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Test your expertise with these fastball questions (and a few curves) about your favorite team's hurlers, sluggers, stats and most memorable moments.

Take me out to the ballgame!

Questions to challenge and entertain both casual and die-hard fans.
--Great players and legendary characters of the game
--Argument-settling stats and records you should know
--Players' nicknames, managers' advice, the best baseball movies, and other odd trivia
...and much, much more!
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For a baseball player, there is nothing more frustrating than struggling at the plate. Hitters--no matter how accomplished--experience hitting slumps, for both mechanical and mental reasons. Their challenge--and yours--is to contain them for a short period of time. The Louisville Slugger Complete Book of Hitting Faults and Fixes identifies the sources of fifty distinct hitting faults that lead to problem swings and includes drills specifically designed to help you correct them.

The step-by-step approach starts from the ground up, including:

• Problems in the stance: hot feet, poor positioning in the box
• Pre-swing movements: no coil in torso, overstriding, hitching before swinging
• Hip rotation and weight transfer: little or no weight transfer, over-rotating
• The swing: uppercutting, casting your hands, pulling your head off the ball
• Mental approach: fear of failure, poor judgment of the strike zone, failing to recognize pitch patterns

The instruction behind each fault also features unique insight from a major league hitter or professional coach. These tips also allow you to get inside the best minds in the business and apply their wisdom to your own game. By applying the book's systematic approach, including lots of practice, you will be able to dissect your swing, identify mistakes, and put yourself on the correct path to recovery and success, becoming a true student of the swing..
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Test your expertise with these fastball questions (and a few curves) about your favorite team's hurlers, sluggers, stats and most memorable moments.

Take me out to the ballgame!

Questions to challenge and entertain both casual and die-hard fans.
--Great players and legendary characters of the game
--Argument-settling stats and records you should know
--Players' nicknames, managers' advice, the best baseball movies, and other odd trivia
...and much, much more!
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Test your expertise with these fastball questions (and a few curves) about your favorite team's hurlers, sluggers, stats and most memorable moments.

Take me out to the ballgame!

Questions to challenge and entertain both casual and die-hard fans.
--Great players and legendary characters of the game
--Argument-settling stats and records you should know
--Players' nicknames, managers' advice, the best baseball movies, and other odd trivia
...and much, much more!
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Over baseball history, which park has been the best for run scoring?1 Which player would lose the most home runs after adjustments for ballpark effect?2 Which player claims four of the top five places for best individual seasons ever played, based on all-around offensive performance 3 (See answers, below).

These are only three of the intriguing questions Michael Schell addresses in Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers, a lively examination of the game of baseball using the most sophisticated statistical tools available. The book provides an in-depth evaluation of every major offensive event in baseball history, and identifies the players with the 100 best seasons and most productive careers. For the first time ever, ballpark effects across baseball history are presented for doubles, triples, right- and left-handed home-run hitting, and strikeouts. The book culminates with a ranking of the game's best all-around batters.

Using a brisk conversational style, Schell brings to the plate the two most important credentials essential to producing a book of this kind: an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball and a professional background in statistics. Building on the traditions of renowned baseball historians Pete Palmer and Bill James, he has analyzed the most important factors impacting the sport, including the relative difficulty of hitting in different ballparks, the length of hitters' careers, the talent pool from which players are drawn, player aging, and changes in the game that have raised or lowered major-league batting averages.

Schell's book finally levels the playing field, giving new credit to hitters who played in adverse conditions, and downgrading others who faced fewer obstacles. It also provides rankings based on players' positions. For example, Derek Jeter ranks 295th out of 1,140 on the best batters list, but jumps to 103rd in the position-adjusted list, reflecting his offensive prowess among shortstops.

Replete with dozens of never-before reported stories and statistics, Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers will forever shape the way baseball fans view the greatest heroes of America's national pastime.

Answers: 1. Coors Field 2. Mel Ott 3. Barry Bonds, 2001-2004 seasons.
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Zack's Grandma Leah is back and peppier than ever in another hilarious escapade. Is she turning into a teenager again? Nope-turns out she's developed amazing batting skills. What's the obvious next step? Could it involve the Chicago White Sox? Read on and see! .
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The Sluggers are all set for their next big baseball game -- but they need to raise money to buy some new team T-shirts. A car wash is the way to go! Soon the dollars and cents are pouring in...but one player needs a lesson in teamwork!

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Sultans of Swat tells in dramatic words and vintage black and white photographs the stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Mickey Mantle: the four legendary New York Yankee Hall of Famers. The Babe+s 700th home run, Gehrig+s farewell -Luckiest Man+ speech, DiMaggio+s fifty-six-game hitting streak, Mantle+s triple crown-all are here, in a book all baseball fans will treasure. Featuring:¥ The original New York Times coverage of the greatest events in the careers of four of baseball+s greatest sluggers¥ Classic photographs throughout¥ Stats, obituaries, and more¥ Coverage from some of the best sportswriters of the Times.Whether Yankee fans-or any baseball fan-find themselves drawn to the amazing careers of the -Mick,+ the -Yankee Clipper,+ the -Iron Horse,+ or the -Sultan of Swat+ himself, there+s no end of material to pore over and delight in..
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