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Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2009-09-12
ISBN : 0786454199
Pages : 218 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (454 Download)

Download PDF Hard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost Book by Lew Freedman Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-09-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He pitched a baseball game that was more than perfect, and yet he lost. Southpaw Harvey Haddix had logged a solid but unspectacular career by the time he took the mound on May 26, 1959. Facing the Milwaukee Braves, he set down the first 36 batters in a row, or 12 innings’ worth—a perfect game three innings longer than the norm. But his Pittsburgh Pirates couldn’t score, either, and Haddix lost in the 13th inning on a controversial play. This book recounts Haddix’s one-of-a-kind performance and describes the official decisions that changed the historical record.

Sweet '60

Author : Bill Nowlin
Publisher : SABR, Inc.
Release Date :
ISBN : 1933599499
Pages : 340 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (599 Download)

Download PDF Sweet '60 Book by Bill Nowlin Full eBook and published by SABR, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet ’60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates is the joint product of 44 authors and editors from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) who have pooled their efforts to create a portrait of the 1960 team which pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the last 60 years. Game Seven of the 1960 World Series between the Pirates and the Yankees swung back and forth. Heading into the bottom of the eighth inning at Forbes Field, the Yankees had outscored the Pirates, 53-21, and held a 7–4 lead in the deciding game. The Pirates hadn’t won a World Championship since 1925, while the Yanks had won 17 of them in the same stretch of time, seven of the preceding 11 years. The Pirates scored five times in the bottom of the eighth and took the lead, only to cough it up in the top of the ninth. The game was tied 9–9 in the bottom of the ninth. At 3:36, Bill Mazeroski swung at Ralph Terry’s slider. As Curt Smith writes in these pages: “There goes a long drive hit deep to left field!” said Gunner. “Going back is Yogi Berra! Going back! You can kiss it good-bye!” No smooch was ever lovelier. “How did we do it, Possum? How did we do it?” Prince said finally, din all around. Woods didn’t know—only that, “I’m looking at the wildest thing since I was on Hollywood Boulevard the night World War II ended.” David had toppled Goliath. It was a blow that awakened a generation, one that millions of people saw on television, one of TV’s first iconic World Series moments.

Dingers

Author : Joshua Shifrin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-05-03
ISBN : 161321832X
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (218 Download)

Download PDF Dingers Book by Joshua Shifrin Full eBook and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From splitters to spitters; from a frozen rope to the suicide squeeze; from extra innings to no hitters, baseball is truly a great game. But nothing hypes up a crowd like a home run, a round tripper, a big bomb . . . the long ball! Hitting the ball out of the park is one of the greatest feats in baseball, and doing so in the clutch can make an average player a hero overnight. In Dingers, authors Joshua Shifrin and Tom Shea break down the 101 most memorable home runs in baseball history, telling their stories and how they affected the game of baseball. Whether it’s “The Shot Heard ’Round the World” or Hank Aaron’s 715th blast, readers will get an inside scoop on some of the most famous moments that now live in baseball lore. Whether you were there when Reggie Jackson hit three-straight home runs in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series, watched Joe Carter’s 1993 World Series-winning home run live, or have seen highlights from Bill Mazeroski’s memorable shot in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, Dingers is for baseball fans young and old. Relive the moments you cherish to the ones you’ve only heard tales about. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Almost Perfect

Author : Joe Cox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-02-01
ISBN : 1493019511
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (19 Download)

Download PDF Almost Perfect Book by Joe Cox Full eBook and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich, poignant tales of major league baseball’s most hard-luck fraternity—the pitchers of its Almost-Perfect Games From 1908 to 2015, there have been thirteen pitchers who have begun Major League Baseball games by retiring the first twenty-six opposing batters, but then, one out from completing a perfect game, somehow faltering (or having perfection stolen from them). Three other pitchers did successfully retire twenty-seven batters in a row, but are still not credited with perfect games. While stories of pitching the perfect game have been told and retold, Almost Perfect looks at how baseball, at its core, is about heartbreak, and these sixteen men are closer to what baseball really is, and why we remain invested in the sport. Author Joe Cox visits this notion through a century of baseball and through these sixteen pitchers—recounting their games in thrilling fashion, telling the personal stories of the fascinating (and very human) baseball figures involved, and exploring the historical American and baseball backdrops of each flawed gem. From George “Hooks” Wiltse's nearly perfect game in 1908 to “Hard Luck” Harvey Haddix’s 12-inning, 36-consecutive-outs performance on May 26, 1959 (the most astounding single-game pitching performance in baseball history) to Max Scherzer’s near miss in 2015, Joe Cox’s book captures the action, the humanity, and the history of the national pastime’s greatest “almosts.”

The Day All the Stars Came Out

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
ISBN : 0786457759
Pages : 231 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (457 Download)

Download PDF The Day All the Stars Came Out Book by Lew Freedman Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of major league baseball’s first All-Star game, originally conceived in 1933 as a one-time “Game of the Century” (including greats such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Carl Hubbell and Lefty Grove) to lift the spirits of the nation and its people in the midst of the Great Depression. The game was so successful that it became a yearly event and an integral part of the baseball season. The work covers the game, from the Chicago Tribune’s early advocacy for the contest through every play, and the later accomplishments of many of the individuals involved.

