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Now available in paperback, the "fresh and fascinating" ("The Plain
Dealer," Cleveland), "splendid and brilliant" ("Philadelphia Daily
News") history of the early game by the Official Historian of Major
League Baseball.
Who really invented baseball? Forget Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown
and Alexander Cartwright. Meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus
Wheaton, and other fascinating figures buried beneath the
falsehoods that have accrued around baseball's origins. This is the
true story of how organized baseball started, how gambling shaped
the game from its earliest days, and how it became our national
pastime and our national mirror.
"Baseball in the Garden of Eden" draws on original research to tell
how the game evolved from other bat-and-ball games and gradually
supplanted them, how the New York game came to dominate other
variants, and how gambling and secret professionalism promoted and
plagued the game. From a religious society's plot to anoint Abner
Doubleday as baseball's progenitor to a set of scoundrels and
scandals far more pervasive than the Black Sox Fix of 1919, this
entertaining book is full of surprises. Even the most expert
baseball fan will learn something new with almost every page.
Peverelly's Book of American Pastimes, which covered several sports
from badminton to horseracing, is best known for its dominant
chapter on base ball, "The National Game." It is the first
historical-reference book ever published about the sport, and
includes the rosters of the most prominent early clubs with results
of games played from their beginnings through 1866. The original
200-page chapter, a seminal work of baseball historiography, is
reproduced here in full, supplemented by contemporary images and
captions by nineteenth-century baseball historians John Freyer and
Mark Rucker.
A comprehensive tome of baseball facts, figures, and
did-you-knows-- newly updated! For fans of baseball trivia, this
updated version of The New Baseball Bible, first published as The
Baseball Catalog in 1980 and selected as a Book-of-the-Month Club
alternate, is sure to provide something for everyone, regardless of
team allegiance. The book covers the following topics: beginnings
of baseball, rules and records, umpires, how to play the game
(i.e., strategy), equipment, ballparks, famous faces (i.e., Hank
Aaron vs. Babe Ruth), managers, executives, trades, the media, big
moments in history, the language of baseball, superstitions and
traditions, spring training, today's game through the 2019 season,
and much more. Veteran sportswriter Dan Schlossberg weaves in
facts, figures, and famous quotes, discusses strategy, and provides
stats and images--many of them never previously published
elsewhere. With this book, you'll discover how the players'
approach, use of equipment, and even salaries and schedules have
changed over time. You will also learn the origin of team and
player nicknames, fun facts about the All-Star Game and World
Series, and so much more. The New Baseball Bible serves as the
perfect gift for fans of America's pastime.
The fascinating, true, story of baseball's amateur origins.
"Explores the conditions and factors that begat the game in the
19th century and turned it into the national pastime....A
delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love
from the first crack of the bat."-Paul Dickson, The Wall Street
Journal Baseball's true founders don't have plaques in Cooperstown.
The founders were the hundreds of uncredited amateurs - ordinary
people - who played without gloves, facemasks or performance
incentives in the middle decades of the 19th century. Unlike
today's pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They
worked, built businesses and fought against the South in the Civil
War. But that's not the way the story has been told. The wrongness
of baseball history can be staggering. You may have heard that
Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither
did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers
played the first baseball game in 1846. They didn't. You have read
that baseball's color line was uncrossed and unchallenged until
Jackie Robinson in 1947. Nope. You have been told that the clean,
corporate 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings were baseball's first
professional club. Not true. They weren't the first professionals;
they weren't all that clean, either. You may have heard
Cooperstown, Hoboken, or New York City called the birthplace of
baseball, but not Brooklyn. Yet Brooklyn was the home of baseball's
first fans, the first ballpark, the first statistics-and modern
pitching. Baseball was originally supposed to be played, not
watched. This changed when crowds began to show up at games in
Brooklyn in the late 1850s. We fans weren't invited to the party;
we crashed it. Professionalism wasn't part of the plan either, but
when an 1858 Brooklyn versus New York City series accidentally
proved that people would pay to see a game, the writing was on the
outfield wall. When the first professional league was formed in
1871, baseball was already a fully formed modern sport with
championships, media coverage, and famous stars. Professional
baseball invented an organization, but not the sport itself.
Baseball's amazing amateurs had already done that. Thomas W.
Gilbert's history is for baseball fans and anyone fascinating by
history, American culture, and how great things began.
