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"Gold Glove Baseball"
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Aimed at baseball coaches and serious baseball players, this work is a detailed presentation of the defensive techniques and tactics needed to play baseball. It covers each facet of fielding, providing in-depth instruction, special insights and practice drills. It includes information for players of various ages and abilities. With 185 illustrations, 22 photos. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 254 x 178 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: American Baseball Coaches Association (Abca)
ISBN: 0736062637
Publisher: Human Kinetics Europe Ltd
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Baseball
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"Graphical Player"The Next Step in Sambermetric Research
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Shows baseball player stats visually. This book includes profiles of over 750 players. It provides career plots of fantasy value, daily game logs for 2007, in-season trends in key analytic indicators, and more. With tables & charts. 5 rev ed. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 275 x 210 mm. Weight: 540g.
Author: Burnson, John
ISBN: 1891566539
Publisher: Shandler Enterprises, Llc
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Baseball
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"Foundations of Baseball"
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Paperback, 128 pages. Size: 280 x 210 mm. Weight: 307g.
Author: Dolias, Steve
ISBN: 1420843826
Publisher: Authorhouse
Date: 2005 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Baseball
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"The Mental Abc's of Pitching"A Handbook for Performance Enhancement
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Paperback, 272 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 431g.
Author: Dorfman, H.A.
ISBN: 1888698292
Publisher: Diamond Communications
Date: 2001 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Baseball
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"Miracle Collapse"The 1969 Chicago Cubs
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Presents the story of Chicago Cubs, one of the talented Cubs teams ever to take the field - with Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, and pitcher Ferguson Jenkins among their ranks and led by the irascible manager Leo Durocher - raced to an early division lead and a seemingly certain pennant, only to unravel spectacularly at the season's end. With illustrations. Hardback, 275 pages. Size: 217 x 152 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: Feldmann, Doug Kessinger, Don
ISBN: 080322026X
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Baseball
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"Obsessed With...Baseball"
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"Obsessed With..." series; Explores little known facts, anecdotes, and trivia on America's national pastime. This book offers more than 2,500 questions to engage and challenge a baseball buff. It also features a lengthier question that goes deep into the subject, presenting intriguing narratives and surprising facts that go beyond the quick question-and-answer. With illustrations. Hardback, 320 pages. Size: 210 x 210 mm. Weight: 983g.
Author: Fischer, David Gigliotti, Jim Buckley, James, Jr.
ISBN: 1932855734
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Baseball
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"Basic Baseball Strategy"An Introduction for Coaches and Players
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A guide to baseball fundamentals that helps players and coaches build winning teams together. It addresses baseball rules and trends. It helps beginning coaches and players from youth or advanced leagues to master the fundamentals of the game. It also explains not only how to execute baseball's most basic plays but also why and when to do so. With illustrations. Revised. Paperback, 144 pages. Size: 231 x 185 mm. Weight: 300g.
Author: Freeman, Chuck
ISBN: 0071455019
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Baseball
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"Five O'Clock Lightning"Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the Greatest Baseball Team in History, the 1927 New York Yankees
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Offers a look at a mythical baseball team, the 1927 Yankees. With illustrations. Hardback, 272 pages. Size: 240 x 163 mm. Weight: 533g.
Author: Frommer, Harvey
ISBN: 0471778125
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date: 2008 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Baseball
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"Inside Pitch"Life in Professional Baseball
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From the spark of ambition to play baseball to the necessity of reinventing life after baseball, this book describes the lives of the men who work at America's national game. It examines the ballplayers' routines and rituals, describes their joys and frustrations, and investigates the roles of wives, fans, and groupies in their lives. With 34 illustrations, 2 tables. New ed. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 231 x 154 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Gmelch, George
ISBN: 080327128X
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Baseball
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"In the Ballpark"The Working Lives of Baseball People
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A collection of interviews with twenty-one people who work in different parts of Major and Minor League Baseball. Organized by setting - the stands, the field, the press box, and the front office - the accounts offer an insight into various aspects of the game. With 22 illustrations. Paperback, 288 pages. Size: 231 x 154 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Gmelch, George Weiner, J.J.
ISBN: 0803271271
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Baseball
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"The Five-Tool Player"Become the Total Package That Pro and College Baseball Scouts Want
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Shows you how to become a complete baseball performer who can hit for high average, hit for power, run fast, throw hard, and play excellent defense. With ill. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 228 x 185 mm. Weight: 414g.
Author: Gola, Mark
ISBN: 0071476210
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Baseball
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"100 Baseball Icons"A Century of Historic Baseball Memorabilia
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Handpicked from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, this work mines its archives, to present artefacts of outstanding achievements and legends in baseball history, including [list of specific noteworthy objects to come]. It also features images that capture the beauty and magic of these charged objects. With 100 full-colour photos. Hardback, 112 pages. Size: 229 x 229 mm. Weight: 681g.
Author: Hinrichs, Kit Hirasuna, Delphine
ISBN: 158008916X
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Date: 2008 (United States)
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"Baseball Between the Numbers"Why Everything You Know About the Game is Wrong
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A guide to the statistical thinking that's revolutionizing the game of baseball. It also examines the subtle, hidden aspects of the game, brings them out into the open, and shows us how various teams could win more games. With charts & graphs. New ed. Paperback, 528 pages. Size: 236 x 156 mm. Weight: 575g.
Author: Keri, Jonah
ISBN: 0465005470
Publisher: The Perseus Books Group
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Baseball
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"Faithful"Two Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
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Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan, lifelong Boston Red Sox addicts, chronicle the 2004 baseball season from spring training to the last dramatic game, in their dramatic World Series-winning season. With 8 b/w photo\illu(s). Paperback, 432 pages. Size: 197 x 129 mm. Weight: 362g.
Author: King, Stephen O'Nan, Stewart
ISBN: 0752864793
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
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"Growing the Game"The Globalization of Major League Baseball
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Offers a study of baseball in the process of globalizing. Looking at the international activities of big market and small market baseball teams, as well as the Commissioner's Office, this book examines the ways in which Major League Baseball operates on a world stage that reaches from the Dominican Republic to South Africa to Japan. Hardback, 304 pages. Size: 237 x 165 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: Klein, Alan M.
ISBN: 0300110456
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Baseball
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