Johnny Mize

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2022-05-05
ISBN : 1476685932
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (685 Download)

Download PDF Johnny Mize Book by Lew Freedman Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his 15-season Major League career, slugger Johnny Mize was among the preeminent power hitters in baseball, a star for the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Giants, and a clutch player for the New York Yankees when they won five straight World Series in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Raised in rural Georgia, Mize caught the tail end of the Cardinals' Gas House Gang era and had his career interrupted by World War II before achieving greatness at the plate. An MVP, perennial All-Star and four-time National League home-run champion, he made a science of batting and wrote a book on it (How to Hit, 1953). This first full-length biography traces the arc of Mize's career through his prime years in the limelight to his retirement, when renewed interest in his legacy saw him inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Caught by Don Hutson!

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2022-10-24
ISBN : 1476646333
Pages : 235 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (646 Download)

Download PDF Caught by Don Hutson! Book by Lew Freedman Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revered pass catcher Don Hutson played for three Green Bay Packers championship squads between 1935 and 1945 and was a charter-class member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963. An All-American wide receiver for the University of Alabama, the Pine Bluff, Arkansas, native was a pioneer of the position, mastering the passing game just as it was reaching maturation. Hutson invented many of the pass routes still in use today and retired from the game with 19 NFL records, some of which stood for decades. This first book-length biography chronicles Hutson's life and career during football's leather helmet era of the Great Depression and World War II.

Buffalo Bill Cody

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2020-09-17
ISBN : 1476640068
Pages : 244 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (64 Download)

Download PDF Buffalo Bill Cody Book by Lew Freedman Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) rose from humble origins in Iowa to become one of the most famous and most photographed people in the world. He became a leading scout during the American Indian Wars, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, and a renowned show business fixture whose traveling Wild West exhibitions played to millions of spectators the world over for 30 years. He hobnobbed with presidents, kings, queens and European heads of state, befriending many legendary individuals of the West, from General George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull to Wild Bill Hickok and Annie Oakley. Aside from these achievements, Cody's most important legacy may be how he shaped the world's enduring views of the American West through his shows, which he considered to be educational events rather than entertainment. This biography is a fresh look at the life of Buffalo Bill.

Lightning Strikes Twice

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2021-04-13
ISBN : 1476641080
Pages : 203 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (641 Download)

Download PDF Lightning Strikes Twice Book by Lew Freedman Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June of 1938, southpaw Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds became the only pitcher in Major League history to hurl two consecutive no-hitters--an achievement that has stood unsurpassed for more than 80 years. Vander Meer was just 23 at the time and a glorious future was predicted. Despite injuries, he became a four-time All-Star yet ended up a .500 pitcher--not a surefire Hall of Famer as many expected. Both the Reds and Vander Meer persevered, but decades later the left-hander is best remembered for his stunning no-hit package. This volume follows Vander Meer and the Reds through the triumphs of two National League pennants and one World Series title, the hardship of World War II, and the trying suicide of a teammate.

Cy Young

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2020-07-08
ISBN : 1476676828
Pages : 206 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (676 Download)

Download PDF Cy Young Book by Lew Freedman Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early celebrity pitcher, Denton "Cy" Young (1867-1955) established supreme standards on the mound. A small-town Ohio farmer made good, he set Major League pitching records in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that will likely last forever. The winner of 511 games--nearly one hundred more than the second-ranked hurler--Young pitched the first perfect game of the modern era, as well as three no-hitters. His talents helped establish the American League in 1901. Among the Hall of Fame's first inductees, he remained a sought-after interviewee decades after retirement. A year after his death, the Cy Young Award was dedicated as baseball's most prestigious honor for pitchers.

The Boyer Brothers of Baseball

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2015-01-24
ISBN : 1476617368
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (617 Download)

Download PDF The Boyer Brothers of Baseball Book by Lew Freedman Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This the story of the seven baseball-playing Boyer brothers from western Missouri who signed professional contracts in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Led by oldest brother Cloyd, a pitcher, third baseman Ken and third baseman Clete, three of the seven brothers reached the majors. This book recounts their hardscrabble upbringing and how they fought their way to success. Initially discouraged by arm injuries that curtailed his big-league career, Cloyd became a coach and manager at the minor and major league levels, and remained in the game for nearly half a century. The most accomplished, Ken, became a perennial National League All-Star, and was the 1964 Most Valuable Player. In the 1960s, he was the face of the St. Louis Cardinals, and after his playing days ended he returned to manage the team. Clete gained prominence as a regular for the American League champion New York Yankees, and competed in five World Series before starring in the National League and concluding his career in Japan. While they did not make it to the top, the other four brothers enrich the story with their own baseball histories, and help illustrate how the closeness of the family helped each of them succeed.

