Sentences with phrase «book of baseball»

The Book of Baseball Records credits Hamilton, who played from 1888 to 1901 for Kansas City, Philadelphia and Boston, with 937 stolen bases.

Jason Brannon is a sometime research assistant to Rob Neyer, wrote a chapter for Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders, and plays drums with Oh, Alchemy.

Rob has written or co-written six baseball books, including Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends.

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His books can alter the way the public thinks about and conceives of entire worlds, from baseball management to football pass protection to the subprime mortgage crisis.

With Major League Baseball's All - Star Game and Home Run Derby officially in the books for this year, we have reached what baseball enthusiasts call the «dog days of summerBaseball's All - Star Game and Home Run Derby officially in the books for this year, we have reached what baseball enthusiasts call the «dog days of summerbaseball enthusiasts call the «dog days of summer.»

Of all the coaches he encountered in researching the book, the most fascinating to Feldman was Tom House, who first came to fame not as a quarterback guru but as an adviser to baseball pitchers.

Many of the hottest collectibles of the 20th Century, including Hummel figurines, Depression glass, Roseville pottery, comic books, baseball cards, lunchboxes, vintage denim, Happy Meal toys, and, of course, Beanie Babies, are worth just a fraction of their former values in the 21st Century.

Hagstrom's book uses the model of legendary baseball player Ted Williams as an example of a wise investor.

In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball.

The Pope is basically just like an Umpire in a Baseball game — he keeps the game going and indicates what's in play or not, by the written rule book — but does not change the rules of the game — that's set.

Through his program, and his recent best - selling book, Keillor, the self - styled «shy person,» has become a celebrity, and the mythical town of Lake Wobegon, «the town that time forgot,» has been handsomely marketed with T - shirts and baseball caps.

The author of many books, essays, poems, snippets, and shorts, «Brian James Patrick Doyle of New Yawk was cheerfully NOT the great Canadian novelist Brian Doyle, nor the astrophysicist Brian Doyle, nor the former Yankee baseball player Brian Doyle, nor even the terrific actor Brian Doyle - Murray.

The weather is finally warming up, your friends and neighbors are coming out of hibernation, the days are getting longer — it's the perfect time to invite the baseball team over or host a book group or just catch up with old friends.

I may not have a carefree summer in the books for this year but I can still enjoy baseball, beer, sunshine, and this salad that highlights the best of what late summer gives us.

If they let Harper leave via free agency, do the Nationals slot Victor Robles in for Harper in right, wait for Juan Soto to develop, and then spend the money coming off the books and what they would have committed to Harper in what's thought of as one of the best free agent classes in baseball history next winter?»

Maybe a better way to illustrate the point is to list how much guaranteed payroll every team will have on the books from 2019 through 2021, with the numbers courtesy of Baseball - Reference.

How to Get to First Base, with captions by Red Smith, is one of the funniest and most perceptive books ever done on baseball and is now something of a collector's item.

But in 1951 he was commissioned by a publisher to do a book of drawings on baseball.

Piazza and Stewart discussed his new book, Long Shot, steroid use in baseball and the Hall of Fame shutting out steroid - era players.

When Rear Admiral Daniel Gallery, Commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, examined baseball's official rule book (SI, Feb. 4), he concluded that it was full of loopholes and fuzzy writing.

The topic has come up so often lately that Robin Ventura and Todd Zeile of the Mets joke about sitting down and, like a couple of baseball - savvy Emily Posts, writing a book.

In fact, a lot of baseball writers have actively worked to eliminate that era from the history books.

First word of Len Koppett's book, The Thinking Fan's Guide to Baseball, is «Fear.»

Loren Coleman, a researcher at the Human Services Development Institute at the University of Southern Maine and the author of Suicide Clusters, a 1987 book that examines suicide patterns, is finishing up a study of suicide among major league baseball players.

NV sports books win record $ 14.9 million on baseball in June off record handle of $ 207.1 million, per state's Gaming Control Board #RJNow

Rather than try to match superlatives with other reviewers of Roger Angell's new baseball book, let's just say Angell is back, and the stuff is as good as ever.

The piquant side dishes notwithstanding, the meat and potatoes of a Roger Angell baseball book is still his expert summation of major league seasons, and, like Reggie Jackson, he peaks in October.

Still, if you care about baseball, this latest book and his first two together constitute the best history of the game's last 15 years.

