Baseball's Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Baseball's Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them write by Jonathan Weeks. This book was released on 2016-07-08. Baseball's Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Baseball has had its fair share of one-and-out champions, but few clubs have dominated the sport for any great length of time. Given the level of competition and the expansive length of the season, it is a remarkable accomplishment for a team to make multiple World Series appearances in a short timespan. From the Baltimore Orioles of the 1800s who would go to any length to win—including physically accosting opponents—to the 1934 Cardinals known as the “Gashouse Gang” for their rough tactics and determination, and on to George Steinbrenner’s dominant Yankees of the late twentieth century, baseball’s greatest teams somehow found a way to win year after year. Spanning three centuries of the game, Baseball’s Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them examines twenty-two of baseball’s most iconic teams. Each chapter not only chronicles the club’s era of supremacy, but also provides an in-depth look at the players who helped make their teams great. Nearly two hundred player profiles are included, featuring such well-known stars as Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Sandy Koufax, and Pete Rose, as well as players who were perhaps overshadowed by their teammates but were nonetheless vital to their team’s reign, such as Pepper Martin, Allie Reynolds, and George Foster. With a concluding chapter that profiles the clubs that were on the cusp of greatness, Baseball’s Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them is a fascinating survey of what makes some teams dominate year after year while others get only a small taste of glory before falling to the wayside. Written in a lively style with amusing anecdotes and colorful quotes, this comprehensive book will be of interest to all fans and historians of baseball.
Baseball Dynasties
Baseball Dynasties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Baseball Dynasties write by Rob Neyer. This book was released on 2000. Baseball Dynasties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Assesses the top fifteen baseball teams of the twentieth century, including such legendary squads as the 1927 Yankees and the 1970 Orioles, to determine which team was the greatest of the modern era.
Bridging Two Dynasties
Bridging Two Dynasties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bridging Two Dynasties write by Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). This book was released on 2013-04-01. Bridging Two Dynasties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tells the story of how the 1947 New York Yankees won the pennant that year, set a record with a nineteen-game winning streak, and won the first televised World Series.
Bill DeWitt, Sr.
Bill DeWitt, Sr. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bill DeWitt, Sr. write by Burton A. Boxerman. This book was released on 2021-09-29. Bill DeWitt, Sr. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1954, one year after Baltimore bought the St. Louis Browns, the New York Yankees hired former Browns executive and owner William O. DeWitt as assistant to general manager George Weiss. "DeWitt," the news announced, "was considered an astute baseball man who would have a definite role to play with the Yankees." Baseball fans had assumed that once the Browns were no longer the American League's doormats, DeWitt would quietly retire. But for DeWitt, a shrewd protege of Branch Rickey, his years with the Browns began a long and fascinating career, including his years as owner and general manager of the Cincinnati Reds. This first ever biography focuses on the career of a baseball executive who contributed greatly to America's pastime.
Ed Barrow
Ed Barrow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ed Barrow write by Daniel R. Levitt. This book was released on 2010-03-01. Ed Barrow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before the feuding owners turned to Ed Barrow to be general manager in 1920, the Yankees had never won a pennant. They won their first in 1921 and during Barrow?s tenure went on to win thirteen more as well as ten World Series. This biography of the incomparable Barrow is also the story of how he built the most successful sports franchise in American history. øBarrow spent fifty years in baseball. He was in the middle of virtually every major conflict and held practically every job except player. Daniel R. Levitt describes Barrow?s pre-Yankees years, when he managed Babe Ruth and the Boston Red Sox to their last World Series Championship before the ?curse.? He then details how Barrow assembled a winning Yankees team both by purchasing players outright and by developing talent through a farm system. øThe story of the making of the great Yankees dynasty reveals Barrow?s genius for organizing, for recognizing baseball talent, and for exploiting the existing economic environment. Because Barrow was a player in so many of baseball?s key events, his biography gives a clear and eye-opening picture of how America?s sport was played in the twentieth century, on the field and off. A complex portrait of a larger-than-life character in the annals of baseball, this book is also an inside history of how the sport?s competitive environment evolved and how the Yankees came to dominate it.
