Extra Innings

Author : The Baseball Prospectus
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465029183
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extra Innings written by The Baseball Prospectus and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, a brassy young team of fansproduced a guide to baseball statistics.Printed on a photocopier, its distribution,which was in the low hundreds, was limited tofriends, family, and die-hard stat heads. Sixteenyears later, the Baseball Prospectus annualregularly hits best-seller lists and has becomean indispensable guide for the serious fan. In Extra Innings, the team at Baseball Prospectusintegrates statistics, interviews, and analysis todeliver twenty arguments about today's game.In the tradition of their seminal book, BaseballBetween the Numbers, they take on everything fromsteroids to the amateur draft. They probe theimpact of managers on the game. They explainthe critical art of building a bullpen. In an erawhen statistics matter more than ever, Extra Inningsis an essential volume for every baseball fan.

Author : David Whitford
Publisher : Harpercollins
ISBN 13 : 9780060164591
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extra Innings written by David Whitford and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the first season of baseball's senior league for retired major league ballplayers and includes comments from the league's founder and the star players who returned to the game

Author : Robert Newton Peck
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064472299
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extra Innings written by Robert Newton Peck and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate finds unexpected solace in the stories of his great-aunt Vidalia's childhood travels with a Depression-era Negro League baseball team.

Author : Doris Grumbach
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393313208
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extra Innings written by Doris Grumbach and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir offers an intense, sometimes funny, sometimes tart, and often very moving account of the life of Doris Grumbach, author of Coming into the End Zone. Grumbach records an eventful year crowded with literary pleasures and pains, and the natural beauties and social particulars of life in coastal Maine.

Author : Tiki Barber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442457287
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extra Innings written by Tiki Barber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Batter up! Football, basketball, and now baseball—is there anything the Barber brothers won’t try their best to do? The Barbers join the baseball team in this home-run adventure from NFL superstars and bestselling authors Tiki and Ronde Barber. Tiki and Ronde have their sights set on a big diamond—a baseball diamond! Sure, they’re experienced athletes, but they’ve never played baseball before. Do they have what it takes to make the team?

Author : Richard F. Peterson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069604
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extra Innings written by Richard F. Peterson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extra Innings tackles the question of how writing about baseball has shaped our understanding and misunderstanding of the national pastime. In a series of astute reflections on baseball histories, biographies, personal reminiscences, and fiction, Richard Peterson explores the shifting balance of romance and fact in standard baseball histories, offers a lively discussion of baseball fiction, and assesses the realism of postmodern baseball writing. He discusses the influence of Jackie Robinson on the serious baseball novel and the reluctance of baseball fiction to treat race issues realistically. He also surveys baseball fleeting appearances in the literary canon and suggests a "top nine" reading list for the baseball aficionado. Slicing away the myths and distortions of baseball's bizarre history, Extra Innings.

Author : Bruce E. Spitzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984956906
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extra Innings written by Bruce E. Spitzer and published by . This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2092, Ted Williams, the greatest baseball hitter of all time, is brought back to life through the science of cryonics. Once again playing for the Red Sox, Williams finds himself trapped in a world he hardly recognizes: the corruption of the game he loves with uber-juiced batters and robot pitchers; difficult love affairs clashing with his old desires; and a military conflict of the future in which he must harness the fighter pilot skills he used in his first life. Dr. Elizabeth Miles is the cryonicist who brings him back to life, initiating a dramatic sequence of medical achievements. She and her young son Johnnie are a constant reminder of what Williams lacked in his first trip around the bases, never devoting much time to love and family. But old habits die hard. With enemies and allies both on the field and off, Williams must make sense of it all and play on against a machine that he detests, pressure to take the "giddyup" he abhors, unrelenting media mania, and a dystopian world he cant ignore. The narrative resonates with the consequences of the major issues we face in our world today-the steroids debate in sports, global warming, corporate greed, technology run rampant, and the moral ambiguity of war. Extra Innings is alternately poignant and humorous, heartbreaking and joyous. Thought-provoking throughout, its a rollicking ride that looks at second chances and redemption, the ability to triumph over adversity, and the search for meaning in this life and the next. Flawed in his first life, Williams must decide in the second whats more important, the chance to win his first World Series, or the chance to be a better man? The Greatest Comeback of all Time is More Than Just a Game.

Author : Raymond Souster
Publisher : [s.l.] : Oberon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extra Innings written by Raymond Souster and published by [s.l.] : Oberon Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pete Rose
Publisher : Penguin Press
ISBN 13 : 0525558675
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play Hungry written by Pete Rose and published by Penguin Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of how Pete Rose became one of the greatest and most controversial players in the history of baseball.

Author : Lynn Ames
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936429103
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bright Lights of Summer written by Lynn Ames and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's March, 1941. Captain America appears in a comic book for the very first time. New York City receives 18.1 inches of snow, its 3rd largest snowfall in history. In Holland, the Nazi occupiers forbid Jews to own businesses. In Poland, Heinrich Himmler inspects Auschwitz. World War II is raging in Europe, but America has yet to enter the fray. And in Phoenix, Arizona, a 16-year-old scrap of a girl named Theodora "Dizzy" Hosler, takes the field to try out for the World Champion P.B.S.W. Ramblers softball team. Set against the backdrop of perhaps the most dramatic time in US history, comes the story of Diz and Frannie, two women fueled by an unquenchable passion for the game of softball and feelings for each other that go far beyond the bounds of friendship. Will their love for the game bring them closer together or tear them apart?