Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 96.35702
EAN num: 9780071410144
ISBN number: 0071410147
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 144
Printing Date: March 26, 2003
Publishing house: McGraw-Hill
Sale Popularity Level: 1016199
Studio: McGraw-Hill
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The 400 Best Things Ever Said About How to Play Baseball Randy Voorhees and Mark Gola The very first book of baseball quotations to focus exclusively on how to play the game, As Koufax Said . . . brings together 400 of the best, most helpful and entertaining quotes about the game of baseball for players, coaches, and diehard followers.
The result is a collection that offers intelligent, useful, and accurate advice to any fan of the national pastime.
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This book of quotations is not in the genre of Yogi'isms or Stengelese, sayings that have a sense of factual silliness about them. These quotes are about the game, how to play it and what it takes to be able to play it at the highest level. Most of the quotes are from players who were stars, yet some were from players that never accomplished a great deal. Some examples are:
Luck is the residue of design - Branch Rickey
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time - Lou Brock
Make your practices like game. Make your games like practices - John Herbold
Of all the major sports, baseball is the most cerebral; it is a game of inches and anticipation, where preparation and molding a situation to your advantage is the difference between pennants and last place. In this book, you can see how sucess is made, practice, practice and practice. Even the stars talk about thousands of practice swings, thousands of times they practiced moving the ball from their glove to their throwing hand. There is also anticipation and knowledge of the situation, so that when a play begins, you know exactly what you will do whatever happens. It is also about studying the opposition, pitchers remember the exact pitch that a certain player hit well years earlier. What a great game it is!
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