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Blending scientific fact and sports trivia, Robert Adair examines what a baseball or player in motion does-and why. How fast can a batted ball go? What effect do stitch patterns have on wind resistance? How far does a curve ball break? Who reaches first base faster after a bunt, a right- or left-handed batter? The answers are often surprising -- and always illuminating. This newly revised third edition considers recent developments in the science of sport such as the neurophysiology of batting, bat vibration, and the character of the "sweet spot." Faster pitchers, longer hitters, and enclosed stadiums also get a good, hard scientific look to determine their effects on the game. Filled with anecdotes about famous players and incidents, The Physics of Baseball provides fans with fascinating insights into America's favorite pastime.
The influence of baseball heritage in society and culture
Baseball's past has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and
much has been written about both the sport and its history. This is
the first volume to explore the understudied side of baseball-how
its heritage is understood, interpreted, commodified, and performed
for various purposes today. These essays reveal how baseball's
heritage can be a source of great enjoyment and inspiration,
tracing its influence on constructed environments, such as stadiums
and monuments, and food and popular culture. The contributors
discuss how its heritage can be used to address social, political,
and economic aims and agendas and can reveal tensions about whose
past is remembered and whose is laid aside. Contributors address
race and racism in the sport, representations of women in baseball,
ballparks as repositories for baseball's heritage, and the role of
museums in generating the game's heritage narrative. Providing
perspectives on the social impact and influence of baseball in the
United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, the Caribbean,
and the United Kingdom, Baseball and Cultural Heritage shows how
the performance of baseball heritage can reflect the culture and
heritage of a nation. A volume in the series Cultural Heritage
Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel
With its sprawl of teams in major, minor, and independent leagues,
with its narrative interwoven with our national history, with its
catalog of larger-than-life characters, baseball is always a story.
The story of baseball is often told by the players and the managers
whose faces we recognize. Those storytellers are always men. But
this baseball story is a girl's coming-of-age memoir. Addie Beth
Denton's 108 Stitches reminds us of the women and girls whose lives
were shaped by America's national pastime. Denton's father and
uncle were baseball men: her uncle, Harry Craft, was a manager for
major league franchises in Kansas City, Chicago, and Houston. As a
minor league coach, Harry Craft was Mickey Mantle's first manager.
108 Stitches captures the sights, smells, and sensations of growing
up with baseball from Addie Beth's unique vantage point. There are
home runs, no-hitters, cantankerous old-timers, and ambitious young
gunners, but there are also warmhearted family stories, adolescent
melodramas, and the multifaceted experiences of girlhood lived
within a man's world. Written for fans young and old, male and
female, Addie Beth Denton's memoir stitches together her heartfelt
memories of a nostalgic period in American and baseball history.
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