and Pete Rose, as well as players who were perhaps overshadowed by their teammates but were nonetheless vital to their team’s reign, such as Pepper Martin, Allie Reynolds, and George Foster. With a concluding chapter that profiles the clubs that were on the cusp of greatness, Baseball’s Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them is a fascinating survey of what makes some teams dominate year after year while others get only a small taste of glory before falling to the wayside. Written in a lively style with amusing anecdotes and colorful quotes, this comprehensive book will be of interest to all fans and historians of baseball.

Author : Mark Gallagher
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780831706562
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball Dynasties written by Mark Gallagher and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1990-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book conveys the record of the New York Yankees for each season, as well as the currents above and beyond the hard facts of seasonal performance.

Author : Stanley Cohen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510720642
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yankees 1936–39, Baseball's Greatest Dynasty written by Stanley Cohen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of the Greatest Yankees Team—and Baseball Team—of All Time New York, 1936. Red Ruffing, Lefty Gomez, Bill Dickey, Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, and rookie Joe DiMaggio—with these six future Hall of Fame players, the Yankees embarked on a four-year run that would go down in the history books as the greatest Yankees team, if not, the greatest baseball team of all time. Over the next four years, the Yankees won four straight pennants, finishing an average of nearly fifteen games ahead of the second-place team. They won their four World Series by an overall margin of 16-3, sweeping the last two, putting the punctuation mark on baseball’s first true dynasty. Even the Ruthian Yankees of the twenties never won more than two consecutive world championships. From 1936 to 1939, the world was changing rapidly. America was in the grip of the Great Depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected president in the greatest landslide in American history. And Hitler’s Germany was on the move in the fall of 1939, just as the Yankee dynasty reached its climax. Against the backdrop of a world in turmoil, baseball, and America’s love for baseball, thrived. Starring the best team of all time, featuring little-known anecdotes of players and set against a history of the world, Yankees 1936–39, Baseball's Greatest Dynasty tells the tale of a legendary team that changed history.

Author : Thomas G. Aylesworth
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780831706579
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball Dynasties written by Thomas G. Aylesworth and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1990-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hal Bock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442253312
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Chicago Cubs Dynasty written by Hal Bock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last time the Chicago Cubs played in the World Series, World War II had just ended. The last time they won a World Series, World War I had not yet begun. But from 1906-1910 the Cubs not only played in the World Series four of the five years, they won two World Championships, as well. It was a time when the Cubs ruled baseball, and no one could have imagined the roller coaster adventures that were ahead for this grand old franchise. In The Last Chicago Cubs Dynasty: Before the Curse, Hal Bock tells the story of this legendary team, the characters who were central to its success, and the misfortunes which have plagued the team ever since. Stars such as pitcher Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown and the double-play combination of Tinker to Evers to Chance are profiled, as are opponents who caused the Cubs unending headaches, like superstar pitcher Christy Mathewson and immortal shortstop Honus Wagner. A chronology and cast of characters set the stage for the reader before Bock delves into the early history of the Cubs and the assembly of what would become a dynasty. With talent to spare and just a little bit of luck going their way, the Chicago Cubs were unstoppable. But when an angry fan issued a curse on the team during the 1945 World Series, some believe it marked the beginning of the end for this storied franchise. Featuring 100-year-old images from historic baseball cards, profiles of Hall of Fame legends, and a foreword by Cubs supporter and TV star Joe Mantegna, The Last Chicago Cubs Dynasty will appeal to all baseball fans, but especially to those always-passionate Cubs enthusiasts from around the nation.

Author : Jim Kaplan
Publisher : Popular Culture Ink
ISBN 13 : 9780831706272
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Great Dynasties written by Jim Kaplan and published by Popular Culture Ink. This book was released on 1991-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Silverman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493024205
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One-Year Dynasty written by Matthew Silverman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive the games, moves, and players of the hard-hitting team that won the 1986 World Series. Vin Scully called the tenth-inning groundball in Game Six of the 1986 World Series—Mets versus Red Sox—that sealed a comeback, fueled a curse, and turned a batting champion into a scapegoat. But getting there was a long, hard slog with plenty of heartache. After being knocked out of contention the previous two seasons, the Mets blasted through the National League that year. They won blowouts, nailbiters, fights, and a 14-inning game that ended with one pitcher on the mound, another in right field, and an All-Star catcher playing third base. Matt Silverman covers famous baseball players including: Ron Darling, Dwight Gooden, Keith Hernandez, Darryl Strawberry and more. Going beyond the partying and excess, Silverman recounts in this book, step by step, the team’s meteoric rise in 1986, when they captured their first division title in over a decade, shattered the franchise record, and then won it all.

Author : Bill Gutman
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780831706289
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Great Dynasties written by Bill Gutman and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1991-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tony Massarotti
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429915498
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynasty written by Tony Massarotti and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique look at the inner workings of a major league baseball team and how the Red Sox went from perennial losers to baseball's next dynasty. When the Boston Red Sox defeated the Colorado Rockies in the 2007 World Series, they did more than win their second world championship in four seasons---they changed forever the identity of a franchise once defined by its spectacular failures. If winning the 2004 World Series permanently buried Boston's tragic past, the team's 2007 championship reinforced its promising future while changing the culture, mentality, and mind-set of the Red Sox and their followers. But the team's meteoric rise was not without controversy, and behind-the-scene clashes and infighting within the organization are revealed here in detail for the first time: The wildly popular pitcher Pedro Martinez and outfield sensation Johnny Damon were allowed to depart as free agents, and the Red Sox had to endure the temporary resignation of General Manager Theo Epstein. Author Tony Massarotti has been covering the Red Sox since the 1991 season and in Dynasty, Massarotti provides an in-depth and probing look at how the Red Sox became the most successful franchise in baseball.