Bill Deane

Finding the Hidden Ball Trick

The Colorful History of Baseball's Oldest Ruse

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through many years of research, Bill Deane has documented 260 successful hidden-ball tricks-putting the rarity of the play roughly in the class of the no-hitter. Along the way, he has collected the often-hilarious stories of these plays and the men who pulled them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781442244337
• ISBN-10: 144224433X
• Artikelnr.: 41670151

Autorenporträt

Bill Deane was Senior Research Associate at the National Baseball Hall of Fame from 1986 through 1994. He has authored six books on baseball and was managing editor of Total Baseball. Deane won the SABR-Macmillan Baseball Research Award for his book, Award Voting, and in 2003 he won the Utica-Cooperstown SABR chapter's "Cliff Kachline Award."

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction What is the Hidden
Ball Trick? History of the Trick Masters of the Trick ... and Their Victims 1876
89: The Early Tricks 1890
99: Gaiety in the '90s 1900
09: Coughlin Corner Tricks 1910
19: Ban Tries to Ban It 1920
29: A Decade Dominated by Babe Who? 1930
39: The Crow Flies High 1940
49: Pesky Holding the Ball 1950
59: Step off the Base a Minute, Will Ya? 1960
69: Stick Was Slick 1970
79: Elementary, My Dear Watson 1980
89: Happy Birthday, Kid! 1990
99: Master Matt 2000
Present: A Dying Art? Tricks Gone Awry Unsubstantiated Possibilities Odds and Ends Chronological Listing Appendix A: Successful Executions of the Hidden Ball Trick Appendix B: Unsubstantiated Possibilities Bibliography Notes Index About the Author