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All the Babe's Men

Baseball's Greatest Home Run Seasons and How They Changed America

By: Eldon L. Ham

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All the Babe's Men

Baseball's Greatest Home Run Seasons and How They Changed America

By: Eldon L. Ham

Why are Americans obsessed with the home run in sports, business, and even life? What made the steroid era inevitable? Revisiting the great home run seasons of Babe Ruth through those of Barry Bonds, All the Babe's Men answers these and other provocative questions. Baseball, and particularly the long ball itself, evolved via accident, necessity, and occasional subterfuge. During the dead-ball era, pitching ruled the game, and home run totals hovered in the single digits. Then a ban on the spitball and the compression of stadium dimensions set the stage for new sluggers to emerge, culminating in Ruth's historic sixty-homer season in 1927. The players, owners, and fans became hooked on the homer, but our addiction took us to excess. As the home run became the ultimate goal for hitters, players went to new lengths to increase their power and ability to swing for the fences. By the time Barry Bonds set a new single-season record in 2001, Americans had to face the fact that their national pastime had become corrupted from within. Through a play-by-play analysis of the game's historic long-ball seasons, its superstars, and the contemporary legal nightmares and tainted records, All the Babe's Men divulges how America evolved into a home run society where baseball is king.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1597979384

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9781597979382

Broadcasting Baseball

A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television

By: Eldon L. Ham

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Broadcasting Baseball

A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television

By: Eldon L. Ham

There is a long-standing relationship between broadcasting and sports, and nowhere is this more evident than in the marriage of baseball and radio: a slow sport perfectly suited to the word-painting of broadcasters. This work covers the development of the baseball broadcasting industry from the first telegraph reports of games in progress, the influence of early pioneers at Pittsburgh's KDKA and Chicago's WGN, including the first World Series broadcast, the launch of the Telstar Satellite, the Carlton Fisk homerun in the 1975 World Series, which changed how baseball is broadcast, through the latest computer graphics, HD television, and the Internet.

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McFarland

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078648635X

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9780786486359

Larceny and Old Leather

The Mischievous Legacy of Major League

By: Eldon L. Ham

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Larceny and Old Leather

The Mischievous Legacy of Major League

By: Eldon L. Ham

Every baseball player from little league to the big leagues knows it is illegal to steal signs, yet every major league team assigns someone to do just that. Baseball thrives on trickery and deception. But as our oldest major team sport, its larcenous legacy goes much deeper than the field of play. In LARCENY AND OLD LEATHER: THE MISCHIEVOUS LEGACY OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, Eldon Ham—sports lawyer, professor, and author—traces the game’s lesser-known, roguish past. His wry chapters, filled with anecdotes and statistics, expose both the hidden and the obvious cheating occurring throughout baseball’s history, from corked bats and spitballs to betting and media hyperbole. Here is a book for both seasoned baseball fans and neophytes who’d like to get a look at the game that evolved into an industry. Babe Ruth, Sammy Sosa, Pete Rose, and many other lesser known players make their appearance in this fascinating history, as Ham seeks not only to chronicle the legacy of deception inherent within the game, but also to explore why it is, and how it is, that this deception is exactly what makes baseball the most endearing of American games.

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Chicago Review Press

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0897335333

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9780897335331

Larceny and Old Leather

The Mischievous Legacy of Major League

By: Eldon Ham

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The Mischievous Legacy of Major League

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The Last Dance

Family Secrets and the Chicago Mob

By: Eldon Ham,James Jack

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The Last Dance

Family Secrets and the Chicago Mob

By: Eldon Ham,James Jack

Retired Chicago Homicide Detective James Jimmy Jack grew up in the Chicago neighborhoods with many of Chicagos future crime figures, and later he investigated or arrested many during his years on the force. I have known Jimmy Jack for over fifteen years, and his personal memoir The Last Dance offers many personal behind the scenes stories regarding the personalities and events behind the great Family Secrets mob trial. It is a must read for anyone interested in organized crime, especially the Chicago Outfit and names like Giancana to Spilotro, Calabrese, Lombardo, and many more. Scott Cassidy Special Assistant to the Cook County Sheriff; Former Chief, Cook County Special Prosecutions Unit

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453585001

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9781453585009

Broadcasting Baseball

A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television

By: Eldon L. Ham

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A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television

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All the Babe's Men

Baseball's Greatest Home Run Seasons and How They Changed America

By: Eldon L. Ham

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All the Babe's Men

Baseball's Greatest Home Run Seasons and How They Changed America

By: Eldon L. Ham

Looks at the evolution of the home run's popularity in baseball through an analysis of historic long-ball seasons, the sport's superstars, and the steroid era.

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All the Babe's Men

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Larceny and Old Leather

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The Last Dance

The Last Dance

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