3rd Edition, CRC Press, 2025. — 418 p. — (The R Series). — ISBN 978-1-0326-68093. Analyzing Baseball Data with R Third Edition introduces R to sabermetricians, baseball enthusiasts, and students interested in exploring the richness of baseball data. It equips you with the necessary skills and software tools to perform all the analysis steps, from importing the data to...
Rosen Education Service, 2011. — 289 р. — (The World of Sports). Integral to the consciousness of the American people, the sport of baseball has become a steadfast institution in a nation whose identity is constantly evolving. Although the game has undergone its own share of changes since it first took center stage, baseball has maintained an unwavering devotion among fans and...
Human Kinetics, Inc., 2018. — 193 p. — ISBN10: 1450453406, 13 978-1450453400. Congratulations on your commitment to coach youth baseball. If you're new to coaching, you'll find Coaching Youth Baseball invaluable in making your first season a success. If you have previous coaching experience, you're sure to discover tips and strategies that will help you improve on last year....
Springer, 2018. — 234 p. — ISBN 978-3-319-67032-4. This book describes the dynamic collisions between baseballs, softballs, and bats, and the intricate modeling of these interactions, using only Newton’s basic principles and the conservation laws of physics. Veteran baseball science author Terry Bahill explains models for the speed and spin of balls and bats and equations for...
New York: Alpha Books, 1999. — 464 p. — ISBN: 0-02862951-5. Hall of Famer Johnny Bench - named the greatest catcher and 16th greatest all-around player in history by The Sporting News in 1998 - is here to help you follow the national pastime like a pro. In his fact-filled book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Baseball, Johnny gives you: fascinating lessons in the origins and...
Human Kinetics, 2010 — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7360-8713-1. In Practice Perfect Baseball, the game’s premier collegiate coaches share their approaches, experiences, and philosophies on every facet of practice. This authoritative guide goes beyond the stretches and drills straight to the heart of winning—effort and attitude. From structuring sessions to evaluating practice...
Human Kinetics, 2014 — 242 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4504-6028-6. Coaches know the importance of drills. The cornerstone of most practices, they are essential in developing player skills and team execution. For younger players, however, the best drills go one step further. They engage the player, promote teamwork, and establish a lifelong love of the game. Тренеры знают важность...
New Bedford: Taber Bros, 1867. — 16 p. This is one of the rarest nineteenth-century baseball books extant, with probably fewer than six copies known (this copy is from the Library of Congress). Issued just two years after the Civil War, the sixteen-page volume lampoons baseball's reputation for roughness in the 1860s, and features comic illustrations of players suffering...
Skyhorse, 2022. — 216 p. In The Science of Baseball , sportswriter and injury expert Will Carroll shows how understanding the science behind the Great American Pastime helps fans appreciate its nuances and that it enhances, not detracts from the greatest game ever invented. Carroll, as well as several experts via interviews, covers topics like what makes the ball break, bounce,...
New York: The Century Co, 1912. — 377 p. Base-ball a Battle of Brains as well AS Skill Batting Base-Running Generalship of Offense Defense - Pitcher and Catcher Fielding Generalship of Defense Drill - Battlefield and Arms The Rules - League Law Umpiring and Fair Play How I Became a Big-League Pitcher, by Christy Mathewson A. G. Spalding's Simplified Rules
Globe Pequot Press, 2010. — 256 p. — (Knack: Make It Easy). — ISBN 978-1-59921-863-2. Baseball is a simple enough game. Yet, mastering the skills requisite to play the game at a competitive level, regardless of one's age, often isn't easy. Knack Coaching Youth Baseball applies the unique Knack format―short passages of text linked to instructive photography of both boys and...
University of Nebraska Press, 2022. — 408 p. In Baseball Rebels Peter Dreier and Robert Elias examine the key social challenges—racism, sexism and homophobia—that shaped society and worked their way into baseball’s culture, economics, and politics. Since baseball emerged in the mid-1800s to become America’s pastime, the nation’s battles over race, gender, and sexuality have...
Harper, 2023. — 710 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-304904-8 Baseball, that old romantic game, has been defaced and consumed by corporate America. As Moneyball-thinking and Ivy League graduates grabbed hold of the sport, the Astros set out to build a cost-efficient winning machine on the principles of the outside business world, squeezing every dollar out of every transaction, player and...
