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  • 야구와 축구의 숲을 삼국지의 책사와 거닐다

    Edited by NomadSirius ...
    프롤로그.야구와 축구는 감독의 전술에 따라 승부가 갈린다.방대한 자료에 바탕한 빠른 정보 선점력과 정확한 분석력으로 고객과 팬을 즐겁게 해야 성과와 이익을 극대화할 수 있다.경기 전반을 책임지는 감독은 상대팀에 따른 선수 배치 전략을 기본으로 선수들의 개성을 존중하고 코치들의 고유 권한을 인정하며 관중의 요구까지 수용해야 한다.감독의 역량이 제한적인 데 비해 성적 부진에 대한 책임은 절대적이니 기본적으로 야구와 축구에 대한 깊은 조예로 선수와 코치를 이끌어야 승리와 성과를 낳는다.투수의 피칭과 포수, 타자의 타격, 수비 라인, 베이스 러닝에 대한 이해를 통하여 야구의 전술에 다가서고 포백 포메이션과 쓰리백 포메이션의 분석으로 축구의 전술을 살핀다.메이저리그와 프리미어리그에서 감독은 책사策士의 축소판이다 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 第二波魔球革命

    提升事業與人生戰績,球團、企業、個人都能用的常勝智慧

    by 班.賴特 ...
    Translated by 趙盛慈 ...
    Series series TOUCH
    《紐約時報》暢銷書.亞馬遜分類銷售第一名人人都能逆轉勝!結合人性與科技的高勝率團隊方程式直覺 + 專業 + 數據 ﹣偏見 = 勝利休士頓太空人隊憑短短5年多整軍改造,從百敗到世界大賽首冠,打破55年封王魔咒。揭開新一代魔球傳人借力太空科學大數據與認知心理學,發展培訓團隊大躍進的祕密。這是一本結合運動、商業和創新的書。為你講述一個以退為進、鹹魚翻身的精采故事,揭發一支美國大聯盟五十多年來最差勁的爛隊――休士頓太空人隊,如何連三季吞下百敗,又如何在六年內,布局稱王陣容與策略,將已發展十幾年的魔球策略,推進到下一波變革浪潮,化腐朽為神奇。2017年太空人隊在世界大賽奪冠,成功打臉那些三年前訕笑作者賴特在《運動畫刊》封面神預言的群眾。賴特憑什麼斷言三年後的冠軍隊伍?出身自麥肯錫顧問公司的球團總經理魯諾、太空總署火箭科學家西格,這一幫局外人怎麼征服統計數據、融合球探經驗、採納直覺與成長心態 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 新しい野球

    by 大西一弘 ...
    アメリカ大リーグ,日本プロ野球,高校野球,大学野球,社会人野球など,野球が好きな方は是非ご一読ください。本書では,野球が更に魅力的でエキサイティングになる方法を提案しています。 ... Read more

    $1.63 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • やまもといちろう 野球観戦日記 開幕版

    【内容紹介】人気ブログ、「やまもといちろうBLOG」内に掲載されたプロ野球・MLB関連記事(2011年11月~2012年)を電子書籍化!!<電子書籍限定書き下ろしコンテンツ掲載>”プロ”野球観戦者を自称する著者による野球観戦史を含む電子書籍版限定の書き下ろし2記事を掲載。【目次】まえがき 電子書籍版限定書き下ろし(1) 野球と震災2011年11月1日 大沼 2011年シーズン終了2011年12月30日 大沼 契約更改2012年1月25日 大沼 愛人疑惑2012年3月8日 大沼 音沙汰なし2012年4月11日 大沼 行方不明!?2012年5月6日 大沼 引き続き行方不明!?2012年5月31日 大沼に変わりましてボウカー2012年6月27日 大沼幸二の引退が耐えられない2012年8月3日 ダルビッシュのSTATSが大沼化し、チェンが通用しているこの現実2012年... ... Read more

    $1.33 USD

  • “Terrible Terry” The Brooklyn Terror

    The Life And Battles Of Terry McGovern

    by Nat Fleischer ...
    Veteran and expert boxing writer Nat Fleischer recounts the career of Terrible Terry McGovern, who dominated the Bantam and Featherweight classes at the turn of the 20th Century. Still regarded as one of the most destructive and effective Bantamweights of all time, a stocky, fast body puncher who won 45 of his fights via knock-out in an age of iron men.Historian Barry Deskins wrote, “Short blows ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • You're the Umpire

