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Swing, Batter, Batter, Swing! 9 business tips borrowed from Major League Baseball Swing, Batter, Batter, Swing! Summer is officially upon us, and the Boys of Summer are in action on fields of dreams across the country. One of the greatest hitters in the history of the baseball, new Kansas City Royals batting coach George Brett, believes home runs are the product of a good swing. Take good swings and home runs will happen. It’s great to get on base but it’s better to hit homers. Home Run Power -- hitting balls harder, farther and more consistently – takes practice. And there is a science to being a successful slugger. From Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds to Ty Cobb and Hugh Duffy, companies that want to knock the cover off the ball can learn plenty from legendary MLB players. Most baseball games have nine innings (although I recently sweated thru a 13-inning Padres versus the Giants stretch) so here are nine tips: 1. Focus on good hitting. You get more home runs when you stop trying for them and focus on good hitting instead. Making progress in business is no different; aim for competence and get the basics right. Strive for everyday improvements and great execution. Adap.tv, a video advertising platform predicted to IPO in 2013, releases new code over 10 times a day to heighten continuous innovation. Akin to batting practice for the serious ball player. Goals without great execution are just dreams. According to research conducted by noted business author and advisor, Ram Charan, 70% of CEOs who fail do so not because of bad strategy, but because of bad execution. -
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Baseball Classics All-Time All-Star Greats Game Team Roster
BASEBALL CLASSICS® ALL-TIME ALL-STAR GREATS GAME TEAM ROSTER Baseball Classics has carefully analyzed and selected the top 400 Major League Baseball players voted to the All-Star team since it's inception in 1933. Incredibly, a total of 20 Cy Young or MVP winners were not voted to the All-Star team, but Baseball Classics included them in this amazing set for you to play. This rare collection of hand-selected superstars player cards are from the finest All-Star season to battle head-to-head across eras featuring 249 position players and 151 pitchers spanning 1933 to 2018! Enjoy endless hours of next generation MLB board game play managing these legendary ballplayers with color-coded player ratings based on years of time-tested algorithms to ensure they perform as they did in their careers. Enjoy Fast, Easy, & Statistically Accurate Baseball Classics next generation game play! Top 400 MLB All-Time All-Star Greats 1933 to present! Season/Team Player Season/Team Player Season/Team Player Season/Team Player 1933 Cincinnati Reds Chick Hafey 1942 St. Louis Cardinals Mort Cooper 1957 Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn 1969 New York Mets Cleon Jones 1933 New York Giants Carl Hubbell 1942 St. Louis Cardinals Enos Slaughter 1957 Washington Senators Roy Sievers 1969 Oakland Athletics Reggie Jackson 1933 New York Yankees Babe Ruth 1943 New York Yankees Spud Chandler 1958 Boston Red Sox Jackie Jensen 1969 Pittsburgh Pirates Matty Alou 1933 New York Yankees Tony Lazzeri 1944 Boston Red Sox Bobby Doerr 1958 Chicago Cubs Ernie Banks 1969 San Francisco Giants Willie McCovey 1933 Philadelphia Athletics Jimmie Foxx 1944 St. -
Baseball Autographs Signed 1950-55 Callahans 297 Honus Wagner 9
January 31 Auction: Baseball Autographs Signed 1950-55 Callahans 297 Honus Wagner 9 ............................ 500 Such a neat item, offered is a true high grade hand-signed 290 Fred Clarke 9.5 ......................... 100 Honus Wagner baseball card. So hard to find, we hardly ever Sharp card, this looks to be a fine Near Mint. Signed in par- see any kind of card signed by the legendary and beloved ticularly bold blue ink, this is a terrific autograph. Desirable Wagner. The offered card, slabbed by PSA/DNA, is well signed card, deadball era HOFer Fred Clarke died in 1960. centered with four sharp corners. Signed right in the center PSA/DNA slabbed. in blue fountain pen, this is a very nice signature. Key piece, this is another item that might appreciate rapidly in the 291 Clark Griffith 9 ............................ 150 future given current market conditions. Very scarce signed card, Clark Griffith died in 1955, giving him only a fairly short window to sign one of these. Sharp 298 Ed Walsh 9 ............................ 100 card is well centered and Near Mint or better to our eyes, Desirable signed card, this White Sox HOF pitcher from the this has a fine and clean blue ballpoint ink signature on the deadball era died in 1959. Signed neatly in blue ballpoint left side. PSA/DNA slabbed. ink in a good spot, this is a very nice signature. Slabbed Authentic by PSA/DNA, this is a quality signed card. 292 Rogers Hornsby 9.5 ......................... 300 Remarkable signed card, the card itself is Near Mint and 299 Lot of 3 w/Sisler 9 ..............................70 quite sharp, the autograph is almost stunningly nice. -
