The Games That Changed Baseball

Author : Ron Jaworski
Publisher : ESPN
ISBN 13 : 0345517970
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Games That Changed the Game written by Ron Jaworski and published by ESPN. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional football in the last half century has been a sport marked by relentless innovation. For fans determined to keep up with the changes that have transformed the game, close examination of the coaching footage is a must. In The Games That Changed the Game, Ron Jaworski—pro football’s #1 game-tape guru—breaks down the film from seven of the most momentous contests of the last fifty years, giving readers a drive-by-drive, play-by-play guide to the evolutionary leaps that define the modern NFL. From Sid Gillman’s development of the Vertical Stretch, which launched the era of wide-open passing offenses, to Bill Belichick’s daring defensive game plan in Super Bowl XXXVI, which enabled his outgunned squad to upset the heavily favored St. Louis Rams and usher in the New England Patriots dynasty, the most cutting-edge concepts come alive again through the recollections of nearly seventy coaches and players. You’ll never watch NFL football the same way again.

Author : John G. Robertson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476662266
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Games That Changed Baseball written by John G. Robertson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national pastime's rich history and vast cache of statistics have provided fans and researchers a gold mine of narrative and data since the late 19th century. Many books have been written about Major League Baseball's most famous games. This one takes a different approach, focusing on MLB's most historically significant games. Some will be familiar to baseball scholars, such as the October afternoon in 1961 when Roger Maris eclipsed Babe Ruth's single-season home run record, or the compelling sixth game of the 1975 World Series. Other fascinating games are less well known: the day at the Polo Grounds in 1921, when a fan named Reuben Berman filed a lawsuit against the New York Giants, winning fans the right to keep balls hit into the stands; the first televised broadcast of an MLB game in 1939; opening night of the Houston Astrodome in 1965, when spectators no longer had to be taken out to the ballgame; or the spectator-less April 2015 Orioles-White Sox game, played in an empty stadium in the wake of the Baltimore riots. Each game is listed in chronological order, with detailed historical background and a box score.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066231
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-03-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame." —Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge—insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.

Author : John O'Sullivan
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614486468
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing the Game written by John O'Sullivan and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern day youth sports environment has taken the enjoyment out of athletics for our children. Currently, 70% of kids drop out of organized sports by the age of 13, which has given rise to a generation of overweight, unhealthy young adults. There is a solution. John O’Sullivan shares the secrets of the coaches and parents who have not only raised elite athletes, but have done so by creating an environment that promotes positive core values and teaches life lessons instead of focusing on wins and losses, scholarships, and professional aspirations. Changing the Game gives adults a new paradigm and a game plan for raising happy, high performing children, and provides a national call to action to return youth sports to our kids.

Author : Benjamin G. Rader
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050797
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball written by Benjamin G. Rader and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fourth edition, Benjamin G. Rader updates the text with a portrait of baseball's new order. He charts an on-the-field game transformed by analytics, an influx of Latino and Asian players, and a generation of players groomed for brute power both on the mound and at the plate. He also analyzes the behind-the-scenes revolution that brought in billions of dollars from a synergy of marketing and branding prowess, visionary media development, and fan-friendly ballparks abuzz with nonstop entertainment. The result is an entertaining and comprehensive tour of a game that, whatever its changes, always reflects American society and culture.

Author : Ron Jaworski
Publisher : ESPN
ISBN 13 : 0345517962
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Games That Changed the Game written by Ron Jaworski and published by ESPN. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gift for sports fans and football afficianados Professional football in the last half century has been a sport marked by relentless innovation. For fans determined to keep up with the changes that have transformed the game, close examination of the coaching footage is a must. In The Games That Changed the Game, Ron Jaworski—pro football’s #1 game-tape guru—breaks down the film from seven of the most momentous contests of the last fifty years, giving readers a drive-by-drive, play-by-play guide to the evolutionary leaps that define the modern NFL. From Sid Gillman’s development of the Vertical Stretch, which launched the era of wide-open passing offenses, to Bill Belichick’s daring defensive game plan in Super Bowl XXXVI, which enabled his outgunned squad to upset the heavily favored St. Louis Rams and usher in the New England Patriots dynasty, the most cutting-edge concepts come alive again through the recollections of nearly seventy coaches and players. You’ll never watch NFL football the same way again.

Author : John P. Rossi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786481560
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Whole New Game written by John P. Rossi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bismarck once said that God looked after drunkards, children and the U.S. of A. Some say that baseball should be added to the list. It must have been divine intervention that led the sport through a series of transformative challenges from the end of World War II to the game's first expansion in 1961. During this period baseball was forced to make a number of painful choices. From 1949 to 1954, attendance dropped more than 30 percent, as once loyal fans turned to other activities, started going to see more football, and began watching television. Also, the sport had to wrestle with racial integration, franchise shifts and unionization while trying to keep a firm hold on the minds and emotions of the public. This work chronicles how baseball, with imagination and some foresight, survived postwar challenges. Some of the solutions came about intelligently, some clumsily, but by 1960 baseball was a stronger, healthier and better balanced institution than ever before.

Author : John Newbery
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Little Pretty Pocket-book written by John Newbery and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Little Pretty Pocket-Book is a children's book written by John Newbery. It is commonly thought to be the first children's book ever made, and provides a code of conduct for boys and girls in different social settings.

Author : Benjamin G. Rader
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252083747
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball written by Benjamin G. Rader and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fourth edition, Benjamin G. Rader updates the text with a portrait of baseball's new order. He charts an on-the-field game transformed by analytics, an influx of Latino and Asian players, and a generation of players groomed for brute power both on the mound and at the plate. He also analyzes the behind-the-scenes revolution that brought in billions of dollars from a synergy of marketing and branding prowess, visionary media development, and fan-friendly ballparks abuzz with nonstop entertainment. The result is an entertaining and comprehensive tour of a game that, whatever its changes, always reflects American society and culture.

Author : Matthew Broerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578760353
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Changed the Game written by Matthew Broerman and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ruth to Robinson, Bowerman to Bolt, They Changed the Game tells 50 stories of pioneering players, obscure rules, and defining moments that shaped the games we love. Told through the artwork of dozens of talented artists from all over the world, this book is a celebration of creativity both on and off the field.