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Author |
: Jerry Remy |
Publisher |
: Insiders' Guide |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2005-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0762737492 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780762737499 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Watching Baseball by : Jerry Remy
A fascinating look at the game within the game by All-Star second baseman andRed Sox broadcaster Remy with professional journalist Sandler.
Author |
: Jerry Remy |
Publisher |
: Lyons Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 076274801X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780762748013 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis Watching Baseball by : Jerry Remy
Go inside the minds of the players and the coaches with beloved Red Sox broadcaster and former second baseman Jerry Remy as he opens your eyes to the game within the game. Whether readers are casual viewers or an armchair manager, Watching Baseball is the ticket to America's national pastime.
Author |
: Jerry Remy |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 424 |
Release |
: 2008-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781461747116 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1461747112 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Watching Baseball by : Jerry Remy
The Boston Globe’s number-one bestseller is back, revised and updated for the 2008 season and presented in a new trim size. Jerry Remy’s name and face are already known to millions of fans. During baseball season 400,000 or more households tune in to listen to his broadcast of Red Sox games. But many learned to love him years ago when he was traded to the Sox, earning a trip to the 1978 All-Star Game in his first year with the team. Remy hit .278, scored eighty-seven runs, and stole thirty bases that season. Injured in 1984, Remy never played another game. In 1988 he began his work as an announcer, working color commentary for Red Sox broadcasts on NESN, a basic cable channel available throughout New England and by satellite across the country. In Watching Baseball Remy explains America’s favorite sport by going inside the minds of coaches and players to reveal the game within the game. He takes readers around the diamond, pointing out the positioning of infielders, what’s really going on during batting practice, how catchers and pitchers call a game, the difference between high cheese and a knuckler, and much more.
Author |
: John Sexton |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2013-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101609736 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101609737 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Baseball as a Road to God by : John Sexton
The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other. Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others. Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.
Author |
: Zack Hample |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2008-12-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307498601 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307498603 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Watching Baseball Smarter by : Zack Hample
Zack Hample's bestselling, smart, and funny fan’s guide to baseball explains the ins and outs of pitching, hitting, running, and fielding, while offering insider trivia and anecdotes that will appeal to anyone—whether you're a major league couch potato, life-long season ticket-holder, or a beginner. • What is the difference between a slider and a curveball? • At which stadium did “The Wave” first make an appearance? • Which positions are never played by lefties? • Why do some players urinate on their hands? Combining the narrative voice and attitude of Michael Lewis with the compulsive brilliance of Schott’s Miscellany, Watching Baseball Smarter will increase your understanding and enjoyment of the sport—no matter what your level of expertise. Featuring a glossary of baseball slang, an appendix of important baseball stats, and an appendix of uniform numbers.
Author |
: Steve Fiffer |
Publisher |
: Facts on File |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 1989-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0816020019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816020010 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Watch Baseball by : Steve Fiffer
A guide for spectators on how to enjoy the subtleties of baseball.
Author |
: Raymond Angelo Belliotti |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2015-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476606682 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476606684 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy by : Raymond Angelo Belliotti
There are uncanny connections between nine baseball greats and the great thinkers of the West. This book offers a very practical application of Western philosophy by examining these icons of American sport and culture. The intensity and single-mindedness of Ted Williams breathes life into Camus' Sisyphus; Billy Martin's maniacal competitiveness recalls Niccolo Machiavelli's take on politics, which he characterized as a zero-sum game; the homespun philosophy of Satchel Paige echoes the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius; and the many facets of Joe DiMaggio's personality cry out for the resolution that Nietzsche's doctrine of perspectivism might have given. Also covered are the connections between Joe Torre and Aristotle; Jackie Robinson and Antonio Gramsci; Mickey Mantle and St. Thomas Aquinas; John Franco and William James; and Jose Canseco and Immanuel Kant.
Author |
: Susan Jacoby |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 219 |
Release |
: 2018-03-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300235401 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300235402 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why Baseball Matters by : Susan Jacoby
Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital distraction. These paradoxes are explored by the historian and passionate baseball fan Susan Jacoby in a book that is both a love letter to the game and a tough-minded analysis of the current challenges to its special position—in reality and myth—in American culture. The concise but wide-ranging analysis moves from the Civil War—when many soldiers played ball in northern and southern prisoner-of-war camps—to interviews with top baseball officials and young men who prefer playing online “fantasy baseball” to attending real games. Revisiting her youthful days of watching televised baseball in her grandfather’s bar, the author links her love of the game with the informal education she received in everything from baseball’s history of racial segregation to pitch location. Jacoby argues forcefully that the major challenge to baseball today is a shortened attention span at odds with a long game in which great hitters fail two out of three times. Without sanitizing this basic problem, Why Baseball Matters remind us that the game has retained its grip on our hearts precisely because it has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to reinvent itself in times of immense social change.
Author |
: Tim McCarver |
Publisher |
: Ballantine Books |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 1999-03-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780375753404 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0375753400 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans by : Tim McCarver
From pitching to baserunning from defending the bunt to making a trip to the mound, the authors have every aspect of the game covered.
Author |
: Jason Turbow |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2011-03-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307278623 |
ISBN-13 |
: 030727862X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Baseball Codes by : Jason Turbow
An insider’s look at baseball’s unwritten rules, explained with examples from the game’s most fascinating characters and wildest historical moments. Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. All aspects of baseball—hitting, pitching, and baserunning—are affected by the Code, a set of unwritten rules that governs the Major League game. Some of these rules are openly discussed (don’t steal a base with a big lead late in the game), while others are known only to a minority of players (don’t cross between the catcher and the pitcher on the way to the batter’s box). In The Baseball Codes, old-timers and all-time greats share their insights into the game’s most hallowed—and least known—traditions. For the learned and the casual baseball fan alike, the result is illuminating and thoroughly entertaining. At the heart of this book are incredible and often hilarious stories involving national heroes (like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays) and notorious headhunters (like Bob Gibson and Don Drysdale) in a century-long series of confrontations over respect, honor, and the soul of the game. With The Baseball Codes, we see for the first time the game as it’s actually played, through the eyes of the players on the field. With rollicking stories from the past and new perspectives on baseball’s informal rulebook, The Baseball Codes is a must for every fan.