Baseball category: 2631 books
The Baseball Trust
A History of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The impact of antitrust law on sports is in the news all the time, especially when there is labor conflict between players and owners, or when a team wants to move to a new city. And if the majority of Americans have only the vaguest sense of what antitrust law is, most know one thing about it-that...
Baseball Americana
A Visual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Foreword by George F. Will
With a new Preface by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
A lavishly illustrated history of America's game, from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress.
“One of the most seductively designed books about the sport to come our way. …...
by Joe Morgan, Richard Lally
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Play, watch, and understand America's favorite pastime
Baseball continues to be a popular game both as a spectator sport and as a pastime. Since the publication of Baseball For Dummies, 3rd Edition, baseball teams have changed, new MLB stadiums have been built, and rules have been updated....
Baseball and Babies
My Life as a Catcher
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This book was written thirty years ago, recounting an unbelievable journey, I had at that time, that can only happen in a dream. I was an obstetrician/gynecologist that saw an ad in The Sporting News that invited the reader to be "a Dodger for a week". I grew up in Brooklyn, New York and...
The Mind of Bill James
How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2006
The first book to chronicle the life and ideas of “the serious baseball fan’s high priest” (New York Times), the impact of his brilliant and entertaining writings, and how someone who never pitched a ball, held a bat, or managed a team fundamentally changed the way baseball is interpreted, analyzed,...
Baseball
The Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1989
Now available in paperback, Harold Seymour and Dorothy Seymour Mills' Baseball: The Early Years recounts the true story of how baseball came into being and how it developed into a highly organized business and social institution. The Early Years, traces the growth of baseball from the time of the...
100 Years Of Baseball
The Intimate And Dramatic Story Of Modern Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The story of America's pastime is rooted in our history. The most commonly told stories of baseball are no mystery. They can easily be found in any of the thousands of books on this team or that player. In 100 Years of Baseball, we get to look even further into the past at the stories that didn't...
by Dick Cluster, Eduardo del Llano, Leonardo Padura
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
“If baseball is really a metaphor for life, then Kill the Ámpaya -- Dick Cluster's wonderful collection of Latin American baseball stories -- is an astonishing record of its beauty and coarseness, redemption and tragedy. You don't have to be a baseball fan to appreciate these stories, each one...
Baseball Maverick
How Sandy Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
“An intimate portrait of one of the shrewdest, most decorated men to ever occupy the GM chair . . . A really fun read” (Jonah Keri, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Up, Up, & Away).
In 2010, the New York Mets were in trouble. One of baseball’s most valuable franchises, they...
by Chris Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Babe Ruth, known as George Herman Ruth, was a big baseball legend lived back in the yearly 1900s. Some speculate if wasn't for Babe Ruth, the baseball would not be as famous in the United States as it is today. Babe Ruth successfully managed to draw attention to baseball due to his playing capabilities...
The Last Nine Innings
Inside the Real Game Fans Never See
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
"The Last Nine Innings is the last word on the inside of baseball. It's full of wonderful revelations and perceptions that help us understand the game in ways that we might never have imagined. Charlie Euchner has done a marvelous job in getting players to talk, simply, about how they play, and...
Breaking into Baseball
Women and the National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
While baseball is traditionally perceived as a game to be played, enjoyed, and reported from a masculine perspective, it has long been beloved among women— more so than any other spectator sport. Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime upends baseball’ s accepted history to at last...
Nuclear Powered Baseball: Articles Inspired by The Simpsons Episode 'Homer At the Bat'
SABR Digital Library, #34
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
The Simpsons and baseball. Since its debut in 1989 (that's back in the last century!), The Simpsons has run for 27 seasons and (back in 2009) became the longest-running American scripted primetime television series. Though it would be considered sacrilege in some circles, some might even see it...
The League of Outsider Baseball
An Illustrated History of Baseball's Forgotten Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
From an award-winning graphic artist and baseball historian comes a strikingly original illustrated history of baseball’s forgotten heroes, including stars of the Negro Leagues, barnstorming teams, semi-pro leagues, foreign leagues, and famous players like Shoeless Joe Jackson, Jackie Robinson,...