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The book series' origins came from Harold Seymour's 1956 Ph.D. dissertation which was entitled The Rise of Major League Baseball to 1891. Oxford University Press approached him to expand the dissertation into a book which became the first of three volumns. [1] Working alongside Seymour was his wife Dorothy. Seymour found that his wife's work ...
Baseball (book series) Baseball as a Road to God; Baseball Before We Knew It; The Baseball Cyclopedia; Baseball Dynasties; The Baseball Encyclopedia; Baseball Guides; The Big Fella; The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract; The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych; Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues; Bless You Boys ...
The book recounts the history of baseball through anecdotes about iconic pitches and interviews with pitchers such as Hall of Famers Steve Carlton, Bob Gibson and Nolan Ryan, as well as pitchers like Jamie Moyer and J.R. Richard. It also describes the mechanics of pitching, and its centrality to the game of baseball.
Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game is a 2005 book by David Block about the history of baseball. Block looks into the early history of baseball, the debates about baseball's beginnings, and presents new evidence. [1] The book received the 2006 Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). [2]
The Baseball Encyclopedia received three separate reviews in The New York Times, by Jimmy Breslin, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, and Leonard Koppett. [23] Lehmann-Haupt described The Baseball Encyclopedia as "Big for a book, small for an amusement park." [24] The large size of the book was a subject of discussion, as it was nicknamed "Big Mac". [1]
Total Baseball is a 2,301 page baseball encyclopedia first compiled by John Thorn and Pete Palmer in 1989. By its fourth edition, Major League Baseball endorsed it as its official encyclopedia. [ 1 ] : 169 The encyclopedia contains seasonal and career statistics in numerous categories for every Major League Baseball player, as well as ...
Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...
Children's books about baseball (11 P) Pages in category "Baseball novels" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.