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A-18 THE EVENING STAR - SPORT Washington, D. C. Bratton Scores Knockout LITTLE TUESDAY, AVGUST 26, IMS Over Steen in Brooklyn By th« Associated Brass Collins Earns Chance BROOKLYN, Aug. 26—Johnny Bratton of Chicago stopped Irwin Steen of San Diego, Calif., in 1:11 For 'lnterim' Crown «{%ASEBA(,LBEAT of the third round of a scheduled By BURTON HAWKINS |a| 10-round main event at the East- ern Parkway Arena last night. By Beating Flanagan Ray Boone, the Indians’ short- jiI played under lights, will be an Bratton, 152 >4. floored Steen stop who was benched last night, ;i[afternoon affair. That night twice for a count of nine the By tha Associated Brass in 7-a was making no excuses for his . Jersey Joe Walcott and Rocky second round. Steen scaled 147 V2. BOSTON, Aug. 26.—Tommy recent] erratic fielding and light Marciano1 will battle for the Three left hooks to the head hitting. heavyweight Philadelphia’s right jaw Collins, Boston's featherweight:! . title in and a lightning to the ... 1 2 Olympic Aces to Report title contender, appears to have:' “Anybody who Municipal Stadium. dropped Steen in the third. Ref- Yesterday's Major League Box Scores Easter, Joseph stopped been short-changed by the boxing ’ walks out on Cleveland Infielders Luke eree Eddie the that field Bobby Rosen and Boone starting a count. Tigers, 1; Yanks, 0 Dodgers, 3-9; Cards, 1-5 Phils, 6; Cubs, For Football at USC experts Avila. A1 bout without 3 who rated him as strictly! shouldn’t season. In second action con- DetraH A.H.O.A. -
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100Campeones_Text.qxp 8/31/10 8:12 PM Page 11 PROFESSIONAL SPORT 100Campeones_Text.qxp 8/31/10 8:12 PM Page 12 100Campeones_Text.qxp 8/31/10 8:12 PM Page 13 2 LATINOS IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL by Richard Lapchick A few years ago, Jayson Stark wrote, “Baseball isn’t just America’s sport anymore” for ESPN.com. He concluded that, “What is actu- ally being invaded here is America and its hold on its theoretical na- tional pastime. We’re not sure exactly when this happened—possi- bly while you were busy watching a Yankees-Red Sox game—but this isn’t just America’s sport anymore. It is Latin America’s sport.” While it may not have gone that far yet, the presence of Latino players in baseball, especially in Major League Baseball, has grown enormously. In 1990, the Racial and Gender Report Card recorded that 13 percent of MLB players were Latino. In the 2009 MLB Racial and Gender Report Card, 27 percent of the players were La- tino. The all-time high was 29.4 percent in 2006. Teams from South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean enter the World Baseball Classic with superstar MLB players on their ros- ters. Stark wrote, “The term, ‘baseball game,’ won’t be adequate to describe it. These games will be practically a cultural symposium— where we provide the greatest Latino players of our time a monstrous stage to demonstrate what baseball means to them, versus what baseball now means to us.” American youth have an array of sports to play besides base- ball, including soccer, basketball, football, and hockey. -
Introduction
AARONAARON BAKERBAKER INTRODUCTION LETTER FROM COACH GOLLOWAY 2009 MEDIA GUIDE CREDITS Welcome to OU baseball, one of the most storied collegiate programs in the The 2009 Oklahoma baseball media guide is a production of the University of nation. The Sooners have built a strong tradition by winning National Champion- Oklahoma Athletics Media Relations offi ce. The guide was written, designed and ships in 1951 and 1994. After appearing in a NCAA Regional fi nal in three of the edited by Assistant Director of Media Relations Craig Moran. Additional design last four years, including the 2006 Super Regional, we believe OU baseball is on provided by student intern Jennifer Van Tuyl. Additional editing provided by Direc- the brink of