Ranging from the Egypt of the Pharaohs to the present day,
Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists offers a unique
insight into the history of dermatology and the influences that led
to present practice. It sheds new light on the emergence of
dermatology as a separate medical speciality and on some of the key
players who have contributed to its development. Arranged as an
illustrated time-line this volume features an exceptional range of
historical plates such as 'Molluscum contagiosum', from Thomas
Bateman's Delineations of Cutaneous Diseases, 1817, an 1869
painting of ichthyosis hystrix by Carl Heitzmann, and early
experiments in ultraviolet therapy by Finsen and colleagues in
1903. The authors have selected individuals representative of each
era, workers who dealt seriously with the dermatologic concerns of
the day, or who through their opinions or behavior project the
color and ambience of the period in which they lived. They have
included typical examples of the books, journals, instruments, and
devices that made up the annals and paraphernalia of the speciality
as it evolved. In order to know where you are going, you have to
know where you've been. The field of dermatology has been
fragmented in the last 30 years. It is becoming increasingly
difficult to answer the simple questions: What is dermatology and
what is a dermatologist? Research dermatology,
dermato-histopathology, pediatric dermatology, and the explosion of
surgical techniques have all made their mark on how dermatology is
practiced. Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists
explores the development of this field and where it may be going in
the future.
One of the classic baseball stories, You Know Me Al, first
published in 1914, tells the story of the fictional Jack Keefe, a
bush league baseball player who earns a trip to the majors to pitch
for the Chicago White Sox. Set in pre World War I, the book is
comprised of letters that Keefe sends to his "old pal" Al. Through
the letters, the self-centered Keefe reveals his regular struggles
to maintain his position in the big leagues as well as his personal
life and juggle his financial difficulties. Nevertheless, the tales
from on and off the field as he travels with the team are full of
wit, insight, and entertainment. They include Keefe's encounters
with baseball legends such as Ty Cobb, Charles Comiskey, Walter
Johnson, and Eddie Cicotte. In this edition of the book, which
includes a foreword by acclaimed writer John Thorn, readers can
relive all of the glory of this historic era of baseball through
the eyes of one of Ring Lardner's most comical characters, a
century after his creation! Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our
Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of
books for readers interested in sports books about baseball, pro
football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or
soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you
are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you
are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you
root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins,
or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins,
Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we
have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New
York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to
publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other
publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a
home.
The 1988 cult classic behind football's data analytics revolution,
now back in print with a new foreword and preface. Data analytics
have revolutionized football. With play sheets informed by advanced
statistical analysis, today's coaches pass more, kick less, and go
for more two-point or fourth-down conversions than ever before. In
1988, sportswriters Bob Carroll, Pete Palmer, and John Thorn
proposed just this style of play in The Hidden Game of Football,
but at the time baffled readers scoffed at such a heartless
approach to the game. Football was the ultimate team sport and
unlike baseball could not be reduced to pure probabilities.
Nevertheless, the book developed a cult following among analysts
who, inspired by its unorthodox methods, went on to develop the
core metrics of football analytics used today: win probability,
expected points, QBR, and more. With a new preface by Thorn and
Palmer and a new foreword by Football Outsiders's Aaron Schatz, The
Hidden Game of Football remains an essential resource for armchair
coaches, fantasy managers, and fans of all stripes.
First published in 1953, this new edition of the popular Classics in Clinical Dermatology with Biographical Sketches has been updated to include developments during the 50 years since its initial publication. It contains the complete contents of the first edition and presents over 30 additional papers, some of them classics not included in the first edition and other significant publications from the second half of the 20th century. The diseases depicted vary from daily clinical fare to the rarest of the rare. Some chapters provide case reports, while others are the result of countless hours spent meticulously studying patients. Compiled and edited by acknowledged leaders in the field, Classics in Clinical Dermatology with Biographical Sketches 50th Anniversary, Second Edition gives you a taste of the diagnostic problems confronted by master dermatologists and how they solved them.
Long before Moneyball became a sensation, or Nate Silver turned the
knowledge he'd honed on baseball into electoral gold, John Thorn
and Pete Palmer were using statistics to shake the foundations of
the game. First published in 1984, The Hidden Game of Baseball
ushered in the sabermetric revolution by demonstrating that we were
thinking about baseball stats - and thus the game itself - all
wrong. Instead of praising sluggers for gaudy RBI totals or
pitchers for wins, Thorn and Palmer argued in favor of more subtle
measurements that correlated much more closely to the ultimate
goal: winning baseball games. The new gospel promulgated by Thorn
and Palmer opened the door for a flood of new questions, such as
how a ballpark's layout helps or hinders offense or whether a
strikeout really is worse than another kind of out. Taking
questions like these seriously - and backing up the answers with
data-launched a new era, showing fans, journalists, scouts,
executives, and even players themselves a new, better way to look
at the game. This brand-new edition retains the original, while
adding a new introduction by the authors tracing the book's
influence. A foreword by ESPN's lead baseball analyst, Keith Law,
details the book's central role in the transformation of baseball
coverage and team management. Thirty years after its original
publication, The Hidden Game is still bringing the high heat - a
true classic of baseball literature.
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
Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. (1820-92) was present during the
organization of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York in the
mid-1800s. That much is certain. Since that time, Cartwright has
been celebrated as the founder of our national pastime, much like
Abner Doubleday. As with Doubleday, however, Cartwright's claim to
fame has also spawned all sorts of conjecture and controversy. His
complex life, not just the mythography surrounding him, comes
clearly into focus in Monica Nucciarone's biography of the
incomparable Cartwright.
