Complete source for baseball history including complete major league player, team, and league stats, awards, records, leaders, rookies and scores. Its also available for football, basketball and hockey. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, michael lewis follows the lowbudget oakland as, visionary general manager billy beane, and the strange brotherhood of. Michael young division series stats by baseball almanac.
Baseball almanac is an interactive baseball encyclopedia with over 500,000 pages of baseball facts, research, awards, records, feats, lists, notable quotations, baseball movie ratings, and statistics. Every major league baseball player who has appeared on a baseball card, has a cards tab on their respective page. Jan 16, 2002 michael young, lord young of dartington, who has died aged 86, was a man of many parts. Michael darren young born march 20, 1960 is a former professional baseball player. Michael young the late michael young was coauthor of the muchcelebrated family and kinship in east london and founded institutions including the consumers association and the open university. Michael earley assigned to charlotte knights from birmingham barons. The art of winning an unfair game is a book by michael lewis, published in 2003, about the oakland athletics baseball team and its general manager billy beane. But perfecting the art of playing it takes time, patience, and lots of practice.
This page lists every known baseball award won by michael young in chronological order. Unique perspectives on the daily sports topics that matter most. You can leave it on top of the porcelain, pick it up, read it backwards, and still get an enormous charge out of it. Baseball players and managersbiographyteen nonfiction. Michael earley roster status changed by birmingham barons. Listen to thousands of best sellers and new releases on your iphone, ipad, or android. Author glenn stout, series editor for the best american sports writing. Other stats prospects 2 awards 21 batting logs batting splits extended stats transactions feats 16 leaderboards 95 the michael young page is available to be sponsored. The final chapter of frank grahams dynamic history of the new york giants is entitled with one swipe of his bat. Michael young is a strong candidate for the hall of fame hall of famer mike schmidt thinks michael young is a strong candidate to one day join him in cooperstown. His biographical data, yearbyyear hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats where applicable, career totals, uniform numbers. A social history as much as a baseball one, halberstams engrossing book sets the last gasp of the mickey mantleera yankees and the triumph of a young cardinals team powered by black stars like. Michael young career stats, game logs, biographical info, awards, and achievements for the nba and ncaa. Michael young college stats college basketball at sports.
Michael was an academic allpac 10 selection in 1984 and in the 1984 rose bowl game, young had 5 receptions for a total of 127 yards, including a 52yard touchdown pass from rick neuheisel. Heat became sort of monotnous at times because michael, the main character, continuously struck everybody out, but mike lupica heated it up when he needed to. Please follow the links on the left to access my ongoing journey as a. The baseball america almanac has always been the best baseball annual, and now its the only book on the market that sums up the year in baseball from the majors to the minors and down through every amateur level as well. Click the award name and up comes a comprehensive history of that award along with every winner of that particular baseball. Michael young was born on tuesday, october 19, 1976, in covina, california.
Rhp rr 20 pete lavin oflhp ll 21 mike sticklinski c rr 23 jordan haseltine lhp ll 24 matt. Forbes moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Michael jack schmidt born september 27, 1949 is an american former professional baseball. It was filled with fascinating sidebars and anecdotes and even though ive read just about everything, i kept saying gee, i didnt know that. About this seller i have been selling baseball books for more than twenty years, with an emphasis on baseball and sports fiction. There are more than 500 baseball novels and mysteries in my stock. He was the former editor in chief of the ring and fight game magazines and the author of more than eighty books, with over a dozen books on baseball. The baseball almanac is more a bathroom book than a coffeetable volume. Since 2014, young has worked in the rangers front office as a special assistant to the general manager jon daniels.
The michael young trades and transactions seen below include all known instances where michael young has been involved in a trade or transaction of any type as it relates to baseball. Best baseball books the 20 best baseball books ever. Incredible baseball stats helps tell unique baseball stories, showcasing extraordinary stats and facts in baseball history, through the 2015 season. Veteran infielder michael young is set to retire, sources told fox sports. Stats awards fabulous feats famous firsts hall of fame hitting charts legendary lists pitching charts record books rules scoring. Much of the plot involves young felixs coming to terms with the absence of his father, a baseball star who remains in cuba for reasons at first unclear to the boy. In the book the neyerjames guide to pitchers, sports journalist rob neyer wrote that. Sun devil baseball almanac arizona state university athletics. Baseball statistics play an important role in evaluating the progress of a player or team since the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, and normally players act individually rather than performing in clusters, the sport lends itself to easy recordkeeping and statistics. Baseball almanac is an indepth website with the tagline where what happened yesterday is being preserved today. Bert randolph sugar established himself as one of the worlds foremost sports historians.
Stats give the game historical context and measurables for past, present, and predictive analysis. Chicago white sox signed free agent rhp michael ynoa to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. Since then ive read over 100 baseball books for bedtime reading and attended over 150 youth baseball games. Statistics have been kept for professional baseball since the creation of the national league and american. Young cubanamerican latches on as batboy to a minorleague ballclub.
