Baseball
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Herschel Cobb

We finished the summer at Grandma’s, and she took us to the train station in Palo Alto early one morning. She bought tickets for us, and we hugged and said ...
( Category: Biographies September 19,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-08-15 | Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin [Goodwin, Doris Kearns]

Giant Bobby Thomson swings for a home run against Dodger Ralph Branca to make the “shot heard round the world” and win the 1951 National League pennant. The Giants mob ...
( Category: Biographies September 19,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-29 | Author:Wayne Coffey & R. A. Dickey

SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2011 MINUTE MAID PARK, HOUSTON Thank you, Aaron Harang, wherever you are. I don’t mean this flippantly, or obnoxiously. I mean it sincerely. I’ve never met Aaron ...
( Category: Biographies September 19,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Phil Pepe [Pepe, Phil]

18. Moving Day The 2008 season was the beginning of one era and the end of another in the long and glorious history of the New York Yankees. Next year ...
( Category: Baseball September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-20 | Author:Steve Kettmann

One afternoon early in spring training 2013, prospect Travis d’Arnaud was catching at Tradition Field. Everyone was eager to get a look at him in action so soon after the ...
( Category: Baseball September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:U

“Please don’t tell me what you think I want to hear.” “I will always be honest with you, Tilly. Good or bad. You know my past, you know about Cris. ...
( Category: Real Estate Investments September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Will, George [Will, George]

Getting things not quite right is something of a tradition around Wrigley Field. Another statue outside the ballpark is of broadcaster Harry Caray, who sang “Take Me Out to the ...
( Category: Baseball September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-30 | Author:Frank Garland

Chapter 7 Twilight Time STARGELL’S PERFORMANCE IN the ’79 World Series vaulted him into national prominence, just as Clemente’s did eight years earlier and it didn’t take long for the ...
( Category: Biographies September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-01 | Author:John Feinstein [FEINSTEIN, JOHN]

17 Drought THE YANKEES MANAGED TO SALVAGE the last game of the Subway Series the next night, young Tyler Clippard (who, not surprisingly, had been nicknamed “The Yankee Clippard”) outpitching ...
( Category: Baseball September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-24 | Author:Vecsey, George [Vecsey, George]

XIII BASEBALL HITS THE INTERSTATE Whenever I visit Prospect Park in the borough of Brooklyn, my head jerks eastward like a compass, toward the apartment buildings where Ebbets Field once ...
( Category: Baseball September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Lucas Mann [Mann, Lucas]

I can find only one person who stood up and said the phrase “minor leagues” before a Senate Judiciary Committee during baseball’s antitrust hearings in 1997. He was Dan Peltier, ...
( Category: Sociology September 9,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Edward Achorn [Achorn, Edward]

Cap Anson (Library of Congress) Blacks, in particular, stirred Anson’s feelings of supremacy. In his 1900 ghostwritten autobiography, the retired baseball legend wrote unblushingly of Clarence Duval, batboy and mascot ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:Tim Wendel

Denny McLain and Mickey Mantle were both fun-loving guys, willing to skirt the rules when possible, so it didn’t come as any surprise when one of the most curious moments ...
( Category: Miscellaneous September 6,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Terry Francona & Dan Shaughnessy [Francona, Terry]

CHAPTER 11 • 2008 • “This will not help us win” RED SOX NATION WAS GLOBAL. The Sox were the most popular sports team on the planet. The Sox were ...
( Category: Biographies September 6,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Reggie Jackson; Lonnie Wheeler; Bob Gibson

Bob Gibson My Bob Welch was Mickey Lolich. That might sound a little strange, because it wasn’t like we went after each other, one-on-one, tooth and nail, from sixty feet, ...
( Category: Baseball September 5,2017 )