The Dark Sides Of Baseball

Author : Bill Hongach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781483933856
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Sides of Baseball written by Bill Hongach and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Yankee batboy, Bill "Hondo" Hongach, who had his first book published while still in high school at age 18, takes the reader on a journey of what goes on behind the scenes of America's National Pastime.The book opens with the author being beaten so badly by Pete Rose's right-hand man, ironically, with a Pete Rose bat, that he ends up in a coma for four days. Jack Lang, who was in charge of the Baseball Writers Assoc. and wrote dozens of baseball books himself before being put into the Hall of Fame, wrote that this was the best baseball book he ever read! He simply put it "...I could not put it down until I had finished reading the entire book." For one to see and know the "The Dark Sides of Baseball" is, in essence, to have the perspective that very few baseball fans get to experience. To become close on a personal basis with some of the greats of the game is rare and unique. "The Dark Sides of Baseball" is a glimpse that the public is not privy to or ever get to encounter.The book tells a tale of how a teenage boy chased his love of baseball, from interviewing sports greats, becoming a Yankee batboy the last two years at the original Yankee Stadium in 1972 & 1973, at the age of 18 having his first baseball book published while still a batboy and leading to the end of the Topps' Baseball Card monopoly, while still going to school.His close relationship with Mickey Mantle and Pete Rose would show him the troubled and positive sides of the game, that the public were never shown. The stories are endless as to what goes on in a clubhouse and what it is like to have these great athletes together for a baseball card show.Every baseball fan can watch a game and look up the stats. "The Dark Sides of Baseball" lets you see what goes on in the dugout, the clubhouse and off the field.

Author : Bill Hongach
Publisher : Tate Publishing & Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9781680976076
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Sides of Baseball written by Bill Hongach and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For one to see and know the Dark Sides of Baseball is in essence to have the perspective that very few baseball fans ever get to experience. To become close on a personal basis with some of the ""greats"" of the game is rare and unique. The Dark Sides of Baseball is a glimpse that the public is not privy to or ever get to encounter. Many of these players daily accomplishments are unique to the average person, but are normal to these players. This book tells a tale of how a teenage boy chased his love of baseball, from interviewing sports greats, becoming a Yankee batboy at the age of 18, having his first book published while still a batboy and leading to the end of Tropps' Baseball card monopoly while still going to school. His close relationship with Mickey Mantle and Pete Rose would show him the troubled and positives sides of the game, that the public were never shown. The stories are endless as to what goes on in a clubhouse and what it is like to have these great athletes together for a baseball card show. Every baseball fan can watch a game and look up the stats. The Dark Sides of Baseball, lets you see what goes on in the dugout, the clubhouse and off the field. Writer Jack Lang, who is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, said he couldn't put this book down when he began reading it. He said it was the best he ever read --- YOU WILL TOO! ."" . . one of the best tell all baseball books ..."" ."" . . if you want a behind the scenes look.. this is the book for you ... "" Jack Lang, Baseball Hall of Fame Writer

Author : Eddie Dominguez
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316483988
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball Cop written by Eddie Dominguez and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We Could Clean Up This Game" In the wake of 2005's sometimes contentious, sometimes comical congressional hearings on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball and the subsequent Mitchell Report, Major League Baseball established the Department of Investigations (DOI). An internal and autonomous unit, it was created to not only eliminate the use of steroids, but also to rid baseball of any other illegal, unsavory, or unethical activities. The DOI would investigate the dark side of the national pastime--gambling, age and identity fraud, human trafficking, cover-ups, and more--with the singular purpose of cleaning up the game. Eduardo Dominguez Jr. was a founding member of that first DOI team, leaving a stellar career with the Boston Police Department to join four other "supercops"--a group that included a 9/11 hero, a mob-buster, and narcotics experts--keeping watch over Major League Baseball. A decorated detective as well as a member of an FBI task force, Dominguez was initially reluctant to leave his law-enforcement career to work full-time in baseball. He had already seen the game's underbelly when he worked as a resident security agent (RSA) for the Boston Red Sox in 1999 and become wary of the game's commitment to any kind of reform. Only at the persuasion a widely respected NYPD detective tapped to lead the DOI did Dominguez agree to join the unit, which was the first--and last--of its kind in major American sports. "We could clean up this game," his new boss promised. In Baseball Cop, Dominguez shares the shocking revelations he confronted every day for six years with the DOI and nine as an RSA. He shines a light on the inner workings of the commissioner's office and the complicity of baseball's bosses in dealing with the misdeeds compromising the integrity of the game. Dominguez details the investigations and the obstacles--from the Biogenesis scandal to the perilous trafficking of Cuban players now populating the game to the theft of prospects' signing bonuses by buscones, street agents, and even clubs' employees. He further reveals how the mandates of former senator George Mitchell's report were modified or ignored altogether. Bracing and eye-opening, Baseball Cop is a wake-up call for anyone concerned about America's national pastime.

