Baseball Memories 1950-1959
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Author | : Marc Okkonen |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780806904276 |
Examines the first decade of the twentieth century with a collection of newspaper and postcard pictures, and offers tidbits on players, managers, ballparks, and sports writers of that period
Author | : Gene Fehler |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0786493089 |
Baseball in the 1950s comes to life through the words of 92 players from the fifties. In their conversations with author Gene Fehler, they tell, in more than a thousand stories and comments, of memorable moments, their dealings with umpires and managers, injuries and trades that affected their careers, regrets and joys that still remain with them so many years later. Players spoken to include Hall of Famers, All Stars, journeymen, and a few who were in the big leagues for the proverbial cup of coffee. Regardless of stature, they all have wonderful stories to tell about big league life in the 1950s, high and low, and moments with other players.
Author | : Jerry Crasnick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Baseball |
ISBN | : 9781581594713 |
Author | : David Fischer |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2019-04-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1493038931 |
The 1950s marked a transformative period in postwar American history. In baseball, one dynasty was the story during the decade. The New York Yankees played in eight World Series from 1950 to 1959, winning six of them. Yankees icon Joe DiMaggio retired following the 1951 season, but a new super star, Mickey Mantle, took over in Yankee Stadium’s center field in 1952. Mantle, the powerful switch-hitter who blasted tape-measure home runs, often tortured by leg ailments, was the number one box office draw in baseball. He was the American League’s most valuable player in 1956 and 1957, putting together a triple crown season in 1956. Mantle came into baseball when TV was just beginning to stir, and with the Yankees reaching the World Series and appearing on national TV seemingly every season, he became the face of the game during the decade. Mantle joined with his pals, pitcher Whitey Ford and infielder Billy Martin, to form a hard-partying trio that would be a joy and a pain to management. The author of several books on the Yankees, David Fischer will bring expertise and a knack for great story-telling to the saga of the most dominant decade in the annals of sport, set during a defining moment in U.S. history.
Author | : Rich Marazzi |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2015-06-08 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476604290 |
The playing and post-playing careers of all 1,560 players who appeared in a major league box score between 1950 and 1959--the "golden age," many say--are profiled in this exhaustive work. From Aaron to Zuverink: this treasure-trove of anecdotes, many gathered from personal interviews, is full of historical facts, controversy, and trivia. Readers will be reminded, that Milwaukee Braves pitcher Humberto Robinson was asked by a gambler to fix a game against the Phillies (he refused), Joe Adcock chased Giants pitcher Ruben Gomez around the field with a bat, Bob Turley reached the top of the corporate ladder after his playing days, Casey Wise became an orthodontist, Bobby Brown became a heart surgeon and president of the AL, and that Chuck Conners became an actor. All of this and much more can be found here.
Author | : Don Zminda |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2009-02-15 |
Genre | : Baseball teams |
ISBN | : 9780879463861 |
Go-Go to Glory celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the scrappy Go-Go Sox of 1959--a team that broke a forty-year pennant drought in Chicago's South Side by overcoming the New York Yankee's dominance of the American League. Histories of Comiskey Park and the lead-up to the 1959 season, coupled with original biographies of all the players, coaches, broadcasters, and key front-office personnel, are accompanied by fan memoirs. A project of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), Go-Go to Glory book gathers the collective efforts of more than forty SABR members and friends of this nonprofit research society.
Author | : Marc Okkonen |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing (NY) |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780806905747 |
Author | : Mark Armour |
Publisher | : University of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2018-04-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1496206010 |
The 1936 Yankees, the 1963 Dodgers, the 1975 Reds, the 2010 Giants—why do some baseball teams win while others don’t? General managers and fans alike have pondered this most important of baseball questions. The Moneyball strategy is not the first example of how new ideas and innovative management have transformed the way teams are assembled. In Pursuit of Pennants examines and analyzes a number of compelling, winning baseball teams over the past hundred-plus years, focusing on their decision making and how they assembled their championship teams. Whether through scouting, integration, instruction, expansion, free agency, or modernizing their management structure, each winning team and each era had its own version of Moneyball, where front office decisions often made the difference. Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt show how these teams succeeded and how they relied on talent both on the field and in the front office. While there is no recipe for guaranteed success in a competitive, ever-changing environment, these teams demonstrate how creatively thinking about one’s circumstances can often lead to a competitive advantage. Purchase the audio edition.
Author | : Richard Marazzi |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Baseball |
ISBN | : 9780786412815 |
The playing and post-playing careers of all 1,560 players who appeared in a major league box score between 1950 and 1959 - the golden age, many say - are profiled in this exhaustive work. From Aaron to Zuverink: this treasure-trove of anecdotes, many gathered from personal interviews by the authors, are full of historical facts, controversy, and trivia. For example, readers will learn, or be reminded, that Humberto Robinson, a Milwaukee Braves pitcher, was approached by a gambler and asked to fix a game against the Phillies, that Joe Adcock chased Giants' pitcher Ruben Gomez with a bat around the field, Bob Turley reached the top of the corporate ladder after his playing days, Casey Wise became an orthodontist, Bobby Brown became a heart surgeon and president of the AL, and that Chuck Conners became an actor. All of this and much more can be found here.