Libri più popolari in Italia●Baseball

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...

Data di rilascio : 2004-03-17 Genere:Sport e vita all'aperto 7,99 €

Una passione in comune. Un libro a quattro mani. Elio (il leader degli Elio e le Storie Tese) non è solo un grande musicista e uomo di spettacolo ma anche un tifoso appassionato, ex giocatore, dirigente, telecronista e volto noto, del baseball italiano. Sì, perché il baseball italiano esiste e questo libro lo prova. Alessandro Maestri, ex stella della Nazionale italiana, è fra i pochi europei ad aver giocato nel mitico campionato professionistico USA oltre che ad alti livelli in Australia, G...

Data di rilascio : 2021-12-02 9,99 €

Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Derek Jeter... Dieci storie di campioni, di ieri e di oggi, simboli del nostro tempo e del mondo dello sport. Toglietevi dalla testa l’idea che il baseball sia noioso: non esiste un campionato più ricco di sogni, speranze, imprese e vicende umane della Major League. Sul diamante si gioca tutti i giorni. E ogni volta si ricomincia da zero. Così che anche i più grandi campioni imparano a essere umili, ad accettare l’errore e la sconfitta. Non c’...

Data di rilascio : 2021-10-05 4,99 €

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...

Data di rilascio : 2011-07-19 Genere:Sport e vita all'aperto 16,99 €

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...

Data di rilascio : 2007-03-27 9,49 €

"E cosa facciamo con il terzo battitore?" chieste Mays al proprio manager. "Il terzo battitore è Stan Musial" gli rispose Durocher "non c'è niente che possiamo fare contro di lui".

Data di rilascio : 2015-12-29 1,99 €

Baseball is popular game mostly in USA, Australia, New zeland, UK and many sound American countries. It is played with a bat and a ball between two team and each players having 9 players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a ball thrown by opposite team player with a bat and touching the series of four based arranged at corners of 90 foot square or diamond.

Data di rilascio : 2011-04-21 0,49 €

“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...

Data di rilascio : 2006-08-15 9,99 €

Sabermetrics is taking baseball by storm. Whether you like it or not, it's difficult to watch a game without being inundated by stats you may never have come across before. The commentators can't take the time to fill us in on the subtleties of these metrics, and they're sometimes saying things about our favorite players or the game itself that we don't particularly care for. Are the numbers really as important as may Sabermetricians claim? How did we get to this point? Do we need to learn all o...

Data di rilascio : 2014-06-17 9,49 €

Essential for armchair umpires and scorekeepers, this guide challenges aficionados on every significant part of the Official Baseball Rules. Few sports lovers are as obsessed with rules and statistics as baseball fans. In So You Think You Know Baseball?, lifelong baseball enthusiast Peter E. Meltzer catalogues every noteworthy baseball rule from the Major League rulebook and illustrates its application with actual plays, from the historical to the contemporary. You can read the book from start t...

Data di rilascio : 2013-06-10 6,99 €

La storia del baseball bolognese, e di riflesso di quello italiano, raccontata attraverso i ricordi di un protagonista: le trasferte a proprie spese, i duri allenamenti, il duello epico tra lanciatore e battitore, i campi polverosi e improvvisati e soprattutto i sacrifici per inseguire una passione. Su tutto, l’emozione e l’entusiasmo di ogni partita, sognando l’America con l’orecchio teso alle gloriose radiocronache delle partite delle Major Leagues. La rievocazione di una stagione vici...

Data di rilascio : 2012-07-02 4,99 €

A fan's notes for the ages, Faithful grew from an email exchange last summer. Filled with the heady mix of exhilaration and frustration familiar to all Boston Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan fired off a note to fellow Sox fan, Stephen King, who responded with his thoughts on Pedro, Nomar, Manny, Mueller, and Theo. From the supposed Curse of the Bambino to f###in' Bucky Dent to the recent off-season battle for Alex Rodriguez, Sox fans have seen it all since 1918...except for that elusive World Champi...

Data di rilascio : 2004-12-02 16,99 €

The 2023 edition of The New York Times Bestselling Guide. PLAY BALL! The 28th edition of this industry-leading baseball annual contains all of the important statistics, player predictions and insider-level commentary that readers have come to expect, along with significant improvements to several statistics that were created by, and are exclusive to, Baseball Prospectus, and an expanded focus on international players and teams. Baseball Prospectus 2023 provides fantasy players and insiders alike...

