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  • The Shutout in Major League Baseball
    Warren N. Wilbert
    The shutout--a game in which a team prevents its opponent from scoring--remains relatively rare. Of the roughly 200,000 regular season games that have been played since the origins of the major leagues, only about 10 percent have been shutouts. Gold Glove defense, astonishing pitching talent, and the combined efforts of a team working toward baseball artistry must all come t...
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    42,92 €

  • The Arrival of the American League
    Warren N. Wilbert
    In 1901, Charles Comiskey and Ban Johnson launched a brazen challenge to the National League’s supremacy. This book covers the American League’s origins in the Western League, the decisions and planning that laid the groundwork for the American League, and in detail, the 1901 season that established the AL as a new major league. ...
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    42,80 €

  • The 1917 White Sox
    Warren N. Wilbert / William C. Hageman
    The 1917 Chicago White Sox were rooted in frustration over eleventh hour pennant losses as far back as 1907 and 1908. Charles Comiskey, one of the founding fathers of the American League and a man who did not gladly suffer mediocrity and losing, had fumed for a decade until he finally put together a team that would take him back to the World Series and win it all. This wor...
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    42,80 €

  • What Makes an Elite Pitcher?
    Warren N. Wilbert
    Elite baseball pitchers are elite for a reason. They seem to have it all: a variety of pitches that no one can lay a bat to; cool heads and confidence in their 'stuff' when they get in a jam; and the kind of dexterity that makes difficult plays seem easy. Is elite status revealed through statistics? Though the author of this book considers statistics of both the traditiona...
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    56,76 €

  • A Cunning Kind of Play
    Warren N. Wilbert
    The rivalry between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants--the National League’s greatest teams in its early days--took hold with the founding of the league in 1876. Between the two bitter rivals there were nine first-second finishes, eight second-third finishes, and 30 out of a possible 65 championships in the league’s first six decades. Their games often showcased match...
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    50,09 €