Baseball category: 2631 books
Baseball and Philosophy
Thinking Outside the Batter's Box
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Baseball and Philosophy brings together two high-powered pastimes: the sport of baseball and the academic discipline of philosophy. Eric Bronson asked eighteen young professors to provide their profound analysis of some aspect of baseball. The result offers surprisingly deep insights into this most...
by Tom Melville
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Did modern baseball spontaneously arise from the genius of the American people? Did professionalism arise simply from a desire to turn baseball into a business? Did William Hulbert, organizer of the National League, really “save” baseball? These are three of the questions examined in this work...
by Robin Van Auken
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Little League Baseball is a microcosm of American history, filled with countless anecdotes, good fortune, adversity, and hope. In 1947, when the first Little League Baseball World Series was played, there were seventeen leagues in two states. Since then, Little League has achieved global recognition...
'75: The Red Sox Team that Saved Baseball
SABR Digital Library, #27
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In 1975, the Boston Red Sox played in what was the most-watched World Series in history, an epic seven-game battle with Cincinnati's Big Red Machine that captivated the nation's attention and revived baseball's lagging popularity. '75 tells the life stories of the 37 players who made up the Red...
by Jonathan Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Baseball has had its fair share of one-and-out champions, but few clubs have dominated the sport for any great length of time. Given the level of competition and the expansive length of the season, it is a remarkable accomplishment for a team to make multiple World Series appearances in a short timespan....
Ted Strong Jr.
The Untold Story of an Original Harlem Globetrotter and Negro Leagues All-Star
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Ted Strong Jr. (1917-1978) was a two-sport athlete, a major star of the Negro Leagues and one of the original Harlem Globetrotters. His prominence in the Negro Leagues led Branch Rickey and other white baseball league owners to consider Strong as one of several possible players to integrate major...
Baseball and the Media
How Fans Lose in Today's Coverage of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
What sports fans read, watch, and listen to at home often isn’t the real story coming out of the locker room or the front office. George Castle should know: he’s covered baseball in Chicago for decades and witnessed the widening gulf between the media and the teams they’re supposed to cover—and...
by Rich Adler
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2004
Baseball at the University of Michigan has had a long and rich tradition. Base ball, to use the contemporary vernacular, began as a club sport during the 1860s. By the dawn of the 20th century, the sport had evolved into the most popular spring leisure event in which students participated. Crowds of...
Crack of the Bat
A History of Baseball on the Radio
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The crack of the bat on the radio is ingrained in the American mind as baseball takes center stage each summer. Radio has brought the sounds of baseball into homes for almost one hundred years, helping baseball emerge from the 1919 Black Sox scandal into the glorious World Series of the 1920s. The...
When Baseball Went White
Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The story of Jackie Robinson valiantly breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947 is one that most Americans know. But less recognized is the fact that some seventy years earlier, following the Civil War, baseball was tenuously biracial and had the potential for a truly open game. How, then, did...
Puerto Rico and Baseball: 60 Biographies
SABR Digital Library, #49
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Baseball in Puerto Rico has a long history, dating back to the nineteenth century and now extending into the twenty-first. As of the end of 2016, there have been 323 players born in Puerto Rico or descended from Puerto Rican natives who have played in the major leagues. But there are thousands of...
by Dom Forker
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
A Classic Baseball reference with an updated introduction addressing the modern era of America's Favorite Pastime... Ever since baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday,fans across America have followed this game, its personalities and its statistics. In Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About...
America's Game
A History of Major League Baseball through World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
This comprehensive survey of major league baseball looks at the national pastime’s legendary figures, major innovations, and pivotal moments, from the beginning of the twentieth century through World War II.
In America's Game: A History of Major League Baseball through World War II, Bryan...
Singles and Smiles
How Artie Wilson Broke Baseball's Color Barrier
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
This book brings to light the story of a Negro League and Pacific Coast League star, his struggles to make it in the majors, and his crucial role in integrating baseball’s premier minor league.
Artie Wilson once was the best shortstop in baseball. In 1948 Artie led all of baseball with a...