Baseball Intellect: 101 Tips for Players, Fans and Coaches

by Larry Downes

Paperback: 136 pages Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (April 29, 1995) Language: English This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077102830X
• ISBN13: 9780771028304
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.1" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

"THIS IS A SIMPLE GAME......"

I was fortunate enough to come across this book several years ago while scanning the sports shelves for Yankees books. After flipping briefly through it, I knew I just had to add it to my baseball library. Containing 101 tips broken down into 10 categories (hitting, infielding, outfielding, pitching, catching, running, offensive strategies, defensive strategies, umpiring, and general), this book is a "must have" for coaches, fans, and players. While we all know the basics, Downes and Gilbert give you the finer points of how the game is played. After reading this book, I was at a ballgame and offhandedly made some remark to my friend before a play. After what I'd said came to pass, everyone around me looked at me like I was Nostradamus. If they'd already owned this book, they'd have called it too. Don't wait until opening day, use spring training to sign this book up for your bookshelf. Play ball !!!

Awesome resource for tips on the finer points of the game

I used to read these "comic strip" formatted tips in Baseball Weekly, and I thought they were awesome. I have watched and played baseball for years (even attending baseball summer camp), but I learned some great tips from almost every strip. I liked them so much that I started cutting out the strips and putting them in a photo album. I wanted to save them for my kids to read some day. Unfortunately, I only had about 30 tips saved. I was ecstatic when I saw that they were putting all of the tips into a book.