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SABR 50 at 50 celebrates and highlights the Society for American
Baseball Research’s wide-ranging contributions to baseball
history. Established in 1971 in Cooperstown, New York, SABR has
sought to foster and disseminate the research of baseball—with
groundbreaking work from statisticians, historians, and independent
researchers—and has published dozens of articles with
far-reaching and long-lasting impact on the game. Among its current
membership are many Major and Minor League Baseball officials,
broadcasters, and writers as well as numerous former players. The
diversity of SABR members’ interests is reflected in this
fiftieth-anniversary volume—from baseball and the arts to
statistical analysis to the Deadball Era to women in baseball. SABR
50 at 50 includes the most important and influential research
published by members across a multitude of topics, including the
sabermetric work of Dick Cramer, Pete Palmer, and Bill James, along
with Jerry Malloy on the Negro Leagues, Keith Olbermann on why the
shortstop position is number 6, John Thorn and Jules Tygiel on the
untold story behind Jackie Robinson’s signing with the Dodgers,
and Gai Berlage on the Colorado Silver Bullets women’s team in
the 1990s. To provide history and context, each notable research
article is accompanied by a short introduction. As SABR celebrates
fifty years this collection gathers the organization’s most
notable research and baseball history for the serious baseball
reader. Â Â
Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records is less a
standard history and more an idiosyncratic memoir written by one of
the three Rounder founders. Rounder Records was born in 1970, a
“hobby that got out of control,†a fledgling record company
more or less conceived when vinyl still reigned, while the Sixties
were still in flower, and which began publishing on a shoestring
budget of just over $1,000. Founded by three friends just out of
college, the Boston-area company produced over 3,000 record albums,
the most active company of the last half-century, specializing in
roots music and its contemporary offshoots. Rounder won fifty-six
Grammy Awards and documented a swath of music that in many cases
might otherwise never have been presented to a broader public.
It’s arguably a quintessentially American success story. This
book focuses on the early years up to and just through when Rounder
evolved to a second stage, with a generational change that has kept
the label healthy and flourishing when so many other cultural
enterprises from the era have folded or gone dark. It includes
original photographs taken by the author or drawn from the Rounder
Records archives. It’s the story of three people with no
background in business who took an idea and, through hard work and
passion, built something of lasting cultural significance.
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One-Hit Wonders (Paperback)
Bill Nowlin, Len Levin, Carl Riechers
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R876
R776
Discovery Miles 7 760
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The Babe (Paperback)
Jane Leavy; Edited by Bill Nowlin, Glen Sparks
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R837
Discovery Miles 8 370
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