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Watching baseball smarter : a professional fan's guide for beginners, semi-experts, and deeply serious geeks

Title
Watching baseball smarter : a professional fan's guide for beginners, semi-experts, and deeply serious geeks / Zack Hample.
Author
Hample, Zack, 1977-
Publication
New York : Vintage Books, [2007]

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Description
xvii, 254 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
An obsessed baseball fan celebrates his love of the American pastime while sharing information on the ins and outs of the game, from the difference between a split finger fastball and a forkball, why the first-base coach uses a stopwatch, obscure rules, pitching and hitting, fielding, and umpires.
Subject
  • Baseball
  • Baseball fans
  • Baseball
  • baseball (field sport)
  • Sports spectators
Genre/Form
Literature.
Contents
The basics. -- Pitchers and catchers. -- Hitting. -- Baserunning. -- Fielding. -- Stadiums. -- Umpires. -- Statistics. -- Random stuff to know. -- Random stuff to notice.
ISBN
  • 9780307280329
  • 0307280322
LCCN
2007296737
OCLC
  • ocm86122957
  • 86122957
  • SCSB-1537810
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library