Author : John H. Ritter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780399246647
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Desperado who Stole Baseball written by John H. Ritter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings. Prequel to: The boy who saved baseball.

Author : Tim Green
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061923087
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball Great written by Tim Green and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author and former NFL player Tim Green comes a baseball book pulsing with action. Baseball Great offers a baseball story attuned to today’s headlines, a totally involving, character-driven, sports-centered thriller. Perfect for fans of Mike Lupica. As a young reviewer on Brightly.com said: “Great book with many exciting, surprising events that make you want to keep reading." When the school paper calls him “Grant Middle’s best hope for its first-ever city-wide championship,” Josh feels like he’s starting to get noticed—in good and bad ways. Seeing Josh’s talent, his father drags him out of the school baseball tryouts and gets him in the running for the Titans, the local youth championship team coached by Rocky Valentine. All Josh really wants to do is play ball, but now Rocky wants him to gulp down protein shakes and other supplements. Suspicious, Josh and his new friend, Jaden, uncover a dangerous secret—and catch the attention of one man who will do anything to keep them from exposing it.

Author : Bill Pennington
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544022092
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billy Martin written by Bill Pennington and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning New York Times sports columnist, the definitive biography of one of baseball's most celebrated, mercurial, and misunderstood figures--legendary manager and baseball genius, Billy Martin

Author : Roger I. Abrams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Side of the Diamond written by Roger I. Abrams and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Abrams Discusses the Vices of Baseball and How They Reflect Who We are as Americans. Telling Stories of Baseball History That are Often Overlooked, The Dark Side of the Diamond Presents Evidence of Game-Fixing and Gambling Going Back to the Mid-19Th Century. Ty Cobb's Sharpened Spikes and Nasty Temperament Were as Much A Part of His Game as His Steady Bat.

Author : Aubrey Huff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998440705
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball Junkie written by Aubrey Huff and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David H. Cropley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139490079
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dark Side of Creativity written by David H. Cropley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With few exceptions, scholarship on creativity has focused on its positive aspects while largely ignoring its dark side. This includes not only creativity deliberately aimed at hurting others, such as crime or terrorism, or at gaining unfair advantages, but also the accidental negative side effects of well-intentioned acts. This book brings together essays written by experts from various fields (psychology, criminal justice, sociology, engineering, education, history, and design) and with different interests (personality development, mental health, deviant behavior, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism) to illustrate the nature of negative creativity, examine its variants, call attention to its dangers, and draw conclusions about how to prevent it or protect society from its effects.

Author : David A. Kelly
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
ISBN 13 : 1467742791
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miracle Mud written by David A. Kelly and published by Millbrook Press ™. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lena Blackburne loved baseball. He watched it, he played it, he coached it. But he didn't love the ways players broke in new baseballs. Tired of soggy, blackened, stinky baseballs, he found a better way. Thanks to a well-timed fishing trip and a top-secret mud recipe, Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud was born. For seventy-five years, baseball teams have used Lena's magic mud to prepare baseballs before every game. Read the story of how Lena's mud went from a riverbank to the major leagues and all the way to the Hall of Fame.