9780684184821 - The Armchair Book of Baseball de Thorn, John (17 résultats)

Etat : Good. James Stevenson (illustrateur). First Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Etat : Very Good. James Stevenson (illustrateur). First Edition. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Poor. James Stevenson (illustrateur). Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Etat : Good. James Stevenson (illustrateur). Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Etat : Very Good. James Stevenson (illustrateur). Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. James Stevenson (illustrateur). Minor corner bumping with some wear to the top of the spine. Some edge wear to the dust jacket. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. James Stevenson (illustrateur). Hardback remainder; light shelf wear, scuffing to exterior as a result of warehouse storage. Clean text, tight binding. No dust jacket.

hardcover. Etat : Good. James Stevenson (illustrateur). Dust Jacket has some shelf/edge wear. Dust Jacket has crease on inside front cover. No apparent marks throughout this book. Tracking available on most domestic orders.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. James Stevenson; (illustrateur). First Edition. (xii) 388 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Quarter-bound in green cloth on beige boards; decorated in gilt on the spine; headband; green upper edge. Some wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few short tears around the edges; price clipped; no interior markings. Illustrated with drawings by James Stevenson. There are far too many writers and articles here to list them all but some of the highlights are: Foreword by Peter V. Ueberroth; The Web of the Game by Roger Angell; Who's on First? - Anonlymous; The Grip by Jim Bouton; The Extinction of the .400 Hitter by Stephen Jay Gould; Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa by W. P. Kinsella; A Busher's Letters Home by Ring Lardner; Lines Composed in Exaltation Over the North Atlantic by James Michener; La Vie en Rose by Pete Rose; Josh - The Black Babe Ruth, or was Ruth the White Josh Gibson by Robert Peterson; My Baseball Years by Philip Roth; Pick-up Game by John Sayles; No Jury Would Convict by Irwin Shaw; Howard Ehmke by Red Smith; The Silent Season of a Hero - Joe DiMaggion by Gay Talese; Franks Chance's Diamond - Why Ring Lardner Soured on Baseball by Jonathan Yardley; and many, many more. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Fine. Stevenson, James (illustrateur). First Edition. Ed. by John Thorn, Very large, sturdy book, blue cloth spine, gold boards, bright gilt lettering and border on spine, 386 pages with some small illustrations throughout. DJ glossy with dark blue background, thin light blue borders front and back, colorful lettering in blue, red, orange and yellow. DJ and book, both Very Fine.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. James Stevenson (illustrateur). First Printing [Stated]. xiii, 388 pages. Illustrations. DJ is price clipped and has some wear along the edges. Foreword by Peter V. Ueberroth. More than sixty contributions come together in this affectionate look at baseball, from writers, reporters, and raconteurs including Roger Angell, Jim Bouton, Roger Kahn, Philip Roth, James Michener, Red Smith, John Updike, and more. This is one of the Armchair Library series. John A. Thorn (born April 17, 1947) is a German-born sports historian, author, publisher, and cultural commentator. Since March 1, 2011, he has been the Official Baseball Historian for Major League Baseball. Thorn served as the senior creative consultant for the 1994 Ken Burns documentary Baseball. In 2004, Thorn discovered documentation that traced the origins of baseball in America to 1791 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He has also attempted to shed light on the contributions of 19th century pioneers of the game, while debunking common misconceptions. In June 2006, the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) bestowed on Thorn its highest accolade, the Bob Davids Award. The award honors those whose contributions to SABR and baseball reflect the ingenuity, integrity, and self-sacrifice of the founder and past president of SABR, L. Robert "Bob" Davids. James Stevenson, the humorist and cartoonist, illustrated this book. He is a staff writer for the New Yorker Magazine, the author of several books. Derived from a review found posted on-line: Mr. Thorn includes 61 prose and verse selections arranged alphabetically by author. There's a great deal of assorted commentary and humor. Scientist Stephen Jay Gould explains `"The Extinction of the .400 Hitter'' memorably and succinctly . Other writers look to "extreme achievers'' of the past, in such vivid pieces as Gay Talese's profile of Joe DiMaggio in retirement; Thomas Boswell's insouciant evaluation of "Mr. October,'' Reggie Jackson; and Red Smith's tribute to Howard Ehmke, the unlikely veteran hero of the 1929 World Series. Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First'' comedy routine comes across surprisingly well on the printed page, and Russell Baker's imaginary interview with Yankees' president George Steinbrenner (on the subject of firing employees) is wryly amusing. But few readers will find anything funny in the labored "Quotations from Chairman Pete [Rose],'' or much worth preserving in the boring, overheated prose of the late celebrity-sportswriter Jimmy Cannon. There are several good poems from May Swenson, John Updike, and Robert Fitzgerald. There are excerpts from baseball fiction (by Ring Lardner, Robert Coover, and John Sayles) - and from classic nonfiction books like Roger Kahn's "The Boys of Summer'' and Robert Creamer's "Babe''. It's perhaps just as well that Thorn offers only two speculative essays that attempt to define baseball's appeal. Yale president A. Bartlett Giamatti's "The Green Fields of the Mind'' acknowledges the sentimentalism that is at the heart of fan-dom. And Philip Roth's "My Baseball Years'' contends that the game as played (and followed) some 30 years ago was a genuine socializing force. These 61 companion pieces suggest the essential truth of Jim Bouton's memorable observation (in his "Ball Four''): "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.'' Even those of us who never played the game can feel that tug, and will welcome the vicarious satisfactions to be found in this splendid and entertaining book.