Data di rilascio : 2023-02-27 27,99 €

The 50th Anniversary edition of “the book that changed baseball” (NPR), chosen by Time magazine as one of the “100 Greatest Non-Fiction” books.   When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold, and a “social leper” for having violated the “sanctity of the clubhouse.” Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force Bouton to sign a statement saying the book wasn’t true. Ballplayers, most of whom hadn’t read it, d...

Data di rilascio : 2012-03-20 12,99 €

THE TRUE STORY OF THE MANASSA MAULER He started out as a mine mucker and digger in construction camps. He fought anybody, anywhere. He got $2.50 for his first “regular” match. He was a hungry, penniless kid. Then almost overnight he was champion of the world and a millionaire and the idol of the nation. IT’S ALL HERE—THE WHOLE THRILLING TRUTH! ...the amazing story of the massacre of Giant Jess Willard, who was supposed to beat Dempsey to a pulp but who couldn’t come out for the fourth ...

Data di rilascio : 2019-07-23 3,49 €

Boasting a mix of homegrown talent and All-Star signings, the 2009 Yankees comprised the best of the best, from young up-and-comers to future Hall of Famers. With the previous season's failed playoff bid still as fresh as the paint job on the new Yankee Stadium, a 27th championship flag represented the singular objective of a squad which would mend clubhouse fractures, witness scandals and redemptions, and ultimately carve out a unique spot among the Yankees' pantheon of World Series teams. It w...

Data di rilascio : 2019-06-04 11,99 €

Former Major League pitcher and mental skills coach for two of baseball's legendary franchises (the Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants) Bob Tewksbury takes fans inside the psychology of baseball. In Ninety Percent Mental , Bob Tewksbury shows readers a side of the game only he can provide, given his singular background as both a longtime MLB pitcher and a mental skills coach for two of the sport's most fabled franchises, the Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants. Fans watching the game on...

Data di rilascio : 2018-03-20 4,49 €

Part baseball book and part travelogue, Off to See the Yankees explains the ins and outs of the weekend roadtrip to see the Yankees play in cities like St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, and Miami. With notes on the games, the ballparks, the cities, and the sights, Off to See the Yankees is the essential starter guide for fans considering getting away for a few days for a weekend of baseball and fun.

Data di rilascio : 2017-03-20 2,49 €

Let’s Hit ‘Em All tells the vivid story of a family’s journey to hit all the Major League ballparks—a good, old-fashioned family road trip to watch America’s favorite pastime from coast to coast. They traveled from rainy, picturesque Safeco in Seattle to the warm and stately Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. And they journeyed from the oldest MLB park still in use, Fenway in Boston, to the newest, Marlins Park in Miami. They didn’t just stop at stadiums on their way to “hit ‘em ...

Data di rilascio : 2016-08-26 6,49 €

Joe DiMaggio’s rise from the boy “least likely to succeed” to the top of the professional baseball world is truly a remarkable story. As a teenager his favorite sport was tennis, but when two of his brothers became professional baseball players, Joe realized that here was a way to fame and fortune he wanted for himself and his family. After three years with the San Francisco Seals, he was sold to the New York Yankees, where he gained everlasting fame as one of the greatest players in the h...

Data di rilascio : 2016-08-13 2,49 €

Atlanta Braves third baseman and National Hall of Famer Chipper Jones—one of the greatest switch-hitters in baseball history—shares his remarkable story, while capturing the magic nostalgia that sets baseball apart from every other sport.   Before Chipper Jones became an eight-time All-Star who amassed Hall of Fame–worthy statistics during a nineteen-year career with the Atlanta Braves, he was just a country kid from small town Pierson, Florida. A kid who grew up playing baseball in t...

Data di rilascio : 2017-04-04 10,99 €

Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra will forever be remembered as much for his jovial nature and humorous malapropisms as for his three Most Valuable Player awards and numerous World Series rings. The Yankees' beloved No. 8 passed away September 22, 2015 at the age of 90. A mainstay on the great Yankees teams of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, Berra was an 18-time All-Star and the American League MVP in 1951, 1954, and 1955. After retiring as a player, Berra managed both the Mets and Yankees ...

