* Free downloadable baseball books
15 05 2008
Wowio.com, a great (albeit somewhat limited) source for free, downloadable books in PDF format offers a few surprisingly high-quality baseball titles in its inventory. All you need to do is register and you can download a maximum of three titles per day.
As of this writing — and new books are added frequently — the baseball collection includes:
Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella- The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2007
- The New Ballgame: Understanding Baseball Statistic for the Casual Fan
- Footsteps: Negro Leagues Baseball (juvenile)
- Jackie Robinson (juvenile)
- The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories (a classic by western novelist Zane Grey)
- Behind-the-Scenes Baseball: Real-Life Applications of Statistical Analysis Actually Used by Major League Teams … and Other Stories
- Indians Journal (730 pages!)
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George Brett: From Here To Cooperstown
Sock It to ‘Em Tigers will get some prominent bookshelf play for the next month or so at major chain bookstores in the Detroit area and throughout Michigan. The 8.5″-x-11″ book’s cover resembles a 1968 Topps baseball card. If you still can’t find it, you can order it directly from the publisher by going
Born this date in 1881. The Hall of Famer spent most of his career pitching with pre-Black Sox White Sox for whom he won 195 games.
Duquesne University “promotes from within” as it issues this
From the interestingly-named blog about Baltimore sports,
Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Change Japanese Baseball, by Robert K. Fitts: In an odd switch, Yonamine was the first American-born Japanese to play pro ball in his ancestral home. In a sense, he was a Jackie Robinson figure, inexplicably drawing the ire of the native-born, but eventually letting his bat speak for him. Fitts has previously written on the subject in Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game.









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