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The Chicago White Stockings―later renamed the Cubs―won the inaugural National League Pennant in 1876 with a barrage of offensive numbers. Ross Barnes led the league at a .421 clip, and three other Chicago batters finished among the league’s top five hitters. Even pitcher Al Spalding hit an impressiv...
John Freyer, Mark Rucker
Paperback
128
Arcadia Publishing
0738533947
9780738533940
14
“If we could have scored one more run than the White Sox in each game, I think we would have won the series”---so opined Boston manager Terry Francona. Sharp observations such as this have brightened the Red Sox Nation through the years. “All literary men are Red Sox fans,” said John Cheever. And wh...
Mark Rucker
Hardcover
400
MVP Books
13
If there was ever a place in America where a city and its baseball team were as close as family, it was Brooklyn.ÃThe legacy of this relationship comes down to us in stories of childhoods spent at Ebbets Field and in the stories of Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey, whose courage changed the face o...
Mark Rucker
Paperback
128
Arcadia Publishing
073851005X
9780738510057
12
At his heaviest, Mark Rucker weighed 386 pounds. Despite his efforts, he never managed to lose weight and keep it off, instead falling back into old habits. One fateful afternoon, he visited a theme park with his family and found he couldn't fit on the roller coasters--and couldn't share that experi...
Mark D Rucker
Paperback
Red Letter Publishing
0986437174
9780986437175
11
Shrouded in mystery for decades, Cuban baseball has become the final frontier for fans of the sport in America. An unprecedented collection of photographs, statistics, and lore, Smoke explores the depth and range of the island's baseball heritage - from its origins in the 1870s, to Babe Ruth and Ty ...
Mark Rucker, Peter C. Bjarkman
Hardcover
256
Total Sports
1892129329
9781892129321
9
The Babe celebrates the life and times of the man who most agree was the greatest baseball player ever. With hundreds of photographs, many of them rare, this book dramatically recounts Babe Ruth’s classic rags-to-riches story in chronological sequence. Hank Aaron, who surpassed Ruth’s career home-ru...
Lawrence S. Ritter, Mark Rucker
Paperback
Ticknor & Fields
0899199151
9780899199153
8
Back in 1982, the Society for American Baseball Research was still young, barely a decade past its founding, and had grown to some 1600 members. One of their number, a "defrocked English Lit guy poking around in journalism," suggested to the board of directors that SABR, and the world, might benefit...
John Thorn, Harold Seymour PhD, Lawrence S. Ritter, Pete Palmer, Bob Carroll, Art Ahrens, John B. Holway, Jim Bankes, David Sanders, Bob Broeg, Lew Lipset, Mark Rucker, Frank J. Williams, Fred Stein, Stuart Leeds, Bob Bluthardt, Al Kermisch, Ted DiTullio, Gerald Tomlinson
Paperback
92
Society for American Baseball Research
1933599804
9781933599809
7
With almost 150 years of baseball history, the stories of many players from before 1900 were long obscured. The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) first attempted to remedy this in 1989 by publishing a collection of 136 fascinating biographies of talented late-1800s players. Twenty-three ...
Robert L. Tiemann, Joseph Overfield, L. Robert Davids, Richard Puff
Paperback
298
Society for American Baseball Research
1933599286
9781933599281
4
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