Baseball category: 2631 books
by MIKE - aka Mike Raffone
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
As the sports world’s ultimate talking head, MIKE shares 25 of his all-time favorite baseball comics.
MIKE’s baseball comic book captures the moments, people and clichéd expressions that encompass our great American pastime.
This FREE sports comic book includes clever...
by Larry Dobrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The ultimate, fact-filled collector’s guide from legendary sports icon and role model Derek Jeter!
No matter their favorite team or player, young sports fans can look to baseball legend Derek Jeter for information on America’s national pastime. Derek Jeter’s Ultimate Baseball Guide 2015...
by Alan M. Gratz
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
The Wizard of Oz meets America's favorite pastime!
Alex Metcalf must be dreaming. What else would explain why he's playing baseball for the Oz Cyclones, with Dorothy as his captain, in the Ever After Baseball Tournament? But Alex isn't dreaming; he's just from the real world. And winning the...
by Tim Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
From New York Times bestselling author and former NFL player Tim Green comes a baseball book pulsing with action. Baseball Great offers a baseball story attuned to today’s headlines, a totally involving, character-driven, sports-centered thriller. Perfect for fans of Mike Lupica. As a young reviewer...
Baseball Is . . .
with audio recording
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
The ultimate celebration of an all-American sport, this picture book captures the joy and the history of baseball—and knocks it out of the park!
Don’t wait for Opening Day to start your baseball season! Crack open Baseball Is… and revel in the fun of this all-American game! Perfect for...
The Sabermetric Revolution
Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
From the front office to the family room, sabermetrics has dramatically changed the way baseball players are assessed and valued by fans and managers alike. Rocketed to popularity by the 2003 bestseller Moneyball and the film of the same name, the use of sabermetrics to analyze player performance...
Watching Baseball Smarter
A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
This smart and funny fan’s guide to baseball explains the ins and outs of pitching, hitting, running, and fielding, while offering insider trivia and anecdotes that will appeal to anyone—whether you're a major league couch potato, life-long season ticket-holder, or a beginner.
What is the...
Opening Day
The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
This bestselling account of the most important season in baseball history, 1947, tells the dramatic story of how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and changed baseball forever.
April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto...
by Tyler Kepner
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today
The baseball is an amazing...
The Shift
The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
With its three-hour-long contests, 162-game seasons, and countless measurable variables, baseball is a sport which lends itself to self-reflection and obsessive analysis. It's a thinking game. It's also a shifting game. Nowhere is this more evident than in the statistical revolution which has swept...
The Last Real Season
A Hilarious Look Back at 1975 - When Major Leaguers Made Peanuts, the Umpires Wore Red, and Billy Martin Terrorized Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2008
There are baseball books and there are baseball books.
But for the baseball cognoscenti, there are just a few "must-have" classics: BALL FOUR by Jim Bouton. THE LONG SEASON by Jim Brosnan. WILLIE'S TIME by Charles Einstein. And SEASONS IN HELL by Mike Shropshire, which was a hilarous...
Dropping the Ball
Baseball's Troubles and How We Can and Must Solve Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
**HALL OF FAMER DAVE WINFIELD:
"THE GAME I LOVE IS HURTING."**
Revenue has never been higher, attendance has never been better, and baseball has never had a stronger international presence. Yet, with all of the prosperity, the game has rarely faced more significant problems, both in...
Little League to the Major Leagues
A Complete Guide to Baseball’S Assembly Line … Plus Insider Advice on Youth Leagues, High School, College, and the Pros
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
There is no question that the physical and mental demands of the sport of baseball are rigorous. Not only is it difficult to successfully hit a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball in front of a crowd of passionate spectators, but it is also challenging to navigate an often confusing system that leads players...
The Game
Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty years
In the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their decades-long...