Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Armchair Book of Baseball II.
Author: The Armchair Book of Baseball II
Author: John ThornPublisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Contains more than fifty pieces from the sport's best players, writers, and fans.
The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball
Author: John ThornPublisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781578660049
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Here are fascinating glimpses of the history of America's national pastime from an all-star lineup including Walt Whitman, E.L. Doctorow, John Updike, Philip Roth and Garrison Keillor. Revel in another ear through Walt Whitman's report of a rugged game played before the Civil War. Relive how Candy Cummings perfected the first curve ball, how baseball drew the color line in1 887, and how Bob Carroll uncovered Nate Colbert's hidden RBI record in 1972. All this and much, much more.
Armchair Reader Grand Slam Baseball
Author: Paul AdomitesPublisher: Publications International
ISBN: 9781412715621
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Armchair Reader series will entertain and enlighten with little-known anecdotes, untold stories, fascinating facts, lists, and behind-the-scenes information. The Readers innovative approach and unique style will capture the baseball fans interest like never before. Whos the fastest pitcher that ever was? What was the greatest comeback in a single game? Which Little League stars became major-league superstars? Even people who think they know the facts will be captivated by this unique and colorful slant on the stories.
The Armchair Book of Baseball
Author: John ThornPublisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9780684184821
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A collection of articles and commentaries about America's favorite pastime, features bestselling writers such as Thomas Boswell, James Michener, and Philip Roth, and sportswriters including Roger Angell, Roger Kahn, and Jim Murray
The Armchair Book of Baseball
Author: John ThornPublisher:
ISBN: 9780517061701
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Baseball as a Road to God
Author: John SextonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101609737
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other. Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others. Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.
The Armchair Book of Baseball
Author: John ThornPublisher: Maxwell Macmillan
ISBN: 9780020547211
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
To Every Thing a Season
Author: Bruce KuklickPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691222169
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia. Kuklick, however, vividly evokes the feelings people had about the home of the Philadelphia Athletics and later the Phillies.
Baseball’S Brotherhood Team
Author: Bryan SteversonPublisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1973616874
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
In the Book of Genesis, when Cain is confronted by God regarding the death of his brother, he replies, Am I my brothers keeper? Within these pages, players respond affirmatively to this centurys age old question. They took stands against prejudice during times in our country when it was not the norm. Their courage serves as a model for all of us today. These players lived the biblical challenge of loving your neighbor. This is the third book by the author of inspirational stories about players from our national pastime. Fifteen members of our National Baseball Hall of Fame are here as well as others of lesser fame. The examples include 19th century baseball, Babe Ruth and Pete Rose. Each player was special. Each story inspirational.