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The Mind of Bill James

How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball

By: Scott Gray

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The Mind of Bill James

How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball

By: Scott Gray

The first book to chronicle the life and ideas of “the serious baseball fan’s high priest” (New York Times), the impact of his brilliant and entertaining writings, and how someone who never pitched a ball, held a bat, or managed a team fundamentally changed the way baseball is interpreted, analyzed, and even played. Bill James has been called “baseball’s shrewdest analyst” (Slate) and “part of baseball legend” (The New Yorker), and his Baseball Abstract has been acclaimed as the “holy book of baseball” (Chicago Tribune). Thirty years ago, James introduced a new approach to evaluating players and strategies, and now his theories have become indispensable tools for agents, statistics analysts, maverick general managers, and anyone who is serious about understanding the game. James began writing about baseball while working at a factory in his native Kansas. In lively, often acerbic prose, he used statistics to challenge entrenched beliefs and uncover surprising truths about the game. His annual Baseball Abstract captured the attention of fans and front offices and went on to become a bestselling staple of the baseball book category. In 2002, the Boston Red Sox hired James as an advisor. Two years later they achieved their long-awaited World Series triumph. The Mind of Bill James tells the story of how a gifted outsider inspired a new understanding of baseball. It delves deeply into James’s essential wisdom–including his surprising beliefs about pitch counts and the importance of batting-order, thoughts on professionalism and psychology, and why teams tend to develop the characteristics that are least favored by their home parks. It also brings together his best writing, much of it long out of print, as well as insights from new interviews. Written with James’ full cooperation, it is at once an eye-opening portrait of baseball’s virtuoso analyst and a treasury of his idiosyncratic genius.

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230

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Crown

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ISBN 10

0385517718

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9780385517713

Memorials of James Marsden

By: George Scott

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Memorials of James Marsden

By: George Scott

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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165

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368812564

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9783368812560

James Baldwin's Later Fiction

Witness to the Journey

By: Lynn O. Scott

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James Baldwin's Later Fiction

Witness to the Journey

By: Lynn O. Scott

James Baldwin’s Later Fiction examines the decline of Baldwin’s reputation after the middle 1960s, his tepid reception in mainstream and academic venues, and the ways in which critics have often mis-represented and undervalued his work. Scott develops readings of Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Just Above My Head that explore the interconnected themes in Baldwin’s work: the role of the family in sustaining the arts, the price of success in American society, and the struggle of black artists to change the ways that race, sex, and masculinity are represented in American culture. Scott argues that Baldwin’s later writing crosses the cultural divide between the 1950s and 1960s in response to the civil rights and black power movements. Baldwin’s earlier works, his political activism and sexual politics, and traditions of African American autobiography and fiction all play prominent roles in Scott’s analysis.

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268

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MSU Press

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0870139541

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9780870139543

James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays

By: Lovalerie King,L. Scott

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James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays

By: Lovalerie King,L. Scott

This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines James Baldwin and Toni Morrison's reciprocal literary relationship. By reading these authors side-by-side, this collection forges new avenues of discovery and interpretation related to their representations of African American and American literature and cultural experience.

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305

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Springer

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ISBN 10

0230601383

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9780230601383

The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis

Monsters of Nature and Design

By: Scott W. Klein

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The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis

Monsters of Nature and Design

By: Scott W. Klein

Relationship between the work of Joyce and Lewis, expressed through similar themes and structures.

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277

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Cambridge University Press

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0521030161

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9780521030168

Pushing the Limits

The Story of Canadian Mountaineering

By: Chic Scott

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Pushing the Limits

The Story of Canadian Mountaineering

By: Chic Scott

Recipient of the Banff Mountain Book Festival's Canadian Rockies Award A book to be read and digested, then sampled, then read and dipped into often...a fine achievement for this dedicated author... Bruce Fairley, Canadian Alpine Journal HOLY SHIT WAAAAAAAAAT A FABBBBBULOUS TOME. Tami Knight, Illustrator/Mountaineer This important new book tells the story of Canada's 200-year mountaineering history. Through the use of stories and pictures, Chic Scott documents the evolution of climbing in Canada. He introduces us to the early mountain pioneers and the modern day climbing athletes; he takes us to the crags and the gyms, from the west coast to Quebec, and from the Yukon to the Rockies. But most importantly, Scott showcases Canadian climbers--the routes that challenged them, the peaks that inspired them, their insatiable desire to climber harder, to push the limits. Begin the trek through Canada's climbing history... Learn about Swiss guides hired by CPR hotels who ushered in the glory years of first ascents. Continue through to the turn of the twentieth century when British and American climbers of leisure found themselves hampered by the difficulties of travel through the Canadian wilderness. Learn about the European immigrants of the 1950s who pushed the limits on the rock walls, and the American superstars who led the search for frightening new routes on the big north faces. Be there when British expatriates pioneer an exciting new trend in world mountaineering--waterfall ice climbing. Witness the popular growth of sport climbing, both on the crags and in the gyms. Finally, enjoy the story of home-grown climbers. Initially slow to take up the challenge, both at home and overseas, they are now leaders in the climbing world.

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444

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Rocky Mountain Books Ltd

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0921102593

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9780921102595

Bipolar: a Life Story

By: Scott James Jordan

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Bipolar: a Life Story

By: Scott James Jordan

As a little boys journey begins, Scott Jordan experiences continuous childhood traumas and is grief stricken by his mothers ultimate abandonment, jumping overboard to her watery death from a cruise ship. He grows up sad, confused and angry. Subsequently Scott has another personal hell to wage war with; Manic depressive illness. His life is a succession of delusional, psychotic, manic episodes and crippling suicidal depressions. He is caught in an intricate web of misfiring brain chemistry. The dawning desire to live without fear and paranoia, a few angels in street clothes, and an amazing faith, Scott discovers life, a miracle of wonder

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110

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469121158

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9781469121154

Book's by Scott James

The Mind of Bill James

The Mind of Bill James

Memorials of James Marsden

Memorials of James Marsden

James Baldwin's Later Fiction

James Baldwin's Later Fiction

James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays

James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays

The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis

The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis

Pushing the Limits

Pushing the Limits

Bipolar: a Life Story

Bipolar: a Life Story

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