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Do You Want to Work in Baseball?

How to Acquire a Job in MLB & Mentorship in Scouting/Player Development

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Bill Geivett's- Do You Want to Work in Baseball? Do you want to know the process of acquiring employment in MLB? Have you wondered how baseball scouts evaluate players? Do you want to know more about professional baseball Player Development? Bill Geivett draws on his 28 years of experience in professional baseball to answer these questions. He offers his insights from his time as a player, scout, ... Read more

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Bill Geivett's- Do You Want to Work in Baseball? Do you want to know the process of acquiring employment in MLB? Have you wondered how baseball scouts evaluate players? Do you want to know more about professional baseball Player Development? Bill Geivett draws on his 28 years of experience in professional baseball to answer these questions. He offers his insights from his time as a player, scout,
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Knuckler

My Life with Baseball's Most Confounding Pitch

by Tim Wakefield, Tony Massarotti ...

At forty-four years old, Tim Wakefield is the longest-serving member of one of baseball's most popular franchises. He is close to eclipsing the winning records of two of the greatest pitchers to have played the game, yet few realize the full measure of his success. That his career can be characterized by such words as dependability and consistency defies all odds because he has achieved this with ... Read more

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At forty-four years old, Tim Wakefield is the longest-serving member of one of baseball's most popular franchises. He is close to eclipsing the winning records of two of the greatest pitchers to have played the game, yet few realize the full measure of his success. That his career can be characterized by such words as dependability and consistency defies all odds because he has achieved this with
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Foul Ball

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Series series RosettaBooks Sports Classics
A rollicking and "compelling" true story of baseball, big money, and small-town politics by the author of the classic Ball Four ( Publishers Weekly).Host to organized baseball since 1892, Pittsfield, Massachusetts's Wahconah Park was soon to be abandoned by the owner of the Pittsfield Mets, who would move his team to a new stadium in another town—an all too familiar story. Enter former Yankee ... Read more

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A rollicking and "compelling" true story of baseball, big money, and small-town politics by the author of the classic Ball Four ( Publishers Weekly).Host to organized baseball since 1892, Pittsfield, Massachusetts's Wahconah Park was soon to be abandoned by the owner of the Pittsfield Mets, who would move his team to a new stadium in another town—an all too familiar story. Enter former Yankee
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The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers

An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and Pitches

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Preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer compile information on pitches and their origins, nearly two thousand pitchers, and more in this comprehensive guide.Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them—they’re the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a comprehensive source for such information…until now. Bill James ... Read more

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Preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer compile information on pitches and their origins, nearly two thousand pitchers, and more in this comprehensive guide.Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them—they’re the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a comprehensive source for such information…until now. Bill James
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The Last Innocents

The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers

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Casey Award Winner: "Follows seven Dodgers, including Sandy Koufax, through the 1960s, telling a story about baseball and about larger cultural changes." — The New York Times Book ReviewWinner, Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the YearFinalist, PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports WritingMaury Wills, Sandy Koufax, Wes Parker, Jeff Torborg, Dick Tracewski, and Tommy Davis encapsulated 1960s ... Read more

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Casey Award Winner: "Follows seven Dodgers, including Sandy Koufax, through the 1960s, telling a story about baseball and about larger cultural changes." — The New York Times Book ReviewWinner, Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the YearFinalist, PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports WritingMaury Wills, Sandy Koufax, Wes Parker, Jeff Torborg, Dick Tracewski, and Tommy Davis encapsulated 1960s
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The Art of Catching

The Secrets and Techniques of Baseball's Most Demanding Position

by Brent Mayne ...

An aspiring baseball catcher could do himself no greater favor than acquiring this manual. Whereas the techniques of hitting, pitching, and other baseball positions are well covered by valuable instruction books, the techniques of catching arguably the most difficult and most crucial position of all have not been covered well at all. Brent Mayne's The Art of Catching: The Secrets and Techniques of ... Read more

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Tampa Bay Rays IQ: The Ultimate Test of True Fandom

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by Tucker Elliot ...

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Think you know Rays baseball? Think again … you're about to find out how smart you really are about the Tampa Bay Rays. You know that in 1998 the Tampa Bay Devil Rays were an expansion franchise playing its first official, painful season. You know that in 2008, minus the Devil, the Rays were the best team in the American League. But if you think you know everything that transpired as Tampa went ... Read more

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Think you know Rays baseball? Think again … you're about to find out how smart you really are about the Tampa Bay Rays. You know that in 1998 the Tampa Bay Devil Rays were an expansion franchise playing its first official, painful season. You know that in 2008, minus the Devil, the Rays were the best team in the American League. But if you think you know everything that transpired as Tampa went
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Wrigley Field Year by Year

A Century at the Friendly Confines

by Sam Pathy ...

More than just a lavishly illustrated and highly readable book, Wrigley Field Year by Year, originally published in 2014, is the result of a quarter century of meticulous research. Written by a baseball historian and recognized authority on the Friendly Confines,” this is the first book to detail each year of the storied park’s existence. The book covers not only the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago ... Read more

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More than just a lavishly illustrated and highly readable book, Wrigley Field Year by Year, originally published in 2014, is the result of a quarter century of meticulous research. Written by a baseball historian and recognized authority on the Friendly Confines,” this is the first book to detail each year of the storied park’s existence. The book covers not only the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago
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Closer

Major League Players Reveal the Inside Pitch on Saving the Game

by Kevin Neary, Leigh A. Tobin ...

The closer is the ace reliever who specializes in closing out the game without surrendering the lead. Facing a power hitter in the ninth inning with a man on base and no outs takes nerves of steel. The pressure on the mound is intense. It takes a special breed to hold it together in these situations. Legendary manager Tony LaRusso said "Sure, games can get away from you in the seventh and eighth, ... Read more

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The closer is the ace reliever who specializes in closing out the game without surrendering the lead. Facing a power hitter in the ninth inning with a man on base and no outs takes nerves of steel. The pressure on the mound is intense. It takes a special breed to hold it together in these situations. Legendary manager Tony LaRusso said "Sure, games can get away from you in the seventh and eighth,
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Best Seat in the House

Diary of a Wrigley Field Usher

by Bruce Bohrer ...

Bruce Bohrer was a Wrigley Field usher for nine seasons, and during that time he saw it all. Brushes with greatness, marriage proposals, creative signs and cheers, unique crowd control issues, and the sheer awe and excitement of Wrigley patrons are captured beautifully in the pages of this book. Maybe you’ll even recognize yourself, because after all, the real stars of “Best Seat in the House: ... Read more

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Pride of October

What It Was to Be Young and a Yankee

by Bill Madden ...

"A loving appreciation of what it means to wear pinstripes," this must-read for baseball fans features reminiscences from former Yankee players ( New York Times Book Review ).No other team has come close to dominating baseball like the New York Yankees, with twenty-six World Series wins and thirty-eight American League championships. No wonder no other team has a fraction of baseball books ... Read more

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"A loving appreciation of what it means to wear pinstripes," this must-read for baseball fans features reminiscences from former Yankee players ( New York Times Book Review ).No other team has come close to dominating baseball like the New York Yankees, with twenty-six World Series wins and thirty-eight American League championships. No wonder no other team has a fraction of baseball books
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Steps to Success

by Kenny Thomas, DJ King ...

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Become a fundamentally sound player in every aspect of the game with Baseball: Steps to Success. For years, the Steps to Success series has helped people around the world master the fundamentals of sport. Its unique progressive instructional approach to every skill makes learning the game of baseball easier and more enjoyable than ever before.With Baseball: Steps to Success, the road map to ... Read more

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