Baseball In Rochester

Author : Jim Mandelaro
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815627036
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silver Seasons written by Jim Mandelaro and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Rochester Red Wings and the personalities and events that shaped the most successful minor-league baseball franchise of all time. This text relates the town's love affair with its team and the colourful characters who have worn the Rochester flannels through the years.

Author : Scott Pitoniak
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738511696
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball in Rochester written by Scott Pitoniak and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few cities can boast of a longer or richer baseball tradition than Rochester, New York. The game's roots in the Flower City can be traced to the early nineteenth century, when a primitive form of baseball was being played on Mumford's Meadow near the Genesee River. Since that time, some of the greatest names in baseball history, including Stan Musial and Cal Ripken Jr., have honed their skills in Rochester. Their exploits, along with those of numerous others, are documented with rare photographs in Baseball in Rochester. Through the years, nineteen people with local ties have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The Red Wings have won ten Governors' Cups-more than any other International League team-and Rochester has been designated Baseball City, U.S.A., by Baseball America magazine. Baseball in Rochester chronicles not only the superstars but also the quirky characters and moments that make the minor leagues so appealing.

Author : Jim Mandelaro
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815651201
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silver Seasons and a New Frontier written by Jim Mandelaro and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking us back to the early nineteenth century, when baseball was played in the meadows and streets of Rochester, New York, Silver Seasons and a New Frontier retraces the careers of the players and managers who honed their skills at Silver Stadium and later at Frontier Field. The many greats who played for the Rochester Red Wings—Stan Musial, Cal Ripken, Jr., Bob Gibson, Boog Powell, Jim Palmer, Eddie Murray, and Justin Morneau—are among those brought to life in this story rich with quirky performances and poignant moments. This updated version of Silver Seasons: The Story of the Rochester Red Wings, published in 1996, includes three new chapters covering the team’s record-setting tenth International League championship, being named top minor league franchise by Baseball America, and their new affiliation with the Minnesota Twins.

Author : Dan Barry
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062079026
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bottom of the 33rd written by Dan Barry and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Bill A. Dembski
Publisher : Influence Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1645427110
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball's Fastest Pitcher written by Bill A. Dembski and published by Influence Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gripping and tragic, Dalko is the definitive story of Steve “White Lightning” Dalkowski, baseball’s fastest pitcher ever. Dalko explores one man’s unmatched talent on the mound and the forces that kept ultimate greatness always just beyond his reach. For the first time, Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball’s Fastest Pitcher unites all of the eyewitness accounts from the coaches, analysts, teammates, and professionals who witnessed the game’s fastest pitcher in action. In doing so, it puts readers on the fields and at the plate to hear the buzzing fastball of a pitcher fighting to achieve his major league ambitions. Just three days after his high school graduation in 1957, Steve Dalkowski signed into the Baltimore Orioles system. Poised for greatness, he might have risen to be one of the stars in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Instead, he spent his entire career toiling away in the minor leagues. An inspiration for the character Nuke LaLoosh in the classic baseball film Bull Durham, Dalko’s life and story were as fast and wild as the pitches he threw. The late Orioles manager Earl Weaver, who saw baseball greats Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax pitch, said “Dalko threw harder than all of ‘em.” Cal Ripken Sr., Dalkowski’s catcher for several years, said the same. Bull Durham screenwriter Ron Shelton, who played with Dalkowski in the minor leagues, said “They called him “Dalko” and guys liked to hang with him and women wanted to take care of him and if he walked in a room in those days he was probably drunk.” This force on the field that could break chicken wire backstops and wooden fences with his heat but racked up almost as many walks as strikeouts in his career, spent years of drinking all night and showing up on the field the next day, just in time to show his wild heat again. What the Washington Post called “baseball’s greatest what-If story” is one of a superhuman, once-in-a-generation gift, a near-mythical talent that refused to be tamed. Steve Dalkowski will forever be remembered for his remarkable arm. Said Shelton, “In his sport, he had the equivalent of Michaelangelo’s gift but could never finish a painting.” Dalko is the story of the fastest pitching that baseball has ever seen, an explosive but uncontrolled arm.

Author : Tom
Publisher : ACTA Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780879466664
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now Taking the Field: Baseball's All-Time Dream Teams for All 30 Franchises written by Tom and published by ACTA Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best all-time rosters for all 30 current Major League Baseball teams, with in-depth analysis of who would start (and backup) at each position. Current players analyzed but not included in rosters.

Author : Brian A. Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965186315
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On a Silver Diamond written by Brian A. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1952 pages
Book Rating : 4.7B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organized Professional Team Sports written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 8. pt. 1: Considers legislation on the applicability of the antitrust laws to organize professional sports enterprises. pt. 2: Continuation of hearings on sports teams and antitrust legislation. pt. 3: Continuation of antitrust hearings on professional sports antitrust exemptions.

Author : Ernest J. Lanigan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786418680
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball Cyclopedia written by Ernest J. Lanigan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-06-03 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest J. Lanigan was the nephew of Sporting News founder Al Spink and one of three men in his immediate family to gain acclaim as a newspaperman. As sports editor for the New York Press and official scorer for a handful of World Series, he was the premier statistician of his day. Lanigan compiled the first baseball encyclopedia in 1922, and it is reprinted here with each of its twelve annual supplements. As the original publisher advertised on the book's title page, it "[c]omprises a review of Professional Baseball, the history of all Major League Clubs, playing records and unique events, the batting, pitching and base running champions, World's Series' statistics and a carefully arranged alphabetical list of the records of more than 3500 Major League ball players, a feature never before attempted in print."

Author : Doug Roe
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780895863010
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rochester Carburetors written by Doug Roe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to tune, rebuild, or modify your Rochester. In this comprehensive and easy-to-use guide, you will learn: · How to select, install, and tune for street or strip · Basic principles of operation, air and fuel requirements, repairs, and adjustments · Tips on choosing manifolds and fuel-supply systems · Complete info on emission-control systems, including Computer Command Control