Twilight Innings

Twilight Innings
Title Twilight Innings PDF eBook
Author Robert Adon Fink
Publisher Texas Tech University Press
Total Pages 182
Release 2006
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780896725843

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A collection of essays by the West Texas poet.

Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues

Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues
Title Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues PDF eBook
Author John B. Holway
Publisher Courier Corporation
Total Pages 450
Release 2012-05-29
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0486136477

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The foremost historian of the "blackball" era spent nearly 10 years researching this acclaimed oral history, interviewing 17 outstanding players including Cool Papa Bell, Buck Leonard, and Willie Wells. Over 80 vintage photographs.

Fast Pitch Fifties

Fast Pitch Fifties
Title Fast Pitch Fifties PDF eBook
Author Pete Gallo
Publisher Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages 135
Release 2013-06-28
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1483645355

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Fast-Pitch A lost chapter in the history of America's favorite pastime is finally recovered and retold in brilliant and play-by-play detail in Pete Gallo's book, "Fast-Pitch Fifties." Readers are warmly invited to revisit New Rochelle during the 1950s and discover the Twilight League and windmill baseball at its height as some 20 teams battled for championship titles and local bragging rights. Fast-Pitch recalls a period when local sports was king and a championship series in towns like New Rochelle would draw crowds that were measured in the tens of thousands. Based on interviews and historical accounts, the author brings to life local legends of windmill at its height, such as pitcher Rush Riley who threw a softball at major league speeds and was known for his Olympian endurance, playing up to ten games per week. While many of the names are less familiar, windmill stars who managed national acclaim are also recalled such as Hicksville, Long Island native Roy Stevenson, an early pioneer of windmill pitch who helped inspire a generation of players in the New York metropolitan area. Aimed at sports fans, the book is also the story of an era - one full of memorable characters like 'Popeye' Claps an affable stationery store owner and baseball coach who managed to get Roy Rogers and his troupe to visit New Rochelle for an ad hoc block party for local kids. Then there was Bruce Flowers a professional boxer who helped lead New Rochelle's most-winning windmill team for the decade, the New Rochelle Royals. You will read about Bill Marino, a veteran who lost his arm in World War II, but remarkably managed to recapture personal glory by becoming one of the league's most feared pitchers. The author also finds that windmill's most prominent feature lead to its decline in community sports. It was a game where sheer pitching strength ruled the day, making balancing league play difficult, which helped give rise to its successor, modern "slow-pitch" softball. Though, fast-pitch persists in popularity, particularly among women's college leagues, Gallo brings us back to an era when communities across America were first discovering the game. The book recalls how the social fabric of the 1950s, with its unbridled post-war optimism and corresponding economic boom, provided for a golden era in community sports - from stickball play to fast-pitch. Gallo reminds us of how this amateur recreational league evolved to resemble a full-fledged minor B-ball league, housed in a single city - the Queen City of the Sound.

Almost Heaven

Almost Heaven
Title Almost Heaven PDF eBook
Author Doc Fletcher
Publisher AuthorHouse
Total Pages 298
Release 2023-08-10
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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December 2055... a baseball-fanatic, 101-year-old man, dies and goes to heaven. Beyond blessed by being reunited with loved ones who have gone before, and meeting the two Guardian Angels who ushered him during his time on earth, he is embraced by The Other Side's peaceful, gentle, majestic, comforting, loving, and awe-inspiring beauty. As wonderful as it all is, including seeing Beethoven & Hendrix perform together on stage (John Prine the opening act), to paddle endless winding rivers with a back that never aches, play in baseball games that joyfully run for days yet never tire, it is the opportunity to be sent back to earth by Saint Peter for a decade-long (1911 through 1920) "human experience" that is most intriguing: with the opportunity to see, arguably, the greatest baseball player of them all, Ty Cobb, in action - viewed by a Tiger fan born 3 decades after Cobb retired. "Almost Heaven" takes you back to the 1910s, a decade that began with major league baseball teams constructing the first steel & concrete stadiums to replace their old wooden ballparks, and ends as the dead ball era of Detroit Tigers Ty Cobb & Wahoo Sam Crawford begins its metamorphosis into the live ball era of home run king Babe Ruth. The dead ball era (through 1919) was an era noted for its scientific / small ball approach, when teams played for one run at a time by out-thinking the foe, bunting, stealing bases, "hittin' 'em where they ain't", creating a mental hazard for the opposition by doing the unexpected – and Ty Cobb was its leading practitioner.

Baseball Under the Lights

Baseball Under the Lights
Title Baseball Under the Lights PDF eBook
Author Charlie Bevis
Publisher McFarland
Total Pages 240
Release 2021-05-19
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 147664232X

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Night games transformed the business of professional baseball, as the smaller, demographically narrower audiences able to attend daytime games gave way to larger, more diversified crowds of nighttime spectators. Many ball club owners were initially conflicted about artificial lighting and later actually resisted expanding the number of night games during the sport's struggle to balance ballpark attendance and television viewership in the 1950s. This first-ever comprehensive history of night baseball examines the factors, obstacles and trends that shaped this dramatic change in both the minor and major leagues between 1930 and 1990.

Hearings

Hearings
Title Hearings PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher
Total Pages 1798
Release 1957
Genre
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Specially Marked Boxes

Specially Marked Boxes
Title Specially Marked Boxes PDF eBook
Author Todd R. Nelson
Publisher Lulu.com
Total Pages 380
Release
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ISBN 1312408987

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