Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bless You Boys was released as an "insta-book" in October 1984 to capitalize on the publicity that followed the Tigers' World Series championship. It was an instant best-seller in the Detroit area. Anderson conducted a week-long book signing tour that opened at the Hudson's store at Northland Mall.
The Game of Authors is one of the earliest versions of the family of Go Fish games, in which players call on each other to give up a named card. [3] The play is based on a specialized deck of playing cards. Later decks included additional authors, but the authors represented in most decks are: Louisa May Alcott; James Fenimore Cooper; Charles ...
In 1970, while working at a Boston bookstore, a customer inquired about books on baseball cards. Surprised to learn that there weren't any books on the subject, Harris told Boyd, "We should write one." [5] So they pored over the cards they had collected in their youth and wrote The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
It serves, in turn, as a source for a number of books and publications about baseball, and/or is mentioned by them as a reference, such as Baseball Digest, [7] Understanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to the Science of Baseball Statistics, [8] and Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records. [5]
The following members of the 1979 Detroit Tigers are among the Top 100 of all time at their position, as ranked by The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract in 2001: Lance Parrish: 19th best catcher of all time (played 12 games as a rookie) Lou Whitaker: 13th best second baseman of all time (played 11 games as a rookie)
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
James Beckett III (born May 10, 1949) is an American statistician, author, editor, and publisher. His publications are well known in the hobby of sports card collecting. Beckett earned a Ph.D. degree in statistics at Southern Methodist University in 1975 and then joined the faculty of Bowling Green State University as an associate professor.