Baseball

The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Perfo...

In this book, authors H.A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl present their practical and proven strategy for developing the mental skills needed to achieve peak performance at every level of the...

Baseball...

The companion audiobook to Ken burns’s magnificent PBS television seriesThe authors of the acclaimed and history-making bestseller The Civil War flow turn to another American phenomenon. Their subject is baseball.During eight months of the year, it is played professionally every day; all year round, amateurs play it, watch it, and dream about it. Baseball produces remarkable Americans: it seizes hold of ordinary people...

Heads-Up Baseball : Playing the Game One Pitch at ...

What does it mean to play heads-up baseball? A heads-up player has confidence in his ability, keeps control in pressure situations, and focuses on one pitch at a time. His mental skills enable him to play consistently at or near his best despite the adversity baseball presents each day. “My ability to fully focus on what I had to do on a daily basis was what made me the successful player I was. Sure I had some natural...

Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan̵...

Whether youre a major league couch potato, life-long season ticket-holder, or teaching game to a beginner, Watching Baseball Smarter leaves no territory uncovered. In this smart and funny fans guide Hample explains the ins and outs of pitching, hitting, running, and fielding, while offering insider trivia and anecdotes that will surprise even the most informed viewers of our national pastime. What is the difference between a...

Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You K...

For baseball fans young, old, and in between, the ultimate guide to the new statistical thinking that’s revolutionizing the game. The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport, until now no one had written the book that reveals, across...

Baseball Field Guide: An In-Depth Illustrated Guid...

Clear, readable, and updated, a one-stop field guide to the rules of baseball. If you want to play the game the way it was meant to be played, Baseball Field Guide is for you. With its straightforward language and layout, Baseball Field Guide organizes and explains the sometimes vague, misleading, confusing, inconsistent, and obscure rules governing America’s favorite pastime. The book is comprehensive, covering...

Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball...

No owner has changed the landscape of sports more than New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. From the moment he bought the team in 1973 for $10 million, Steinbrenner’s monomaniacal pursuit was to restore the most fabled franchise in baseball history to its former glory. Today the New York Yankees are worth more than $1 billion and are once again world champions. Award-winning sportswriter Bill Madden traces...

The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and ...

Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. What truly governs the Major League game is a set of unwritten rules, some of which are openly discussed (dont steal a base with a big lead late in the game), and some of which only a minority of players are even aware of (dont cross between the catcher and the pitcher on the way to the batters box)....

The Unwritten Rules of Baseball: The Etiquette, Co...

From beanballs to basebrawls, the most important rules governing the game of baseball have never been officially written downuntil now. They have no sanction from the Commissioner, appear nowhere in any official publication, and are generally not posted on any clubhouse wall. They represent a set of time-honored customs, rituals, and good manners that show a respect for the game, one’s teammates, and one’s...

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