Unhittable Reliving The Magic And Drama Of Baseballs Best Pitched Games

Author : James Buckley, Jr.
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN 13 : 9781572438293
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unhittable written by James Buckley, Jr. and published by Triumph Books (IL). This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of the greatest performances by pitchers in the history of baseball including perfect games, near-misses, no-hitters, and the 20-strikeout games, highlighting such pitchers as Johnny Vander Meer, Nolan Ryan, and Roger Clemens.

Author : James Buckley (Jr.)
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN 13 : 9781572436664
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unhittable, Reliving the Magic and Drama of Baseball's Best-pitched Games written by James Buckley (Jr.) and published by Triumph Books (IL). This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of the greatest performances by pitchers in the history of baseball including perfect games, near-misses, no-hitters, and the 20-strikeout games, highlighting such pitchers as Johnny Vander Meer, Nolan Ryan, and Roger Clemens.

Author : James W. Johnson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803271395
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double No-Hit written by James W. Johnson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The average pitcher has about a .000645 chance of throwing a no-hitter. In the spring of 1938, Cincinnati Reds rookie pitcher Johnny Vander Meer pitched two, back to back. The feat has never been duplicated, which comes as no surprise to sports professionals and aficionados alike. Decade after decade, in one poll after another (from Sport magazine, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN),Vander Meer?s consecutive no-hitters turn up as one of baseball?s greatest and most untouchable achievements. Double No-Hit offers an inning-by-inning account of that historic second consecutive no-hitter accomplished during the first night game in New York City, with the Cincinnati Reds facing the Brooklyn Dodgers in Ebbets Field. James W. Johnson sets the stage and assembles the colorful cast of characters. Highlighting the story with recollections and observations from owners, managers, and players past and present, he fills in the details of Vander Meer?s accomplishment?and his baseball career, which never lived up to expectations heightened by his sensational performance. In the end, Double No-Hit brings to life a bygone era of the national pastime and one shining spring night, June 15, 1938, when a twenty-two-year-old fireballing left-hander with lousy control pitched his way into the top tier of baseball?s record book.

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Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1080 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

Author : Mike Lupica
Publisher : Putnam Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summer of '98 written by Mike Lupica and published by Putnam Adult. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of the season of competition between McGwire and Sosa to break the hitting record.

Author : John Feinstein
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375893512
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Change-Up: Mystery at the World Series (The Sports Beat, 4) written by John Feinstein and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein takes readers behind the scenes at the World Series in this exciting baseball mystery. When teen sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the World Series, the talk of the tournament is Norbert Doyle—a late call-up for an underdog team. But the more they learn about him, the more conflicting stories they hear. Bit by bit they piece together the shocking truth about this rising star, but once the secret’s out, there’s no going back. . . . John Feinstein has been praised as “the best writer of sports books in America today” (The Boston Globe), and he proves it again in this fast-paced novel.

Author : Charles Albert Murdock
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.SY/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Backward Glance at Eighty written by Charles Albert Murdock and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Albert Murdock (1841-1928) left Massachusetts for California in 1855 with his mother, sister and brother. For many years he was editor of the Pacific Unitarian Magazine and one of the state's most distinguished printers. A backward glance at eighty (1921) begins with Murdock's memories of his trip west and reunion with his father, who had settled in Arcata on the Humboldt River. Murdock recalls life in the town and recounts stories of his father's early years on the Humboldt, the evolution of the region's Republican Party, acquaintance with Bret Harte, the printing business in San Francisco, 1867-1910, and the San Francisco Board of Education.

Author : Jim Bouton
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795323247
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ball Four written by Jim Bouton and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 50th Anniversary edition of “the book that changed baseball” (NPR), chosen by Time magazine as one of the “100 Greatest Non-Fiction” books. When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold, and a “social leper” for having violated the “sanctity of the clubhouse.” Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force Bouton to sign a statement saying the book wasn’t true. Ballplayers, most of whom hadn’t read it, denounced the book. It was even banned by a few libraries. Almost everyone else, however, loved Ball Four. Fans liked discovering that athletes were real people—often wildly funny people. David Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer for his reporting on Vietnam, wrote a piece in Harper’s that said of Bouton: “He has written . . . a book deep in the American vein, so deep in fact that it is by no means a sports book.” Today Ball Four has taken on another role—as a time capsule of life in the sixties. “It is not just a diary of Bouton’s 1969 season with the Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros,” says sportswriter Jim Caple. “It’s a vibrant, funny, telling history of an era that seems even further away than four decades. To call it simply a ‘tell all book’ is like describing The Grapes of Wrath as a book about harvesting peaches in California.” Includes a new foreword by Jim Bouton's wife, Paula Kurman “An irreverent, best-selling book that angered baseball’s hierarchy and changed the way journalists and fans viewed the sports world.” —The Washington Post

Author : Herbert F. Crehan
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Impossible Dream 1967 Red Sox written by Herbert F. Crehan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: