Play Ball door Theo Reitsma
Verscheen aan de vooravond van het WK-honkbal in Nederland! Honkbal was decennialang een kleine amateursport in Nederland. Deze profsport (baseball) uit de VS beperkte zich in Europa tot een felle strijd tussen Nederland en Italië. De populariteit was in eigen land gestoeld op internationale toernooien in Rotterdam (World Port Tournament) en Haarlem (Haarlem Honkbal Week). Nadat honkbal een plaats op het olympische programma kreeg kwam de sport in een stroomversnelling. Nederland volgde scherp de spectaculaire ontwikkelingen van de laatste jaren. Profspelers deden hun intrede in de nationale ploeg. Wat was en bleef was de grote invloed van honkballers uit Aruba en Curaçao. Play Ball is gebaseerd op de verhalen van spelers en coaches, de mensen in de dug-out. Ook het opzetje om het wereldkampioenschap naar Nederland te halen en een plaats bij de Spelen te verdienen worden belicht.
Paperback | 126 Pagina's | Tirion Sport | 1ste Druk | 2005
ISBN10: 9043907537 | ISBN13: 9789043907538
Babe door Robert W. Creamer
The Legend Comes to Life
Babe Ruth moved beyond the baselines and outfield fences of the baseball stadiums that brought him riches and adulations to become a genuine American hero. In this acclaimed biography, Creamer reveals the man behind the legend. "The best biography ever written about an American sports figure".--Sports Illustrated.
Paperback | USA Edition | 1992
ISBN10: 067176070X | ISBN13: 9780671760700
Barry Bonds door Steven Travers
Baseball's Superman
Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman is the biography of the game's first four-time Most Valuable Player. In 2001, Bonds broke the greatest record in sports -- the all-time single season home run record held over the years by Babe Ruth, Roger Maris and Mark McGwire -- and, arguably, had the greatest season in baseball history. There is no doubt that for most fans Barry Bonds is a man of mystery. A misunderstood superstar who has long engaged in a running feud with the media, Bonds broke new ground this past season, maturing into an elder statesman of baseball. Long considered the game's best player, Bonds' ascension to greatness has taken him into truly rarefied air. Now a free-agent, he will sign a blockbuster deal before the 2002 season. Whether he's dressed in his familiar Giants uniform or that of another baseball power, Bonds will continue to receive front-page treatment for the balance of his career. The greatest athlete in the world right now, he embarks on milestones -- 3,000 career hits, 755 homers, a World Championship -- that may elevate him to the title Greatest Baseball Player of All Time. Author Steven Travers' book documents the superstar's 2001 campaign as Bonds defied the very bounds of conventional logic and perfected the art of long-ball hitting. Travers also describes Bonds' childhood in Riverside, California, the hometown of his father, Bobby; his successful high school career in the Bay Area, and his All-American career at Arizona State. It will be a book that delves into the intensely private, proud mind and ego of a man who understands baseball history and his place in it.
Hardcover | USA Edition | 2002
ISBN10: 1582614881 | ISBN13: 9781582614885
Chasing the Dream door Joe Torre & Tom Verducci
My Lifelong Journey to the World Series
"Maybe the good Lord was just waiting for me to put on the pinstripes."
When Joe Torre was fired as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1995, he thought his career in baseball was over. After more than three decades and 4,200 games as a player and manager, one thing had always eluded him--winning a World Series.
He had all but given up his dream when the New York Yankees made him an offer to manage their 1996 club. Encouraged by his wife and others, he accepted, and so began one of the greatest seasons in the fabled history of the New York Yankee franchise and one of the most inspiring, heartwarming stories in all of baseball. Here is the ultimate insider's record of that unforgettable season by the man whose personal struggles captured the hearts and imaginations of fans everywhere.
Paperback | Bantam Books | USA Edition | 1998
ISBN10: 055357907X | ISBN13: 9780553579079
Coach door Michael Lewis
Lessons on Baseball and Life The author of "Liar's Poker" reflects on a turning point in his life--a baseball game when he was 14--when the irascible Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand and conveyed such confident trust that the boy had no choice but to live up to it.
