Author: Marc Okkonen
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN: 9780806905747
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: Alan Schwarz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618731275
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Critically acclaimed author Schwarz assembles a delightful collection of personal memories about baseball from some of the game's all-time legends. Lavishly illustrated and handsomely designed, this is a one-of-a-kind collective reminiscence.

Author: Ronald a Mayer
Publisher: Sunbury Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781620062449
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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"Baseball Memories" is a collection of 101 poems celebrating America's national pastime--baseball. The focus is not one team, player, or event. Many outstanding players and their achievements are recalled, for example: Joe DiMaggio's 56- game hitting streak, Ted Williams .406 batting title in 1941, and the magical pitching of Orel Hershiser, just to mention a few. Some of the wild and zany events Major League Baseball would love to forget are highlighted, including the night in Cleveland when the club ran a promotion selling 12 ounces of beer at the ridiculously low price of 10 cents or at Dodger Stadium when someone had the bright but eventual disastrous idea to hold Ball Night. And then there are the classic games that are simply fun to recall and relive: in 1993 when the Toronto Blue Jays won their second consecutive World Series in dramatic fashion or the more recent 2016 World Series when every baseball fan was watching two teams, the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians, both having failed to win a Fall Classic in many, many years. The last World Series championship for Chicago was 1908 and for the Indians 1948. For those of you too young to remember or perhaps have forgotten there is a poem entitled, "The Craziest Trade Ever." It is totally true and quite bizarre. This is only a small taste of what "Baseball Memories" is all about. These 101 poems will delight, inform, entertain, and may even bring tears. And it will make Brooklyn Dodger fans angry.

Author: Danny Peary
Publisher: Hyperion Books
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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This incredible gathering of first-hand remembrances brings a fascinating and enlightening new perspective to the period of baseball's greatest peak and ultimate turning point--when bigotry and exploitation still ran rampant among the clubs and the sport was irrevocably being changed into a business. 100 photos.

Author: Bruce Chadwick
Publisher: Abbeville Press
ISBN: 9781558593794
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Mark Leinweaver
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592287352
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Baseball is pure and hope springs eternal.

Author: Brendan C. Boyd
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316104296
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Reflections on collecting baseball cards in childhood accompany remarks on the skills and achievements of players whose pictures were found in bubble gum packages

Author: Richard Tellis
Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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"The stories of forty ballplayers, men who made it to the big leagues for just one game."--Jacket.

Author: Bill Werber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Bill Werber's claim to fame is unique: he is the last living person to have a direct connection to the 1927 Yankees, "Murderers' Row," a team hailed by many as the best of all time. Signed by the Yankees while still a freshman at Duke University, Werber spent two weeks that summer of '27 on the Yankee bench to "gain experience"--and was miserable and lonely, ignored by everyone. After graduating in 1930 Werber was back with the Yankees, but he was soon sent to the minors for seasoning (including a stretch with Casey Stengel). He returned to the big leagues in 1933 and was promptly traded to the Red Sox. A fleet-footed third baseman, Werber also played for the Athletics, Reds, and Giants, leading the league three times in stolen bases and once in runs scored. He was with the Reds when they won the pennant in 1939 and 1940. Werber played with or against some of the most productive hitters of all time, including Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio. Rich in anecdotes and humor, Memories of a Ballplayer is a clear-eyed memoir of the world of big-league baseball in the 1930s.

Author: Bruce Chadwick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781558598614
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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With their heroes and pennants, the St. Louis Cardinals have always been as much a force of nature as the mighty Mississippi River that flows just a fly ball away from Busch Stadium. In this book fans will find more than a century's worth of baseball memories, together with a collector's bounty of magnificent memorabilia. 195 illustrations, 132 in color.