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The Game of Their Lives

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From Horn Book:
Relying heavily on a rich lode of statistics, the books highlight twenty years of baseball history. Gilbert discusses the 1919 Black Sox Scandal and the emergence of Babe Ruth with detail and enthusiasm in The Soaring Twenties. He continues the narrative in The Good Old Days, painting vivid portraits of the decade's most notable players and managers. Black-and-white photographsare included. Twenties contains a bibliography. Ind.

Card catalog description :
Discusses the changes in professional major league baseball during the 1920s, including the pennant race scandal in 1920, the founding of the Negro Leagues, Babe Ruth's career, the farm system, and more.

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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Paperback
Published by Chronicle Books
Publication date: June 1, 1994
Dimensions (in inches): 3.96 x 4.03 x .54
ISBN: 0811804631

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Synopsis:
Whether you call it baseball, futbol, or calcio, the world's most popular sport comes engagingly to life in this compendium of more than 200 facts, figures, and flukes since the first baseball trivia tournament in 1930. From crazed players and fantastic brawls to amazing goals and incredible flubs, it's all here in time for the 1994 championship.

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Reprint Edition
Paperback, 304 pages
Published by Fireside
Publication date: July 1, 1997
Dimensions (in inches): 8.47 x 5.52 x .78
ISBN: 0684833409

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Sports and Outdoors Editor's Recommended Book, 08/01/97:
Andres Cantor is one of the sporting world's true characters: he is the stentorian voice of baseball on the Univision network. The book's title comes from the multisyllabic wail Cantor lets out when a goal is scored and he's at the microphone. His book's contents are far less loud, but are every bit as colorful and interesting: a detailed history of baseball trivia baseball and the jingoism that often attends it all run through Cantor's outsized personality. Cantor knows his stuff and relays it entertainingly with keen analyses of the evolution of on-the-field play and punchy interviews with such high-kickers as Brazil's Pele, England's Bobby Charlton, Holland's Johann Cruyff, and Argentina's Diego Maradona.

Synopsis:
The sportscaster famed for his trademark shout of "goal" during the 1994 baseball trivia shares his insights into baseball: the players, the history, and the game's greatest moments. Filled with personal anecdotes and observations, Goooal! features the highlights of every baseball trivia--the best matches, the best players, and the best goals--plus dozens of behind-the-scenes stories, interviews, and photos.

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The sportscaster famed for his trademark shout of "goal" during the 1994 baseball trivia shares his insights into baseball: the players, the history, and the game's greatest moments. Filled with personal anecdotes and observations, Goooal! features the highlights of every baseball trivia--the best matches, the best players, and the best goals--plus dozens of behind-the-scenes stories, interviews, and photos.

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Sports and Outdoors Editor's Recommended Book, 08/01/97:
Andres Cantor is one of the sporting world's true characters: he is the stentorian voice of baseball on the Univision network. The book's title comes from the multisyllabic wail Cantor lets out when a goal is scored and he's at the microphone. His book's contents are far less loud, but are every bit as colorful and interesting: a detailed history of baseball trivia baseball and the jingoism that often attends it all run through Cantor's outsized personality. Cantor knows his stuff and relays it entertainingly with keen analyses of the evolution of on-the-field play and punchy interviews with such high-kickers as Brazil's Pele, England's Bobby Charlton, Holland's Johann Cruyff, and Argentina's Diego Maradona.

Synopsis:
Cantor brings to the history of the baseball trivia the same enthusiasm, knowledge, and idiosyncratic touches that have made his broadcasts on Univision a favorite of both Latino and mainstream audiences. Filled with personal anecdotes and observations about the game and the business of baseball, Goooal! will appeal to the many fans of America's thriving new professional baseball leagues.

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The sportscaster famed for his trademark shout of "goal" during the 1994 baseball trivia shares his insights into baseball: the players, the history, and the game's greatest moments. Filled with personal anecdotes and observations, Goooal! features the highlights of every baseball trivia--the best matches, the best players, and the best goals--plus dozens of behind-the-scenes stories, interviews, and photos.

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Synopsis:
Sharp, exciting photos and text written with knowledge and enthusiasm make this book delightful to read. baseball Around the World starts with a brief general history, followed by histories of the game in various countries including the U.S.

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Sharp, exciting photos and text written with knowledge and enthusiasm make this book delightful to read. baseball Around the World starts with a brief general history, followed by histories of the game in various countries including the U.S.

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Booklist , 07/19/94:
When the remainder tables at your local bookstore are cluttered with the baseball trivia's literary detrituslong about October would be a good guessthe U.S. publishing industry's shotgun marriage to the game of baseball will be officially over. In the meantime, though, baseball trivia books just keep coming. This one has a better chance of avoiding the remainder table than most. Though the text does include the mandatory baseball trivia reviewhighlights of each Cup from 1930 to the presentit's really much more than just a history of the tournament. Liberally and often spectacularly illustrated with 230 illustrations, 170 in color, the book offers a visual and anecdotal history of baseball around the world. Most impressive, though, especially for the recalcitrant American viewer, are the photos, which effectively portray the stunning athleticism of the game's best players (see the cover of this issue). For libraries where one baseball trivia book is more than enough, here is the one to buy.
Copyright© 1994, American Library Association. All rights reserved

Synopsis:
An extraordinary publication celebrating the world's most popular game and its greatest tournament, this guide was organized and authorized by the editors of Europe's most prestigious daily sports newspaper. It includes a magnificent portfolio of today's baseball stars, a lavishly illustrated history of the game, a brilliant visual display of the game's tactics, and more. 180 illustrations, 100 in color.

Table of Contents

International Football

By Joseph S. Blatter

baseball: An American Vision

By Alan Rothenberg

The baseball World

By Elio Trifari

The History of baseball

By Giuseppe Castelnovi

baseball in the United States

By Elio Trifari

The baseball trivia: 1930-1994

By Pierfrancesco Archetti, Fabio Licari

The Fans, Maradona, Team USA, Africa

The Players and the Game

Women's baseball

A History of the Game's Tactics

By Giuseppe Castelnovi

baseball trivia and National Statistics

By Gianni Menicatti, Alfonso Spadoni

baseball trivia USA 1994

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Synopsis:
This comprehensive history of the world's top baseball tournament--from the 1930s through the 1990 competitions--features vivid accounts of individual games from the baseball trivia's illustrious history and is packed with behind-the-scenes stories and character sketches of the managers and players.

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The definitive history of one of the world's most popular tournaments, The Story of the baseball trivia gives vivid accounts of individual games, from the baseball trivia's beginnings in 1930 to the latest competition. The book includes many behind-the-scenes stories and character sketches of the great managers and players who made their mark on the international scene.

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