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Baseball in the Garden of Eden - The Secret History of the Early Game (Paperback): John Thorn Baseball in the Garden of Eden - The Secret History of the Early Game (Paperback)
John Thorn
R524 R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Save R85 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The New Baseball Bible - Notes, Nuggets, Lists, and Legends from Our National Pastime (Paperback): Dan Schlossberg The New Baseball Bible - Notes, Nuggets, Lists, and Legends from Our National Pastime (Paperback)
Dan Schlossberg; Foreword by John Thorn; Preface by Al Clark
R690 R613 Discovery Miles 6 130 Save R77 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

How Baseball Happened - Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed (Paperback): Thomas W Gilbert How Baseball Happened - Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed (Paperback)
Thomas W Gilbert; Introduction by John Thorn
R456 R417 Discovery Miles 4 170 Save R39 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists (Paperback): John Thorne Crissey, Lawrence C. Parish, Karl Holubar Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists (Paperback)
John Thorne Crissey, Lawrence C. Parish, Karl Holubar
R1,892 Discovery Miles 18 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

You Know Me Al - A Busher's Letters (Paperback): Ring Lardner You Know Me Al - A Busher's Letters (Paperback)
Ring Lardner; Foreword by John Thorn
R406 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R68 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 Hidden Game of Football - A Revolutionary Approach to the Game and Its Statistics (Paperback, First Edition, Enlarged): Bob... The Hidden Game of Football - A Revolutionary Approach to the Game and Its Statistics (Paperback, First Edition, Enlarged)
Bob Carroll, Pete Palmer, John Thorn; Foreword by Aaron Schatz
R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Classics in Clinical Dermatology with Biographical Sketches, 50th Anniversary - With Biographical Sketches (Hardcover,... Classics in Clinical Dermatology with Biographical Sketches, 50th Anniversary - With Biographical Sketches (Hardcover, Anniversary Edition)
John Thorne Crissey, Walter B Shelley
R4,818 R3,776 Discovery Miles 37 760 Save R1,042 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Hidden Game of Baseball (Paperback, 3 Revised Edition): John Thorn The Hidden Game of Baseball (Paperback, 3 Revised Edition)
John Thorn
R695 Discovery Miles 6 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 - The Society for American Baseball Research's Fifty Most Essential Contributions to the Game (Hardcover):... SABR 50 at 50 - The Society for American Baseball Research's Fifty Most Essential Contributions to the Game (Hardcover)
Bill Nowlin, Mark Armour, Scott Bush, Leslie Heaphy, Jacob Pomrenke, …
R1,396 R1,127 Discovery Miles 11 270 Save R269 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.    

Omelette and a Glass of Wine (Paperback, 2nd): Elizabeth David Omelette and a Glass of Wine (Paperback, 2nd)
Elizabeth David; Foreword by John Thorne
R500 R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Save R52 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Savor her book in a comfortable chair, with a glass of sherry."--"Bon Appetit" "Elizabeth David has the intelligence, subtlety, sensuality, courage and creative force of the true artist."--"Wine and Food"

"The best food writer of her time."--Jane Grigson, "Times Literary Supplement"

"An Omelette and a Glass of Wine" is a culinary classic by the greatest food writer of the mid-twentieth century, and one of the greatest food writers of any era. This revered volume contains a collection of articles Elizabeth David originally wrote for magazines and newspapers such as the "Spectator," "Gourmet," "Vogue," and the "Sunday Times" (London). It offers delightful explorations of food and cooking, among which are its namesake essay and other such gems as "Syllabubs and Fruit Fools," "Sweet Vegetables, Soft Wine," "Pleasing Cheeses," and "Whisky in the Kitchen." David's many admirers will cherish this new edition, and readers new to her writing will marvel at her wisdom and grace.

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How Baseball Happened - Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed (Hardcover): Thomas W Gilbert How Baseball Happened - Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed (Hardcover)
Thomas W Gilbert; Introduction by John Thorn
R580 Discovery Miles 5 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Tortoise and Hare? No Way!: Charles Suddeth Tortoise and Hare? No Way!
Charles Suddeth; Illustrated by John Thorn
R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Isabelle the Piggy Witch and the Magic Stew (Paperback): Lizy J Campbell Isabelle the Piggy Witch and the Magic Stew (Paperback)
Lizy J Campbell; Illustrated by John Thorn
R332 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R61 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ominous Whoosh - A Wandering Mind Returns to Twin Peaks (Paperback): John Thorne Ominous Whoosh - A Wandering Mind Returns to Twin Peaks (Paperback)
John Thorne
R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Professor Puddles and the Golden Ankh (Paperback): Lizy J Campbell Professor Puddles and the Golden Ankh (Paperback)
Lizy J Campbell; Illustrated by John Thorn
R314 R253 Discovery Miles 2 530 Save R61 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Tengu's Magic Coat (Paperback): John Thorn The Tengu's Magic Coat (Paperback)
John Thorn; Illustrated by John Thorn
R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Little Bear's Friend (Paperback): Janice K Taylor Little Bear's Friend (Paperback)
Janice K Taylor; Illustrated by John Thorn
R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sugarboo and the Wiggly Worms (Hardcover): John Thorn Sugarboo and the Wiggly Worms (Hardcover)
John Thorn
R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sugarboo and the Wiggly Worms (Paperback): John Thorn Sugarboo and the Wiggly Worms (Paperback)
John Thorn
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I Found a Little Alien (Hardcover): John Thorn I Found a Little Alien (Hardcover)
John Thorn
R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pogo and Jumpsut - Santa's Naughty Reindeer (Paperback): Ken Roadcap Pogo and Jumpsut - Santa's Naughty Reindeer (Paperback)
Ken Roadcap; Illustrated by John Thorn
R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Twin Peaks Unwrapped (Paperback): Bryon Kozaczka Twin Peaks Unwrapped (Paperback)
Bryon Kozaczka; Foreword by John Thorne; Ben Durant
R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Old Octopus (Paperback): John Thorn The Old Octopus (Paperback)
John Thorn
R287 Discovery Miles 2 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Essential Wrapped In Plastic - Pathways to Twin Peaks (Paperback): John Thorne The Essential Wrapped In Plastic - Pathways to Twin Peaks (Paperback)
John Thorne
R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The National Pastime - A Review of Baseball History: Premiere Issue Replica (Paperback): John Thorn The National Pastime - A Review of Baseball History: Premiere Issue Replica (Paperback)
John Thorn; Edited by John Thorn; Harold Seymour
R290 Discovery Miles 2 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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