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The
Mental ABC's of Pitching : A Handbook for Performance Enhancement
by H. A. Dorfman
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| Peter Gammons, ESPN Baseball
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All
Roads Lead to October : Boss Steinbrenner's 25-Year Reign over the New York
Yankees by Maury Allen
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| Amazon.com If there's a sports tale ripe for the telling, it's George Steinbrenner's stewardship of the Yankees. But where to center? On the tumult, the terror, the absurdity, or the glory? In All Roads Lead to October, Maury Allen refracts the broad spectrum. Wandering genially from story to story and era to... Read more |
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The
New York Yankee Encyclopedia by Harvey Frommer(Editor)
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| Amazon.com Yankee fans are forever, but it's especially exciting to revel in the Yankees' past accomplishments while basking in the glow of their 1997 season exploits. Yankee historian Harvey Frommer has compiled the definitive record of Yankee baseball, from their 1903 beginnings through their 1996 World... Read more |
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Stats
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| Jack Francisco Jr.,
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A Must Buy for the Fantasy Leaguer I've been involved in fantasy baseball since 1984 and of all of the sources available, I find this one invaluable. Mr. Sickells is a very good evaluator of talent and does not zealously use a single method, but rather incorporates various techniques (sabremetrics, traditional scouting, etc.) in... Read more
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Baseball's
Forgotten Heroes : One Fan's Search for the Game's Most Interesting Overlooked
Players by Tony Salin
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| J.K. Kelley, July
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the author's dedication shows throughout This is a book written by someone with a lot of love for the game of baseball. It will mostly benefit others with the same love: Salin has found sufficiently obscure figures that I had only heard of half of them. Where feasible, he lets them tell their own stories, thus preserving their style of... Read more
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The
Pitching Edge by Tom House, Rod Dedeaux
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| redmen55, August
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FROM BOTTOM TO THE TOP A FEW YEARS AGO I MOVED DOWN TO THE LITTLE LEAGUE LEVEL. THAT FIRST YEAR I LOST ALL MY GAMES. I FELT TERRIBLE. I TAUGHT THE PLAYERS EVERYTHING I COULD ABOUT DEFENSE AND HITTING. I REALIZED THAT AT THE LITTLE LEAGUE LEVEL MORE TIME SHOULD BE SPENT ON PITCHING. I LOOKED FOR HELP AND FOUND TOM HOUSE'S... Read more
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Baseball
Guide: The Ultimate 2000 Season Reference - 2000 Edition by Craig Carter(Editor), Dave Sloan(Editor)
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Pitch
Like a Pro by Jim Rosenthal, et al
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| Amazon.com Is pitching an art or a science? Judging by all of the technical manuals on the subject, pitching seems to be an exact science. Lee Mazzone, pitching coach for the Atlanta Braves, disagrees: "Why turn something as basic as throwing a baseball into a science project?" Successful pitching isn't easy,... Read more |
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Confessions
of a Baseball Purist : What's Right--And Wrong--With Baseball, As Seen from
the Best Seat in the House by Jon Miller, Mark Hyman(Contributor)
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Major
League Baseball 2001 Day-To-Day Calendar by Kris Koederitz(Editor), Andrews McMeel Publishing
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| Book Description The Official Major League Baseball 2001 Calendar is now in its ninth season and features a great moment in history, fun fact, dubious achievement, landmark, or quote each day about the palyers, coaches, and teams of Major League Baseball. Read more |
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My
Turn at Bat : The Story of My Life by Ted Williams, John Underwood(Contributor)
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| Book Description Now available for the first time in years, My Turn at Bat is Ted Williams' own story of his spectacular life and baseball career. An acclaimed best-seller, My Turn at Bat now features new photographs and, for the first time, Ted's reflections on his managing career and the state of baseball as it... Read more |
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Baseball
America 2000 Directory : The Complete Pocket Baseball Guide (Baseball America's
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Good Baseball Information Resourse This is a book that I refer to often. It is a very good tool for finding out all sorts of important info on Major and Minor League teams, such as directions to the stadiums, names of personnel and schedules, etc. I am a former radio producer and publications editor for the Fort Myers Miracle, a... Read more
