Twilight of the Long-ball Gods

Twilight of the Long-ball Gods
Author: John Schulian
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0803293275

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When he does venture into the big leagues, Schulian gives us the underdogs and the human touches, from Bill Veeck peg-legging toward retirement as the game's last maverick team owner, to musings on Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe at Christmas, to Studs Terkel's reflections on baseball."--BOOK JACKET.

The Long Ball

The Long Ball
Author: Tom Adelman
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2004-04-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780316796446

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The 1975 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds is generally considered the best of all time, and baseball historians often rank its sixth game as the greatest single game ever played. In this resoundingly acclaimed bestseller, Tom Adelman tells the story of the season that led up to that classic Series and then delivers the inside pitch on those amazing seven games.

Long Ball

Long Ball
Author: Mark Stewart
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761327790

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Explore the stories behind home run stats and look at baseball's "greatest hit" from the game's beginnings through today.

The Long Ball

The Long Ball
Author: Aria Cole
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2016-11-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781539854708

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The star player with a troubled past... Cash Greenwood escaped a difficult past by becoming a star baseball player. Now, one of the major league's rare double threats, all his effort is thrown into the sport. He's never had any interest in women, until he meets the one woman who wants nothing to do with him. The daughter of baseball royalty... Delilah Gray's life revolves around numbers, research, and data. She has no time for anything messy like emotions or relationships. Especially not when they come in the sexy guise of a baseball player. She's seen first-hand the devastation caused by dating a man obsessed with the sport, and that's one risk she's not willing to take. She is one curveball he never saw coming... But this is one pitch Cash is determined to hit out of the park. Sexual tensions run high and feelings start to develop, but will Delilah ever see that they could have a solid future together? Determined to make her his, she may just prove to be the hardest game of Cash's life. WARNING: The Long Ball features an obsessed jock with six-pack abs in tight pants determined to get his girl. If syrupy sweet romance and fiery passions appeal to you, then hold onto your panties because this one may just hit them out of the park.

A Short History of the Long Ball

A Short History of the Long Ball
Author: Justin Cronin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1990
Genre: Baseball stories
ISBN:

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Hitting with Torque

Hitting with Torque
Author: Paul F. Petricca
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1480853542

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Paul Petricca draws on his experience as a coach, player, blogger, and student of baseball and softball to share what hes learned about hitting in this essential guide for players seeking dramatic results at the plate. The author presents easy to understand hitting mechanics highlighting how the engineering concept of torque can be applied to hitting and is often the difference between a weak groundball or a long home run. Topics covered include understanding where hitting power really comes from and the importance of increasing bat speed through the fundamentals of a repeatable and powerful rotational swing. Hitters of all ages who adopt his eight hitting keys will enjoy a dramatic increase in bat speed and power almost immediately. Hitting with Torque is more than a set of hitting mechanics---its a mindset. Readers will be challenged to look past the worn-out hitting theories and myths that have been holding back hitters from reaching their full potential. With an open mind and practice, all hitters can unlock the power and consistency that is Hitting with Torque.

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition)

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition)
Author: Paul Dickson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 1001
Release: 2011-06-13
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0393073491

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The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.

Coaching Soccer Tactics

Coaching Soccer Tactics
Author: Phil Wymer
Publisher: Soccertactics.com
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2004
Genre: Soccer
ISBN: 0955007607

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The Soccer Book

The Soccer Book
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0744088666

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Whether you want to bend it like Beckham or dribble like Ronaldinho, The Soccer Book is the ultimate visual guide to soccer skills, rules, tactics, and coaching, illustrating every aspect of every variant of the sport more clearly, and in more detail, than any other book has done before.

The Great and the Good

The Great and the Good
Author: John Giles
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2012-10-18
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1444743643

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In The Great and the Good, Ireland's leading football pundit and legend of the game John Giles looks back on more than fifty years of football, at developments in the game from the post-War period to the present day, the great players who drove it forward, the visionary managers and their teams, and the age-old question of what makes a player good and what makes one great. From his earliest days, John Giles can recall pondering the subject. 'You'd hear about certain 'great' players, such as Stanley Matthews, but no one would ever explain why they were great. And it's a thing that has always frustrated me: trying to define what makes a player great, and what separates the great from the good.' Now the man himself brings us the answers and celebrates the great ones, from Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney, Dave Mackay, John Charles, Johnny Haynes and Jimmy Greaves to Pele, Franz Beckenbauer, John Robertson, Diego Maradona, Marco van Basten, Lionel Messi, Paul Scholes and many more. It will include a section on Irish players including detailed analysis of such greats as Roy Keane, Liam Brady and Paul McGrath. And, finally, Giles names the player he considers the greatest of them all.