Hardcover | 96 Pagina's | W.W. Norton & Company Ltd | USA Edition | 2005
ISBN10: 0393060918 | ISBN13: 9780393060911
Cy Young door Reed Browning
HE WAS THE WINNER of 511 major league baseball games, nearly a hundred more than any other pitcher. He threw three no-hitters, including the first perfect game in the new American League. He was among the original twelve players inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame, and his name is now attached to the game's most prestigious pitching award. Yet for all his accomplishments, Cy Young remains to most baseball fans a legendary but little-known figure.
In this book, Reed Browning re-creates the life of Denton True "Cyclone" Young and places his story in the context of a rapidly changing, turn-of-the-century America. Born in rural Ohio, the son of a Civil War veteran, Young learned his trade at a time when only underhand pitching was permitted. When he began his professional career in 1890, pitchers wore no gloves and stood five feet closer to the batter than they do today. By the time he retired after the 1911 season, the game of baseball had evolved into its modern form and claimed unquestioned status as America's "national pastime".
As Browning shows, Young's extraordinary mastery of his craft owed much to his ability to adapt to the changing nature of the game. Endowed with an exceptional fastball, he gradually developed a wide array of deliveries and pitches -- all of which he could throw with astonishing control. Yet his success can also be attributed, at least in part, to the rustic values of loyalty, hard work, and fair play which he embraced and embodied and for which he became renowned among baseball fans of his day.
Hardcover | University of Massachusetts Press | USA Edition | 2000
ISBN10: 1558492623 | ISBN13: 9781558492622
Juiced door Jose Canseco
Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
One of the most electrifying and controversial athletes ever to step onto the baseball diamond shares outrageous tales of sex, drugs, and hard partying in the major leagues--as well as a never-before-seen look at baseball's dark secret: steroids--in his "New York Times" bestseller.
Paperback | ReganBooks | USA Edition | 2006
ISBN10: 0060746416 | ISBN13: 9780060746414
The 500 Home Run Club door Bob Allen
Baseball's 16 Greatest Home Run Hitters From Babe Ruth to Mark Mcguire.
The 500 Home Run Club: Baseball's Greatest Home Run Hitters from Babe Ruth to Mark McGwire is one of the most unusual and revealing baseball books ever written. It tells the stories of the 16 men who have hit more than 500 home runs. They are all here, from Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth to Mark McGwire, the latest player to hit 500 homers. In first-person accounts with friend and agent Bob Allen, baseball's most legendary sluggers describe and assess their own careers and lives, and each other's, including the obstacles they faced along the way. Allen interviewed 180 former major leaguers to get their first-person accounts of playing with and against baseball's most dominant sluggers in what is destined to become one of the best baseball books of all time.
Paperback | Sports Publishing, Inc. | USA Edition | 2000
ISBN10: 1582612897 | ISBN13: 9781582612898
The Big Bam door Leigh Montville
(Audio-books)The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth's larger-than-life personality defines the legendary hero in this entertaining biography by the bestselling author of "Ted Williams." Abridged. 5 CDs.
Audio Boeken | USA Edition | 2006
ISBN10: 0739332732 | ISBN13: 9780739332733
The Bad Guys Won door Jeff Pearlman
A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and others.
A team legendary for its outstanding record and its equally outstanding partying, the 1986 Mets were the last of baseball's insance, rock-and-roll, party-all-night teams. They won 108 regular season games and the World Series, but their outrageous behavior off the field leg management to break them up, ruining a ball club that could have won many more championships. With an unforgettable cast of characters - Doc, Straw, Gary, Keith, Lenny and Davey Johnson, to name a few - author Jeff Pearlmam memorializes the last of baseball's great wild men and explores what could have been, what should have been, and what never was.
Paperback | Perennial | USA Edition | 2005
ISBN10: 0060507330 | ISBN13: 9780060507336
The Natural Hitter's Drill Handbook, Volume 2 door Luis Ortiz
Former MLB player Luis Ortiz offers this collection of over 100 advanced hitting drills designed to help athletes improve in almost every area of hitting. Includes drills to develop a balanced stance and improve the mental approach, drills to put the hitt
Paperback | Coaches Choice Books | USA Edition | 2006
ISBN10: 1585189669 | ISBN13: 9781585189663
