Look Who's Playing First Base
Title | Look Who's Playing First Base PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Christopher |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | 63 |
Release | 2009-12-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0316093998 |
LOOK WHO'S PLAYING FIRST BASE Will Mike stand up to his teammates to defend his friend? When the Checkmates need a new first baseman, Mike Hagin's new friend, Yuri, seems like a logical choice. But when Yuri starts flubbing plays and the team's star player threatens to quit as a result, Mike is not sure Yuri is such a good choice after all-for a teammate or for a friend. It appears as if Mike will have to choose between his friendship with Yuri and his loyalty to the team-or is there another solution?
Look Who's Playing First Base
Title | Look Who's Playing First Base PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Christopher |
Publisher | Turtleback |
Total Pages | 131 |
Release | 1987-04-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780606024013 |
When the team's star player threatens to quit if Mike's new friend, Yuri, continues to play first, Mike must decide whether to remain loyal to Yuri.
Long Stretch At First Base
Title | Long Stretch At First Base PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Christopher |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | 66 |
Release | 2009-12-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0316095737 |
Matt Christopher is the writer young readers turn to when they are looking for fast-paced, action-packed sports novels. This book is no exception. He is the author of a number of titles, including Dirt Bike, Runaway, Face-Off, Ice Magic and many more.
How to Play First Base
Title | How to Play First Base PDF eBook |
Author | Hal Chase |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 72 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Baseball |
ISBN |
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Title | Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Lewis |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2004-03-17 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0393066231 |
"This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame." —Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge—insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.
The Boys of Summer
Title | The Boys of Summer PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Kahn |
Publisher | Aurum |
Total Pages | 560 |
Release | 2013-08-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1781312079 |
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.
Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870
Title | Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870 PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Morris |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 365 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0786490012 |
By 1871, the popularity of baseball had spread so thoroughly across America that one writer observed, "It is as much our national game as cricket is that of the English." While major league teams and athletes that played after this prophetic statement was made have been exhaustively documented and analyzed, those that led the game during its pioneer phase from 1850 to 1870 have received relatively little attention. In this welcome work, leading historians of early baseball provide profiles of more than fifty clubs and their players, from legendary teams such as the Red Stockings of Cincinnati and the Nationals of Washington to forgotten nines like the Pecatonica (Illinois) Base Ball Club and the Morning Star Club of St. Louis. Engaging narratives bring these long-ago clubs back to life, stimulating more research on this fascinating era and creating a standard reference source for all who study America's national pastime.