December 28, 2003
Baseball Nation Rob Neyer
baseball nation rob neyer
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Rob Neyer $70.1 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Rob Neyer (born June 22, 1966) is a baseball author and, since 1996, a columnist for ESPN.com. A disciple of major sabermetrics figure Bill James, his writing is an outlet for everyday fans to gain insight that statisticscentered analysis can offer. Neyer spent the early years of his childhood in the upper Midwest and later moved to the middle Midwest, close to the Kansas City area. He attended the University of Kansas, where he picked up a passion for baseball after reading Peter Golenbocks Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Bill James Baseball Abstract 1984. Uninterested in school, Neyer left college during his fourth year and took a job roofing houses. Neyer was introduced to Bill James by a casual friend, Mike Kopf, nine months after dropping out of college. He was soon hired as a research assistant. Neyers first project with James was helping compile material for the book This Time Lets Not Eat the Bones, a collection of material from the Abstracts. After four years under the tutelage of James, Neyer took a job at STATS, Inc., before joining ESPNet SportsZone, ESPN.coms forerunner, in 1996. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Publication Date: 2010/07/23 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.19 inches |
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Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Blunders $5.99 Baseball bloopers are fun; they’re funny, even. A pitcher slips on the mound and his pitch sails over the backstop. An infielder camps under a pop-up…and the ball lands ten feet away. An outfielder tosses a souvenir to a fan…but that was just the second out, and runners are circling the bases (and laughing). Without these moments, the highlight reels wouldn’t be nearly as entertaining. Baseball blunders, however, can be tragic, and they will leave diehard fans asking why…why…why? Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Blunders does its best to answer all those whys, exploring the worst decisions and stupidest moments of managers, general managers, owners, and even commissioners. As he did in his Big Book of Baseball Lineups, Rob Neyer provides readers with a fascinating examination of baseball’s rich history, this time through the lens of the game’s sometimes hilarious, often depressing, and always perplexing blunders. |
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Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else $7.99 The well-told baseball story has long been a staple for baseball fans. In Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends, Neyer breathes new life into both classic and obscure stories throughout twentieth-century baseball – stories that, while engaging on their own, also tell us fascinating things about their main characters and about the sport’s incredibly rich history. With his signature style, Rob gets to the heart of every anecdote, working through the particulars with careful research drawn from a variety of primary sources. For each story, he asks: Did this really happen? Did it happen, sort of? Or was the story simply the wild invention of someone’s imagination? Among the scores of legends Neyer questions and investigates… Did an errant Bob Feller pitch really destroy the career of a National League All-Star? Did Greg Maddux mean to give up a long blast to Jeff Bagwell? Was Fred Lynn the clutch player he thinks he was? Did Billy Martin really outplay Jackie Robinson every time they met? Oh, and what about Babe Ruth’s “Called Shot”? Rob checks each story, separates the truths from the myths, and places their fascinating characters into the larger historical context. |
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Flip Flop Fly Ball By Robinson, Craig/ Neyer, Rob (INT) $28.28 A lively treasury of baseball trivia gleaned from the authors flipflopflyball.com website is comprised of 120 fullcolor graphics that share statistical, historical and cultural tidbits on everything from the miles traveled by a baseball team in one season to the height of ARods annual salary in pennies. 35,000 first printing. Author: Robinson, Craig/ Neyer, Rob (FRW) Subtitle: An Infographic Baseball Adventure Publication Date: 2011/07/05 Number of Pages: 154 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 9.75 Height: 12.25 |
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Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends $12 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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