Greenwood Press, 2007. — 321 p. When Jackie Robinson became the first African American player in major league baseball in 1947, elbowing aside the league's policies of segregation that had been inviolate for 60 years, he became a symbol of opportunity and acceptance for African American players everywhere. Robinson withstood discrimination to establish himself as a Hall of Fame...
Diversion Books, 2023. — 345 р. — ISBN: 9781635769661 Baseball has an image problem. The chorus of nonbelievers gets louder every year, and the Major Leagues have made an art of tuning them out. Enter Joe Kelly: a walking, talking, fast-ball-throwing embodiment of why baseball matters. He and his All-Star team of athletes and celebrities have some things to say about what’s...
Atria Books, 2004. — 320 p. A minute-by-minute collage-format portrait of the August 30, 2003 game between the Red Sox and the Yankees shares the perspectives of such individuals as John Henry, Joe Torre, Dominican Republic scout Rafael Avila, and Boston slugger Manny Ramirez.
Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2013. — 348 p. — ISBN: 1466570229, 9781466570221. With its flexible capabilities and open-source platform, R has become a major tool for analyzing detailed, high-quality baseball data. Analyzing Baseball Data with R provides an introduction to R for sabermetricians, baseball enthusiasts, and students interested in exploring the rich sources of baseball data....
2nd Edition. — CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. — 361 p. — (The R Series). — ISBN13: 978-0-3670-2486-4. Analyzing Baseball Data with R Second Edition introduces R to sabermetricians, baseball enthusiasts, and students interested in exploring the richness of baseball data. It equips you with the necessary skills and software tools to perform all the analysis steps, from...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 241 p. — ISBN 978-1-3502-9852-1. The first book-length exploration of multilingualism in professional sports, Multilingual Baseball provides an intimate look at language diversity in the transnational world of baseball. Based on extensive interviews and observations in the US and the Dominican Republic, the book foregrounds the voices of current...
New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2010. — 232 p. — ISBN: 0071634746. Everything baseball—from the popular Utterly Confused Series What's a foul ball? Or a swinging third strike? New fans, parents, and first-time coaches need no longer be Utterly Confused about baseball, as the popular series introduces the basics of the sport in a fun and easy-to-follow guide. Peppered with big...
History Press, 2022. — 552 p. — ISBN 978-1-43967-454.3 The Pawtucket Red Sox were one of the country's premier AAA baseball teams, and for forty-five years they called Rhode Island home. In February 2015, a group of investors purchased the team from the widow of beloved owner Ben Mondor and longtime executives Mike Tamburro and Lou Schwechheimer. The group tried to keep the...
Springer, 2010. — 156 p. — ISBN10 1441908307. This book focuses on the application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to Major League Baseball (MLB). DEA is a nonparametric linear programming model that is used across academic disciplines. In sports economics, authors have applied the technique primarily to assess team and/or managerial efficiency. The basis for performance...
Human Kinetics, 2005 — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7360-8496-3. This handy coaching tool contains a variety of both tried-and-true and innovative drills that build on and reinforce your technique and tactic instruction of 7- to 12-year-olds. Drills are easily located by topic in the seven chapters, and they progress in difficulty so that you can choose the most appropriate ones for...
Bentonville: Benton County Sun Print, 1911. — 31 p. The very first thing to do, is to learn the rules of baseball. This work is too short to enclose them here, but you can procure them from your local sporting goods dealer or he can tell you where to get them if he does not keep them. After you learn them and especially learn the rules, about the position you are going to play,...
New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1921. — 57 p. Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball which a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball...
McFarland Company, 2008. — 359 p. In In January 1936, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson became charter members in an exclusive club: the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. By 2008, the membership had grown to 286 individuals, including players, managers, coaches, umpires, executives, and pioneers. In addition, the Hall of...
5th Ed. — Sports Publishing, 2019. — 456 p. — ISBN10: 1683582403, 13 978-1683582403. An addictive read that is sure to spark conversation wherever baseball is spoken, this updated edition of The Baseball Maniac's Almanac is part reference, part trivia, part brain teaser, and absolutely the most unusual and thorough compendium of baseball stats and facts ever assembled-all...
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