Michael young autographed 2011 world series baseball texas rangers 2010 american league champions this item comes with a certificate of authenticity along with matching tamperproof holograms from autograph warehouse, guaranteeing the authenticity of this handsigned autograph. Sponsor this page attach your namecompany to the michael young page and 1 help support the baseball cube 2 remove ads from this page for other visitors. You can leave it on top of the porcelain, pick it up, read it backwards, and still get an. This delightfully written, lessonladen book deserves a place of its own in the baseball hall of fame.
Four authors tell forbes about their new baseball books. Young also served alongside john elway as the executive vice president of the arena football leagues colorado crush. The michael young division series stats seen below include his division series yearbyyear hitting stats, division series fielding stats, and division series pitching stats where applicable. Its focus is the teams analytical, evidencebased, sabermetric approach to assembling a competitive baseball team despite oaklands small budget. For those with similarly baseballobsessed kids, ive put together a guide to describe our favorite baseball books, ordered by age range. Mlb baseball news, rumors and fantasy advice from the experts at. Stats and games in game logs to select spans for aggregate stats. Mike young baseball stats with batting stats, pitching stats and fielding stats, along with uniform numbers, salaries, quotes, career stats and biographical data presented by baseball almanac. Michael young author of the rise of the meritocracy. The true story behind michael jordans briefbutpromising. Young im currently working on the sequel to the hunger, which is tentatively titled the thirst. Michael young had six 200hit seasons with the rangers, including five consecutive 2003 through 2007, and finished his career in texas with 2,230 hits 483 more than ivan rodriguez, who had the second most career hits in franchise history.
Apr 01, 2002 the baseball almanac is more a bathroom book than a coffeetable volume. Willie bloomquist jeff duncan mike kelly jon switzer casey myers. Mlb sports news, scores, schedules, and videos fox sports. Michael young trades and transactions by baseball almanac. Be the first to ask a question about the baseball almanac. Click the award name and up comes a comprehensive history of that award along with every winner of that particular baseball award. Get scores, news and notes in your inbox every day. Young was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on september 29, 2000, with the texas rangers. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. For sheer drama and a colossal slice of baseball legend, the core of that chapter cannot be toppedbobby thomsons shot heard round the world, the threerun homer in the 1951 playoff series that determined that the giantsnot the dodgerswould win the pennant.
Fielding stats are a combination of official records and retrosheet. He played all or part of eight seasons in major league baseball, from 198289, mostly as an outfielder and designated hitter. Apr 01, 2017 wouldnt it be great if a bunch of new baseball books hit the shelves within minutes of the final out of the world series. Join facebook to connect with michael young and others you may know. My son fell in love with baseball at the age of 20 months. Did you know that in the michael young miscellaneous allstar items of interest section seen above you can click the stats link under the allstar label and a truly comprehensive history of that allstar game will appear on your screen. The fiction of michael young, focusing on fantasy and science fiction. Buy the rise of the meritocracy by michael young isbn. Young has three good offers, including one from the dodgers, but he wants to spend more time with his family the 14year. Young successfully made the transition to the broncos front office after a 10year career as a wide receiver in the nfl, playing for the rams 198588, broncos 198992, eagles 1993 and chiefs 1994.
His biographical data, yearbyyear hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats where applicable, career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous itemsofinterest are presented by baseball almanac on this comprehensive mike young baseball stats. It serves, in turn, as a source for a number of books and publications about baseball, andor is mentioned by them as a reference, such as. Michael dunlop young, baron young of dartington, british sociologist, social activist and politician michael young is the author o. Italic season totals indicate player led all major leagues. Every day, well send you an email to your inbox with scores, todays schedule, top performers, new debuts and interesting tidbits. In addition to integrating many complex concepts, such as family and kindness, into an easy, fun book to read, mike lupica involves some cool strategy about baseball. Born in gilmore, ohio, he worked on his familys farm as a youth before starting his professional baseball career.
Mike young comedian, stand up comedian, producer and writer of my man is a loser and a stand up guy michael young actor born 1952, host of diaries of a xenophobe and how to make love to an immigrant mike young producer born 1945, tv producer and founder of mike young productions mike young game designer, american mike young mike young. Michael young career batting statistics for major league, minor league, and postseason baseball. Mlb scores, standings, stats and blogs covering every player and team in major league baseball. Millions call baseball the greatest game on earth and the national pastime. Mlb home sports news, scores, schedules, and videos fox. Young was 22 years old when he broke into the big leagues on september 14, 1982, with the baltimore orioles. Past titles include the ultimate book of boxing lists, bert sugars baseball hall of fame. A film based on lewis book, starring brad pitt and jonah. Michael young stats, game logs, splits, and much more. The michael young page is available to be sponsored. Jan 30, 2014 veteran infielder michael young is set to retire, sources told fox sports.