Extra Innings

Extra Innings
Author: The Baseball Prospectus
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0465029183

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In 1996, a brassy young team of fansproduced a guide to baseball statistics.Printed on a photocopier, its distribution,which was in the low hundreds, was limited tofriends, family, and die-hard stat heads. Sixteenyears later, the Baseball Prospectus annualregularly hits best-seller lists and has becomean indispensable guide for the serious fan. In Extra Innings, the team at Baseball Prospectusintegrates statistics, interviews, and analysis todeliver twenty arguments about today's game.In the tradition of their seminal book, BaseballBetween the Numbers, they take on everything fromsteroids to the amateur draft. They probe theimpact of managers on the game. They explainthe critical art of building a bullpen. In an erawhen statistics matter more than ever, Extra Inningsis an essential volume for every baseball fan.

Extra Innings

Extra Innings
Author: David Whitford
Publisher: Harpercollins
Total Pages: 255
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780060164591

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Chronicles the first season of baseball's senior league for retired major league ballplayers and includes comments from the league's founder and the star players who returned to the game

Extra Innings

Extra Innings
Author: Robert Newton Peck
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2003-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0064472299

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After an airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate finds unexpected solace in the stories of his great-aunt Vidalia's childhood travels with a Depression-era Negro League baseball team.

Extra Innings

Extra Innings
Author: Doris Grumbach
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1995-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393313208

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This memoir offers an intense, sometimes funny, sometimes tart, and often very moving account of the life of Doris Grumbach, author of Coming into the End Zone. Grumbach records an eventful year crowded with literary pleasures and pains, and the natural beauties and social particulars of life in coastal Maine.

Extra Innings

Extra Innings
Author: Tiki Barber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-02-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442457287

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Batter up! Football, basketball, and now baseball—is there anything the Barber brothers won’t try their best to do? The Barbers join the baseball team in this home-run adventure from NFL superstars and bestselling authors Tiki and Ronde Barber. Tiki and Ronde have their sights set on a big diamond—a baseball diamond! Sure, they’re experienced athletes, but they’ve never played baseball before. Do they have what it takes to make the team?

Extra Innings

Extra Innings
Author: Richard F. Peterson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2001
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780252069604

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Extra Innings tackles the question of how writing about baseball has shaped our understanding and misunderstanding of the national pastime. In a series of astute reflections on baseball histories, biographies, personal reminiscences, and fiction, Richard Peterson explores the shifting balance of romance and fact in standard baseball histories, offers a lively discussion of baseball fiction, and assesses the realism of postmodern baseball writing. He discusses the influence of Jackie Robinson on the serious baseball novel and the reluctance of baseball fiction to treat race issues realistically. He also surveys baseball fleeting appearances in the literary canon and suggests a "top nine" reading list for the baseball aficionado. Slicing away the myths and distortions of baseball's bizarre history, Extra Innings.

Extra Innings

Extra Innings
Author: Bruce E. Spitzer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Baseball players
ISBN: 9780984956906

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In the year 2092, Ted Williams, the greatest baseball hitter of all time, is brought back to life through the science of cryonics. Once again playing for the Red Sox, Williams finds himself trapped in a world he hardly recognizes: the corruption of the game he loves with uber-juiced batters and robot pitchers; difficult love affairs clashing with his old desires; and a military conflict of the future in which he must harness the fighter pilot skills he used in his first life. Dr. Elizabeth Miles is the cryonicist who brings him back to life, initiating a dramatic sequence of medical achievements. She and her young son Johnnie are a constant reminder of what Williams lacked in his first trip around the bases, never devoting much time to love and family. But old habits die hard. With enemies and allies both on the field and off, Williams must make sense of it all and play on against a machine that he detests, pressure to take the "giddyup" he abhors, unrelenting media mania, and a dystopian world he cant ignore. The narrative resonates with the consequences of the major issues we face in our world today-the steroids debate in sports, global warming, corporate greed, technology run rampant, and the moral ambiguity of war. Extra Innings is alternately poignant and humorous, heartbreaking and joyous. Thought-provoking throughout, its a rollicking ride that looks at second chances and redemption, the ability to triumph over adversity, and the search for meaning in this life and the next. Flawed in his first life, Williams must decide in the second whats more important, the chance to win his first World Series, or the chance to be a better man? The Greatest Comeback of all Time is More Than Just a Game.

Extra Innings

Extra Innings
Author: Raymond Souster
Publisher: [s.l.] : Oberon Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1977
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

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Play Hungry

Play Hungry
Author: Pete Rose
Publisher: Penguin Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2019
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0525558675

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The inside story of how Pete Rose became one of the greatest and most controversial players in the history of baseball.

Bright Lights of Summer

Bright Lights of Summer
Author: Lynn Ames
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781936429103

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It's March, 1941. Captain America appears in a comic book for the very first time. New York City receives 18.1 inches of snow, its 3rd largest snowfall in history. In Holland, the Nazi occupiers forbid Jews to own businesses. In Poland, Heinrich Himmler inspects Auschwitz. World War II is raging in Europe, but America has yet to enter the fray. And in Phoenix, Arizona, a 16-year-old scrap of a girl named Theodora "Dizzy" Hosler, takes the field to try out for the World Champion P.B.S.W. Ramblers softball team. Set against the backdrop of perhaps the most dramatic time in US history, comes the story of Diz and Frannie, two women fueled by an unquenchable passion for the game of softball and feelings for each other that go far beyond the bounds of friendship. Will their love for the game bring them closer together or tear them apart?