Author: Ron SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Profiles of 100 of the greatest baseball players of all time.
The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 100 Greatest Players
Author: Ron SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Profiles of 100 of the greatest baseball players of all time.
The Sporting News Baseball's 100 Greatest Players
Author: Baseball's 100 Greatest Players
Author: Ron SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780892048007
Category : Baseball players
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a collection of brief biographical sketches of the top one hundred baseball players of all-time according the the "Sporting News" and includes information on career statistics and teams on which they played.
The Baseball 100
Author: Joe PosnanskiPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982180609
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year “An instant sports classic.” —New York Post * “Stellar.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A true masterwork…880 pages of sheer baseball bliss.” —BookPage (starred review) * “This is a remarkable achievement.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singular, and masterly book that took a lifetime to write. The entire story of baseball rings through a countdown of the 100 greatest players in history, with a foreword by George Will. Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,? The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski. In the book’s introduction, Pulitzer Prize–winning commentator George F. Will marvels, “Posnanski must already have lived more than two hundred years. How else could he have acquired such a stock of illuminating facts and entertaining stories about the rich history of this endlessly fascinating sport?” Baseball’s legends come alive in these pages, which are not merely rankings but vibrant profiles of the game’s all-time greats. Posnanski dives into the biographies of iconic Hall of Famers, unfairly forgotten All-Stars, talents of today, and more. He doesn’t rely just on records and statistics—he lovingly retraces players’ origins, illuminates their characters, and places their accomplishments in the context of baseball’s past and present. Just how good a pitcher is Clayton Kershaw in the 21st-century game compared to Greg Maddux dueling with the juiced hitters of the nineties? How do the career and influence of Hank Aaron compare to Babe Ruth’s? Which player in the top ten most deserves to be resurrected from history? No compendium of baseball’s legendary geniuses could be complete without the players of the segregated Negro Leagues, men whose extraordinary careers were largely overlooked by sportswriters at the time and unjustly lost to history. Posnanski writes about the efforts of former Negro Leaguers to restore sidelined Black athletes to their due honor and draws upon the deep troves of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and extensive interviews with the likes of Buck O’Neil to illuminate the accomplishments of players such as pitchers Satchel Paige and Smokey Joe Williams; outfielders Oscar Charleston, Monte Irvin, and Cool Papa Bell; first baseman Buck Leonard; shortstop Pop Lloyd; catcher Josh Gibson; and many, many more. The Baseball 100 treats readers to the whole rich pageant of baseball history in a single volume. Engrossing, surprising, and heartfelt, it is a magisterial tribute to the game of baseball and the stars who have played it.
The Sporting News Presents Game Faces
Author: Sporting NewsPublisher: Sporting News Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Including the famous and not-so-famous, this collection features memorable mugs of baseball frozen for the ages: a youthful Ted Williams, a pensive Cal Ripken, an intense Babe Ruth, a menacing Randy Johnson, and a brutish Frank Thomas, among others. 200 color and b&w photos.
The Sporting News Selects 50 Greatest Sluggers
Author: Anthony P. DeMarcoPublisher: Contemporary Books
ISBN: 9780892046324
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Depicts leading batters, with their individual statistics and a quotation about them, and traces the changes in batting success over the history of the game.
Celebrating 70
Author: Bernie MiklaszPublisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
ISBN: 9780892046218
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Presents a homer-by-homer review of the St. Louis Cardinal slugger's single-season home run record.
The Sporting News Presents Heroes of the Hall
Author: Ron SmithPublisher: Sporting News Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780892046881
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
Profiles each of the 254 members of baseball's Hall of Fame, from the pioneering heroes of the nineteenth century to the stars of the modern era.
Baseball's Knotty Problems
Author: Sporting NewsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780892042739
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Baseball's G.O.A.T.
Author: Jon M. FishmanPublisher: Lerner Publications ™
ISBN: 1541571037
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Who are the greatest baseball players of all time? Take a look at the careers of players past and present in this fun, fact-filled book. Readers are also invited to think critically about which players they personally consider the greatest of all time.