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1) Baseballs
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Baseballs are surprisingly complex. They are made of a variety of materials, including cork, yarn, rubber, and leather, providing baseballs with the aerodynamics required for America's pastime. This fun book explains how the different materials come together to give baseballs their unique characteristics, from bounce to spin"--Provided by the publisher.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Today, we take for granted the idea that every ball used during a game is essentially identical, but this wasn’t so prior to 1920. In this final episode, explore early variations of baseballs (including the “lemon peel ball”), the evolution of batting orders and the foul strike rule, and more.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For every boy from eight to eighty, covers essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age-old question of what the big deal with girls is. In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this episode, learn to better appreciate baseball’s longstanding ties to American culture. Get the story behind baseball’s connection to poetry and fiction (“Casey at the Bat”), music (“Take Me Out to the Ballgame”), collectibles (baseball cards), and even language (terms such as “bush league” and “home run”).
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The selected poems of an essential American poet, who has cast a clear eye on our politics, our places, and our heart's hidden stories over eleven books and thirty-five years. D. Nurkse's immigrant parents met on a boat out of Europe in 1940; he was a child of the generation whose anxieties were forged in the shadow of Hiroshima and the aftermath of WWII. His poems extend that child's dignified ignorance into an open encounter with the cataclysms...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Explore fluids in motion. Energy conservation requires low pressure where fluid velocity is high, and vice versa. This relation between pressure and velocity results in many practical and sometimes counterintuitive phenomena, collectively called the Bernoulli effect: explaining why baseballs curve and how airplane speedometers work.
10) Love is a ball
Author
Series
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A rhyming ode to toy balls, from baseballs to tennis balls, and to the children who love them.
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 21
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When the umpire at the baseball game fund-raiser is accused of stealing collection of autographed baseballs, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose try to prove his innocence.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The 1919 Black Sox scandal (often thought of as “baseball’s original sin”) marked a turning point in how Americans thought about the right way to play baseball. Join the debate over the complexity of this and other baseball scandals, and the moral quandaries of both actual deception in the game and merely the appearance of deception.
13) Play Ball! The Rise of Baseball as America’s Pastime: Episode 7,Baseball Grows by Hitting the Road
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the second half of the 19th century, advancing technology offered greater access to faraway places, which opened new avenues for baseball. From national to world tours, take a closer look at how baseball’s popularity continued to spread, and how men like Jimmy Ryan and Albert Goodwill Spalding helped set it all in motion.
14) Play Ball! The Rise of Baseball as America’s Pastime: Episode 4,The Dawn of Professional Baseball
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this episode, learn how the game of baseball moved toward professionalism - and what made professionalization so polarizing. Central to this episode is future Hall of Famer Harry Wright, who helped pave the way for professional baseball’s success by assembling a talented group of players (and touting their refinement and decorum).
15) Jackie Robinson
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to cross baseball’s color line and become one of the most beloved men in America. A fierce integrationist, Robinson used his immense fame to speak out against the discrimination he saw on and off the field, angering fans, the press, and even teammates who had once celebrated him for "turning the other cheek."After baseball, he was a widely-read newspaper columnist, divisive political activist and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"We are in a historic era for the home run. The 2017 season saw the most homers ever, with 2016 and 2018 close behind, a shift that has transformed the way the game is played. In Swing Kings, Wall Street Journal national baseball writer Jared Diamond reveals that the secret behind this unprecedented shift isn't steroids or the stitching of the baseballs, it's the most elemental explanation of all: the swing. In this lively narrative romp, he tracks...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An inside look at Yankees slugger Aaron Judge's incredible, unparalleled run to break Roger Maris's home run record and the franchise both men called home. Babe Ruth. Roger Maris. Aaron Judge. Three historic figures across generations of Major League Baseball, all swinging for the fences and calling Yankee Stadium home. After an epic home run chase in which the sport's biggest present-day star chased a pair of beloved legends down to the wire, their...
18) Pitching Man
Publisher
Cargo Film & Releasing
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Satchel Paige was the single most important player in the old Negro Baseball Leagues in an era when baseball was segregated. He was an extraordinary athlete and a genuine original who played the game for forty years on makeshift rural sandlots and in major league ballparks against the best in the game. In 1948 he triumphed in the major leagues as a 42-year old rookie and solidified his position as an American hero and confirmed his status as one of...
19) The fens
Author
Series
Abby Endicott volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Chief of homicide district attorney Abby Endicott hasn't had the easiest adjustment to normal life. Her wealthy Boston family has cut her off because of her dangerous job, her new apartment with her musician boyfriend Ty is not up to her standards, and her impending position as godmother to her new niece or nephew is overwhelming. However, her personal life is about to be put on hold when the catcher for the Red Sox goes missing and she gets the case....
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