    Mind-Boggling Questions to Test Your Baseball Knowledge

    by Wayne Stewart ...
    Do you think you have what it takes to be a Major League umpire? Well, now you can test your knowledge of the game with Wayne Stewart’s You’re the Umpire.Divided into three sections, this unusual handbook, now in its third edition, offers Routine Calls, which deal with scenarios and rules that typically come up in games and deal with clear-cut rules—fair and foul, strike zone questions, and the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • You're the Umpire

    139 Scenarios to Test Your Baseball Knowledge

    by Wayne Stewart ...
    Do you think you have what it takes to be a Major League umpire? Well, now you can test your knowledge of the game with Wayne Stewart’s You’re the Umpire.Divided into three sections, this unusual handbook offers Routine Calls, which deal with scenarios and rules that typically come up in games and deal with clear cut rules-fair and foul, strike zone questions, and the like. The next section, Basic ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • You're the Umpire

    152 Scenarios to Test Your Baseball Knowledge

    by Wayne Stewart ...
    Do you think you have what it takes to be a Major League umpire? Well, now you can test your knowledge of the game with Wayne Stewart’s You’re the Umpire.Divided into three sections, this unusual handbook, now in its second edition, offers "Routine Calls," which deal with scenarios and rules that typically come up in games and deal with clear cut rules-fair and foul, strike zone questions, and the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • You Know Me Al

    A Busher's Letters

    by Ring Lardner ...
    One of the classic baseball stories, You Know Me Al, first published in 1914, tells the story of the fictional Jack Keefe, a bush league baseball player who earns a trip to the majors to pitch for the Chicago White Sox. Set in preWorld War I, the book is comprised of letters that Keefe sends to his old pal” Al. Through the letters, the self-centered Keefe reveals his regular struggles to maintain ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • You Gotta Have Wa

    When Two Cultures Collide on the Baseball Diamond

    From the author of Tokyo Junkie, “the definitive book on Japanese baseball and one of the best-written sports books ever” (San Francisco Chronicle).One might expect the sport of baseball in Japan to be a culture clash—a collision of American individualism with the Japanese focus on wa, or harmony. Instead, it has turned into a winning symbiosis. Imported American sluggers—some past their primes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Can Observe A Lot By Watching

    What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life

    by Yogi Berra ...
    "The most valuable team player in sports" shows you what "teamwork" really meansWhat does it take to be a real team player, especially in a society that glorifies selfishness and a corporate culture that often uses "team player" as a buzzword but rewards only the showboaters and prima donnas? Well, You Can Observe a Lot by Watching. In this happy and hilarious guide to teamwork, sportsmanship, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yankees World Series Memories

    No two phrases in American baseball go together better than World Series Champions” and New York Yankees.” The most iconic franchise in American sports, the Yankees have taken home 27 World Series titles. Out of the thousands of games and millions of memories that have come to define this epic team, Maury Allen has distilled the greatest championship moments in this newly revised edition of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Yankees by the Numbers

    A Complete Team History of the Bronx Bombers by Uniform Number

    by Bill Gutman ...
    What do Mark Koenig, Red Rolfe, Frank Crosetti, Sandy Alomar, Bobby Murcer, Wayne Tolleson, and Derek Jeter all have in common? They all wore number 2 for the New York Yankees, even though nearly eight decades have passed between the first time Koenig buttoned up a Yankee uniform with that number and the last time Jeter performed the same routine.The 1929 New York Yankees were the first Major ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Yankees by the Numbers

    A Complete Team History of the Bronx Bombers by Uniform Number

    by Bill Gutman ...
    What do Mark Koenig, Red Rolfe, Frank Crosetti, Sandy Alomar, Bobby Murcer, Wayne Tolleson, and Derek Jeter all have in common? They all wore #2 for the New York Yankees, even though nearly eight decades have passed between the first time Koenig buttoned up a Yankee uniform with that number and the last time Jeter performed the same routine.Since 1929, the Yankees have issued 73 different numbers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Yankees 1936–39, Baseball's Greatest Dynasty

    Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and the Birth of a New Era

    by Stanley Cohen ...
    The Story of the Greatest Yankees Team—and Baseball Team—of All TimeNew York, 1936. Red Ruffing, Lefty Gomez, Bill Dickey, Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, and rookie Joe DiMaggio—with these six future Hall of Fame players, the Yankees embarked on a four-year run that would go down in the history books as the greatest Yankees team, if not, the greatest baseball team of all time.Over the next four years, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers

    “You don’t have to be a Yankees fan to love Yankee Miracles.”—Yogi BerraIf it was not all so true, you’d think it was a fairy tale. A seventeen-year-old from Queens spray paints graffiti on Yankee Stadium and gets nabbed by George Steinbrenner himself. Contrary to his gruff public image, the Boss—driven by a compassionate inner voice—reclaims the teen at a time when the Bronx is literally burning. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Yankee Doodles

    Inside the Locker Room with Mickey, Yogi, Reggie, and Derek

    by Phil Pepe ...
    Phil Pepe spent years as the New York Daily News Yankee beat reporter, rubbing shoulders with countless Yankee greats, from Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra to Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. While he was there to report on the action that occurred on the field, as well as the many disruptions occurring in the locker room-especially during the tumultuous seventies when Billy Martin and the Boss” were ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Yankee Classics

    World Series Magic from the Bronx Bombers, 1921 to Today

    by Les Krantz ...
    No team, in any sport, enjoys a championship legacy as celebrated as the New York Yankees—and no book provides as thorough an exploration of that legacy as Yankee Classics. With year-by-year recaps filled with stories and photos, the book goes through all 40 World Series the Yankees have participated in, including the seven-game classics and the four-game cakewalks. Profiles of the biggest stars ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Wrigleyworld

    A Season In Baseball's Best Neighborhood

    by Kevin Kaduk ...
    In 2016 the Chicago Cubs finally won the World Series after a 108 year losing streak. But before that, "never say die” was a way of life for Cubs fans, including sportswriter Kevin Kaduk...In the summer 2005 season, in a fit of nostalgic, heartfelt (and possibly insane) loyalty to his “Lovable Losers,” Kevin quit his job as a sportswriter in Kansas City and moved back to the Windy City on a quest ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Wrigley Field Year by Year

    A Century at the Friendly Confines

    by Sam Pathy ...
    More than just a lavishly illustrated and highly readable book, Wrigley Field Year by Year, originally published in 2014, is the result of a quarter century of meticulous research. Written by a baseball historian and recognized authority on the Friendly Confines,” this is the first book to detail each year of the storied park’s existence. The book covers not only the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Wrigley Field Year by Year

    A Century at the Friendly Confines

    by Sam Pathy ...
    More than just a lavishly illustrated and highly readable book, Wrigley Field Year by Year, originally published in 2014 and updated through the 2018 season, is the result of a quarter century of meticulous research. Written by a baseball historian and recognized authority on the “Friendly Confines,” this is the first book to detail each year of the storied park’s existence. The book covers not ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Working at the Ballpark

    by Tom Jones ...
    What if Studs Terkel wrote a book with Bill James? You'd have a book on what it's really like to make a living in the world of baseball. For everyone who ever dreamed of making their love of baseball into their vocation, Working at the Ballpark will provide a view at their lives that might have been, with interviews with more than 50 people who make a living in major league baseball. Each is asked ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Winning Ugly

    A Visual History of the Most Bizarre Baseball Uniforms Ever Worn

    by Todd Radom ...
    Baseball, our national pastime. Every fan has memories of their team’s incredible victories and anguishing defeats. We remember the home runs, the walk-off wins, and the moments that will last a lifetime. We also remember those things which we wish we could forget: the errors, the mental mistakes . . . and the ugly uniforms.In an ode to those eyesores, Todd Radom has collected and chronicled some ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Winning on the North Side: The 1929 Chicago Cubs

    SABR Digital Library, #25

    Series Book 25 - SABR Digital Library
    "The best team I ever played on was McCarthy's twenty-niners. It was strictly power all the way. No tricky baseball." — Cubs first baseman Charlie GrimmSABR's newest e-book celebrates the 1929 Chicago Cubs, one of the most exciting teams in baseball history. Bashing their way to the pennant by crushing their opponents in a high-scoring era, skipper Joe McCarthy's North Siders were an offensive ... Read more

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