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Louisville
Slugger Complete Book of Pitching by Doug Myers, Mark Gola
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| Book Description Packed with interviews, tips, and instructional photographs, Louisville Slugger Complete Book of Pitching covers every element of successful pitching, from basics such as grip and arm position to more advanced concepts such as adjusting to the umpire and recognizing the crucial at bats in a game.... Read more |
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Be
the Ball : An Audio Recording for Better Golf by Sean Ryan
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Durocher's
Cubs : The Greatest Team That Didn't Win by David Claerbaut
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52
Week Baseball Training by A. Eugene Coleman, et al
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Complete Baseball Training Guide This books is excellent to help set up a program for all serious baseball players. Charts are available to use. Detailed instructions on how to do various exercises, how many to do, when to do them. Any one who wants to set up a program must have this book. Read more
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Tim
McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans : Understanding and
Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch It Like a Pro by Tim McCarver, Danny Peary(Contributor)
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| 68. | 125
Years of Professional Baseball |
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| Synopsis Presented in a "TimeLine" format, a history of baseball from Cooperstown to Astroturf and the designated hitter is a panorama of the game's great moments and immortal players, including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, and Barry Bonds. IP. Read more |
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Barry
Halper Collection of Baseball Memorabilia by Peter Golenbock(Editor), et al
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Baseball
Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Time by Rob Neyer, Eddie Epstein
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| Amazon.com There are good teams, and there are great teams, and then there are teams that cross into legend where a case can be built for naming them the best team of all time. The Cubs of Tinker to Evers to Chance. The Yankees of Ruth and Gehrig, and later DiMaggio and Dickey, and, later still, Mantle and... Read more |
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The
Storytellers : From Mel Allen to Bob Costas : Sixty Years of Baseball Tales
from the Broadcast Booth by Curt Smith
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| Amazon.com Curt Smith takes a stunningly simple idea and executes it in an obvious format: assemble the Homers of baseball and let them rip. The result is an oral history of the game delivered with the crispness and color of the voices in the broadcast booth whose day--and night--job is to bring us the game.... Read more |
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Play
Better Baseball : Winning Techniques and Strategies for Coaches and
Players by Bob Cluck
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Put this one on your wish list! I HAVE READ A DOZEN INSTRUCTIONAL BOOKS ON THE GAME OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, AND THIS ONE ALONG WITH MR.CLUCK'S OTHER BOOKS, WAS A SURE PERFECT GAME. I AM A PROUD OWNER OF A BOOK HE WROTE ON BASERUNNING. I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO DISCOVER THIS ONE AND SUGGEST THAT IT SHOULD BE DISPLAYED ON YOUR... Read more
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You
Gotta Have Wa by Robert Whiting
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| Book Description An important element in Japanese baseball is wa--group harmony--embodied in the proverb "The nail that sticks up shall be hammered down". But what if the nail is a visiting American player? Here's a look at Japanese baseball, as seen by baffled Americans Read more |
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Keep
Your Eye on the Ball: Curveballs, Knuckleballs, and Fallacies of Baseball,
Revised and Updated by Robert G. Watts, et al
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| David Baldwin, Ph.D., Enterprise
Data Solutions "The authors explore the fascinating gaps between physics and perception that make hitting a baseball such an interesting challenge. Their book provides the layman with entertaining explanations of some of baseball's most cherished assumptions-the curvatures of pitched balls, the behavior of batters... Read more |
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Where's
Harry? : Steve Stone Remembers His Years With Harry Caray by Steve Stone(Introduction), et al
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| From Kirkus Reviews Innocuous anecdotes and remembrances abound in this valentine to the legendary sports broadcaster Harry Caray. Stone worked alongside Caray for 15 years, offering color commentary for Chicago Cubs baseball games, until Caray's death in February 1998. Stone obviously enjoyed the experience, deferring... Read more |
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