Spalding's World Tour: The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe - And Made it America's Game





In October 1888, Albert Goodwill Spalding--baseball star, sporting-goods magnate, promotional genius, serial fabulist--departed Chicago on a trip that would take him and two baseball teams on a journey clear around the globe. Their mission had two goals: to fix the game in the American consciousness as the purest expression of the national spirit, and to seed markets for Spalding's products near and far. In the process, these first cultural ambassadors played before kings and queens, visited the Coliseum and the Eiffel Tower, and took pot shots with their baseballs at the great Sphinx in Egypt. Their expedition is chronicled with dash and wit in Spalding's World Tour, "a riveting story of baseball and the man...who brought it into the 20th century." (Newsweek)









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Cardinalology Trivia Challenge: St. Louis Cardinals Baseball





Updated with fun and interesting facts through the end of the 2009 baseball season, Cardinalology Trivia Challenge: St. Louis Cardinals Baseball offers Cardinals fans the opportunity to relive St. Louis's greatest moments, including:

-World Series Championships
-National League Pennants
-Player of the Year Awards
-Club Records
-Player Records
-Hall of Fame
-Player Awards
-Key Player Stats
-Managers and Coaches Awards
-Key Managers Stats
-Key Rivalries
-And Much More


Each of the book's 210 MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS set up in game format allows players to give informed answers even for the book's more ambitious questions. In addition, most answers include in-depth supportive background offering the book's players even greater knowledge about correct responses.

Here are two sample questions:

-How many times has a Cardinals pitcher won 20 or more games in a single season?
-What was the original distance to the center field wall at Busch Stadium?

The book also includes the publisher's unique COOL FACTS placed at the end of each of the first four sections. Cool Facts allow the book's researcher more freedom to highlight and expand on particularly interesting or thought-provoking facts about the team and its history.

Two SCORE SHEETS located at the end of the book permit players to record their answers as they play, to calculate their scores for each of the book's five sections as well as their final overall score, and to determine winners for multi-player situations. Free downloadable score sheets are also available from the publisher's Web site.

All of this makes Cardinalology Trivia Challenge: St. Louis Cardinals Baseball a great gift for yourself or for friends and family.










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