73 Results for : orioles
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Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball's Fastest Pitcher , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 527min
Gripping and tragic, Dalko is the definitive story of Steve “White Lightning” Dalkowski, baseball’s fastest pitcher ever. Dalko explores one man’s unmatched talent on the mound and the forces that kept ultimate greatness always just beyond his reach.For the first time, Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball’s Fastest Pitcher unites all of the eyewitness accounts from the coaches, analysts, teammates, and professionals who witnessed the game’s fastest pitcher in action. In doing so, it puts listeners on the fields and at the plate to hear the buzzing fastball of a pitcher fighting to achieve his major league ambitions.Just three days after his high school graduation in 1957, Steve Dalkowski signed into the Baltimore Orioles system. Poised for greatness, he might have risen to be one of the stars in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Instead, he spent his entire career toiling away in the minor leagues. An inspiration for the character Nuke LaLoosh in the classic baseball film Bull Durham, Dalko’s life and story were as fast and wild as the pitches he threw.The late Orioles manager Earl Weaver, who saw baseball greats Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax pitch, said: “Dalko threw harder than all of ‘em.” Cal Ripken Sr., Dalkowski’s catcher for several years, said the same. Bull Durham screenwriter Ron Shelton, who played with Dalkowski in the minor leagues, said: “They called him “Dalko”, and guys liked to hang with him and women wanted to take care of him, and if he walked in a room in those days, he was probably drunk.” This force on the field that could break chicken wire backstops and wooden fences with his heat but racked up almost as many walks as strikeouts in his career, spent years of drinking all night and showing up on the field the next day, just in time to show his wild heat again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Beck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/226000/bk_acx0_226000_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bird Watching Mastery: What You Need to Know about Birds: The Important Things to Bird Watching Mastery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 127min
You sit at your window and watch the birds in the yard. You watch them search for food. They flit and fly around. You find yourself very relaxed. It is important to maintain your bird feeders properly. Keep them clean and full of fresh food at all times. You can hang your feeders from trees or purchase a specially-made hanger. You can attach them to porch railings as well. You can tailor your feeders to certain species of birds. Thistle will generally attract finches and small birds. Sunflowers seeds will attract red birds. And peanuts attract blue jays. Don't forget about the humming birds and orioles. They like a feeder filled with sugar water. Relax and have fun with the birds! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barbara H. Scott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/030464/bk_acx0_030464_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Skipper Supreme
Skipper Supreme ab 1.87 € als epub eBook: Buck Showalter and the Baltimore Orioles. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Sachthemen & Ratgeber, Sport & Entspannung,- Shop: hugendubel
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Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds: Passerines
THE BRITISH BIRDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 This unique and spectacular handbook is the most complete and comprehensive photographic guide to the passerines of the Western Palearctic. Written by two of the world's most respected ornithologists, Hadoram Shirihai and Lars Svensson, it contains the most up-to-date information available on bird identification covering all aspects of plumage, moult, ageing and sexing, with sections on voice and other identification criteria, and detailed taxonomic notes. The passerines are divided into two volumes, with the first covering larks, hirundines, pipits and wagtails, bulbuls, accentors, robins, chats, wheatears, thrushes, prinias and cisticolas, and warblers, and the second covering flycatchers, reedlings, tits, nuthatches, orioles and sunbirds, shrikes, corvids, finches and buntings, along with extreme vagrants. The exceptional text is backed up by a remarkable collection of more than 5,000 photographs, featuring a comprehensive range of plumages that illustrate every race and morph of each species in the region. This stunning handbook will be the definitive reference for the region for years to come - no birder's shelf will be complete without it.- Shop: buecher
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Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball's Fastest Pitcher , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 527min
Gripping and tragic, Dalko is the definitive story of Steve “White Lightning” Dalkowski, baseball’s fastest pitcher ever. Dalko explores one man’s unmatched talent on the mound and the forces that kept ultimate greatness always just beyond his reach. For the first time, Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball’s Fastest Pitcher unites all of the eyewitness accounts from the coaches, analysts, teammates, and professionals who witnessed the game’s fastest pitcher in action. In doing so, it puts listeners on the fields and at the plate to hear the buzzing fastball of a pitcher fighting to achieve his major league ambitions. Just three days after his high school graduation in 1957, Steve Dalkowski signed into the Baltimore Orioles system. Poised for greatness, he might have risen to be one of the stars in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Instead, he spent his entire career toiling away in the minor leagues. An inspiration for the character Nuke LaLoosh in the classic baseball film Bull