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Baseball goes west : the Dodgers, the Giants, and the shaping of the major leagues
Following the 1957 season, two of baseball's most famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants,left the city they had called home since the 19th century and headed west.The Dodgers went to Los Angeles andthe Giants to San Francisco.
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The spy in the bleachers
The Aldens help out at a minor league stadium and investigate when it appears someone in the ballpark is stealing the home team pitcher's signals and relaying them to the batters of the other team.
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Jazz Age Giant
In the early 1920s, when the New York Yankees' first dynasty was
taking shape, they were outplayed by their local rival, the New
York Giants. Led by manager John McGraw the Giants won four
consecutive National League pennants and two World Series, both
against the rival Yankees. Remarkably, the Giants succeeded despite
a dysfunctional and unmanageable front office. And at the center of
the turmoil was one of baseball's more improbable figures: club
president Charles A. Stoneham, who had purchased the Giants for $1
million in 1919, the largest amount ever paid for an American
sports team. Short, stout, and jowly, Charlie Stoneham embodied a
Jazz Age stereotype-a business and sporting man by day, he led
another life by night. He threw lavish parties, lived
extravagantly, and was often chronicled in the city tabloids.
Little is known about how he came to be one of the most successful
investment brokers in what were known as \"bucket shops,\" a highly
speculative and controversial branch of Wall Street. One thing
about Stoneham is clear, however: at the close of World War I he
was a wealthy man, with a net worth of more than $10 million. This
wealth made it possible for him to purchase majority control of the
Giants, one of the most successful franchises in Major League
Baseball. Stoneham, an owner of racehorses, a friend to local
politicians and Tammany Hall, a socialite and a man well placed in
New York business and political circles, was also implicated in a
number of business scandals and criminal activities. The Giants'
principal owner had to contend with federal indictments, civil
lawsuits, hostile fellow magnates, and troubles with booze,
gambling, and women. But during his sixteen-year tenure as club
president, the Giants achieved more success than the club had seen
under any prior regime. In Jazz Age Giant Robert Garratt
brings to life Stoneham's defining years leading the Giants in the
Roaring Twenties. With its layers of mystery and notoriety,
Stoneham's life epitomizes the high life and the changing mores of
American culture during the 1920s, and the importance of sport,
especially baseball, during the pivotal decade.
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Team psychology in sports : theory and practice
\"The ability to mould a group of talented individual athletes into an effective team takes effort and skill. Team Psychology in Sports examines the crucial factors in the development of an effective team, introducing important psychological and organizational concepts and offering evidence-based interventions for enhancing the performance of any sports team. The book neatly bridges the gap between theory and practice, with real sporting case studies, examples and practical tools included in each chapter. It covers the full range of issues in team sport, including: - planning - communication - cohesion - motivation - emotions - momentum - leadership - recovery. No other book offers such an up-to-date, relevant and applied guide to working with sports teams. It is essential reading for all students and practitioners working in sport psychology or sports coaching\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl
Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962. Never before had both the Yankees and the Mets been in contention for the playoffs so late in the same season. For months New York fans dreamed of the first Subway Series in nearly thirty years, and the Mets and the Yankees vied for their hearts. Despite their nearly identical records, the two teams were drastically different in performance and clubhouse atmosphere. The Mets were filled with young, homegrown talent led by outfielder Darryl Strawberry and pitcher Dwight Gooden. They were complemented by veterans including Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, Ray Knight, and George Foster. Leading them all was Davey Johnson, a player's manager. It was a team filled with hard nosed players who won over New York with their dirty uniforms, curtain calls, after-hours activities, and because, well, they weren't the Yankees. Meanwhile the Yankees featured some of the game's greatest talent. Rickey Henderson, Dave Winfield, Don Mattingly, and Don Baylor led a dynamic offense, while veterans such as Ron Guidry and Phil Niekro rounded out the pitching staff. But the Yankees' abundance of talent was easily overshadowed by their dominating owner, George Steinbrenner, whose daily intrusiveness made the 1985 Yankees appear more like a soap opera than a baseball team. There was a managerial firing before the end of April and the fourth return of Billy Martin as manager. Henderson was fined for missing two games, Lou Piniella almost resigned as coach, and Martin punctured a lung and then gave drunken managerial instructions from his hospital room. Despite all that, the Yankees almost won their division. While the drama inside the Mets' clubhouse only made the team more endearing to fans, the drama inside the Yankees' clubhouse had the opposite effect. The result was the most attention-grabbing and exciting season New York would see in generations. And it was the season the Mets would win the battle for the hearts of New York baseball fans, dominating the New York landscape for nearly a decade, while the Yankees faded into one of baseball's saddest franchises.
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Stumbling around the bases : the American League's mismanagement in the expansion eras
The first examination of the management of the American League and its consequences for the twentieth century.
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Major league baseball organizations
This book analyzes and highlights the development and success of major league baseball teams in the National League and the American League, focusing on each team's performance and the extent to which each succeeded as a business enterprise despite competition for market share from other types of entertainment.
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