age ~74
from Beaverton, OR
From the genesis of baseball in the 1840s, when so-called “kranks” cheered the teams of their choice, fans have been an ever-present component of the sport. As the number of fans has increased over the years, their influence has increased proportionally. Following the evolution of the game and its f...
Author
Fred Stein
Binding
Paperback
Pages
236
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
ISBN #
0786421487
EAN Code
9780786421480
ISBN #
8
The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals were one of the most colorful crews ever to play the National Pastime. Sportswriters delighted in assigning nicknames to the players, based on their real or imagined qualities. What a cast of characters it was! None was more picturesque than Pepper Martin, the “Wild Hors...
Author
Charles F. Faber
Binding
Paperback
Pages
280
Publisher
Society for American Baseball Research
ISBN #
1933599731
EAN Code
9781933599731
ISBN #
4
Back in 1982, the Society for American Baseball Research was still young, barely a decade past its founding, and had grown to some 1600 members. One of their number, a "defrocked English Lit guy poking around in journalism," suggested to the board of directors that SABR, and the world, might benefit...
Author
John Thorn, Harold Seymour PhD, Lawrence S. Ritter, Pete Palmer, Bob Carroll, Art Ahrens, John B. Holway, Jim Bankes, David Sanders, Bob Broeg, Lew Lipset, Mark Rucker, Frank J. Williams, Fred Stein, Stuart Leeds, Bob Bluthardt, Al Kermisch, Ted DiTullio, Gerald Tomlinson
Binding
Paperback
Pages
92
Publisher
Society for American Baseball Research
ISBN #
1933599804
EAN Code
9781933599809
ISBN #
3
Melvin Thomas Ott was smaller than most home run sluggers, at 5'9", 170 pounds, but he could sure hit 'em as far as the big boys. Over a 22-year playing career with the New York Giants, Ott slapped 511 homers, then a National League record. At the tender age of 20, he erupted on the scene with caree...
Author
Fred Stein
Binding
Paperback
Pages
240
Publisher
McFarland
ISBN #
0786406585
EAN Code
9780786406586
ISBN #
2
Author
Fred Stein
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
4
Publisher
Pantheon
ISBN #
5
At least as far back as 1842 through about the late 1930s and mid-1940s, before baseball became commercialized and teams were able to hire one man to manage the entire team, it was not uncommon for one person to fill the roles of player and manager simultaneously. Often, the strongest, brightest, or...
Author
Fred Stein
Binding
Paperback
Pages
264
Publisher
Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub
ISBN #
0786412283
EAN Code
9780786412280
ISBN #
10
Fred Stein (1909-1967) was a master of street photography. As an early pioneer of the hand-held camera, he captured poignant moments in the street life of two of the world's great cities: Paris and New York, where he lived after fleeing from Nazi Germany.This same immediacy infuses his portraits of ...
Author
Rosemary Sullivan, Giles Mora, Theresia Zhia, Cilly Kugelmann
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
200
Publisher
Kehrer Verlag
ISBN #
386828429X
EAN Code
9783868284294
ISBN #
1
Great portraitist's arresting images of Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Nikita Khrushchev, Bertolt Brecht, Frank Lloyd Wright, Georgia O'Keeffe, more. Introduction.
Author
Fred Stein
Binding
Paperback
Pages
96
Publisher
Dover Publications
ISBN #
0486258432
EAN Code
9780486258430
ISBN #
6