Baseball : Science at the Ballpark [1 ed.] 9781534561076, 9781534561069

Why does a curveball curve? Why is it sometimes better to slide into a base than to run to it? How can baseball players

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Baseball : Science at the Ballpark [1 ed.]
9781534561076, 9781534561069

Most baseball fans know of the amazing accomplishments Hall of Fame members achieved on the field, from Joe DiMaggio

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A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-college i

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Read the review at MLB.com The Green Monster. Pesky's Pole. The Lone Red Seat. Yawkey Way. To baseball fans this li

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The 38th World Congress of IIS addressed some of the most fundamental issues of sociological inquiry in light of global

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Long before Moneyball became a sensation or Nate Silver turned the knowledge he’d honed on baseball into electoral gold,

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Sports historian Allan Barra takes us on an unforgettable journey to Birmingham, Alabama, where America's oldest ba

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From its winners to its sinners, two bestselling sportswriters chronicle a dizzying trip through more than a century of

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This book is the story of the first part of my life and how I rediscovered myself. At the age of 38, a midlife crisis in

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