The New Baseball Bible: Notes, Nuggets, Lists, and Legends from Our National Pastime
Language: English
Published by Sports Publishing LLC, 2017
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Discover how the players? approach, use of equipment, and even salaries and schedules have changed over time. Learn the origin of team and player nicknames, fun facts about the All-Star Game and World Series, and so much more.For Yankee and Red Sox fans, for Dodger and Giant fans, for Cubs and Cardinal fans, for every baseball fan, The New Baseball Bible serves as the perfect gift for fans of America?s pastime.For fans of baseball trivia, this updated version of The New Baseball Bible, first published as The Baseball Catalog in 1980 and now fully up to date, is sure to provide something for everyone, regardless of team allegiance. The book covers the following topics: beginnings of baseball, rules and records, umpires, how to play the game (i.e., strategy), equipment, ballparks, famous faces (i.e., Hank Aaron vs. Babe Ruth), managers, executives, trades, the media, big moments in history, the language of baseball, superstitions and traditions, spring training, today?s game, and much more.Veteran sportswriter Dan Schlossberg weaves in facts, figures, and famous quotes, discusses strategy, and provides stats and images?many of them never previously published elsewhere.…
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- Title
- The New Baseball Bible: Notes, Nuggets, Lists, and Legends from Our National Pastime
- Author
- Dan Schlossberg
- Publisher
- Sports Publishing LLC
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1613218354
- ISBN 13
- 9781613218358
For Yankee and Red Sox fans, for Dodger and Giant fans, for Cubs and Cardinal fans, for every baseball fan, The New Baseball Bible serves as the perfect gift for fans of America’s pastime.
For fans of baseball trivia, this updated version of The New Baseball Bible, first published as The Baseball Catalog in 1980 and now fully up to date, is sure to provide something for everyone, regardless of team allegiance. The book covers the following topics: beginnings of baseball, rules and records, umpires, how to play the game (i.e., strategy), equipment, ballparks, famous faces (i.e., Hank Aaron vs. Babe Ruth), managers, executives, trades, the media, big moments in history, the language of baseball, superstitions and traditions, spring training, today’s game, and much more.
Veteran sportswriter Dan Schlossberg weaves in facts, figures, and famous quotes, discusses strategy, and provides stats and images—many of them never previously published elsewhere.
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About the Author
Jay Johnstone played for eight different teams during a twenty-year career that stretched from 1966 through 1985. He won two World Series rings while ringing up a reputation as a prolific pinch-hitter and clubhouse prankster. His exploits are documented in his books Temporary Insanity, Over the Edge, and Some of My Best Friends are Crazy.
Alan Schwarz is the author of The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics and Once Upon a Game: Baseball's Greatest Memories. Schwarz attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a mathematics major. He received the Excellence in Statistical Reporting award from the American Statistical Association in 2013.
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