Baseball category: 2631 books
Much More Than a Game
Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams--and those who play on them--our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the...
Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Before Jackie Robinson crossed major league baseball's color line, there existed a parallel world of "blackball" with its own pantheon of superstars: Rube Foster, Oscar Charleston, Smokey Joe Williams, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and many others. Hundreds of elite athletes played in the...
The Grand Old Man of Baseball
Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932-1956
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In The Grand Old Man of Baseball, Norman L. Macht chronicles Connie Mack’s tumultuous final two decades in baseball. After Mack had built one of baseball’s greatest teams, the 1929–31 Philadelphia Athletics, the Depression that followed the stock market crash fundamentally reshaped Mack’s...
by Harvey Frommer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Another peek at baseball's good old days—or, in this case, bad old days—by veteran sports-historian Harvey Frommer. Frommer paints Shoeless Joe as a baseball natural ("Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball"—Ty Cobb), an illiterate hick (his table utensils...
by Mark Rucker, John Freyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2003
The Chicago area today hosts two of the most historic major league franchises and half a dozen minor or independent league teams. Baseball's roots run deep in the Windy City. Indeed, it was Chicago businessman William "I'd rather be a lamp-post in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city" Hulbert,...
by Joel Hawkins, Terry Bertolino
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2000
The Israelite House of David was founded in 1903, as a religious colony in Benton Harbor, Michigan. An entrepreneurial group of worshippers, the colony contributed much to the community, including a traveling baseball team that toured the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The almost 200 images collected...
Game Worn
Baseball Treasures from the Game's Greatest Heroes and Moments
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Game Worn: Baseball Treasures from the Game's Greatest Heroes and Moments is a richly illustrated exploration and first-of-its-kind compendium study of the world's most coveted and precious baseball uniforms worn by Major League ballplayers during the twentieth century. This coffee-table book features...
Joe Cronin
A Life in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
From the sandlots of San Francisco to the power centers of baseball, this book tells the story of Joe Cronin, one of twentieth-century baseball’s major players, both on the field and off.
For most of his playing career, Cronin (1906–84) was the best shortstop in baseball. Elected...
Season of '42
Joe D., Teddy Ballgame, and Baseball's Fight to Survive a Turbulent First Year of War
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
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...
Transpacific Field of Dreams
How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Baseball has joined America and Japan, even in times of strife, for over 150 years. After the "opening" of Japan by Commodore Perry, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu explains, baseball was introduced there by American employees of the Japanese government tasked with bringing Western knowledge and...
Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players
A Biographical Dictionary, 1871-2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Indiana boasts a rich baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown. This biographical dictionary provides a close look at the lives of all 364 Hoosier big leaguers, who include New York City’s first baseball superstar; the first rookie pitcher to win three games in a World Series;...
by Bill Lajoie, Anup Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Bill Lajoie just had it. When it came to drafting ballplayers and building a World Series club, few in baseball history can match his extraordinary success. The lessons of Lajoies illustrious career and the brilliance of his philosophy are put to print in Character is Not a Statistic. After a playing...
by Richard A. Santillán, Richard Peña, Teresa M. Santillán
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Mexican American Baseball in East Los Angeles highlights the unforgettable teams, players, and coaches who graced the hallowed fields of East Los Angeles between 1917 and 2016 and brought immense joy and honor to their neighborhoods. Off the field, these players and their families helped create the...
2016 Baseball Forecaster
& Encyclopedia of Fanalytics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
For 30 years, the very best in baseball prediction and statistics
The industry’s longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, the 2016 Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into...