Sports & Recreation : Baseball

Take your game from bush league to big time with these proven techniques. Baseball scouts and coaches at every level want players with the knowledge and ability to do it all. They're looking for someone who can dominate a game and showcase talent in each of baseball's five essential skills: hitting for average, hitting for power, fielding, arm strength, and speed. What they hope to find is The Five-Tool Player . In The Five-Tool Player , you'll get all the drills, step-by-step photos, and guidance you need to master the five tools. You'll learn how to: Hit for high average by understanding pitch patterns and expanding your hitting zone; Develop power at the plate with proper technique, an aggressive attitude, and strength training; Diversify your defensive skills by learning the nuances of each position; Increase your arm strength with proper throwing form and conditioning; Improve your base running with speed training more...

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Cleveland Indians pitcher paul Byrd gives an honest account of how he has kept his faith in God despite all the trials and temptations associated with the Major league Baseball lifestyle. Paul Byrd has experienced many struggles, victories, and life lessons both on the diamond and off. Throughout his life, the one thing that has kept him focused on walking clean is the glimpses he has received of God's goodness. He addresses the issues he has faced -- such as the temptation to cheat while pitching, the unhealthy desire to cheer against fellow teammates so he could benefit from their failure, and his personal battle with pornography. more...

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Features the 1897 pennant race between the vaunted 'dirty' Baltimore club, and the comparatively saintly Boston Beaneaters. 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...

Price: $15.00