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"It's an everything you ever wanted to know reference source for anyone who truly loves baseball." -- Albany Times Union
"You could do no better than Peter Morris' A Game of Inches, an astonishingly well-researched history." -- Keith Olbermann, MSNBC
Clear some fresh space on your bookshelves. One of the all-time essential reference works for baseball has...arrived. -- Daniel Gabriel in Elysian Fields Quarterly
Majestic in their detail and exemplary in their dedication to scholarship, these books will leave the reader...exhilarated. -- Choice
Morris gives the scoop on three- and four-man umpiring crews, the history of bats, and more. -- Carol Herwig, USA Today
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The Game Behind the Scenes continues and concludes Peter Morris's superb encyclopedia of the national pastime. Together, both volumes of A Game of Inches contain nearly a thousand entries that illuminate the origins of items ranging from catchers' masks to hook slides to intentional walks to cork-center baseballs to the reserve clause of baseball's Basic Agreement. This volume concentrates on ballparks, fans, marketing, statistics, the building of teams, and other related aspects of the game. This book will give any reader a deeper appreciation of why baseball matters so much to Americans.
"It's an everything you ever wanted to know reference source for anyone who truly loves baseball." -- Albany Times Union
"You could do no better than Peter Morris' A Game of Inches, an astonishingly well-researched history." -- Keith Olbermann, MSNBC
Clear some fresh space on your bookshelves. One of the all-time essential reference works for baseball has...arrived. -- Daniel Gabriel in Elysian Fields Quarterly
Majestic in their detail and exemplary in their dedication to scholarship, these books will leave the reader...exhilarated. -- Choice
Morris gives the scoop on three- and four-man umpiring crews, the history of bats, and more. -- Carol Herwig, USA Today
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The Game Behind the Scenes continues and concludes Peter Morris's superb encyclopedia of the national pastime. Together, both volumes of A Game of Inches contain nearly a thousand entries that illuminate the origins of items ranging from catchers' masks to hook slides to intentional walks to cork-center baseballs to the reserve clause of baseball's Basic Agreement. This volume concentrates on ballparks, fans, marketing, statistics, the building of teams, and other related aspects of the game. This book will give any reader a deeper appreciation of why baseball matters so much to Americans.
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IF YOUR favorite major league team doesn't have much talent, at least it has a sizable group of people-the general manager and his assistants, the farm system director, a staff of scouts-who are exploring a variety of means of acquiring and developing new talent. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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pitching gun, early baseball, roster sizes, major league owners, integrated clubs, waiver system, minor league clubs, postseason series, reserve clause, indoor baseball, waiver rules, base ball club, sacrifice hit, baseball fever, interleague play, major league club, night baseball, first major league game, reserve rule Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Sporting News, American League, World Series, American Association, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Brooklyn Eagle, Chicago Tribune, National Association, Jonathan Fraser Light, John Thorn, Red Smith, African Americans, Louis Post-Dispatch, Branch Rickey, Detroit Free Press, Lee Allen, Federal League, Sporting Lifè, United States, Bill James, Grand Rapids, Cap Anson, Dean Sullivan New!
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