Derek Jeter's Ultimate Baseball Guide 2015
1st Edition
Published on 17. February 2015
96 pages
978-1-4814-2332-8 (ISBN)
Description
The ultimate, fact-filled collector's guide from legendary sports icon and role model Derek Jeter!
No matter their favorite team or player, young sports fans can look to baseball legend Derek Jeter for information on America's national pastime. Derek Jeter's Ultimate Baseball Guide 2015 is jam-packed with facts about each of the thirty Major League teams. Brief team histories are peppered with Jeter's handwritten notes and interwoven with cool trivia, covering everything from the sport's start and the original Knickerbocker Rules to baseball's weirdest superstitions. Not sure how to compute a slugging average? Want to know how many teams have won over 10,000 games? Ever wondered how many stitches are in a baseball? Fans will find answers to these and much more in this annual collector's guide.
No matter their favorite team or player, young sports fans can look to baseball legend Derek Jeter for information on America's national pastime. Derek Jeter's Ultimate Baseball Guide 2015 is jam-packed with facts about each of the thirty Major League teams. Brief team histories are peppered with Jeter's handwritten notes and interwoven with cool trivia, covering everything from the sport's start and the original Knickerbocker Rules to baseball's weirdest superstitions. Not sure how to compute a slugging average? Want to know how many teams have won over 10,000 games? Ever wondered how many stitches are in a baseball? Fans will find answers to these and much more in this annual collector's guide.
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Larry Dobrow
Derek Jeter's Ultimate Baseball Guide 2015
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02/2015
Simon & Schuster
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Larry Dobrow has written about sports for CBSSports.com, American Way, and San Antonio magazine, among other publications, and about a range of entertainment and media topics for MM&M, MediaPost, Advertising Age, AARP, and Sound & Vision. He is not tall and thus not as in demand for pickup games of hoops as he was before his friends all enjoyed their growth spurts. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and sons.
Content
- Intro
- Intro: History
- American League East
- Baltimore Orioles
- New York Yankees
- Toronto Blue Jays
- Tampa Bay Rays
- Boston Red Sox
- American League Central
- Detroit Tigers
- Kansas City Royals
- Cleveland Indians
- Chicago White Sox
- Minnesota Twins
- American League West
- Los Angeles Angels
- Oakland Athletics
- Seattle Mariners
- Houston Astros
- Texas Rangers
- National League East
- Washington Nationals
- Atlanta Braves
- New York Mets
- Miami Marlins
- Philadelphia Phillies
- National League Central
- St. Louis Cardinals
- Pittsburgh Pirates
- Milwaukee Brewers
- Cincinnati Reds
- Chicago Cubs
- National League West
- Los Angeles Dodgers
- San Francisco Giants
- San Diego Padres
- Colorado Rockies
- Arizona Diamondbacks
- Derek Jeter's Career Statistics
- Derek Jeter's Yankee Teams
- Answers
- Copyright