Data di rilascio : 2015-10-01 8,99 €

Examining the connection between baseball and our country’s history, How Baseball Explains America is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through the sport known as America’s pastime. Longtime USA Today baseball columnist Hal Bodley explores just how essential baseball is to understanding the American experience. He takes readers into the Oval Office with George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton as the former presidents share their thoughts on the game, he contrasts the highs and lows of Pete Ros...

Data di rilascio : 2014-05-01 12,99 €

Diamond Dollars is a fresh, provocative, insightful and analytical look at the business of baseball by author Vince Gennaro, a consultant to MLB teams. In doing so, Gennaro addresses some key questions that affect how teams make decisions, how they assemble their roster, and ultimately, their bottom line: -How does winning affect revenues for each team? -How much value does a berth in the postseason generate for the Red Sox and Yankees? -What is the Yankees’ marginal revenue vs. marginal cost ...

Data di rilascio : 2013-12-05 8,99 €

Former MLB player Luis Ortiz offers this collection of over 100 basic hitting drills designed to help athletes improve in almost every area of hitting, including: drills to mentally prepare you to hit the ball hard, drills to put you in a position to swing with power, drills to discipline the head and see the ball better, drills to improve the mechanics of the swing path, drills to improve rotation and leg use during the swing, drills to develop bat speed and improve reaction, and drills to impr...

Data di rilascio : 2006-09-16 13,99 €

This New York Times bestseller “takes you into the heart of baseball as it was in the 1960s, conveyed with humor and insight” (Tim McCarver, The Wall Street Journal ). Acclaimed New Yorker writer Roger Angell’s first book on baseball, The Summer Game, originally published in 1972, is a stunning collection of his essays on the major leagues, covering a span of ten seasons. Angell brilliantly captures the nation’s most beloved sport through the 1960s, spanning both the winning teams and th...

Data di rilascio : 2013-02-05 13,99 €

The Hardball Times' annual review of the 2012 baseball season, with prospect reviews and commentary, as well as ground-breaking historical research, economic and sabermetric articles. 100% baseball. The Hardball Times Annual is the "MVP of baseball annuals" and has been an annual bestseller since 2004. Inside the pages you'll find: - Craig Calcaterra's humorous take on the 2012 season. - An ode to the Red Sox's season that could have been. - A fan's take on thew amazing ups and downs of the Oakl...

Data di rilascio : 2012-11-15 7,49 €

Esta edición mejorada incluye animaciones 3D de más de 75 estiramientos y ejercicios específicos para beisbol. Con esta edición mejorada del libro podrá ver exactamente como se realizan todos estos ejercicios La guía definitiva, Entrenar con pesas para beisbol es la guía de entrenamiento más completa y actualizada específica para deportes en el mundo hoy en día. Contiene descripciones y fotografías de casi 100 de los ejercicios más efectivos de entrenamiento con pesas, flexibilidad y...

Data di rilascio : 2012-12-04 11,99 €

An ex–Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball ’s famed sabermetrics and beat the Vegas odds with his own betting methods. Here is the story of how Joe Peta turned fantasy baseball into a dream come true.   Joe Peta turned his back on his Wall Street trading career to pursue an ingenious—and incredibly risky—dream. He would apply his risk-analysis skills to Major League Baseball, and treat the sport like the S&P 500.   In Trading Bases , Peta takes us on his journey from th...

Data di rilascio : 2013-03-07 8,99 €

The team that refused to give up their manager in his final season A comeback that changed baseball After thirty-three seasons managing in Major League Baseball, Tony La Russa thought he had seen it all—that is, until the 2011 Cardinals. Down ten and a half games with little more than a month to play, the Cardinals had long been ruled out as serious postseason contenders. Yet in the face of those steep odds, this team mounted one of the most dramatic and impressive comebacks in baseball histor...

Data di rilascio : 2012-09-25 10,99 €

Popular Atlanta Braves catcher Javier “Javy” Lopez opens up in this autobiography to tell his amazing story, from learning to play baseball on a neighborhood basketball court to his record of 42 home runs in a season by a catcher. The product of a lower-middle-class background in Puerto Rico, Javy had to overcome numerous hardships—not the least of which was a language barrier—to fulfill his destiny as one of the most accomplished catchers of the modern era. He tells of bumps along the w...