Connie Mackäó»s First Dynasty

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2017-08-11
ISBN : 1476629099
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (629 Download)

Download PDF Connie Mackäó»s First Dynasty Book by Lew Freedman Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a century ago, the Philadelphia Athletics enjoyed a glorious five-season run under legendary manager Connie Mack, winning three World Series and four pennants from 1910 through 1914. A’s stars such as Hall of Famers Eddie Plank, Eddie Collins, Albert “Chief” Bender and Frank “Home Run” Baker are well known among baseball aficionados—and this book reveals more about their lives and careers. Mack’s pivotal role in founding the team and building it into a successful franchise—before he shocked the sports world by dismantling it—is covered, along with the advent of the all-but-forgotten Federal League.

Baseballäó»s Funnymen

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2017-01-03
ISBN : 1476624933
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (624 Download)

Download PDF Baseballäó»s Funnymen Book by Lew Freedman Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Nick Altrock to Casey Stengel, Dizzy Dean to Satchel Paige, Bill Veeck to Bob Uecker, baseball has always admired the clever. This book tells the stories of some of the players, coaches, managers and broadcasters who had the most fun in the Major Leagues and made fans laugh out loud (or shake their heads in disbelief). The author recounts tales both famous and little known that capture the character of unusual and offbeat players, unique and engaging personalities and the succession of eccentrics who were officially dubbed “Clown Prince of Baseball.”

Ernie Banks

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2019-05-16
ISBN : 1476635137
Pages : 201 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (635 Download)

Download PDF Ernie Banks Book by Lew Freedman Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernie Banks is perhaps the most popular ballplayer in the history of the Chicago Cubs--a man as famous for his personality and trademark phrases as for his accomplishments on the field. Nicknamed "Mr. Cub," Banks won two National League Most Valuable Player awards and slugged 512 home runs, all while battling discrimination and poverty. His conduct away from the field was so exemplary he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Based on extensive research and personal interviews conducted by the author, this biography details the life of the Texas-born shortstop and first baseman, from his childhood playing softball to his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame to his death in 2015. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'}

DiMaggioÕs Yankees

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2011-10-06
ISBN : 0786488247
Pages : 223 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (488 Download)

Download PDF DiMaggioÕs Yankees Book by Lew Freedman Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Babe Ruth left the New York Yankees in 1935, some feared that the loss would cripple the club for years. However, the post–Ruth era Yankees continued to dominate until the start of World War II. Their forward-thinking administrative staff signed and developed top-flight talent like Joe DiMaggio and retained superstars like Lou Gehrig, who remained the greatest first baseman in the game until he succumbed to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. This history of the Yankees from 1936 to late into World War II details the team’s swift recovery from losing Ruth and reintroduces unheralded players, examines the personal styles of the key men, and chronicles the team’s remarkable achievements, including six American League pennants in eight years and five World Series victories.

Early Wynn, the Go-Go White Sox and the 1959 World Series

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2014-11-01
ISBN : 0786455128
Pages : 223 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (455 Download)

Download PDF Early Wynn, the Go-Go White Sox and the 1959 World Series Book by Lew Freedman Full eBook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how the hapless Chicago White Sox, badly hurt by the banning of players after the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, floundered until the 1950s when they were finally rebuilt and had their first success in 40 years. The culminating event was the capture of the 1959 American League pennant, made possible by aging pitcher Early Wynn. Wynn, nearly 40, was the best pitcher in the game that season, winning 22 games and the Cy Young Award. He was the last piece in the puzzle that put the Sox over the top and, in addition to the team’s historic season, the book tracks his life before, during and after baseball.

Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball Drawings 1934–1972

Author : Willard Mullin
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Release Date : 2013-08-17
ISBN : 1606996398
Pages : 241 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (996 Download)

Download PDF Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball Drawings 1934–1972 Book by Willard Mullin Full eBook and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2013-08-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fantagraphics’ ceaseless effort to rediscover every world-class cartoonist in the history of the medium, we turn your attention to a neglected part of the art form—sports cartooning—and to its greatest practitioner—Willard Mullin. The years 1930-1970 were the Golden Age of both American sports and American comic strips, when giants strode their respective fields—Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Hank Aaron in one, George (Krazy Kat) Herriman, Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff, Walt (Pogo) Kelly in the other—and Mullin was there, straddling both fields, recording every major player and event in the mid-20th-century history of baseball. Mullin was to baseball players what Bill Mauldin was to soldiers: advocate and critic, investing them with personality, humanity, dignity, and poignancy; Mauldin had Willie & Joe and Mullin had the Brooklyn Bum, his affectionate 1939 character representing the bedraggled figure of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972 collects for the first time Mullin’s best drawings devoted to baseball—depictions of players like Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Yogi Berra, and Sandy Koufax, legendary managers like Casey Stengel and George Steinbrenner, and events like Lou Gehrig’s emotional retirement speech on July 4, 1939, for which Mullin not only drew a portrait but composed a poem (which he often incorporated into his cartoons). Mullin’s fluid line and delicate but vigorous brushwork are shown to beautiful effect, with many drawings reproduced from original art. See why millions of baseball fans from the ’30s to the ’70s looked forward to Mullin’s cartoons in their daily paper.