Prophet Of The Sandlots

Author : Mark Winegardner
Publisher : New York : Prentice Hall Press
ISBN 13 : 9780137263738
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophet of the Sandlots written by Mark Winegardner and published by New York : Prentice Hall Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an account of the life of the late Tony Lucadello, the legendary scout who signed fifty future Major Leaguers including Mike Schmidt.

Author : Lee Lowenfish
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496214811
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Endangered Species written by Lee Lowenfish and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive look at professional baseball scouting from post WWII to the present day"--

Author : William C. Kashatus
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812240367
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Almost a Dynasty written by William C. Kashatus and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008-02-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost A Dynasty details the rise and fall of the World Champion 1980 Phillies. Based on personal interviews, newspaper accounts, and the keen insight of a veteran baseball writer, the book convincingly explains how a losing team was finally able to win its first world championship.

Author : Christopher Phillips
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217165
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scouting and Scoring written by Christopher Phillips and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring, Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic divisions. He shows how both scouts and scorers rely on numbers, bureaucracy, trust, and human labor to make sound judgments about the value of baseball players. Tracing baseball’s story from the nineteenth century to today, Phillips explains that the sport was one of the earliest fields to introduce numerical analysis, and new methods of data collection were supposed to enable teams to replace scouting with scoring. But that’s not how things turned out. From the invention of official scorers and Statcast to the creation of the Major League Scouting Bureau, Scouting and Scoring reveals the inextricable connections between human expertise and data science, and offers an entirely fresh understanding of baseball.

Author : Gare Joyce
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 038567273X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Greats and Heartbreaks written by Gare Joyce and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of this continent’s master craftsmen of sporting prose” (Sports Illustrated) and three-time National Magazine Award-winner Gare Joyce goes undercover to learn the secrets of NHL scouts. Veteran sports writer Gare Joyce realizes a long-held secret ambition as he spends a full season embedded as a hockey scout. Joyce’s year on the hockey beat is a steep learning curve for him; NHL scouts spend each season gathering information on players fighting it out to break into the world of professional hockey. They watch hundreds of games, speak to scores of players, parents, team-mates and other scouts, amassing profiles on all the top contenders. It’s a form of risk assessment–is this young hopeful deserving of a multi-million dollar contract?–and it can be a tough and thankless task. Scouts are ground into the game, picking up nuances of play that even the most committed fan would miss, but they are looking at more than just how well a kid can play. And come the final draft, only a tiny percentage of their full year’s work might matter. Examining the amount of information gathered on the under-eighteen hopefuls, the scrutiny to which they are subjected, and the differences between the rigour of American and Canadian junior teams, Joyce opens a window on the life and methods of an NHL scout and penetrates the mysterious world of scouting as no one has before.

Author : Geoff Hamilton
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140673
Total Pages : 1386 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Work written by Geoff Hamilton and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with the English-language fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Author : Peter Stine
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814325575
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports in America written by Peter Stine and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's fascination with sports is the topic of this literary anthology. Through their fiction, poetry, and essays, nearly forty writers reflect on sports as an illumination of our ordinary lives, rather than as a livelihood, a world of celebrities, or a means of escape. As Siv Cedering, Maxine Kumin, and John Ed Bradley demonstrate, often the concerns we bring to sports are profoundly personal. Our performance both as participants and spectators is a way of marking our past - our moral urgencies, our lost childhood, our role as parents, our pursuit of excellence, our fear of failure, our very identity and place in the chain of generations. Sports inevitably graze and illuminate our culture as well. Heather Ross Miller's memories of half-court women's basketball become a powerful metaphor for sexual attitudes during the 1950s. George Garrett's reflections on college football during World War II provide images that symbolize an era, and Neil Isaacs' delightful essay on major-league batboys chronicles the American Dream.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orange Coast Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orange Coast Magazine is the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in the region, bringing together Orange County¹s most affluent coastal communities through smart, fun, and timely editorial content, as well as compelling photographs and design. Each issue features an award-winning blend of celebrity and newsmaker profiles, service journalism, and authoritative articles on dining, fashion, home design, and travel. As Orange County¹s only paid subscription lifestyle magazine with circulation figures guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Orange Coast is the definitive guidebook into the county¹s luxe lifestyle.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orange Coast Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orange Coast Magazine is the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in the region, bringing together Orange County¹s most affluent coastal communities through smart, fun, and timely editorial content, as well as compelling photographs and design. Each issue features an award-winning blend of celebrity and newsmaker profiles, service journalism, and authoritative articles on dining, fashion, home design, and travel. As Orange County¹s only paid subscription lifestyle magazine with circulation figures guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Orange Coast is the definitive guidebook into the county¹s luxe lifestyle.

Author : B. Joseph Pine
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875848198
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Experience Economy written by B. Joseph Pine and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text seeks to raise the curtain on competitive pricing strategies and asserts that businesses often miss their best opportunity for providing consumers with what they want - an experience. It presents a strategy for companies to script and stage the experiences provided by their products.