Baseball's Game Changers
Icons, Record Breakers, Scandals, Sensational Series, and More
Will be published approx. on 18. March 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-4930-1946-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 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. Full-color, and including 60 photos plus pull-outs and sidebars, books within the Game Changers series are important and entertaining additions to every sports fan's library.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Guilford
United States
Publishing group
Rowman & Littlefield
Product notice
Flexible plastic/vinyl cover
Illustrations
Text Boxes; Illustrations; Halftones, Color including Color Photographs
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 208 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-1946-5 (9781493019465)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
George Castle
Baseball's Game Changers
Icons, Record Breakers, Scandals, Sensational Series, and More
E-Book
02/2016
Lyons Press
€19.77
Available for download
Person
George Castle has covered Major League Baseball, the Chicago Cubs, and the Chicago White Sox since 1980 for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the Times of Northwest Indiana. An author of eleven books, he hosted and produced a weekly syndicated baseball show, Diamond Gems, for 17 years and is now historian for the Chicago Baseball Museum. Castle has become a multimedia purveyor of baseball inside information and analysis, using a network of close clubhouse and front-office relationships to continually produce scoops and informative pieces that outflank other media. Castle has also appeared on a wide variety of network radio-including ESPN, Sporting News, and Sirius-and local sports-talk radio programs.He lives in Chicago.