Of course, what people mostly ask about is Rader's far - different public persona: Doug Rader, the zany, flaky Houston Astro third baseman who sat on a birthday cake in the clubhouse; Doug Rader, the madman in Jim Bouton's book Ball Four who advised kids to eat baseball cards to ingest all the information printed on them; Doug Rader, the raging tyrant - manager of the Texas Rangers who was fired after ferocious confrontations with players and writerOf course, what people mostly ask about is Rader's far - different public persona: Doug Rader, the zany, flaky Houston Astro third baseman who sat on a birthday cake in the clubhouse; Doug Rader, the madman in Jim Bouton's book Ball Four who advised kids to eat baseball cards to ingest all the information printed on them; Doug Rader, the raging tyrant - manager of the Texas Rangers who was fired after ferocious confrontations with players and writerof the Texas Rangers who was fired after ferocious confrontations with players and writers.

The book and the movie ignored those lessons, but the rest of baseball and its fans internalized it after several proofs of concept.

While probably best known for his baseball books (including Summer of»49 and October 1964), his chronicle of the Portland Trail Blazers» 1979 — 80 season, The Breaks of the Game, is still considered by many as the best book ever written about the NBA.

«The first book I sold was on yoga,» says Gaustad, 50, who opened Sportspages in 1985, «but the second book was a Rothman's Football Annual [a kind of Baseball Register for English soccer], which is what I more properly think of as a sports book.

In his scrap - book there are yellowed clippings from days when Mike Peterson was a mere wisp of a child who still could lead the local midgets to a state baseball title by pitching the same game he won with a two - run homer.

The two of them have a deal, though: Olender is McLain's agent in booking appearances at baseball - card shows, and they were scheduled to finally meet at a show this month.

In the legendary and ethereal Book of Unwritten Baseball Rules, there lies a passage — with, certainly, plenty of footnotes and scribbles in the margin — detailing the retribution that a team can, if it chooses to do so, enact when the opposition is playing dirty.

One of the sources, free - lance writer Allen Barra, a regular contributor to the New York City weekly The Village Voice who is writing a book with Marvin Miller, the former head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, told SI that early in 1985 he spent a few days with Winfield in Minneapolis while preparing a story for Sports Fitness magazine.

This weekend we all kicked off the coming seasons of harvest, baseball, and book - writing - free days.

Award - winning writer John Powers debuts OSV Distinguished Speakers Series STURBRIDGE, Mass. (Oct. 25, 2012): Sportswriter John Powers, co-author of the 100th anniversary commemorative book, Fenway Park: The Coolest, Cruelest and Longest Running Major League Baseball Stadium in America, will speak in the Stephen M. Brewer Theater at Old Sturbridge Village on Thursday, Nov. 8, launching the...

Three of his favorite things are books, music and baseball.

The entire three - book series (including Nick's Very First Day of Baseball, Magic Bat Day, and TGIT Thank Goodness It's T - ball Day) won a Gold Mom's Choice Award this month!

Each of the book's nine chapters center around a «lesson» that applies to both baseball and fathering.

Another week of high school baseball is in the books.

The beauty of the book is that it's about much more than just baseball, and provides lessons many organisations can learn from.

Pooling massive amounts of data allows patterns and trends to emerge that aren't apparent in small, individual studies, and the applications are virtually infinite — think Moneyball, the 2003 best - selling book about how the perennially cash - strapped Oakland A's used analytics and baseball stats to scout overlooked talent.

For expert insight, I spoke with Lance Williams, an investigative reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle and co-author (with Mark Fainaru - Wada) of Game of Shadows, a revelatory book about how BALCO, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, supplied baseball players and other athletes with performance - enhancing drugs.

Green has a new book out, The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95MPH, where he talks extensively about how meditation played a role in his success.

He is the author of Nicaea: A Book of Correspondences, Bertie Wooster and the Lizard King, and co-author of Right Off the Bat: Baseball, Cricket, Literature,...

In addition, Alyssa Milano presented her book Safe at Home: Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic, and Kristin Chenoweth talked about her book,?

Jay - Dell Mah, who co-wrote a book with Barry Swanton titled Black Baseball Players in Canada, says, Tons of baseball leagues started Baseball Players in Canada, says, Tons of baseball leagues started baseball leagues started to form.

Among his previous books are: «Money Players: Days and Nights Inside the New NBA,» a critically acclaimed account of the rise of the NBA under David Stern; the New York Times bestseller «Raw Recruits»; and the autobiographies of baseball great Catfish Hunter and Hall of Fame linebacker Mike Singletary.