Found insideFilled with anecdotes about famous players and incidents, The Physics of Baseball provides fans with fascinating insights into America's favorite pastime. Found inside – Page 337Francisco's baseball teams in the late 1880s. Mike Finn, who had passed away in 1936, had managed the Pioneer team, which featured a player named Cooney, ... Found inside – Page 241However, the team skidded during the summer to yet another losing season. ... Coined by baseball writer Mike Donovan, tag was a spin-off from Pirates, ... Found inside – Page 613(catcher) “Pioneers Take Fast A-K Tilt”, July 21, 1931, p. 8. ... oA4gj9U/pub?hl=en&gid=1&output=html as a baseball team. – “Pioneer Will Sponsor ... Found inside – Page 34our Pioneers have fielded some fine teams . During the years 1950 to 1956 ... Each year 50 to 75 boys turn out for baseball . To provide ... The baseball team was League champ in 1965 and 1966 and placed second in 1969 . Fred Smith Ed ... Found inside – Page 118Pitcher Jay Kibbe first came to Rohnert Park to play baseball for the Pioneers in 1980. In 1983, he went to another team to play double-A ball, and by 1985, ... Found inside... on the baseball team, win the university and state tennis championships, and play clarinet in the band (Mack, 1931). John Dewey's (chap. 4, Pioneers II) ... Found inside – Page 166It tells of Bobby Kline, a pitcher on a baseball team who joins a bomb brigade and uses his pitching skills to kill Germans. Victor and Columbia stopped ... Found inside – Page 114The Pioneer b.b.C. organized in the 1870s, played black teams. In 1886, the team defeated the lord hannibals. Baltimore Sun (July 14, 1886): “The colored ... Found inside – Page 178The Pioneers currently organize baseball for approximately eighty girls who were preparing to play for local Little League teams, or had played for several ... Found insideNot far from Slows Bar Bq on Michigan Avenue is the former home of the Detroit Tigers professional baseball team. It is now a fenced-off, empty field; ... Found insideThis volume presents a more nuanced account of early Black American athletes’ lives and their ongoing struggle for acceptance, relevance, and personal and group identity. Found inside – Page 332... as Robinson's team earned a perfect 9-0 record; not only was the team ... the girls' basketball team and the boys' basketball and baseball teams at ... But what makes this book so outstanding are the dozens of full-page and double-page oil paintings—breathtaking in their perspectives, rich in emotion, and created with understanding and affection for these lost heroes of our national game ... Found inside – Page 148I also participated in debating and athletics — Captain of the Debating Team for one year and a letter man on the track team and baseball team, ... Found inside – Page 84... and Ray Kroc purchased the Padres baseball team in 1974. Joan Kroc, not knowing much about baseball, initially questioned why he would buy a monastery. Found insideIssei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese American baseball, Harry Saisho, Ken Kitsuse, Tom Uyeda, Tozan Masko, Kiichi Suzuki, and others—young men who came to the United States to start a new life but found bigotry and ... Found inside – Page 299New York Jewels ( basketball ) , 92 , 94 , 96 New York Knickerbockers ( basketball ) , 105 , 106 , 107 , 110 New York Metropolitans ( baseball ) , 11 , 261 , 279 , 280 New York Renaissance Big Five Basketball Team ( “ Rens ” ) , 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 ... Found inside – Page 321225 Orange County Club ( Baseball team ) 31 , 123 , 124 , 127 Orange County ... 298–302 Pillette , Ted 154 Pina 159 Pioneers ( Baseball team ) 24 Pirrone ... Found insideI helped my father in every way that I could at the club while also serving as a batboy for the baseball team. While attending Haaren High School, ... Found inside – Page 266By the time he was seventeen, Aaron was the shortstop for a local semipro baseball team named the Mobile Black Bears and was paid $10 a game. Found inside – Page 343Campbell is located in Franklin County , Nebraska , on the western boundary of Webster County . battery : the pitcher and catcher of a baseball team . In this welcome work, leading historians of early baseball provide profiles of more than fifty clubs and their players, from legendary teams such as the Red Stockings of Cincinnati and the Nationals of Washington to forgotten nines like the ... Found inside – Page 138Cincinnatians had played New York rules baseball since at least 1858, ... Albert G. Spalding's America's