The SABR Baseball List & Record Book

The SABR Baseball List & Record Book
Author: Society for American Baseball Research
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1416554564


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From the authority on baseball research and statistics comes a vast and fascinating compendium of unique baseball lists and records. The SABR Baseball List & Record Book is an expansive collection of pitching, hitting, fielding, home run, team, and rookie records not available online or in any other book. This is a treasure trove of baseball history for statistically minded baseball fans that's also packed with intriguing marginalia. For instance, on July 25, 1967, Chicago's Ken Berry ended Game Two of a doubleheader against Cleveland with a home run in the bottom of the sixteenth inning -- Chicago's second game-winning homer of the day. The comprehensive lists include Most Career Home Runs by Two Brothers (Tommie and Hank Aaron have 768), Most Seasons with 15 or More Wins (Cy Young and Greg Maddux each have 18), and Highest On Base Percentage in a Season by a Rookie (listing every rookie above .400). Unlike other record books that only list the record holders -- say, most RBI by a rookie, held by Ted Williams with 145 -- SABR details every rookie to reach 100 RBI. Other record books might note the last pitcher in each league to steal home; here SABR has included every pitcher to do it. The book also includes a number of idiosyncratic features, such as a rundown of every player who has hit a triple and then stolen home, or every reliever who has won two games in one day. Many of the lists include a comments column for key historical notes and entertaining trivia (Bob Horner hit four home runs in a 1986 game, but his team lost). This is a must-have for every fan's library. Edited by Lyle Spatz, Chairman of the Baseball Records Committee for SABR

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book
Author: W.C. Madden
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2008-03-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0786437472


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For a dozen years during the 1940s and 1950s more than 600 women played professional baseball in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Some of these women compiled some eye-popping statistics unequaled by their male counterparts: Sophie Kurys swiped 200 bases in one season; Joanne Winter hurled 63 consecutive scoreless innings; pitcher Jean Faut sported a .910 winning percentage one season. Few know that Joanne Weaver was the last professional baseball player to hit .400 in a season: .429 in 1954. This reference book contains the hitting, fielding and pitching records of all women who played in the AAGPBL during its 12-year history. The book also contains all of the team and individual playoff records of the league, compiled for the first time. Included herein are rosters of the all-star teams, as well as a listing of all pitching and batting champions. A brief history of the league is recounted. Complementing the statistics are photos of the league championship teams and key players.

Bridging Two Dynasties

Bridging Two Dynasties
Author: Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0803240945


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Tells the story of how the 1947 New York Yankees won the pennant that year, set a record with a nineteen-game winning streak, and won the first televised World Series.

The Last Yankee

The Last Yankee
Author: Society for American Baseball Research (Sabr)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1999-01-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780910137775


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A collection of articles, essays, statistics, and lore on the game of baseball.

Drama and Pride in the Gateway City

Drama and Pride in the Gateway City
Author: Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 866
Release: 2020-02-17
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1496210506


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By 1964 the storied St. Louis Cardinals had gone seventeen years without so much as a pennant. Things began to turn around in 1953, when August A. Busch Jr. bought the team and famously asked where all the black players were. Under the leadership of men like Bing Devine and Johnny Keane, the Cardinals began signing talented players regardless of color, and slowly their star started to rise again. Drama and Pride in the Gateway City commemorates the team that Bing Devine built, the 1964 team that prevailed in one of the tightest three-way pennant races of all time and then went on to win the World Series, beating the New York Yankees in the full seven games. All the men come alive in these pages--pitchers Ray Sadecki and Bob Gibson, players Lou Brock, Curt Flood, and Bobby Shantz, manager Johnny Keane, his coaches, the Cardinals' broadcasters, and Bill White, who would one day run the entire National League--along with the dramatic events that made the 1964 Cardinals such a memorable club in a memorable year.

The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America

The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America
Author: Lyle Spatz
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0803239920


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Tells the story of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers in contextualized biographies of the players, managers, and everyone else important to the team.

Carl Hubbell

Carl Hubbell
Author: Lowell L. Blaisdell
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0786456515


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This work is a biography of Carl Hubbell, a baseball legend who was active in the 1930s for the New York Giants and an eight-time All-Star. Hubbell was a left-handed ace from Oklahoma who is still regarded as one of the greatest pitchers of all time and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947. With an emphasis on his pitching career, this biography covers both his personal life and his development as a player.

The Chalmers Race

The Chalmers Race
Author: Rick Huhn
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2021-09
Genre: SPORTS & RECREATION
ISBN: 149622938X


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The Chalmers Race is the story of Ty Cobb and Napoleon Lajoie and the controversial 1910 batting race.

Black Baseball's National Showcase

Black Baseball's National Showcase
Author: Larry Lester
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780803280007


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A lively illustrated introduction to the Negro League equivalent of the All-Star Game discusses the history of the games, as well as the colorful cast of promoters, gamblers, and hucksters who made it happen. Original.

Historical Dictionary of Baseball

Historical Dictionary of Baseball
Author: Lyle Spatz
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2012-12-21
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0810879549


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Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as “our game, the American game,” and George Will compared calling baseball “just a game” to the Grand Canyon being “just a hole.” Countless others have called baseball “the most elegant game,” and to those who have played it, it’s life. The Historical Dictionary of Baseball is primarily devoted to the major leagues it also includes entries on the minor leagues, the Negro Leagues, women’s baseball, baseball in various other countries, and other non-major league related topics. It traces baseball, in general, and these topics individually, from their beginnings up to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on the roles of the players on the field—batters, pitchers, fielders—as well as non-playing personnel—general managers, managers, coaches, and umpires. There are also entries for individual teams and leagues, stadiums and ballparks, the role of the draft and reserve clause, and baseball’s rules, and statistical categories. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of baseball.