Author: Ron Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Sporting News Selects Baseball's Twenty-five Greatest Moments
The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments
Author: Ron Smith
Publisher: Contemporary Books
ISBN: 9780892046263
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Rich full-color and black-and-white photographs highlight the third book in The Sporting News Selects series--ranking the great players, the great games, and the greatest moments in the history of baseball.
Publisher: Contemporary Books
ISBN: 9780892046263
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Rich full-color and black-and-white photographs highlight the third book in The Sporting News Selects series--ranking the great players, the great games, and the greatest moments in the history of baseball.
The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 50 Greatest Games
Author: Lowell Reidenbaugh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments
Author: Ron Smith
Publisher: Sporting News
ISBN: 9780892047062
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher: Sporting News
ISBN: 9780892047062
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 50 Greatest Games
Author: Lowell Reidenbaugh
Publisher: Sporting News
ISBN: 9780892042784
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Recounts memorable games, top individual performances, and the most significant games in baseball history, and includes box scores and background information
Publisher: Sporting News
ISBN: 9780892042784
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Recounts memorable games, top individual performances, and the most significant games in baseball history, and includes box scores and background information
The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 25 Greatest Teams
Author: Lowell Reidenbaugh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Corruption and Scandal in American Sports
Author: Jimmy Sanderson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440878382
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Scandals about cheating and corruption have dogged amateur and professional sports in the United States since the nation's earliest days. This work examines the most infamous and consequential of these controversies and scandals both on and off the field. Authoritative Individual essays tackle notorious events in popular American sports ranging from the 1919 Black Sox scandal to revelations of sign stealing by the Houston Astros throughout their 2020 championship season, with stops in between to survey horrific sex abuse scandals at Penn State, Baylor, and Michigan State; steroid and drug scandals that brought down once-admired athletes like Mark McGwire and Lance Armstrong; and cheating/betting controversies that tainted individual players (Pete Rose), teams (Boston College, New England Patriots), and entire leagues (including the Little League World Series in 2001). But this work does more than just recount these events; it will also examine the cultural and economic pressures and forces that contributed to these events, as well as the lessons learned and steps taken (if any) to enact reform and help the sport recover.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440878382
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Scandals about cheating and corruption have dogged amateur and professional sports in the United States since the nation's earliest days. This work examines the most infamous and consequential of these controversies and scandals both on and off the field. Authoritative Individual essays tackle notorious events in popular American sports ranging from the 1919 Black Sox scandal to revelations of sign stealing by the Houston Astros throughout their 2020 championship season, with stops in between to survey horrific sex abuse scandals at Penn State, Baylor, and Michigan State; steroid and drug scandals that brought down once-admired athletes like Mark McGwire and Lance Armstrong; and cheating/betting controversies that tainted individual players (Pete Rose), teams (Boston College, New England Patriots), and entire leagues (including the Little League World Series in 2001). But this work does more than just recount these events; it will also examine the cultural and economic pressures and forces that contributed to these events, as well as the lessons learned and steps taken (if any) to enact reform and help the sport recover.
The Sporting News Baseball's 100 Greatest Players
Major League Turbulence
Author: Douglas M. Branson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476640661
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The decades between the late 1960s counterculture and the advent of steroid use in the late 1980s bought tumult to Major League Baseball. Dock Ellis (Pirates, Yankees) and Dick Allen (Phillies, Cardinals, Dodgers, White Sox) epitomized the era with recreational drug use (Ellis), labor strife (Allen), and the questioning of authority. Both men were Black Power advocates at a time when the movement was growing in baseball. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marvin Miller and the Major League Baseball Players Association fought numerous, mostly victorious battles with MLB and team owners. This book chronicles a turbulent period in baseball, and in American life, that led directly to the performance-enhancing drug era and the dramatically changed nature of the game.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476640661
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The decades between the late 1960s counterculture and the advent of steroid use in the late 1980s bought tumult to Major League Baseball. Dock Ellis (Pirates, Yankees) and Dick Allen (Phillies, Cardinals, Dodgers, White Sox) epitomized the era with recreational drug use (Ellis), labor strife (Allen), and the questioning of authority. Both men were Black Power advocates at a time when the movement was growing in baseball. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marvin Miller and the Major League Baseball Players Association fought numerous, mostly victorious battles with MLB and team owners. This book chronicles a turbulent period in baseball, and in American life, that led directly to the performance-enhancing drug era and the dramatically changed nature of the game.
Baseball and the Blame Game
Author: John Billheimer
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786429062
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Most baseball fans know what links Fred Merkle, Fred Snodgrass, Mickey Owen and Bill Buckner. It's a pantheon of public failure. They would be harder put to say what links Eric Byrnes, Tony Fernandez, and Babe Ruth, though these players made misplays every bit as egregious. In this smart, highly readable history of scapegoating, John Billheimer identifies the elements that combine to condemn one player to a life sentence while another gets a wrist slap for the same offense. As it turns out, the difference between a lower-case e in some forgotten box score and a lifetime of ignominy can hinge on a number of factors, including timing, geography, reputation, misunderstanding, media bias, and just plain bad luck.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786429062
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Most baseball fans know what links Fred Merkle, Fred Snodgrass, Mickey Owen and Bill Buckner. It's a pantheon of public failure. They would be harder put to say what links Eric Byrnes, Tony Fernandez, and Babe Ruth, though these players made misplays every bit as egregious. In this smart, highly readable history of scapegoating, John Billheimer identifies the elements that combine to condemn one player to a life sentence while another gets a wrist slap for the same offense. As it turns out, the difference between a lower-case e in some forgotten box score and a lifetime of ignominy can hinge on a number of factors, including timing, geography, reputation, misunderstanding, media bias, and just plain bad luck.