Libros más populares en España●Béisbol

Michael Lewis’s instant classic may be “the most influential book on sports ever written” (People), but “you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis’s] thoughts about it” (Janet Maslin, New York Times). One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2004-03-17 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 7,99 €

Benjamin C. Alamar founded the first journal dedicated to sports statistics, the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports . He developed and teaches a class on sports analytics for managers at the University of San Francisco and has published numerous cutting-edge studies on strategy and player evaluation. Today, he cochairs the sports statistics section of the International Statistics Institute and consults with several professional teams and businesses in sports analytics. There isn't a bett...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-08-06 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 24,99 €

What do Julius Erving, Larry Brown, Moses Malone, Bob Costas, the Indiana Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs and the Slam Dunk Contest have in common? They all got their professional starts in the American Basketball Association. What do Julius Erving, Larry Brown, Moses Malone, Bob Costas, the Indiana Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs and the Slam Dunk Contest have in common? They all got their professional starts in the American Basketball Association. The NBA may have won the financial battle, but the...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-07-19 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 16,99 €

“Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey’s book proves it, without wasting a word.”—Lee Eisenberg, author of The Number In Baseball , one of the great bards of America’s Grand Old Game gives a rousing account of the sport, from its pre-Republic roots to the present day. George Vecsey casts a fresh eye on the game, illuminates its foibles and triumphs, and performs a marvelous feat: m...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2006-08-15 9,99 €

Zack Hample's bestselling, smart, and funny fan’s guide to baseball explains the ins and outs of pitching, hitting, running, and fielding, while offering insider trivia and anecdotes that will appeal to anyone—whether you're a major league couch potato, life-long season ticket-holder, or a beginner. • What is the difference between a slider and a curveball? • At which stadium did “The Wave” first make an appearance? • Which positions are never played by lefties? • Why do some pla...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2007-03-27 9,49 €

'El Sistema: El equipo de los 130 puntos por partido' es un libro que se centra en el estilo de juego practicado en la Liga de Desarrollo americana, concretamente en su equipo más anotador. En sus páginas encontramos los datos estadísticos, la técnica, la táctica y los ejercicios que permitirían su trabajo en la cancha. También aporta unas nociones de preparación física.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-05-19 2,99 €

In this book, authors H.A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl present their practical and proven strategy for developing the mental skills needed to achieve peak performance at every level of the game.The theory and applications are illustrated by anecdotes and insights from major and minor league players, who at some point discovered the importance of mastering the inner game in order to play baseball as it should be played. Intended for players, managers, coaches, agents, and administrators as well as fan...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-03-01 10,99 €

In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers, and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams we root for could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, and win more games. The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2007-02-27 12,99 €

The New York Times  Bestseller With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic journey to become World Series champions. It took 108 years, but it really happened. The Chicago Cubs are once again World Series champions.  How did a team composed of unknown, youn...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-03-28 8,99 €

Futures Guide 2016  gives you all this and more: - The  Baseball Prospectus  Top 101 Prospects, with complete commentary from  Baseball Prospectus 2016 - Top 10 Prospects for every major-league team: 300 prospect capsules, with exclusive updates to account for trades and other player movement. - Bonus listing of the Top 10 under 25, as well as state-of-the-system and front office summaries. - Baseball Prospectus ' 2016 Organizational Rankings. Every major-league organization,...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-03-29 4,49 €

Una lectura obligatoria para todos los peloteros, entrenadores y fanáticos… Geoff Miller, entrenador mental, ha dedicado años a ayudar a peloteros profesionales a mejorar su fuerza mental – tanto fuera como dentro del terreno. Ahora ofrece estas valiosas lecciones para todo el mundo que ama el juego de béisbol. Desde el bachillerato hasta las grandes ligas, todos los peloteros confrontan dificultades: la competencia, la presión y sus propios problemas personales. Mediante inspiradoras hi...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-02-11 11,99 €

101 Leadership Lessons from Baseball’s Greatest Managers provides great reminders, tidbits, and insights for coaches in any sport, as well as for business leaders. Featuring the wisdom and insights of several baseball greats who helped make the game the national pastime, the book explains how to apply the lessons of the past to the circumstances of the present, both on the diamond and in the workplace.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-09-11 15,99 €

