Baseball
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Robert W. Cohen [Cohen, Robert W.]

26 Herb Pennock A couple of Hall of Fame pitchers take up the next two spots in the rankings, with Herb Pennock and Waite Hoyt compiling numbers so similar during ...
( Category: Baseball July 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Posnanski

MY FATHER BELIEVED in every superstition you ever heard of,” Robert Paige said. He said Satchel believed in lucky clothes, lucky days, and lucky signs. He believed that a man ...
( Category: Biographies July 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Sowell

Doug DeCinces, now a successful California businessman, still recalls his failure to drive home the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 5: “I remember that ...
( Category: Baseball July 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 1976-07-01 | Author:Donald Hall

Management Joe Brown is general manager of the Pirates, a likable albeit dignified man in his fifties, son of the great comedian Joe E. Brown. After apprenticing in minor league ...
( Category: Baseball July 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-03 | Author:Babicz, Martin C.; Zeiler, Thomas W.; & Thomas W. Zeiler [Babicz, Martin C. & Zeiler, Thomas W.]

13 Change and Revolution (1960 to 1975) the sixties were a period of political unrest that unleashed various protest movements that were still active through the 1970s. These reform movements ...
( Category: Baseball June 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-30 | Author:Curt Smith [Smith, Curt]

10 “Friendship, a Perfect Blendship!” Gerald Ford, 1974–1977 Many attended Gerald Ford’s swearing-in as president in the East Room on the August 1974 day where earlier Richard Nixon said, “Always ...
( Category: Baseball June 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Schiavone, Michael;

1984–87: SOME GOOD, A LOT NOT SO GOOD Considering that the Dodgers were defending NL West champions and had the best record in the NL, there was a good feeling ...
( Category: Americas May 25,2018 )
epub |ara | 2018-02-21 | Author:Benjamin Hochman

Frank Cusumano He was known for his knowledge, a six-foot St. Louis sports encyclopedia. Frank Cusumano yearned to be the Channel 5 sports director, sort of a “pope job” in ...
( Category: United States May 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-31 | Author:Russell A. Carleton

(Note: Only shifts that resulted in a ball put into play were counted) In 2010, the league leader in shifts (the ever-tinkering Tampa Bay Rays and their forward-thinking manager Joe ...
( Category: Psychology May 18,2018 )
epub |ara | 2018-03-22 | Author:Davey Johnson

18. October 13, 1983: Bringing the Magic Back “I have a list of 10 skills I look for in a manager,” Cashen said to me during my interview in an ...
( Category: United States May 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Keith Hernandez

Chapter 23 Citi Field It’s three and a half hours before game time, but there’s already action in the Mets’ broadcast booth. Fox local news is taping a promotional interview ...
( Category: Biographies May 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:Anne R. Keene

The PR Machine There were many who left fingerprints on the Pre-Flight publicity campaign. One of those people was William D. Carmichael, who’d made a pile of money on Wall ...
( Category: Baseball May 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:Pete Rose

9 THE LONG HOT SUMMER “I realized that I saw everything in life as a challenge—a challenge I expected—no, had to win.” —PETE ROSE I got a kick-ass feeling from ...
( Category: Biographies May 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-09 | Author:Larry Burke

ANTI-DH SENTIMENT Not surprisingly, there was an undercurrent among traditionalist players and fans who didn’t like the new rule. After all, it was a violation of the game as it ...
( Category: Baseball May 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-14 | Author:David Benham

Cardinals Camp While Jason’s minor league spring training with the Orioles didn’t start until early March, I had to report to camp for the Cardinals a couple of weeks earlier. ...
( Category: Biographies May 6,2018 )