[PDF] Baseball Record Book 1972 eBook

Author : Roger Kahn
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1781312079

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This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the colour barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is a book fathers and sons and about the making of modern America. 'At a point in life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams.' Sentimental because it holds such promise, and bittersweet because that promise is past, the first sentence of this masterpiece of sporting literature, first published in the early '70s, sets its tone. The team is the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Robinson and Snyder and Hodges and Reese, a team of great triumph and historical import composed of men whose fragile lives were filled with dignity and pathos. Roger Kahn, who covered that team for the New York Herald Tribune, makes understandable humans of his heroes as he chronicles the dreams and exploits of their young lives, beautifully intertwining them with his own, then recounts how so many of those sweet dreams curdled as the body of these once shining stars grew rusty with age and battered by experience.

Author : Oscar Rose Junior College. Athletic Department
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Baseball
ISBN :

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Official scorekeepers baseball score-stats sheets recorded each game; records each player's name, at bat each inning, hitting, steals, runs, hits, L.O.B.s(left-on-base), earned runs, errors, and pitcher(s)' stats., et al.

Author : Dean A. Sullivan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803259654

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Culling the most pertinent, newsworthy, and just plain curious stories from newspapers and periodicals, and putting each into context, Sullivan constructs an informative and entertaining account of Major League baseball from 1972 through 2008. The 105 essays cover key topics such as George Steinbrenner's purchase of the Yankees, the first free-agent draft, the coming of lights to Wrigley Field, the cancellation of the World Series in 1994, and the BALCO steroid probe. They also bring to light lesser-known gems like the rise of sabermetrics and the federal injunction against team owners in 1995. This book offers a you-are-there view of the events that made baseball into the game we know today.

Author : Joseph L. Reichler
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Cooking
ISBN :

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First published in 1981, this unique record book has been revised and updated through the 1991 season and includes hundreds of unusual and esoteric records that cannot be found anywhere else. The most and the least in hitting, fielding and pitching, as well as a list of every grand slam ever hit in the majors, and much more.

Author : Bill James
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 9781884064531

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This historical baseball sourcebook features exclusive summaries of every major league season, including standings, league leaders, in-depth team profiles, and highlights.

Author : Society for American Baseball Research
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1416554564

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From the authority on baseball research and statistics comes a vast and fascinating compendium of unique baseball lists and records. The SABR Baseball List & Record Book is an expansive collection of pitching, hitting, fielding, home run, team, and rookie records not available online or in any other book. This is a treasure trove of baseball history for statistically minded baseball fans that's also packed with intriguing marginalia. For instance, on July 25, 1967, Chicago's Ken Berry ended Game Two of a doubleheader against Cleveland with a home run in the bottom of the sixteenth inning -- Chicago's second game-winning homer of the day. The comprehensive lists include Most Career Home Runs by Two Brothers (Tommie and Hank Aaron have 768), Most Seasons with 15 or More Wins (Cy Young and Greg Maddux each have 18), and Highest On Base Percentage in a Season by a Rookie (listing every rookie above .400). Unlike other record books that only list the record holders -- say, most RBI by a rookie, held by Ted Williams with 145 -- SABR details every rookie to reach 100 RBI. Other record books might note the last pitcher in each league to steal home; here SABR has included every pitcher to do it. The book also includes a number of idiosyncratic features, such as a rundown of every player who has hit a triple and then stolen home, or every reliever who has won two games in one day. Many of the lists include a comments column for key historical notes and entertaining trivia (Bob Horner hit four home runs in a 1986 game, but his team lost). This is a must-have for every fan's library. Edited by Lyle Spatz, Chairman of the Baseball Records Committee for SABR