Larceny & Old Leather: The Mischievous Legacy Of Major League Baseball - Couverture rigide

Ham, Eldon L.

 
9780897335331: Larceny & Old Leather: The Mischievous Legacy Of Major League Baseball
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ISBN 10 : 0897335333 ISBN 13 : 9780897335331
Editeur : Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Eldon L. Ham has taught sports law at Chicago-Kent College of Law since 1994 and was one of the first lawyers to challenge the NFL's drug policy in court ("Richard Dent v. NFL", 1988). He is the sports legal analyst for WSCR sports radio in Chicago and has appeared on dozens of radio stations coast to coast as a sports lawyer, expert, and historian. He is also the author of The Playmasters: From Sellouts to Lockouts an Unauthorized History of the NBA; Larceny & Old Leather: The Mischievous Legacy of Major League Baseball; and Broadcasting Baseball: A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television. He lives near Chicago.

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Éditeur
Academy Chicago Publishers
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0897335333
ISBN 13 
9780897335331
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
260
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780897338080: Larceny and Old Leather: The Mischievous Legacy of Major League

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ISBN 10 :  0897338081 ISBN 13 :  9780897338080
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