making the program’s 10th College World Series appearance. tor of Publications Debbie Copp. Additional contributions provided by student interns Matt Wilson and Kristin Conder. As a Sooner coach, I have been fortunate enough to be a part of three College World Series and the last four regional titles at Oklahoma. It’s fair to say that COVER Sooner baseball is second to none when it comes to its student-athletes enjoying The front, back and inside covers were designed by Director of Graphic Design success on and off the fi eld. Scott Matthews with assistance from Craig Moran. The University of Oklahoma Athletics Department is committed to excellence PHOTOGRAPHY on the fi eld and in the classroom and that is evident by the amount of resources Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, Baltimore Orioles, Matt Brown, Chicago available to our student-athletes. White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Colorado Rockies, Kevin M. -
In, Lose, Or Draw
Club Owners Meet to Pick Commissioner; Session •---—— Long UnderWay < belting Jslaf Calvin Griffith Goes Nat Shutout Boosts Morgan J&poffs•* D. To New York Washington, C., Tuesday, 'August 7, 19S1—A-13 Meeting As Successor to Whitey Ford an By a Staff Corraspondant of Th« Star With 'Open Mind' DiMaggio singled and Johnny NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—When the Mize walked to fill the bases with Burton Hawkins By Yankees needed pitching support one out. McDougald’s fly fetched W or Draw Star Staff Correspondent in the stretch last season, they Brown across and the Yankees in, NEW YORK. Aug. 7. — Lose, Major came up with a fuzzy-cheeked scored in the seventh when again By FRANCIS STANN league baseball club owners sat rookie, 21-year-old Whitey Ford. Gene Woodling tripled and came down today to the task of selecting IT HAS REMAINED for Happy Chahdler, during He’s in the Army now, but taking in on Brown’s single. his^testi- a new commissioner or at least mony before the House Monopoly subcommittee investigating up the slack is another 21-year-old The Nats threatened mildly in narrowing the field of nominees, i baseball, to reveal for the first time the fears of clubowners that rookie, angular Tom Morgan, a the first inning when Coan beat By early afternoon there was] in court the outlawed righthander with eight straight out a bunt and Mickey Vernon outfielder, Danny Gardella, would have no word from their meeting at the; victories. singled with two out, but Sam beat ’em. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel as to how; Morgan, who was pitching for Mele fanned. -
Get up & Go Baseball
Get Up Drills & and Go Instruction Baseball’s Baseball for Coaching Youth Get Up & Go Baseball With more than 44 years of combined professional experience and over 14 years of Youth Get Up & Go Baseball League experience, Get Up and Go Baseball has blended this knowledge into a unique instructional program. If you are a parent, player, or youth league coach, this book is a must! Learn how to communicate and teach the game of baseball with a positive approach DrillsDrills andand to build players’ confidence and self-esteem. Coaches, learn how to organize practices and choose from more than 150 drills to teach players the proper fundamentals. Pick from unique games to maintain their focus and keep InstructionInstruction practice enjoyable. Hear what these professionals have to say about teaching your kids the game of baseball. forfor CoachingCoaching Included are tips from the following Major League players: Rich Aurilia, on Hitting Giants shortstop and Silver Slugger winner YouthYouth Mike Lieberthal, on Catching Phillies catcher and Gold Glove winner BaseballBaseball Bill Mueller, on Infield Play Cubs third baseman Calvin Murray, on Outfield Play Giants center fielder and Olympic team member Russ Ortiz, on Pitching Giants starting pitcher and 18-game winner by by former Major players League Erik Johnson, Joe Millette and Wotus Ron J.T. Snow, on Infield Play Giants first baseman and six-time Gold Glove winner Tony Womack, on Baserunning and Bunting Diamondbacks shortstop and N.L. three-time stolen base champion “We have just completed a year where we won our league’s championship, and the previous year we came in dead last, winning only 3 games. -
My Replay Baseball Encyclopedia Fifth Edition- May 2014