National Game (1911).3 As a pioneer baseball team, ... Found inside – Page 281Jeanie Frost. p Baron Frost, USC, Baron Frost-cild Baseball Team 2003 ... Nathan FROST, bom. 281 Frost Pioneers and/1lias'Families. These Baseball Pioneers were the each "the first" in their own way. They each share their struggles, their triumphs, and their hopes for the future in their own words. These are their stories. Found inside – Page 81In his early days, Patten started a weekly paper (which lasted for about a year), managed a professional baseball team and wrote sketches, poems and full ... This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870 (McFarland 2011). Found inside – Page 194At this time we were told that if you are good enough to make the baseball team that you would not have to attend the classes in the afternoon. Found inside – Page 84During his freshman year, he batted leadoff and played shortstop on the baseball team, helping the Bulldogs reach the championship game. Found inside – Page 26et cetera—the same combination (along with good pitching) that the UCLA baseball team used to sweep all postseason games and win the 2013 College World ... Found insideIn 1965 there were six baseball teams in Tome Açu, each composed of at least nine men between the ages of seventeen and twentyeight. Found inside – Page 210Newark Museum (NJ), 107 Newark Peppers (baseball team), 2, 12,13, ... 160, 161; Bangor Lumberjacks (baseball team), 161; Elmira Pioneers (baseball team), ... Found insideNow, again compliments of Jack Bailey, Jr., we can look at the second attempt by Oak Ridge to field a professional baseball team, The Oak Ridge Pioneers of ... IT'S THE BOTTOM OF THE NINTH . Found inside – Page 376This team would eventually be known as the greatest African - American baseball team in Minnesota history . Marshall also had short stints with two other Minneapolis professional teams — the Deans and the Marines . After a few years ... Found inside – Page 236He led his team into four Japan Series and winning three titles (1994, ... two pieces celebrating Zenimura and other Japanese American baseball pioneers. Found insideRoche also agreed to sponsor Douglas's team if the club took the name ... who also starred in the Negro National Baseball League, and Eyre “Bruiser” Saitch, ... The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the countryside to the cities and brought a cherished but delightfully informal game with ... While the story of the Negro Leagues has been well documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese American Nisei Leagues, or of their most influential figure, Kenichi Zenimura (1900-1968). Found inside – Page 68A History of the Excursion of the Society of California Pioneers of New England, from Boston to the Leading Cities of the ... The stores were closed , and the churches well patronized ; while a baseball team , with a band , was drumming up ... Vivid and eye-opening, Bloomer Girls is a first-of-its-kind portrait of America, its women, and its game. Found inside – Page 587When looking for assistant coaches for the team, Zenimura selected Don ... and its remaining pioneers recognized by professional baseball teams, museums, ... Found insideWhen Brock's grades slipped and he lost his scholarship at the end of the first semester, something inside urged him to try out for the baseball team. Found inside – Page 206... with team captain George Snell in the lead. The local newspaper failed to describe what the men wore. The Official Baseball Guide of 1878 required ... Found inside – Page 7Cade Hernandez and I both played baseball for the Burnt Mill Creek High School Pioneers baseball team. O Pioneers! Cade was our pitcher—a lefty who'd been ... Found inside – Page 41(Courtesy of the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum.) 1 s" U The 1920 Depot Transfer Baseball Club played in the local city league. On July 11, 1920, the team ... Found inside – Page 73Ocania Chalk, Pioneers of Black Sport (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1975), 8. 17. Sporting Life, April ... The Toledo team was owned by a group of stockholders who had formed the Toledo Baseball Association. Toledo Daily Blade ... Found inside – Page 2This book rates the " baseball pioneers , ” those who played more eligible seasons in the nineteenth century than they did ... All infielders and outfielders appearing in at least two - thirds of their teams ' games and all backstops catching in at ... This photo book highlights the Albert Spalding collection. 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