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u/wesed · 2 pointsr/mlb

I've always enjoyed anything written by Rogers Angell or Roger Kahn, specifcally "The Head Game" about the history and development of different pitches and you'll learn that Ol'Hoss Radbourn holds the record with 72 wins in a season.


If you enjoy the science of baseball I'd recommend "The Physics of Baseball".


Edit: Also you should watch the Ken Burns Baseball biography, warning it's approx. 8-10 hours long with all 9 innings (episodes if you will).

Edit#2: I really enjoyed The Life and Times of Hank Greenburg and I still want to know what him and Jackie Robinson said to each other in one of the clips near the end when Hank was playing for Pittsburgh when Jackie reached first.

u/EchoesOfSanity · 5 pointsr/mlb

McCarver is the absolute worst. That being said read his book, Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans. There is some great background on how broadcasts are done but most of the book will help anyone understand situations in baseball. Thank God there is no audio book available!

u/The_Sun_Will_Explode · 4 pointsr/mlb

> Honestly, I’ve never been asked to write anything in my life, so this should be interesting.

Um, David, you've had a book about your career on sale since May.

u/iggyfenton · 1 pointr/mlb

http://www.amazon.com/The-Joy-Keeping-Score-Influenced/dp/0802715702/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342900184&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+score+a+baseball+game

This is a great way to learn about the game and the strategy involved. I would also start watching baseball games now and read the local beat writers daily columns on the O's.

If you can keep score at a baseball game you'll know more than 70% of the people at the stadium.

u/ColdStoryBro · 1 pointr/mlb

"Confessions of a Baseball Purist" by Jon Miller is good. Link.

u/kevlarcupid · 1 pointr/mlb

Until there's a plan to put a team back in Montreal, it's just being a cocktease.

And for those of who were too young or too drunk or just apathetic when the Expos were around (I'm in the first and second groups), go read Up, Up, and Away by Johnah Keri. He released it last year, and it's a great history of a team that could have been great but got the shaft in a lot of ways.

u/joejance · 16 pointsr/mlb

I just got back from a week of spring training games in The Cactus League, watching talented young men trying to make it to the most elite level of their game. On the way there (driving) my wife and I listened to Where Nobody Knows Your Name, a book about players working back and forth from the minors to the majors. It really put Spring Training in perspective.

When we got to the games it was obvious that these guys are taking every drill, every at bat, every single play, as a chance to make it to The Show or perhaps just stay on the radar for a call-up. There are a lot of young guys in this group, as young as Puig, as removed from their home as Puig, and they are working their asses off.

I just ask all the people that say that rest of us are "hating" on Puig for simply pointing out the obvious to take a moment to think of the thousands of guys in the minors and majors grinding it out every day, sometimes for horrible pay, for the chance at Major League Baseball. I wonder how they feel about Puig, pissing it away?

u/Nateshake · 1 pointr/mlb

Here you go... Akadema Mascot Glove (23-Inch)
http://amzn.com/B00274U00W

u/n3rdXcore · 1 pointr/mlb

I was in the same boat as you a few years ago, then I read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Watching-Baseball-Smarter-Professional-Semi-experts/dp/0307280322

Read it!!

u/DonnyGoat · 3 pointsr/mlb

LXTC Pair House Floor Polishing Dusting Cleaning Foot Socks Shoes Mop Slippers (Purple Color) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CFJE68Q/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_3BiMBb6N6AVE3

u/dws515 · 6 pointsr/mlb

They make stickers for it.

Edit: Also, Peavy has terrible vision. I remember the Red Sox catchers used to wear them when he pitched.

u/spittingblood · 1 pointr/mlb

Specifically I'm debating between these two. I like the WS print on the ball but I'm confused about the authentication.

Ball 1

Ball 2

u/rhodeislandslut · 1 pointr/mlb

100% agree with you on accountability while at a ball game. Thank you for being respectful to me, which is more than can be said for pretty much all of the responses I've received today. Hat tip to you- sincerely.

I work in sports medicine, so I hate seeing people get hurt at all on a field or court- let alone off of it. Nobody should ever go to a ball game and leave with a skull fracture, especially not a kid who was just watching. That's my angle. Not trying to absolve anyone of responsibility, far from it. There's just no need to risk anyone getting seriously hurt at a baseball game.

My wife and I were interviewing babysitters for our kids last year and one was a girl who'd been let go because the husband of the family she had been working for was at a Cubs game in the upper tank and had a cardiac arrest and flipped backwards over the rails and into the lower bowl. There was that guy who went for a ball that poor Josh Hamilton tossed into the crowd, who then fell and broke his neck and passed, with his son watching. There's actually a book called "Death at the Ballpark" that a buddy of mine has raved about that I keep meaning to pick up. It's pretty common- lots of people die at ballparks.

Accidents are unavoidable and random and happen but I can't help but wonder what Albert Almora's opinion on netting is after what happened.