Baseball's Longest Games
Title | Baseball's Longest Games PDF eBook |
Author | Philip J. Lowry |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 2010-03-30 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780786442638 |
Baseball is the only major team sport that doesn’t feature a clock, and there’s a familiar saying among fans that as long as outs remain, the game can, theoretically, go on forever. Every now and again, it nearly does, as author Phil Lowry demonstrates. The product of more than four decades of research, this book catalogs baseball games from around the world and throughout history that lasted 20 or more innings, stretched five or more hours, or ended after 1:00 am. Lowry also examines probability models to predict how often games of unusual length will occur.
The Longest Game
Title | The Longest Game PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Krasner |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Baseball |
ISBN |
Baseball's Longest Games
Title | Baseball's Longest Games PDF eBook |
Author | Philip J. Lowry |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 371 |
Release | 2010-04-23 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0786457341 |
Baseball is the only major team sport that doesn't feature a clock, and there's a familiar saying among fans that as long as outs remain, the game can, theoretically, go on forever. Every now and again, it nearly does, as author Phil Lowry demonstrates. The product of more than four decades of research, this book catalogs baseball games from around the world and throughout history that lasted 20 or more innings, stretched five or more hours, or ended after 1:00 am. Lowry also examines probability models to predict how often games of unusual length will occur.
Bottom of the 33rd
Title | Bottom of the 33rd PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Barry |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 318 |
Release | 2011-04-12 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0062079026 |
In “a worthy companion to . . . Boys of Summer,” a Pulitzer prize winning journalist “exploits the power of memory and nostalgia with literary grace” (New York Times). From award-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball history—a tale celebrating not only the robust intensity of baseball, but the aspirational ideal epitomized by the hard-fighting players of the minor leagues. On April 18, 1981, a ball game sprang eternal. For eight hours, the night seemed to suspend a town and two teams between their collective pasts and futures, between their collective sorrows and joys—the shivering fans; their wives at home; the umpires; the batboys approaching manhood; the ejected manager, peering through a hole in the backstop; the sportswriters and broadcasters; and the players themselves—two destined for the Hall of Fame (Cal Ripken and Wade Boggs), the few to play only briefly or forgettably in the big leagues, and the many stuck in minor-league purgatory, duty bound and loyal forever to the game. With Bottom of the 33rd, Barry delivers a lyrical meditation on small-town lives, minor-league dreams, and the elements of time and community that conspired one fateful night to produce a baseball game seemingly without end. An unforgettable portrait of ambition and endurance, Bottom of the 33rd is the rare sports book that changes the way we perceive America’s pastime—and America’s past. “Destined to take its place among the classics of baseball literature.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough.” —Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax
Baseball's 50 Greatest Games
Title | Baseball's 50 Greatest Games PDF eBook |
Author | Bert Randolph Sugar |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780671083465 |
Here are the dramatic stories and pictures behind baseball's 50 most memorable games. Full-color illustrations. An Exeter Book.
The 100 Greatest Baseball Games of the 20th Century Ranked
Title | The 100 Greatest Baseball Games of the 20th Century Ranked PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph J. Dittmar |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2000-07-10 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0786409150 |
More than 150,000 major league baseball games were played in the 20th century. Here are ranked the 100 greatest, the very best (less than 1/10th of 1 percent) of the contests. They feature brilliant individual pitching performances, pitching duels, remarkable individual batting achievements, team offensive explosions, mind-numbing comebacks, multiple lead changes, team rivalries and heroics in final at-bats. The games are from the regular season, pennant races, playoffs, and the World Series. The inclusion of some games might be surprising, but all of them twanged or hammered the nerves of both spectators and participants.
One Last Strike (Enhanced Edition)
Title | One Last Strike (Enhanced Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Tony La Russa |
Publisher | HarperCollins Australia |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2012-09-25 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0062231898 |
One Last Strike by legendary baseball manager Tony La Russa is a thrilling sports comeback story. La Russa, the winner of four Manager of the Year awards—who led his teams to six Pennant wins and three World Series crowns—chronicles one of the most exciting end-of-season runs in baseball history, revealing with fascinating behind-the-scenes details how, under his expert management, the St. Louis Cardinals emerged victorious in the 2011 World Series despite countless injuries, mishaps, and roadblocks along the way. Talking candidly about the remarkable season—and his All-Star players like Albert Pujols and David Freese—the recently retired La Russa celebrates his fifty years in baseball, his team’s amazing recovery from 10 ½ games back, and one final, unforgettable championship in a book that no true baseball fan will want to miss.