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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 ...
The Kid Who Batted 1.000 is a 1951 book by Bob Allison and Frank Ernest Hill with illustrations by Paul Galdone. [1]The conceit is that the Chicks, a (fictional) last place team in the American League, discover Dave King, a teenage hick and aspiring chicken farmer in backcountry Oklahoma who is found to have the ability to hit any ball delivered by any major-league pitcher in the strike zone ...
The book's title was suggested by a female customer of a tavern called the Lion's Head in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood. [6] Having recently completed the manuscript, Bouton and Shecter were discussing the book at the bar, lamenting the fact that with the book ready for print they still had not arrived on an acceptable name. [6]
'A Little Slugger’s Guide to the Unwritten Rules of Baseball and Life' hits shelves on Feb. 25 “The Sandlot”’s Patrick Renna Wrote a Book for Kids That Combines 'Lessons in Life with ...
Harry Levins of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said the book was too complex to be considered a "light read": "Trouble is, this book throws more insider stuff than the average baseball fan will care to deal with. Kepner goes into minute detail on such arcane matters as the placement of which finger goes where on the ball, and which way the ball's ...
Clearly, there was a demand for it: Much like “The Baseball 100,” “Why We Love Baseball” is a New York Times bestseller, debuting at No. 2 on the hardcover nonfiction list earlier this month.
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 idea is simple. Once a game, a manager gets to put his best batter at the plate regardless of where the batting order stands. So imagine, as a pitcher facing the Dodgers, you get Shohei Ohtani ...