Baseball category: 2631 books
Inside Baseball
The Best of Tom Verducci
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
No sport has inspired better writing than baseball, and no one writes baseball better than Tom Verducci.As Sports Illustrateds lead baseball writer since 1993, Verducci has witnessed the achievements of the games greatest heroes and told their inspiring stories with unmatched passion and sophistication....
by Suzy Beamer Bohnert
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Imagine receiving an invitation to your boss's party to watch a baseball game. Horror strikes because you don't know the first thing about the sport-or maybe you'd like to know more. Or, you love your job, and you want to impress your supervisor and colleagues. But what's a foul ball? Why are those...
Time for Expansion Baseball
SABR Digital Library, #61
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
The Los Angeles Angels and the "new" Washington Senators ushered in baseball's expansion in 1960, followed quickly by the Houston Colt .45s and the New York Mets. By 1998, ten additional franchises had been awarded with the Kansas City Royals, Seattle Pilots, Toronto Blue Jays, and Tampa...
Boston’s First Nine: The 1871-75 Boston Red Stockings
SABR Digital Library, #41
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Before the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Braves, there were the Boston Red Stockings. They were "Boston's First Nine" and 1871 through 1875, they won four consecutive pennants in the old National Association, considered by many to be baseball's first major league. In this five-year period,...
The Whiz Kids Take the Pennant: The 1950 Philadelphia Phillies
SABR Digital Library, #54
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The 1950 Philadelphia Phillies―the "Whiz Kids"―threatened to run away with the pennant, but slumped badly in late summer before finally beating the Brooklyn Dodgers in a thrilling 10-inning game on the last day of the season. That day at Ebbets Field they won only the second pennant...
Here's the Pitch
The Amazing, True, New, and Improved Story of Baseball and Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
In the mid-nineteenth century, two industries arrived on the American scene. One was strictly a business, yet it helped create, define, and disseminate American culture. The other was ostensibly just a game, yet it soon became emblematic of what it meant to be American, aiding in the creation of a...
The Amazing Baseball Adventure
Ballpark Wonders from the Bushes to the Show
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
A visually stunning road trip through pro baseball’s wacky, wondrous, and revered ballpark attractions
Exploding scoreboards, treetop seats, and neon skylines are just three of the more than 100 ballpark design features, field eccentricities, historic displays, traditions, concession items,...
The Forgotten Marlins
A Tribute to the 1956-1960 Original Miami Marlins
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
On April 4, 2012, the former Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball played their first official game under their new name—the Miami Marlins. Many in attendance were unaware, however, that the original Miami Marlins had played in their city more than 50 years earlier. As part of the AAA International...
Cincinnati Red and Dodger Blue
Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Call it the forgotten rivalry. The Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Dodgers may not share geographical boundaries, and today they don’t even play in the same division, but for a period of time in the 1970s Dodgers vs. Reds was the best rivalry in Major League Baseball. They boasted the biggest...
Last Seasons in Havana
The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Last Seasons in Havana explores the intersection between Cuba and America’s pastime from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, when Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. César Brioso takes the reader through the triumph of the revolution in 1959 and its impact on professional baseball...
Haunted Baseball
Ghosts, Curses, Legends, and Eerie Events
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Baseball and ghost stories are as American as apple pie. Haunted Baseball combines both with this fun and freaky collection of otherworldly yarns. Collected from baseball players, stadium personnel, umpires, front-office folks, and fans, the tales told here explore the spooky connection between baseball...
Fairly at Bat
My 50 years in baseball, from the batter's box to the broadcast booth
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Ron Fairly had an unbelievable 1958, in which he started the year playing baseball at the University of Southern California and ended it as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers. And then it got better.
Fairly at Bat is a dramatic, funny, and altogether entertaining romp through a 50-year career...
Incredible Baseball Trivia
More Than 200 Hardball Questions for the Thinking Fan
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Match wits with the father of baseball trivia, David Nemec, a ten-time national champion as he presents more than 200 baseball stumpers that are artfully designed to test the depth of the reader’s knowledge about the game since 1871 including:
Who is the most recent major leaguer to compile...
Beep
Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
In Beep, David Wanczyk illuminates the sport of blind baseball to show us a remarkable version of America’s pastime. With balls tricked out to squeal three times per second, and with bases that buzz, this game of baseball for the blind is both innovative and intense. And when the best beep baseball...