Data di rilascio : 2012-04-01 1,49 €

As part of the acclaimed Sports Virtues series, Roberto Clemente: Dedication discusses the struggles and triumphs of Roberto Clemente's life. As with each story in the Sports Virtues series, this book assigns a virtue to a celebrated athlete or coach, and uses that person's story to help the reader achieve that virtue for him or herself. What emerges after reading these stories is not only a greater understanding and appreciation of the virtues that these icons needed to get through life, but al...

Data di rilascio : 2012-03-01 2,99 €

Since he first began publishing his Baseball Abstracts in the 1980s, Bill James has constantly challenged conventional wisdom by asking simple questions like, "Is that really true?" or "What if we looked at the question this way?" He has sparked a virtual revolution in the way the game of baseball is understood and played, from how players are evaluated or positioned to whether or not they should attempt to bunt or steal a base. In Solid Fool s Gold James continues his lifelong work with new ana...

Data di rilascio : 2011-03-15 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...

Data di rilascio : 2011-12-30 Genere:Sport e vita all'aperto 3,99 €

In the spring of 2002, Dave Bidini set off for Nettuno, Italy, with his wife, Janet, and their two small children, in search of his favourite summer game, baseball. Nettuno was his destination because this town, south of Rome, has been the baseball capital of Italy since 1944, when the game was introduced by the American GIs who liberated the region. Bidini wanted to spend time in a town where everyone is as nuts about the game as he is, and in Nettuno, they love the game so much that they hand ...

Data di rilascio : 2004-03-16 10,99 €

This is a baseball and travel book. A Missouri couple visited all thirty baseball parks, forty-eight continental states, five great lakes, and Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. They were present when Mark McGwire shattered batting records and hit his seventieth home run in 1998. The book is full of baseball trivia.

Data di rilascio : 1999-02-17 12,99 €

If you are like me, you probably have many betting accounts that are lying around idle. For a variety of reasons you may not be using those accounts, or be able to get the money out of them. I had this problem. Then I developed a technique that allowed me to get all those unused monies into my regular sportsbook accounts. You might find it useful.

Data di rilascio : 2011-04-23 2,99 €

What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2% , financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team’s Cinderella journey from divisio...

Data di rilascio : 2011-03-08 10,99 €

Our captain and leader has not left us, today, tomorrow, this year, next … Our endeavors will reflect our love and admiration for him.” —Honorary plaque to Munson in Yankee Stadium Thurman Munson is remembered by fans as the fiercely competitive, tough, and—most of all—inspiring Yankee captain and champion from the wild Bronx Zoo years. He is also remembered for his tragic death, at age thirty-two, when the private plane he was piloting crashed in Canton, Ohio, on August 2, 1979. Munso...

Data di rilascio : 2009-07-07 5,99 €

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige “Among the rare biographies of an athlete that transcend sports . . . gives us the man as well as the myth.”— The Boston Globe Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through dogged detective work, award-winning author and journalist Larry Tye has tracked down the truth about this majestic ...

Data di rilascio : 2009-06-09 10,99 €

Tom Stanton's Ty and The Babe tells of the incredible saga of baseball's fiercest rivals, the forging of a surprising friendship, and the battle for the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship Early in the twentieth century, fate thrust a young Babe Ruth into the gleaming orbit of Ty Cobb. The resulting collision produced a dazzling explosion and a struggle of mythic magnitude. At stake was not just baseball dominance, but eternal glory and the very soul of a sport. For much of fourteen seasons, the Co...

Data di rilascio : 2007-05-15 10,99 €

Professional sports in America: it’s all about fair play and the goal of winning championships. At least that’s the spin. But could it be a massive showbiz operation filled with greedy owners, crooked referees, and coddled players, all with the unstated goal of grabbing as much money as possible? Author Brian Tuohy provides a full-sourced saga of the corruption that has infected the storied histories of the NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, and NASCAR. With reality obscured by a complacent and often compl...

Data di rilascio : 2010-04-01 14,99 €

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...

Data di rilascio : 2010-05-11 Genere:Sport e vita all'aperto 33,99 €

On a quiet street on Long Island early on a December morning in 2005, more than fifty federal agents stood outside a lovely new home waiting for the front door to be opened. When it did, there stood the central figure in one of the biggest scandals in sports history: Kirk Radomski. Radomski was a regular New York kid who, from the age of fifteen had the amazing fortune of working in the Mets clubhouse. The focus of his job was to give the players whatever they wanted or needed—he got their uni...

Data di rilascio : 2009-01-27 3,49 €