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"[T]he Moneyball era is over. Fifteen years after Michael Lewis brought the Oakland Athletics' groundbreaking team-building strategies to light, every front office takes a data-driven approach to evaluating players, and the league's smarter teams no longer have a huge advantage in valuing past performance. Lindbergh and Sawchik's behind-the-scenes reporting reveals: How the 2017 Astros and 2018 Red Sox used cutting-edge technology to win the World...
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"With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic journey to become World Series champions"--
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Whether they wore white stockings or blue helmets, the baseball players of Chicago's North Side have always had great stories to tell. Now fans of this loveable franchise will finally get to hear from twenty-eight of the best players as they relive that singular moment which defined their Cubs career. In this newly updated edition of Game of My Life Chicago Cubs, veteran sportswriter Lew Freedman brings readers off the bench and onto the field...
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Time travel meets baseball in this “grand adventure” about a modern-day reporter who witnesses the birth of America’s favorite pastime (The Washington Times)
Contemporary reporter Sam Fowler is stuck in a dull job and a failing marriage when he is suddenly transported back to the summer of 1869. After a wrenching period of adjustment, he feels rejuvenated by his involvement with the nation’s first
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This series gives readers an inside look at the baseball teams that make up Major League Baseball. Sports fans will love the vivid photographs and fun facts included in the Inside MLB series. --Publisher
10) The show 23
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"MLB the show 23 gets you closer than ever to living your baseball dreams on the diamond. Shock the game and own the Show with your favorite players, your favorite rivalries, and all your favorite MLB moments..." --
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"It's the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- with real players, in a real ballpark, in a real playoff race. That's what baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an independent minor-league team in California, the Sonoma Stompers, offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics. Their story in The Only Rule is it...
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Springtime means it's baseball season, and Charlie Brown wants this to be the year his team finally wins a game! Charlie Brown's only option is to make some trades to improve his team. He calls Peppermint Patty to make a deal, but she tells him there's only one player on his team she wants, "he funny-looking little kid with the big nose." Snoopy! Peppermint Patty offers Charlie Brown five good players for Snoopy. But will Charlie Brown trade his beloved...
14) The Dog Sox
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"Ray Adams buys his girlfriend, beautiful Ava Belle, a baseball team for her birthday. She loves dogs and baseball. Ray's gift is a broken-down semi-pro team in California's Central Valley, with a 70-year-old Jewish manager who's been in baseball for fifty years and breaks into Yiddish homilies when the going gets tough. He assembles a ragtag lineup of sheet-rockers, farm laborers, wannabe big leaguers, and a freak submarine pitcher--19-year-old Billy...
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It's not easy managing a baseball team ... especially when your team has lost 900 games in a row. But when manager Charlie Brown has the opportunity to trade his worst player, Lucy, he thinks his luck may have finally changed. Will Lucy's replacement, Marcie, lead the team to victory? Or is Charlie Brown doomed to suffer through another losing season?
17) The sandlot
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The sandlot: In the early 1960s newcomer Scotty Smalls becomes part of a sandlot baseball team whose members share adventures, first kisses, and encounters with the dreaded beast and its owner who live behind the left field fence.
The sandlot 2: Ten years after the original story a new team tries to retrieve an irreplaceable model rocket that lands in Mr. Mertle's backyard behind left field.
The sandlot: heading home: An arrogant pro baseball player...
18) Cincinnati Reds
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"Students will love learning about the Cincinnati Reds in this high-interest title! Covers the team's history, memorable wins, star players, and important coaches. Features include table of contents, fun facts, team stats, timeline, glossary, and index."--Publisher's description.
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"Students will love learning about the St. Louis Cardinals in this high-interest title! Text covers the team's history, memorable wins, star players, and important coaches. Features include table of contents, fun facts, team stats, timeline, glossary, and index. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards."--
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In the small town of Norway, Iowa, the high school baseball team is led by legendary Coach Jim Van Scoyoc who has won 19 State Championships. But the small town heroes are dealt a series of unexpected blows that threaten to rob them of their 20th championship win. Talk of a school merger gets serious and Coach Scoyoc is fired. He is replaced by his 24-year-old assistant coach, Kent Stock. Failure seems inevitable. Based on the true story of Kent Stock....
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