“Easily the best baseball book ever produced by anyone.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer “This was the best baseball book published in 1966, it is the best baseball book of its kind now, and, if it is reissued in 10 years, it will be the best baseball book.” — People From Lawrence Ritter, co-author of The Image of Their Greatness and The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time, comes one of the bestselling, most acclaimed sports books of all time. Baseball was different in earlie...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-07-02 10,99 €

Written by three esteemed baseball statisticians, The Book continues where the legendary Bill James’s Baseball Abstracts  and Palmer and Thorn’s  The Hidden Game of Baseball  left off more than twenty years ago. Continuing in the grand tradition of sabermetrics, the authors provide a revolutionary way to think about baseball with principles that can be applied at every level, from high school to the major leagues. Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, and Andrew Dolphin cover topics su...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2006-03-21 8,99 €

In Red Sox history, baseball fans get the absolute best moments the game has to offer: Cy Young’s perfect game, Ted Williams’ historic 1941 season, the Triple Crown seasons for Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski, Roger Clemens twice striking out 20 batters, the batting titles for Wade Boggs, Dave Henderson saving the Red Sox a gainst Donnie Moore and the Angels, Carlton Fisk waving his ball fair, Bernie Carbo hitting a pair of pinch-hit homers in the World Series, Fred Lynn winning Rookie of ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-02-02 1,99 €

"Double Duty" Radcliffe is the biography of one of the most unique baseball stars in history. Nicknamed "Double Duty" because he was an all-star pitcher and catcher, Radcliffe played from 1919-1954 in the Negro Leagues with teams such as the Chicago American Giants, Homestead Grays, Kansas City Monarchs, Birmingham Black Barons, New York Black Yankees and Memphis Red Sox. In this book, called "amazing" by Sports Illustrated, Radcliffe's own words are intertwined with background information and i...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-12-08 5,99 €

THE TEAM: The Giants franchise is the winningest in professional baseball history, having won more regular season games than the Cubs, Yankees, Dodgers, or Red Sox. The Giants have been to the World Series 18 times and claimed six championships during baseball's modern era--and the success of this franchise has been built on legends, as the club also boasts more Hall of Fame players than any other in the sport. THE FORMAT: The presentation created by the authors distinguishes Sports by the Numbe...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-10-13 3,99 €

When SPORTS ILLUSTRATED was launched in 1954, baseball was, indisputable, the national pastime, its stars America's epic heroes, its rivalries the era's mythology. As baseballs fortunes rose and fell over the next 50 years--and then rose again to new heights, drawing more than 65 million fans to ballparks in 2004 - the game never failed to produce great drama and inspired storytelling. This collection is a virtual Hall of Fame from the pages of SI, bringing together the stories of baseball's gre...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-10-30 5,49 €

No sport has inspired better writing than baseball, and no one writes baseball better than Tom Verducci.As Sports Illustrateds lead baseball writer since 1993, Verducci has witnessed the achievements of the games greatest heroes and told their inspiring stories with unmatched passion and sophistication. He has enriched SIs readers with an insiders perspective on the game, examining subtle shifts in the ever-changing balance between pitchers and hitters, between slumps and streaks, between sacred...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-01-27 5,49 €

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. Who better to follow the fortunes of a 'cursed' team like the Boston Red Sox than two renowned horror writers and lifelong Red Sox addicts? Red Sox fans have seen it all since 1918... except that elusive World Championship. The memory of 2003's devastating ALCS Game 7 loss and the anticipation of new ace...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-12-30 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 3,99 €

Seeing baseball played at Fenway is an experience like no other for Red Sox fans and rivals alike because the park reminds us of what baseball used to be.  Fenway may not offer fans the best seats or even adequate parking, but when game-goers walk through the park's gate, the smell of hotdogs and roasted peanuts, the sight of Fenway's brilliant green grass and the roar of the Fenway faithful overwhelms the most jaded of baseball enthusiasts, even Yankee fans. At Fenway celebrates the r...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 1996-04-30 10,99 €

Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Forget Alexander Joy Cartwright and the New York Knickerbockers. Instead, meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton, and Louis Fenn Wadsworth, each of whom has a stronger claim to baseball paternity than Doubleday or Cartwright. But did baseball even have a father—or did it just evolve from other bat-and-ball games? John Thorn, baseball’s preeminent historian, examines the creation story...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-03-15 15,99 €

When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball's beloved “Sultan of Stats” (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the new millennium. Like the original, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is really several books in one. The Game provides a century's worth of American baseball history, told one decade at a...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-05-11 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 33,99 €