Baseball Superstars Lou Gehrig doc

... tantalizing inducement. BaseBall superstars Lou Gehrig 23 Columbia Lou Still, before putting pen to paper, Gehrig sought advice from a professor, Archibald Stocker. After hearing Gehrig make his ... athletes in all of sports Lou Gehrig. 8 LOU GEHRIG strong. Heinrich saw to it that Lou s muscles stood out, often tak- ing the boy to the local gymnasium to pump iron. Pop...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 22:20

... Links http://www .baseball- links.com/ Baseball Reference http://www .baseball- reference.com Historic Baseball http://www.historicbaseball.com/ National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum http://www.baseballhalloffame.org ... Black Baseball. London: Franklin Watts, 1994. Vascellaro, Charlie. Hank Aaron: A Biography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. WEB SITES Baseball Almanac...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 06:20

... bond with his family and was not ready to leave. FROM FOOTBALL TO BASEBALL Roger decided to set his sights on baseball. Playing baseball would allow him everything he wanted: being outdoors, play- ing ... Roger and his father worried about Roger playing baseball straight from high school. Would he benefit from playing college baseball first? College baseball would help take R...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 13:20

... bond with his family and was not ready to leave. FROM FOOTBALL TO BASEBALL Roger decided to set his sights on baseball. Playing baseball would allow him everything he wanted: being outdoors, play- ing ... Roger and his father worried about Roger playing baseball straight from high school. Would he benefit from playing college baseball first? College baseball would help take R...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 13:20

... fend for himself, and to find camaraderie in sports—in baseball. The future “Teddy Ballgame” discovered baseball, or, more precisely, the baseball bat, as a 10-year-old fifth-grader at Garfield ... one of baseball s most acclaimed players had taken himself out of the lineup on May 2, ending a streak of playing an incredible 2,130 consecutive games. On July 4, the Big Apple gave L...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 10:21

... determine the origin of baseball. In 1905, Albert G. Spald- ing, a baseball pioneer and entrepreneur whose last name still graces baseball equipment, saw an article by baseball writer Henry Chadwick ... 102 Introduction The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is the result of two men trying to fig- ure out what to do with an old baseball. They sought an answer to that at about...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 06:20

... next year. He was offered a film role—playing himself in Pride of the Yankees, the story of Lou Gehrig in 1942, and the part required him to lose about 40 pounds (18 kilograms), which he did. ... personality and lovable character that allowed baseball to recover. He affected the game in other ways. His high salaries had the effect of raising pay for all baseball players. He was a...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 06:20

... Dollars (millions) Figure 9.1. What is A-Rod worth? See file Arod.xls. 2 Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts, Keri, and Click, Baseball between the Numbers, 186. 3 See Gennaro’s Diamond Dollars for ... this would seem to indicate that Hawpe had a much better hitting season than did Barfield. Most baseball fans, however, realize that the Rockies play in Coors Field, which is notorious fo...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 06:20

... Chris- topher Jakle; and Elizabeth Adams Louis. I was able to fi nd Beth Louis because of a fi ne story by sportswriter Tom Wheatley in the May 30, 2000, edition of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. xii Branch ... the late publicist and journalist Gene Karst, who worked with Rickey in St. Louis; and Lester Rodney, who covered baseball for the Daily Worker in the 1930s and 1940s. Thanks also to...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 11:20

... the Baseball Hall of Fame five years later. After the Phils game was over, you would grab a bat and head down to the Piazzas’ basement, where it was time for some serious baseball work. Baseball? ... Mike Schmidt. Mike Piazza BaseBall superstars 23 Mike served as batboy for the Dodgers in Philadelphia for the next several years while also playing youth league baseball. At home,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 13:20