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Baseball: The
Biographical Encyclopedia |
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Edited by David Pietrusza, Matthew
Silverman, and Michael Gershman |
Total Sports Illustrated, Kingston,
NY, 2000
ISBN: 9781892129345 |
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no: R 796.35703 BAS |
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book covers 2,000 players from Hank Aaron to Richie Zisk,
providing quick access to the stories behind the sport's most
notable careers. Each entry includes personal data such as birth
and death dates and sites, major league debut dates, and
physical specs. |
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Baseball Desk
Reference |
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Written by Lawrence Lorimer with the
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum |
DK Pub., New York, NY, 2002
ISBN: 9780789483928 |
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no: R 796.357 LOR |
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| Written in
collaboration with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and
Museum, this volume includes hundreds of photographs,
illustrations, and tables. |
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The Baseball
Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of Over 7,600
Major League Players and Others |
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Written by Bill Lee |
McFarland & Company, Inc.,
Publishers, Jefferson, NC, 2003
ISBN: 9780786415397 |
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no: R 796.357 LEE |
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| Containing some
7,600 entries, this reference lists dead people associated with
baseball's major leagues, including players, owners, umpires,
coaches, announcers, or sportswriters. Entries provide
information on time spent in baseball, post-baseball career and
activities, date and cause of death, and final resting place. |
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Baseball Uniforms of
the 20th Century: The Official Major League Baseball Guide |
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Written by Marc Okkonen |
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., New
York, NY, 1991
ISBN: 9780806984902 |
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no: R 796.357028 OKK |
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| This book provides a
brief historical overview of major trends in uniform design, as
well as an essay on each major league team which links uniform
changes to team history. The bulk of the book is a year-by-year
pictorial register covering the years 1900 to 1991. |
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The Complete
Baseball Record Book |
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Edited by Craig Carter |
The Sporting News, St. Louis, MO,
2002
ISBN: 9780892046430 |
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no: R 796.357 COM |
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| This book contains
all the regular season, postseason, All-Star Game, and World
Series updates from 2002. It includes individual player and team
records, career milestones lists show where active players are
on record lists, team-by-team listings show team records in
their history, and more. |
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The Cultural
Encyclopedia of Baseball |
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Written by Jonathan Fraser Light |
McFarland & Company, Inc.,
Publishers, Jefferson, NC, 2005
ISBN: 9780786420872 |
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no: R 796.35703 LIG |
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| This book includes
cross- referenced entries from "Aaron, Henry (Hank)" to "youth
baseball" and a short poem on the game by Ogden Nash starting
with "Z is for Zenith". It also contains biographical
sketches, historical context, some statistics, a suggested
reading, and photo as appropriate. |
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The Dickson Baseball
Dictionary |
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Written by Paul Dickson |
Facts on File., New York, NY, 1989
ISBN: 9780816017416 |
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no: R 796.357 D561d |
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| This book covers
team histories, field names, archaic and obsolete language, fan
jargon, and dugout slang. |
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Encyclopedia of
Major League Baseball Clubs |
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Edited by Steven A. Riess |
Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 2006
ISBN: 9780313329913 |
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no: R 796.35764 ENC |
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| This book contains
useful information about important players, managers, owners;
community relations/charity work; business and labor issues
(television income, free agency); race relations;
baseball/sports economics (including stadium construction, team
relocations); and teams in local and national culture (Fenway
Park, Wrigley Field as local icons, Yankees as a national team).
Every essay is signed, and concludes with suggested readings and
a bibliography. |
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Encyclopedia of
Major League Baseball Team Histories: American League |
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Edited by Peter C. Bjarkman |
Meckler, Westport, CT, 1991
ISBN: 9780887363733 |
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no: R 796.35764 En19 |
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| This book presents a
collective history of all big league clubs. For each team there
is a short account of its history and lists of members,
statistics, and bibliography for further study. |
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The Sports
Encyclopedia: Baseball |
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Written by David S. Neft, Richard M.
Cohen, and Michael L. Neft |
St. Martin’s Griffin, New York, NY,
2002
ISBN: 9780312272265 |
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no: R 796.357 NEF |
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| This book contains
information on all the teams, all the players, every World
Series game, every all-time batting and pitching leader, every
player's vital statistics and lifetime totals, season-by-season
summaries and rosters, and more. |
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The Sporting News
Baseball Register |
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Edited by Baseball Register: Jeff
Paur and David Walton |
The Sporting News, St. Louis, MO,
2002
ISBN: 9780892046720 |
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no: R 796.357 SPO |
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| This book contains
up-to-date statistics available on every player in the major
leagues, plus their biographical information and statistical
notes. |
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EBSCO Publications -
MasterFILE Premier |
Ebsco MasterFILE Premier is designed
specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary
database provides full text for more than 1,730 general
reference publications with full text information dating as far
back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general
interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text
reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source
documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and
flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
This database is available as part of the
TexShare Databases which are commercial database
subscriptions that are paid for by the Texas State Library and
Archives Commission (TSLAC) for use by registered patrons of
Texas public libraries.
Please ask your librarian for a login and password. |
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A keyword subject search
yields: |
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85,766 Full-text References for
“baseball” |
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Brennan, C. (n.d.). Baseball
still missing call on instant replay. USA Today, Retrieved
June 12, 2008, from MasterFILE Premier database. |
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Verducci, T. (2008, May 26). The
Bizarro Supermen. (Cover story). Sports Illustrated,
108(21), 32-38. Retrieved June 12, 2008, from Academic Search
Complete database. |
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