Describes how a variety of professional baseball players first took up the game, recounts what happened to them as beginners, and includes a collection of baseball cards showing them as boys.
TODD BENZINGER Infielder Cincinnati Reds SCH'S odd Benzinger was tired of finishing second to the Amelia Rams . He secretly practiced to master the knuckleball -one of the hardest pitches to control . He then used it to ambush his arch ...
One remarkable summer Billy Heywood learns what it is like to be an adult, while the baseball players on the team he has inherited rediscover their youthful enthusiasm for the game.
In a follow up to "The Bullpen Gospels," the author details his major league rookie season, revealing that for him, it isn't just about the game, but about the people and events in it.
Hoak was stunned by Neal's vicious punch in the bench-clearing brawl that followed. He was knocked to the ground but he didn't stay down and got back on his feet seeking retaliation. Gil Hodges, the Dodgers first baseman, ...
"Baseball Joe in the Big League" is an exhilarating continuation of the "Baseball Joe" series penned by Lester Chadwick.
My University of Chicago Economics Department dissertation committee of Nobel Prize winner Robert W. Fogel, David Galenson, and D. Gale Johnson encouraged my efforts and emphasized rigor and curiosity. While at the University of ...
I knew a little about baseball but I knew nothing about “hard ball” until I was a victim. In all of my stations of ministry, my longevity was at least a few years, but we were only in this assignment for eleven months.
Neal was rated by many as the best second - base prospect in baseball , including Brooklyn's Junior Gilliam , the 1953 National League Rookie of the Year . Tabbed as a Rookie - of - the - Year candidate for the upcoming season , Neal ...
He single-handedly changed our national pastime from Cobb's small-ball, one-base-at-a- time game into tape measure home runs and victory laps around the field. Ruth hit more dingers, appeared in more movies and advertisements, ...
Becoming Big League is the story of Seattle's relationship with major league baseball from the 1962 World's Fair to the completion of the Kingdome in 1976 and beyond.