Sports & Recreation : Baseball

A game between the Iowa Cubs and the Nashville Sounds provides the lens through which the author explores the game of baseball and the meaning of life, in a testament to the everlasting wonder and magic of a great American pastime. more...

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The crowd rose to its feet. Carlton Fisk didn’t run. He turned sideways and took three abbreviated hops down the first base line, wildly waving his arms at the ball like a kid in a Little League game, urging, willing, begging it to stay fair. Pete Rose turned and sprinted down the left field line, following the flight of the ball toward the pole, willing it to turn foul, and never saw Fisk’s dance toward first. Tony Kubek stepped forward right into the Reds dugout, alongside Sparky and everyone else In the club, all of them craning their necks forward to keep the ball in sight. Thirty-five thousand people locked in a suspended passage of time—less than four seconds by the clock . . . Praise for The Match “Mark Frost, author of one of the sport’s all-time great books, The Greatest Game Ever Played, produces another wonderful telling of a true tale . . . in The Match.”--Chicago Tribune “Frost captures an elusive magic in this improbable matchup and what it meant for those who played and witnessed it.” --Publishers Weekly “It’s difficult to beat a good golf book, be it a good yarn or a picture book . . . The golf is spectacular, the course more so, the descriptions luminous.”--USA Today more...

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In this spellbinding book, Richard Bradley tells the story of what was surely the greatest major league game of our lifetime and perhaps in the history of professional baseball. That game, played at Fenway Park on the afternoon of October 4, 1978, was the culmination of one of the most tense, emotionally wrought seasons ever, between baseball's two most bitter rivals, the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. Both teams finished this tumultuous season with identical 99-64 records, forcing a one-game playoff. With a one-run lead and two outs, with the tying run in scoring position in the bottom of the ninth, the entire season came down to one at-bat and to one swing of the bat. more...

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E-Book Extras: ONE: Stats, Facts and Highlights; TWO: An Interview with Tom Stanton Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Aaron’s historic #s 714 & 715!Baseball has witnessed more than 125,000 major-league home runs. Many have altered the outcomes of games, but none has played a more significant role in influencing American society than Hank Aaron's 715th. Aaron's historic blast -- and the yearlong quest leading up to it -- not only shook baseball but the world at large. It exposed prejudice, energized a flagging civil rights movement, inspired a generation of children, and also called forth the dark demons that haunted Aaron's every step and turned what should have been a joyous pursuit into a hellish nightmare. In Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America, Tom Stanton, author of the prize-winning The Final Season, penetrates the burnished myth of Aaron's chase and uncovers the compelling story behind the most consequential athletic achievement of the past fifty years. more...

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Dear Baseball Fan: I know what you’re thinking: Couldn’t he have come up with a better title? My mother agrees with you, but unfortunately Genius just doesn’t have the same ring. Let’s get something straight right away. more...

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