books about: baseball     books:       Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks40 reviews Zack Hample Vintage, 2007 Take me out to the ballgame Football may have the hard-hitting action and basketball may have the slam-dunk feats, but baseball has character. In what other sport are the fans supposed to all stand in the middle of a game and sing a song? Furthermore, while basketball, football, hockey and soccer are all essentially different versions of the same game (pushing a puck or ball into the goal defended by the opposition), ...             Baseball in April and Other Stories14 reviews Gary Soto Harcourt Paperbacks, 2000 Great storytelling I discovered Gary Soto's poetry in a public library in Nebraska. Then I read his short stories, my favorite being "Baseball in April." Like his poetry, these stories are beautiful in that they reveal a child's inner thought life; they also show the challenges that teenagers go through. Soto takes us back to his childhood in California. The stories occur in sunny Fresno, which is in the Central ...             Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book17 reviews Editors of Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated, 2006 Great pictures, wonderful stories I am 100% baseball fan. Since being a kid I was moved by the great players achievements. I enjoyed this bokk throughly. It's a work very well done and a prize for sports book's collectors. The only thing I regret is that, for unknown reasons, some of baseball hall of fame players pictures were not included, namely Harmon Killebrew.             Baseball Saved Us16 reviews Ken Mochizuki Lee & Low Books, 1995 Baseball Saved US Mochizuki, K. (1993). Baseball Saved Us. New York. LEE & LOW BOOKS. The story of "Shorty" and his family living at an interment camp during WWII can be used when teaching students about war, especially WWII. Younger students can relate to the character of "Shorty" and his struggles with fitting in and the hardships he feels among peers. Older students can debate the equality issues and the ...             Heads-Up Baseball : Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time10 reviews Tom Hanson, Ken Ravizza McGraw-Hill, 1998 Best baseball sports psych book I have seen I teach high school sports psychology and have used this book as a text on several occasions. I now make it mandatory for all of my softball and baseball players as additional reading. Their feedback has been nothing but positive regarding performance enhancement. I strongly recommend this user-friendly text for any sport!             Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else4 reviews Rob Neyer Fireside, 2008 Very Entertaining Read -- Probably Neyer's Best Book This is the third of Neyer's "Big Books" and, I think, the best. (His Big Book of Baseball Lineups and Big Book of Baseball Blunders are also quite good - as is his lesser known Feeding the Green Monster; The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers is his one clinker.) In this book, he takes a large number of baseball "legends" and discusses whether or not they are true. I put legends in quotation marks ...             The Boy Who Saved Baseball39 reviews John H. Ritter Puffin, 2005 Book Review by Tyler The Boy Who Saved Baseball is a good book for you if you love baseball. But my opinion is that some parts don't go with the topic of baseball. But most parts are fun like hitting contests. This book is basically about this group of boys just having fun together playing baseball. They all were having fun until they figured out that baseball is dying. Teeball was killing baseball because it ...             Baseball Field Guide: An In-Depth Illustrated Guide to the Complete Rules of Baseball (Baseball Field Guide: ...16 reviews Dan Formosa, Paul Hamburger Da Capo Press, 2008 Baseball explained I have attended minor league baseball for 15 years. It is amazing what I didn't know.             The Baseball Economist: The Real Game Exposed14 reviews J.C. Bradbury Dutton Adult, 2007 Brilliant, Thought-Provoking Book This book gives unique insight into popular baseball issues such as the big-city-versus-small-city economic disparity problem we face today, the argument against having left-handed catchers (which we discover isn't too convincing), and deciding how much a ball player is worth using economic theory. Geeky stuff, but a fascinating read.             The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance18 reviews H A Dorfman Diamond Communications, 2002 Must Have This book is as much about life as it is about baseball. The positive re-enforcement the book gives about accomplishing almost anything is the true message. Whenever you or one of your players is struggling, go back to this book to refresh a slumping attitude.             The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition (Espn Baseball Encyclopedia)5 reviews Sterling, 2008 Baseball Encyclopedia This is a wonderful and reasonably priced book for referencing the statistical record of the greatest game ever invented.             Coaching Youth Baseball the Ripken Way3 reviews Cal, Jr. Ripken, Bill Ripken, ... Human Kinetics Publishers, 2007 Fundamentally Sound coaching book Very well written book on coaching baseball for all ages. I read this book to get more informed on how to coach 5-6 year old T-Ball. This book provided a very good framework for this age group. Many well timed photographs used to describe practice drills. Table of contents Part 1 1 Responsibilities of Coaching 2 Realities of Coaching 3 Reasonable Expectations 4 Baseball Practice ...             The Physics of Baseball (3rd Edition)32 reviews Robert K. Adair Harper Paperbacks, 2002 A Great Read For The Average Baseball Fan The Physics of Baseball is a great book that should be read by any baseball fan who wants to understand the reasons behind why certain things in the game happen as they do. Robert Adair, a professor at Yale, informatively discusses nearly every aspect of the game through a scientific view. Adair uses models, graphs, and equations to further explain the content of the book. The average person ...             Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends, and Eerie Events10 reviews Mickey Bradley, Dan Gordon The Lyons Press, 2007 Great Stories I enjoyed reading all of the stories in this book. If you are a baseball fan you will like it. It has the curses that everybody knows about but it also has things that most people will never know.             2008 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards6 reviews Krause Publications, 2007 A Monster guide for an italian collector As I stated in my incipit this is a monster guide for me! it's a huge helping hand for me, as I am new in collecting trading cards on baseball! I began some months ago and till today I own 10,000 cards circa; and day by day I begin to understand what I have in my hands...a piece of American sport history and this thanks to Don Flukinger and his guide! I will for sure continue to follow from this ...             The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America38 reviews Joe Posnanski William Morrow, 2007 A Philosophy To Live By The Soul of Baseball illuminates what life can be. It would help anyone get past their bitterness and see that life is about what I can do today and not what happened yesterday or what will happen tomorrow.             The Hidden Language of Baseball4 reviews Paul Dickson Walker & Company, 2005 Everything you should know about what you thought you knew Paul Dickson has done it again! Here's a book that all baseball fans will love, even those modest folk who know everything there is to know about the game. "The Hidden Language of Baseball" is the book to read -- after you make it a most valuable gift to your kids, who have often asked you (as if you knew) what those goofy and not-so goofy signs mean, who dreamed them up and how come the other ...             Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong20 reviews The Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts Basic Books, 2007 Great book great read. It shines some light into generally accepted baseball numbers. If you loved Moneyball, you'll love this book.             Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide 2008 (Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide)19 reviews Beckett Media, 2008 Beckett Baseball Price Guide This was received in a very timely fashion and when it was suppose to arrive. Amazon is a great company. This is not the first item ordered from Amazon and it will NOT be the last.             Baseball For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))21 reviews Joe Morgan, Richard Lally For Dummies, 2005 Joe Morgan is a genius! If you think someone whose ego is bigger than the Pampas of Argentina can ever be a genius. Because I find that ego usually clouds intellectual process. And if my line of reasoning is correct, Joe Morgan is the stupidest person in the world. I once met Joe at a Hummel Convention in San Diego. He was going up to people unsolicited saying, "I'm hall of famer Joe Morgan. 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