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Chapters: Dave Stieb, Gary Carter, Pat Gillick, Jim Abbott, Buck Rodgers, Moe Drabowsky, Peter Bavasi, Jim Clancy, Jim Fanning, Andy Abad, Ernie Whitt, Jeremy Accardo, Warren Cromartie, Kelly Gruber, Doug Ault, Dick Phillips, Tim Leiper, Dave Van Horne, Mark Bomback. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 87. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gary Edmund Carter (born April 8, 1954), nicknamed "Kid", or "Kid Carter" is a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball catcher from 19741992. During his career, Carter established himself as one of the premier catchers in the National League, winning three Gold Glove awards and five Silver Slugger awards. Carter and Andre Dawson are the only players from the Expos to have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1961, seven-year-old Carter was his age group's national champion in the inaugural "Punt, Pass, and Kick" football contest. His mother died of leukemia when he was only eight years old. Throughout his entire baseball career, he was a major contributor to the Leukemia ... Read more

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Chapters: Matt Stairs, Hideo Nomo, Robin Ventura, Mickey Morandini, Tino Martinez, Jim Abbott, Atsuya Furuta, Kenjiro Nomura, Tom Goodwin, Ed Sprague, Jr., Rheal Cormier, Ben Mcdonald, Andy Benes, Kuo Lee Chien-Fu, Scott Servais, Mike Fiore (Baseball, Born 1966), Lin Chung-Chiu, Charles Nagy, Chiang Tai-Chuan, Lo Kuo-Chong, Lo Chen-Jung, Dave Silvestri, Peter Vogler, Wu Shih-Hsih. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 114. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hideo Nomo Nomo Hideo, born August 31, 1968 in Minato-ku, Osaka) is a Japanese former right-handed pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball. He achieved early success in Japan, where he played with the Kintetsu Buffaloes from 1990 to 1994. He then exploited a loophole to free himself from his Japanese contract and became the first Japanese-born Japanese major leaguer to permanently relocate to Major League Baseball in the United States. His successful debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995 is often credited with paving the road for the subsequent "wave" of Japanese players entering Major League Baseball. Nomo pitched over the span of 13 seasons in the American major leagues with 8 different teams, before retiring in 2008. He won the Rookie of the Year Award in 1995. He twice led the league in strikeouts and also threw two no-hitters (to date the only Japanese pitcher to throw even one). Nomo was on the silver medal winning Japanese baseball team at the 1988 Olympics, and the Kintetsu Buffaloes drafted him in 1989. Nomo debuted with them in 1990 and was an immediate success, going 188 but more impressively striking out 287 hitters in just 235 innings. The strikeout numbers are attributed to his unorthodox wind-up, where he turns his back to the hitter, raises his pivot leg, and freezes for a second before th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=228180 ... Read more

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Chapters: American Expatriate Baseball People in Canada, Dave Stieb, Gary Carter, Pat Gillick, Jim Abbott, Buck Rodgers, Moe Drabowsky, Peter Bavasi, Jim Clancy, Jim Fanning, Andy Abad, Ernie Whitt, Jeremy Accardo, Warren Cromartie, Kelly Gruber, Doug Ault, Dick Phillips, Ryan Sadowski, Tim Leiper, Dave Van Horne, Mark Bomback. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 82. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gary Edmund Carter (born April 8, 1954), nicknamed "Kid", or "Kid Carter" is a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball catcher from 19741992. During his career, Carter established himself as one of the premier catchers in the National League, winning three Gold Glove awards and five Silver Slugger awards. Carter and Andre Dawson are the only players from the Expos to have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1961, seven-year-old Carter was his age group's national champion in the inaugural "Punt, Pass, and Kick" football contest. His mother died of leukemia when he was only eight years old. Throughout his entire baseball career, he was a major contributor to the Leukemia ... Read more