Durham, Dalko’s life and story were as fast and wild as the pitches he threw. The late Orioles manager Earl Weaver, who saw baseball greats Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax pitch, said “Dalko threw harder than all of ‘em.” Cal Ripken Sr., Dalkowski’s catcher for several years, said the same. Bull Durham screenwriter Ron Shelton, who played with Dalkowski in the minor leagues, said “They called him 'Dalko' and guys liked to hang with him and women wanted to take care of him and if he walked in a room in those days he was probably drunk.” This force on the field that could break chicken wire backstops and wooden fences with his heat but racked up almost as many walks as strikeouts in his career, spent years of drinking all night and showing up on the field the next day, just in time to show his wild heat again. What the Washington Post called “baseball’s greatest what-if story” is one of a superhuman, once-in-a-generation gift, a near-mythical tale ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Beck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/225231/bk_acx0_225231_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ann Liguori's Audio Hall of Fame: Brooks Robinson, Hörbuch, Digital, 20min
Brooks Robinson played most of his 23-year career on third base with the Baltimore Orioles. Robinson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983. His nickname was "The Human Vacuum Cleaner," arguably the greatest third-baseman of all time. He won 16 consecutive Gold Glove Awards. Though he was a solid hitter, his career didn't always look so promising with a slow start at second base. When he was moved to third base, his talent shone through. Brooks is interviewed by Ann Liguori, award-winning luminary in sports broadcasting with a celebrated career that spans two decades. Liguori has interviewed some of the most legendary sports personalities, drawing out their success stories, their opinions on a variety of issues, and their love of the game. Language: English. Narrator: Ann Liguori. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/made/000305/sp_made_000305_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Season to Forget
A Season to Forget ab 1.87 € als epub eBook: The Story of the 1988 Baltimore Orioles. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Sachthemen & Ratgeber, Sport & Entspannung,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 440min
In The Old Ball Game, Frank Deford, NPR sports commentator and Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual friendship between two towering figures in baseball history.At the turn of the twentieth century, Christy Mathewson was one of baseball's first superstars. Over six feet tall, clean cut, and college educated, he didn't pitch on the Sabbath and rarely spoke an ill word about anyone. He also had one of the most devastating arms in all of baseball. New York Giants manager John McGraw, by contrast, was ferocious. The pugnacious tough guy was already a star infielder who, with the Baltimore Orioles, helped develop a new, scrappy style of baseball, with plays like the hit-and-run, the Baltimore chop, and the squeeze play. When McGraw joined the Giants in 1902, the Giants were coming off their worst season ever. Yet within three years, Mathewson clinched New York City's first World Series for McGraw's team by throwing three straight shutouts in only six days, an incredible feat that is invariably called the greatest World Series performance ever. Because of their wonderful odd-couple association, baseball had its first superstar, the Giants ascended into legend, and baseball as a national pastime bloomed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Deford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012046/bk_adbl_012046_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Where They Ain't
Where They Ain't ab 15.93 € als epub eBook: The Fabled Life and Ultimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles the Team that Gave Birth to Modern Baseball. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Sachthemen & Ratgeber, Sport & Entspannung,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Team That Changed Baseball: Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 485min
In 1947, major league baseball experienced its first measure of integration when the Brooklyn Dodgers brought Jackie Robinson to the National League. While Robinson's breakthrough opened the gates of opportunity for African Americans and other minority players, the process of integration proved slow and uneven. It was not until the 1960s that a handful of major league teams began to boast more than a few Black and Latino players. But the 1971 World Championship team enjoyed a full and complete level of integration, with half of its 25-man roster comprised of players of African American and Latino descent. That team was the Pittsburgh Pirates, managed by an old-time Irishman. In The Team That Changed Baseball: Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates, veteran baseball writer Bruce Markusen tells the story of one of the most likable and significant teams in the history of professional sports. In addition to the fact that they fielded the first all-minority lineup in major league history, the 1971 Pirates are noteworthy for the team's inspiring individual performances, including those of future Hall of Famers Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, and Bill Mazeroski, and their remarkable World Series victory over the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles. But perhaps their greatest legacy is the team's influence on the future of baseball, inspiring later championship teams such as the New York Yankees and Oakland Athletics to open their doors fully to all talented players, regardless of race, particularly in the new era of free agency. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Free. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011432/bk_adbl_011432_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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