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English
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It took 108 years, but it really happened. The Chicago Cubs are once again World Series champions. How did a team of untested young players and carefully selected veterans come together to break the longest championship drought in professional sports? Beginning with Theo Epstein's first season as team president in 2012, sportswriter Tom Verducci shows how Epstein went beyond "Moneyball" thinking when planning the path to a championship. Epstein focused...
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"What separates the World Series winners from those who come up short? Best-selling author Ross Bernstein explores this question by interviewing more than 100 current and former Major League Baseball players, managers, and coaches who all had one thing in common: they were all World Series winners. The result is a captivating and inspiring story of determination, perseverance, and success. Interviews with more than 100 players and managers from every...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
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In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of $20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein. Heavily favored, Chicago lost the Series five games to three. Although rumors of a fix flew while the series was being played, they were largely disregarded by players...
13) Let them play
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the true story of spirit and determination from America's early civil rights history and the Cannon Street all-stars who were not allowed to play in the World Series game.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
While covering baseball's World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Boston Red Sox, teenage sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol investigate a rookie pitcher whose evasive answers during an interview reveal more than a few contradictions in his life story.
15) The perfect game
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1957, a group of poor boys from Monterey, Mexico, led by a down-and-out former major league player, win the Little League World Series.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This collector's edition features all seven games of the 2001 World Series, which pitted the mighty New York Yankees, winners of 26 World Series Championships, against the upstart Arizona Diamondbacks, winners of 2 postseason series.
18) Game 6
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An intelligent, witty, unsettling tale of one man's encounter with his demons, his passions, and his infatuation with failure.Playwright Nicky Rogan is a die-hard Red Sox fan who has lived his entire life in NYC. The opening of his new play is on the same day as the historic sporting event, Game 6 of the 1986 World series. Which one will he watch?
20) Everyone's hero
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
10-year-old baseball fan Yankee Irving is always the last one picked for sandlot baseball games. But when Babe Ruth's prized bat is stolen during the 1932 World Series, Yankee steps up to the plate to help retrieve it for his beloved idol. He embarks on a wild cross-country journey that teaches him the stuff of real heroes, and along the way, Yankee learns that importance of perseverance and the true meaning of friendship.
