Ball sports / ball games

This volume presents carefully selected, and annotated, articles about major-leaguers serving at home and overseas in the U.

The fifty-eight year Easter Monday baseball rivalry between North Carolina State University and Wake Forest University had a traditional fraternity celebration known as the PIKA Ball, held on the N.

This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870 (McFarland 2011).

This is the biography of Bud Fowler (ne John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, and the longest tenured at the time that the color line was drawn.

Baseball's ranks are filled with those whose careers may not have been as spectacular as Ruth or Mays but who played essential roles in the game's history, like footnotes in a great book.

This book explains how the NFL determines each team's opponents and how the league's scheduling format has evolved throughout the years.

This book brings to life one of baseball's greatest sluggers, Willie Stargell.

Here are 42 interviews with women who competed in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Burleigh Grimes--forever to be remembered as the ill-tempered spitballer with the perpetual five o'clock shadow.

After many disappointing seasons during the 1930s, the 1938 Pittsburgh Pirates looked like they were finally poised to claim their first National League pennant since 1927.

Billy Southworth was the most successful major league baseball manager of the 1940s including the three straight years in which his St.

The story about baseball's being invented in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 by Abner Doubleday served to prove that the U.

Spring training is a time of renewal for baseball, when teams and fans descend on Florida and Arizona to begin the ever hopeful new season.

Napoleon Lajoie was the sixth player, and the first second baseman, to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Alfonso Ramon Lopez spent 36 years in the big leagues as a catcher and manager.

A comprehensive, non-partisan account of the judicial proceedings spawned by the corruption of the 1919 World Series is badly needed.

Gross Productivity Average, or GPA, is a new baseball statistic that measures performance.

Although Andrew "e;Rube"e; Foster (1879-1930) stands among the best African American pitchers of the 1900s, this baseball pioneer made his name as the founder and president of the Negro National League, the first all-black league to survive a full season.

In the years following the decline of the New York Yankees dynasty that ended in 1964, three American League teams endeavored to stake their claim to the Junior Circuit's crown.

This book is the result of one man's twenty-year quest to solve some of baseball's most enduring mysteries--the "e;cold cases"e; of major leaguers about whom virtually nothing is known.

This book presents a scientific but easy to understand explanation of pitching power.

The book follows the colorful career of Frank Lane, who as baseball's busiest general manager during the 1950s made the deals that turned the Chicago White Sox, St.

This is the story of one of the most dramatic baseball seasons ever, as it stretched both backwards and forwards--from the ghosts of seasons and players past to the reality of what followed.

How did the business of professional baseball fare during World War II?

This book examines the American Basketball League and its short history, beginning with its conception in 1959-60 and its two seasons of play, 1961-1963.

With more losses and last-place finishes than any other club in Major League Baseball, the Philadelphia Phillies have earned a reputation as one of the most unsuccessful teams ever to take the field.

Negro League ballplayers, earning paychecks comparable to those of blue-collar workers, needed an off-season source of income to make ends meet.

The Ebbets Field volume is the second in McFarland's series on historic ballparks.

There is no question that the physical and mental demands of the sport of baseball are rigorous.

Under the attentive guidance of a volunteer manager passionate about baseball, a group of boys assembled as the B team to play travel baseball for their town team.

Over the last twelve years, Stephan Ehritt-Vanc and Andreea Ehritt-Vanc, founders of the Pro-M International Tennis Academy, have played in or coached several players in more than sixty Grand Slams.

In observing todays football coaching techniques on the high school level, I have noticed that some coaches try to follow college and even pro football coaches sophisticated methods such as elaborate signals, multitude of plays, etc.

It was the fall of 1940, and Americans turned to college football for relief from the turbulent world around them.

In 1962, following two losing seasons, Coach John McKay was fighting for his job.

Volunteer coaches in recreational leagues for youngsters can make a difference, but its important that they have the tools and wisdom to be great leaders.

He began with no athletic ability.

Liv's temper is causing problems, on and off the football field.

This book introduces young football fans to the World Cup.

Football shows kids the growing sport of football.

Do you dream of scoring a goal?

There is only one Ars ne Wenger - and for the very first time, in his own words, this is his story.

An authoritative 100-year history of America's National Football League from its founding.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018The uplifting, feel-good autobiography of Ben Ryan, the coach of the Olympic gold-medal winning Fijian rugby team It is late summer 2013.

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019Towards the beginning of the twenty-first century, Borussia Dortmund were on the verge of going out of business.

Ask a British football fan what they know about Turkish football, and they are unlikely to describe scenes of camaraderie, hospitality and humour.

Shortlisted for the 2017 Cross Sports Book Awards Best Biography of the YearBryant is one of basketball's greatest-ever players, a fascinating and complicated character who says he knew when he was a boy that he would be better than Michael Jordan.

THE STORY OF THE LIONESSES FROM THE NO.

An expansive and compelling chronicle tracing the rise of modern women's basketballElvera "e;Peps"e; Neuman got lost in the sounds and rhythms of basketball, dribbling and shooting on a hoop affixed to her family's barn in Eden Valley, Minnesota.