Baseball category: 2631 books
Grand Slam
Baseball Genius 3
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2020
Jalen DeLuca applies his baseball genius to his own playing in this follow-up to Tim Green and Derek Jeter’s New York Times bestselling novel Baseball Genius.
Jalen DeLuca loves baseball. He’s playing for his summer travel team and trying to win a regular spot in the rotation. But Jalen’s...
Stars, Stripes and Diamonds
American Culture and the Baseball Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Since the Progressive Era, baseball has been promoted as an institution encapsulating the best of American values and capable of bridging the chasms of twentieth century American culture—urban versus rural, industry versus agriculture, individual versus community, immigrant versus native, white...
Season of '42
Joe D, Teddy Ballgame, and Baseball?s Fight to Survive a Turbulent First Year of War
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Big league baseball would seem to have been a hard sell in 1942. World War II was not going well for the United States in the Pacific and not much better in Europe. Moreover, the country was in drastically short supply of ships, planes, submarines, torpedoes, and other war materials, and Uncle Sam...
Baseball's New Frontier
A History of Expansion, 1961-1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
When Major League Baseball first expanded in 1961 with the addition of the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Senators, it started a trend that saw the number of franchises almost double, from sixteen to thirty, while baseball attendance grew by 44 percent. The story behind this staggering growth,...
The Baseball Maniac's Almanac
The Absolutely, Positively, and without Question Greatest Book of Facts, Figures, and Astonishing Lists Ever Compiled
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
An addictive read that is sure to spark conversation wherever baseball is spoken, this updated edition of The Baseball Maniac’s Almanac is part reference, part trivia, part brain teaser, and absolutely the most unusual and thorough compendium of baseball stats and facts ever assembled-all verified...
Baseball's Greatest Comeback
The Miracle Braves of 1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
In 1914 the Boston Braves experienced the greatest come-from-behind season in baseball history. A perennially woeful team, the Braves rose from the ashes of last place—fifteen games behind on July 4th—to battle in the World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics, one of the most dominant teams...
by Mike Piazza
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Mike Piazza was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 62nd round of the 1988 baseball draft as a “courtesy pick.” The Dodgers never expected him to play for them—or anyone else. Mike had other ideas. Overcoming his detractors, he became the National League rookie of the year in 1993, broke...
Bottom of the Ninth
Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Fifty years ago, as baseball faced crises on and off the field, two larger-than-life figures took center stage, each on a quest to reinvent the national pastime
In the late 1950s, baseball was under siege. Up-and-coming cities that wanted teams of their own were being rebuffed by the owners,...
When the Giants Were Giants
Bill Terry and the Golden Age of New York Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1994
This is the story of a forgotten Giant--the man Baseball Magazine called in 1930 "baseball's greatest first baseman"--Bill Terry. Brought up from proverty and the obscurity of semipro ball in the South by the famed "Little Napoleon," manager John McGraw of the Giants, Terry developed...
The Last Commissioner
A Baseball Valentine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
On a beautiful July morning in 1991, three men gathered in a hotel suite for an informal breakfast and conversation. The discussion ranged widely over events and characters of the past, famous names and fabled accomplishments flowing along with the coffee and juice. Two of them, Ted Williams and Joe...
Planet of the Umps
A Baseball Life from Behind the Plate
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2004
"Two things nobody wants to grow up to be are an umpire and broke. Thanks to my career in baseball, I got both."
After calling balls, strikes, and outs for thirty-six baseball seasons and more than three thousand major-league games, umpire Ken Kaiser finally called it a career. From...
by Leo Durocher, Ed Linn
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
“I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?”
The history of baseball is rife with colorful characters. But for sheer cantankerousness, fighting moxie, and will to win, very few have come close to Leo “the Lip” Durocher. Following a...
by Bob Luke
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Never one to mince words, Effa Manley once wrote a letter to sportswriter Art Carter, saying that she hoped they could meet soon because “I would like to tell you a lot of things you should know about baseball.” From 1936 to 1948, Manley ran the Negro league Newark Eagles that her husband, Abe, owned...
Pitching in a Pinch
Baseball from the Inside
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
An inside baseball memoir from the game’s first superstar, with a foreword by Chad Harbach
Christy Mathewson was one of the most dominant pitchers ever to play baseball. Posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of the “Five Immortals,” he was an unstoppable force on...