MLB Baseball : 20 results priced between € 5.00 and € 50.00

Description: This book will be a hit with young readers! Batter up Baseball is a great introduction to this exciting sport. Kids will be thrilled to learn about the game and some of its best players. Clear text and colorful images explain - the rules of the game ...

Description: "Turbulent Seasons" focuses on the 1890 and 1891 major-league seasons, recapturing a colorful era in early baseball history when club owners quarreled, players berated umpires, sportswriters criticized and ridiculed both owners and players, and the National Game, as it was universally called, made halting progress toward the sport and business it became in the twentieth century.

Description: A collection of essays that assesses the likelihood of women finding actual careers on the baseball field. It reminds us of the unique role baseball plays in our national history.

Description: "In men like Traveler and Alcazar we find the beating heart and struggling soul of baseball..."-Publishers Weekly

Description: Among Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about the interface between his two great passions: baseball and biology. His baseball essays are contained within this volume.

Description: Praise for Who Is Baseball's Greatest Hitter?: "A book that makes reading about baseball almost as much fun as playing the game." -- Booklist

Description: Which batting crown champion hit the most homers? Who twice stole a record seven bases in a World Series? Who was the youngest pitcher to toss a perfect game?

Description: Large format paperback. Clean copy. ISBN: 9781550545678.

How and why Americans chose baseball over its early rival, cricket, as the national pastime

Description: it, and you can't do the latter without a scorecard. In this slim gem of a volume, Paul Dickson clearly explains and translates the quirky documentation system, which looks like cuneiform to the uninitiated, for recording what happens on the ball field, and why true fans are so adamant about doing it. Filled with history, anecdotes, and rules, it also reproduces--to the joy of scorers everywhere--the official scorer's records for some of baseball's most significant moments, including...

During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. This work gives us a commentary of the growth and transformation of baseball. It shows that the game was a vital part of the lives of many a soldier and civilian - and that baseball's popularity had everything to do with surging American nationalism.

Preserving History, Honoring Excellence, Connecting Generations