Baseball category: 2631 books
by Jeff Kisseloff
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Filled with biographical anecdotes, batting stats and historical comparisons, here is the one book young fans can use to become instant experts in baseball's great debate.
Who is it: Babe Ruth? Ted Williams? Ty Cobb? Mark McGwire? or . . .?
Here is your one-stop resource for answering...
by F.C. Lane
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
In 2012, SABR named F.C. Lane as an honoree of the Chadwick Award, given to baseball's greatest researchers. Lane (1896-1984) was the editor and a prolific writer for Baseball Magazine from 1912 through 1937, and then served as editor of the Little Red Book of Major League baseball through 1948....
Baseball Between the Numbers
Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers, and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams we root for could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, and win more games. The revolution in baseball...
Willie's Boys
The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, The Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
The story of Willie Mays's rookie year with the Negro American League's Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the making of a baseball legend
Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays is one of baseball's endearing greats, a tremendously talented and charismatic center fielder...
Dingers
The 101 Most Memorable Home Runs in Baseball History
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
From splitters to spitters; from a frozen rope to the suicide squeeze; from extra innings to no hitters, baseball is truly a great game. But nothing hypes up a crowd like a home run, a round tripper, a big bomb . . . the long ball! Hitting the ball out of the park is one of the greatest feats in baseball,...
Red Sox Baseball in the Days of Ike and Elvis: The Red Sox of the 1950s
SABR Digital Library, #6
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Americans in the 1950s found new ways of enjoying themselves, from the rapid proliferation of television sets into every home, to the dawn of a new age of popular music, rock and roll, symbolized by a charismatic crooner named Elvis Presley. Baseball's place in American culture was still paramount,...
Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters
How Statistics Can Level the Playing Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Tony Gwynn is the greatest hitter in the history of baseball. That's the conclusion of this engaging and provocative analysis of baseball's all-time best hitters. Michael Schell challenges the traditional list of all-time hitters, which places Ty Cobb first, Gwynn 16th, and includes just 8 players...
The Baseball Quiz Book
100 Questions on Baseball History
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Do you enjoy baseball? Can you name all the great players, past and present? Do you follow all the major games? Then why not put your knowledge to the test with this exciting new quiz book. Which year did the players’ official strike caused the cancellation of the World Series for the first time in...
The Sizzler
George Sisler, Baseball's Forgotten Great
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
“Gorgeous George” Sisler, a left-handed first baseman, began his major-league baseball career in 1915 with the St. Louis Browns. During his sixteen years in the majors, he played with such baseball luminaries as Ty Cobb (who once called Sisler “the nearest thing to a perfect ballplayer”),...
Extra Innings
More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In 1996, a brassy young team of fans produced a guide to baseball statistics. Printed on a photocopier, its distribution, which was in the low hundreds, was limited to friends, family, and die-hard stat heads. Sixteen years later, the Baseball Prospectus annual regularly hits best-seller lists and...
The Pride of Havana
A History of Cuban Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2001
From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with the politics, music, dance, and...
The Baseball Great Collection
Baseball Great, Rivals, Best of the Best
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Tim Green's thrilling Baseball Great books are perfect for middle-grade readers, and this collection contains three bestselling novels in the series.
Baseball Great: Josh feels like he's starting to make it big! Jaden, the school reporter, says he's going to take the baseball team to number...
Let's Go Yankees!
An Unforgettable Trip to the Ballpark
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
In Let's Go Yankees!, Poppy the Dog takes the subway with his grand-pups, Cammie and Oscar, to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. It's the first baseball game for the grand-pups and they discover just how much fun it can be cheering for baseball's most famous team. Poppy has loved the Yankees since his...
Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars
The Rivals of Riverside
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
“No cellphones. No Google. Just pluck and wit.”
That’s the way one modern critic describes these exciting tales from the early twentieth century, written for boys of the time. But really, they are universal tales of setting goals, overcoming adversity, and achieving what at some points...