Nucciarone traces Cartwright's path from Elysian Fields in New
Jersey to a gold-rush adventure in California, and on to Honolulu,
where he became involved in the movement to annex Hawaii to the
United States. Beginning with the widely held notion that
Cartwright created the game of baseball as we know it today, then
spread it across North America to Hawaii like a Johnny Appleseed,
Nucciarone's book separates fact from speculation. Although the
picture that emerges may not be the Alexander Cartwright of legend,
it shows us a man as colorful, complicated, and immense in
character as any legend he inspired.
The fascinating, true, story of baseball's amateur origins.
"Explores the conditions and factors that begat the game in the
19th century and turned it into the national pastime....A
delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love
from the first crack of the bat."-Paul Dickson, The Wall Street
Journal Baseball's true founders don't have plaques in Cooperstown.
The founders were the hundreds of uncredited amateurs - ordinary
people - who played without gloves, facemasks or performance
incentives in the middle decades of the 19th century. Unlike
today's pro athletes, they lived full lives outside of sports. They
worked, built businesses and fought against the South in the Civil
War. But that's not the way the story has been told. The wrongness
of baseball history can be staggering. You may have heard that
Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither
did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers
played the first baseball game in 1846. They didn't. You have read
that baseball's color line was uncrossed and unchallenged until
Jackie Robinson in 1947. Nope. You have been told that the clean,
corporate 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings were baseball's first
professional club. Not true. They weren't the first professionals;
they weren't all that clean, either. You may have heard
Cooperstown, Hoboken, or New York City called the birthplace of
baseball, but not Brooklyn. Yet Brooklyn was the home of baseball's
first fans, the first ballpark, the first statistics-and modern
pitching. Baseball was originally supposed to be played, not
watched. This changed when crowds began to show up at games in
Brooklyn in the late 1850s. We fans weren't invited to the party;
we crashed it. Professionalism wasn't part of the plan either, but
when an 1858 Brooklyn versus New York City series accidentally
proved that people would pay to see a game, the writing was on the
outfield wall. When the first professional league was formed in
1871, baseball was already a fully formed modern sport with
championships, media coverage, and famous stars. Professional
baseball invented an organization, but not the sport itself.
Baseball's amazing amateurs had already done that. Thomas W.
Gilbert's history is for baseball fans and anyone fascinating by
history, American culture, and how great things began.
Richard D. Cramer has been doing baseball analytics for just about
as long as anyone alive, even before the term "sabermetrics"
existed. He started analyzing baseball statistics as a hobby in the
mid-1960s, not long after graduating from Harvard and MIT. He was a
research scientist for SmithKline and in his spare time used his
work computer to test his theories about baseball statistics. One
of his earliest discoveries was that clutch hitting-then one of the
most sacred pieces of received wisdom in the game-didn't really
exist. In When Big Data Was Small Cramer recounts his life and
remarkable contributions to baseball knowledge. In 1971 Cramer
learned about the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and
began working with Pete Palmer, whose statistical work is credited
with providing the foundation on which SABR is built. Cramer
cofounded STATS Inc. and began working with the Houston Astros,
Oakland A's, Yankees, and White Sox, with the help of his new Apple
II computer. Yet for Cramer baseball was always a side interest,
even if a very intense one for most of the last forty years. His
main occupation, which involved other "big data" activities, was
that of a chemist who pioneered the use of specialized analytics,
often known as computer-aided drug discovery, to help guide the
development of pharmaceutical drugs. After a decade-long hiatus,
Cramer returned to baseball analytics in 2004 and has done
important work with Retrosheet since then. When Big Data Was Small
is the story of the earliest days of baseball analytics and
computer-aided drug discovery.
In Whispers of the Gods, bestselling author Peter Golenbock brings
to life baseball greats from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s through
timeless stories told straight from the players themselves. Like
the enduring classic The Glory of Their Times, this book features
the reminiscences of baseball legends, pulled from hundreds of
hours of taped interviews with the author. Roy Campanella talks
about life in the Negro Leagues before coming up to the Brooklyn
Dodgers. Ted Williams recounts why he believes Shoeless Joe Jackson
belongs in the Hall of Fame. Tom Sturdivant provides vivid memories
of Casey Stengel, Mickey Mantle, and other Yankee icons. Other
voices include Phil Rizzuto, Jim Bouton, Monte Irvin, Stan Musial,
Ron Santo, Rex Barney, Ellis Clary, Roger Maris, Ed Froelich, Marty
Marion, Jim Brosnan, Gene Conley, and Kirby Higbe. The players
interviewed were All-Stars, Hall of Famers, and heroes to many, and
their impact on the national pastime is still seen to this day.
Baseball history comes alive through the stories shared in Whispers
of the Gods, offering a fascinating account of the golden age of
baseball.
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