My Replay Baseball Encyclopedia Fifth Edition- May 2014 A complete record of my full-season Replays of the 1908, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1966, 1967, 1975, and 1978 Major League seasons as well as the 1923 Negro National League season. This encyclopedia includes the following sections: • A list of no-hitters • A season-by season recap in the format of the Neft and Cohen Sports Encyclopedia- Baseball • Top ten single season performances in batting and pitching categories • Career top ten performances in batting and pitching categories • Complete career records for all batters • Complete career records for all pitchers Table of Contents Page 3 Introduction 4 No-hitter List 5 Neft and Cohen Sports Encyclopedia Baseball style season recaps 91 Single season record batting and pitching top tens 93 Career batting and pitching top tens 95 Batter Register 277 Pitcher Register Introduction My baseball board gaming history is a fairly typical one. I lusted after the various sports games advertised in the magazines until my mom finally relented and bought Strat-O-Matic Football for me in 1972. I got SOM’s baseball game a year later and I was hooked. I would get the new card set each year and attempt to play the in-progress season by moving the traded players around and turning ‘nameless player cards” into that year’s key rookies. I switched to APBA in the late ‘70’s because they started releasing some complete old season sets and the idea of playing with those really caught my fancy. Between then and the mid-nineties, I collected a lot of card sets. -
One of Baseball's Greatest Catchers
Excerpt • Temple University Press 1 ◆ ◆ ◆ One of Baseball’s Greatest Catchers f all the positions on a baseball diamond, none is more demanding or harder to play than catcher. The job behind the plate is without question the most difficult to perform, Oand those who excel at it rank among the toughest players in the game. To catch effectively, one has to be a good fielder, have a good throwing arm, be able to call the right pitches, be a good psy- chologist when it comes to dealing with pitchers, know how to engage tactfully with umpires, how to stave off injuries, and have the fortitude to block the plate and to stand in front of speeding or sliding runners and risk serious injury. Catching is not a position for the dumb or the lazy or the faint-hearted. To wear the mask and glove, players have to be smart. They have to be tough, fearless, and strong. They must be alert, agile, and accountable. They are the ones in charge of their teams when on the field, and they have to be able to handle that job skillfully. Excerpt • Temple University Press BIZ MACKEY, A GIANT BEHIND THE PLATE There are many other qualities required of a good catcher that, put together, determine whether or not players can satisfac- torily occupy the position. If they can’t, they will not be behind the plate for long. Rare is the good team that ever took the field without a good catcher. And yet, while baseball has been richly endowed with tal- ented backstops, only a few have ever made it to the top of their profession. -
June 2017 Prices Realized
June 2017 Prices Realized Lot # Name 1 Incredible 1948 Bowman Baseball Nearly Full Unopened Wax Box (19/24) Packs BBCE Final Price: $521,180.33 2 1961 Fleer Basketball Full Unopened Wax Box BBCE Final Price: $108,039.02 3 1961 Topps Football 5 Cent Pack Full Unopened Wax Box BBCE Final Price: $119,977.61 4 1961 Fleer Football Full Unopened Wax Box BBCE Final Price: $24,947.60 5 1959 Fleer Ted Williams Full Unopened Wax Box BBCE Final Price: $20,522.57 6 1962 Topps Football Nearly Full Unopened Wax Box (20/24) Packs BBCE Final Price: $45,256.32 7 1962 Fleer Football Nearly Full Unopened Wax Box (19/24) Packs BBCE Final Price: $30,325.19 8 1960 Topps Football Group of (6) Wax Packs Plus Display Box Final Price: $16,814.39 9 1960 Fleer Baseball Greats Nearly Full Unopened Wax Box (20/24) Packs BBCE Final Price: $5,540.40 10 1961 Fleer Baseball Greats Nearly Full Unopened Wax Box (20/24) Packs BBCE Final Price: $9,833.00 11 1961 Nu-Card Scoops Near Full Unopened Wax Box BBCE Final Price: $3,443.31 12 1961 Topps Baseball Stamps Album Full Unopened Box BBCE Final Price: $1,029.11 13 1961 Nu-Card Football Near Full (17/24) Wax Box BBCE Final Price: $842.00 14 1915 Cracker Jack #103 Joe Jackson SGC Authentic Final Price: $8,112.56 15 1948-49 Leaf #98 Hal Newhouser SGC 86 NM+ 7.5 Final Price: $6,868.40 16 1951 Bowman #253 Mickey Mantle SGC 84 NM 7 Final Price: $27,519.75 17 1951 Wheaties #G Mickey Mantle Premium Photo PSA 10 GEM MINT 1/1 Final Price: $33,734.48 18 1953 Topps #82 Mickey Mantle PSA 7 NM Final Price: $15,311.43 19 1953 Bowman Color