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2019 SABR Baseball Research Award Few people have influenced a team
as much as did Tom Yawkey (1903-76) as owner of the Boston Red Sox.
After purchasing the Red Sox for $1.2 million in 1932, Yawkey
poured millions into building a better team and making the
franchise relevant again. Although the Red Sox never won a World
Series under Yawkey's ownership, there were still many highlights.
Lefty Grove won his three hundredth game; Jimmie Foxx hit fifty
home runs; Ted Williams batted .406 in 1941, and both Williams and
Carl Yastrzemski won Triple Crowns. Yawkey was viewed by fans as a
genial autocrat who ran his ball club like a hobby more than a
business and who spoiled his players. He was perhaps too trusting,
relying on flawed cronies rather than the most competent executives
to run his ballclub. One of his more unfortunate legacies was the
accusation that he was a racist, since the Red Sox were the last
Major League team to integrate, and his inaction in this regard
haunted both him and the team for decades. As one of the last great
patriarchal owners in baseball, he was the first person elected to
the Baseball Hall of Fame who hadn't been a player, manager, or
general manager. Bill Nowlin takes a close look at Yawkey's life as
a sportsman and as one of the leading philanthropists in New
England and South Carolina. He also addresses Yawkey's leadership
style and issues of racism during his tenure with the Red Sox.
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
356 pages, over 70 photographs Catcher Gus Triandos dubbed the
Philadelphia Phillies' 1964 season the year of the blue snow-a rare
thing that happens once in a great while. The Phillies were having
a spectacular season in which everything was going right. They held
a 6 1/2 game lead on September 20, with just 12 games to play. But
the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals never gave up, and when
the Phillies lost 10 consecutive games, it became a horrific
collapse for Phillies fanatics. But wait a minute. When it was
seemingly too late, the Phillies finally won a game-and the
first-place Cardinals lost two to the lowly Mets, so on the last
day of the season there might be a three-way tie for first place.
On the final day, the Phillies beat the Reds, 10-0. Could the Mets
knock off the first-place Cardinals for a third straight game? The
Mets carried a 3-2 lead into the bottom of the fifth, but
succumbed, 11-5. But what a season for Phillies fans. Jim Bunning
threw the first NL perfect game in 84 years. The hero of the 1964
All-Star Game was Johnny Callison, who hit the third walk-off home
run in the history of the All-Star Game. The team also boasted the
electrifying NL Rookie of the Year, slugging third baseman Richie
Allen (later called Dick Allen). In Philadelphia, the '64 campaign
left an ache that lasted for years. This book sheds light on the
facts for the reader to determine answers to lingering questions
they may still have about the Phillies team in the 1964 season-but
any book about a team is really about the players. A collaborative
effort by 37 members of the Society for American Baseball Research
(SABR), this work offers life stories of all the players and others
(managers, coaches, owners, and broadcasters) associated with this
star-crossed team, as well as essays of analysis and historical
recaps. Includes: Foreword by Mel Marmer Introduction by Mel Marmer
Opening Day 1964 Dick Allen by Rich D'Ambrosio Ruben Amaro by Rory
Costello The Amaro Chronicles by Rory Costello Two Gold Glove
Shortstops by Rory Costello Jack Baldschun by Chip Greene Dave
Bennett by Mark Armour Dennis Bennett by Mark Armour John Boozer by
Andy Sturgill Johnny Briggs by John Saccoman Jim Bunning by Ralph
Berger Johnny Callison by John Rossi Danny Cater by Brian
Englehardt Pat Corrales by James Ray Wes Covington by Andy Sturgill
Ray Culp by Mark Armour Clay Dalrymple by Rory Costello Ryne Duren
by Gregory H Wolf Tony Gonzalez by Jose Ramirez and Rory Costello
Dallas Green by Gregory H Wolf John Herrnstein by Brian Englehardt
Don Hoak by Jack V Morris Alex Johnson by Mark Armour Johnny
Klippstein by Gregory H Wolf Gary Kroll by Neil Poloncarz Bobby
Locke by Paul Geisler Art Mahaffey by Ralph Berger and Mel Marmer
Cal McLish by Joe Wancho Adolfo Phillips by Rob Neyer Vic Power by
Joe Wancho Ed Roebuck by Paul Hirsch Cookie Rojas by Peter Gordon
Bobby Shantz by Mel Marmer Costen Shockley by Chip Greene Chris
Short by Andy Sturgill Roy Sievers by Gregory H Wolf Morrie
Steevens by Len Levin Tony Taylor by Rory Costello and Jose Ramirez
Frank Thomas by Bob Hurte Gus Triandos by Neal Poloncarz Bobby Wine
by Bob Bloss Rick Wise by Bill Nowlin Gene Mauch by John Vorperian
Peanuts Lowrey by Dick Rosen George Myatt by John Green Bob Oldis
by Dan Even Al Widmar by Gregory H Wolf Bob Carpenter by James Ray
John Quinn by Rory Costello The Origins of the 1964 Phillies by Jim
Sweetman How the 1964 Phillies Were Built by Mel Marmer Shibe
Park/Connie Mack Stadium by James Ray Richie Ashburn by Seamus
Kearney Bill Campbell by Curt Smith By Saam by Neal Poloncarz Jim
Bunning's Perfect Game by James Ray Johnny Callison's All-Star Home
Run by Mel Marmer In Defense of Chico Ruiz's Mad Dash by Rory
Costello Pennant Was Stolen by Clem Comly Beyond Bunning and Short
Rest: An Analysis of Managerial Decisions That Led to the Phillies'
Epic Collapse of 1964 by Bryan Soderholm-Difatte Epilogue by Clem
Comly
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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