Baseball's game changers : icons, record breakers, scandals, sensational series, and more /
Castle, George
Baseball's game changers : icons, record breakers, scandals, sensational series, and more / George Castle. - x, 227 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm - Game changers . - Game changers .
"Distributed by NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK"--T.p. verso. Includes index.
Introduction -- Baseball's Top Five Game Changers -- Baseball's Game Changers, from 6 to 50 -- Acknowledgments of a True Team Effort.
The first book in the GAME CHANGERS sports series answers the questions: What were the 50 most revolutionary personalities, rules, pieces of equipment, controversies, organizational changes, radio and television advancements, and more in the history of the National Pastime? And how, exactly, did they forever change the game? Baseball's Game Changers offers fascinating, detailed explanations along with a ranking system from 1 to 50 that is sure to inspire debate among baseball aficionados. Ranging from each sport's beginnings to today and tackling on-the-field and off-the-field developments, the Game Changers series offers a history of each sport through their turning-points and innovations.
9781493019465 (paperback) 1493019465 (paperback)
2015038996
Baseball--History.--United States
Béisbol --Historia --Estados Unidos
GV 863 / C353b 2016
796.357
Baseball's game changers : icons, record breakers, scandals, sensational series, and more / George Castle. - x, 227 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm - Game changers . - Game changers .
"Distributed by NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK"--T.p. verso. Includes index.
Introduction -- Baseball's Top Five Game Changers -- Baseball's Game Changers, from 6 to 50 -- Acknowledgments of a True Team Effort.
The first book in the GAME CHANGERS sports series answers the questions: What were the 50 most revolutionary personalities, rules, pieces of equipment, controversies, organizational changes, radio and television advancements, and more in the history of the National Pastime? And how, exactly, did they forever change the game? Baseball's Game Changers offers fascinating, detailed explanations along with a ranking system from 1 to 50 that is sure to inspire debate among baseball aficionados. Ranging from each sport's beginnings to today and tackling on-the-field and off-the-field developments, the Game Changers series offers a history of each sport through their turning-points and innovations.
9781493019465 (paperback) 1493019465 (paperback)
2015038996
Baseball--History.--United States
Béisbol --Historia --Estados Unidos
GV 863 / C353b 2016
796.357