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Stevenson, James (illustrator) (illustrateur). Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Stevenson, James (illustrateur). Second Edition. Green dj creased, prev. owner sign. inside, has no tears. Boards clean, corners sharp, pages clean, white, tight. Appears never read. Forword by Peter V. Ueberroth. Collection written by var. auithors to portray a panoramic view of today's game.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. James Stevenson (illustrateur). Second printing [stated]. Format is approximately 7.5 inches by 9.25 inches. xii, 388 pages. Illustrations. Foreword by Peter V. Ueberroth. DJ has wear, soiling, tears and chips. This is one of The Armchair Library. A collection of articles and commentaries about America's favorite pastime. Among the writers represented are: Roger Angell, Russell Baker, Moe Berg, Ira Berkow, Roy Blount, Thomas Boswell, Jim Bouton, Robert Creamer, Joseph Durso, Curt Flood, Bartlett Giamatti, Stephen Jay Gould, Roger Kahn, Kinsella, Ring Lardner, Eugene McCarthy, James Michener, Zander Hollander, Shirley Povich, Pete Rose, Philip Roth, William Safire, Irwin Shaw, Wilfrid Sheed, Red Smith, Gay Talese, John Updike, and George F. Will. John A. Thorn (born April 17, 1947) is a German-born sports historian, author, publisher, and cultural commentator. Since March 1, 2011, he has been the Official Baseball Historian for Major League Baseball. Thorn is the author and editor of numerous books, including Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball, Treasures of the Baseball Hall of Fame, The Hidden Game of Baseball, The Glory Days: New York Baseball 1947?1957, and The Armchair Book of Baseball. His 2011 book, Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game was an in-depth chronicle of the seminal development and pioneers of the sport. A New York Times review of the latter book referred to Thorn as "a researcher of colossal diligence." Thorn is also the co-author with Pete Palmer and Bob Carroll of The Hidden Game of Football and with them co-editors of Total Football. His book New York 400, a graphic history of the city timed for its quadricentennial, created with the Museum of the City of New York and Running Press, was published in September 2009. Thorn is a columnist for Voices, the publication of the New York Folklore Society. He founded Total Sports Publishing and served as its publisher from 1998?2002. Among the topics covered are Ron Darling, No-hitter, New York Yankees, Steinbrenner, Bruce Gardner, Reggie Jackson, Ballparks, Henry Waugh, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, George Brett, Ty Cobb, Richards Vidmer, Sportswriters, Carl Erskine, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Designated Hitter, Josh Gibson, Sam Rick, Marty McHale, Rod Kanehl, Joe DiMaggio Rube Waddell, Yankee Stadium, Bleachers, Chicago Cubs, George Brunet, and Frank Chance.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. James Stevenson (illustrateur). torn/chipped dj, some wear, still NICE - may have remainder mark or previous owner's name Standard-sized.

Hardback. Etat : Used: Very good. James Stevenson (illustrateur). Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDBaseballVery good quality with clean pages. Dust jackets with creasing.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. James Stevenson (illustrateur). Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good in very good dust jacket. Book club.