Baseball category: 2631 books
by Jim Campanis
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Jim Campanis Jr. is a third generation professional baseball player whose career stopped just short of the major leagues. Born Into Baseball is a collection of Jim’s stories about his life in and around the game:•As a boy—meeting star players, being batboy, sitting in the owner’s box•As...
Paul Lebowitz's 2010 Baseball Guide
A Complete Guide to the 2010 Baseball Season
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
A complete guide to the 2010 Major League Baseball season. In depth analysis of all thirty teams with sections dedicated to: management, starting lineups, starting pitching, bullpen and bench along with predictions for the upcoming season and a projected record.
Who will win the World Series?
Who...
Banned
Baseball's Blacklist of All-Stars and Also-Rans
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Award-winning Associated Press sports writer Hal Bock brings us a fascinating history of the players, coaches and more barred from baseball's ranks, from Shoeless Joe Jackson to Jenrry Mejia.
"Banned: Baseball's Blacklist of All-Stars and Also-Rans" weaves together tales of lesser-known...
Bad Boys, Bad Times
The Cleveland Indians and Baseball in the Prewar Years, 1937–1941
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
In 1937, the Great Depression was still lingering, but at baseball parks across the country there was a sense of optimism. Major League attendance was on a sharp rise. Tickets to an Indians game at League Park on Lexington and East 66th were $1.60 for box seats, $1.35 for reserve seats, and $.55 for...
2012 Baseball Preview
Changing the Way You Look at Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Combining statistics and graphic design into statographics, 162pixels 2012 Season Preview is a must have for any baseball fan. A preview of all 30 teams to help get you ready for the 2012 season. Through this eBook we hope to excite baseball fans about the 2012 season and provide them with information...
by Rob Gordon, Jeremy Deloney, Brent Hershey
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Essential information for fantasy league baseball players and the best resource available to project future performance of minor leaguers The first book of its kind to fully integrate sabermetrics and scouting, the 2016 Minor League Baseball Analyst provides a distinctive brand of analysis for more...
by Andres Wirkmaa
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
With the aim of providing anyone interested in baseball scorekeeping everything he or she needs to perform the task, this book contains a thorough and comprehensive manual on keeping a scorecard, together with a detailed analysis of each of the numerous, and often complex, official rules governing...
It Takes More Than Balls
The Savvy Girls' Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
For years, Deidre Silva and Jackie Koney figured that men simply knew more about baseball than they did. They tried to reconcile their love of baseball with their second-class fan status, but they finally realized that not getting in a tizzy over the 1952 World Series didn't mean that they weren't...
Extra Innings
My Life in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Max Schumacher began working for the Indianapolis Indians Triple-A baseball team in 1958, and became the general manager in 1961. The Indians have been one of America’s premier minor league franchises ever since, presenting unforgettable stars and moments while playing in historic ballparks.
In...
The Age of Ruth and Landis
The Economics of Baseball during the Roaring Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
As the 1919 World Series scandal simmered throughout the 1920 season, tight pennant races drove attendance to new peaks and presaged a decade of general prosperity for baseball. Babe Ruth shattered his own home-run record and, buoyed by a booming economy, professional sports enjoyed what sportswriters...
One Last Strike
Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
One Last Strike by legendary baseball manager Tony La Russa is a thrilling sports comeback story. La Russa, the winner of four Manager of the Year awards—who led his teams to six Pennant wins and three World Series crowns—chronicles one of the most exciting end-of-season runs in baseball history,...
by Chipper Jones, Carroll Rogers Walton
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Atlanta Braves third baseman and National Hall of Famer Chipper Jones—one of the greatest switch-hitters in baseball history—shares his remarkable story, while capturing the magic nostalgia that sets baseball apart from every other sport.
Before Chipper Jones became an eight-time All-Star...
Billy Martin
Baseball's Flawed Genius
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
**A New York Times bestseller
“Enormously entertaining . . . Explores the question of whether a baseball lifer can actually be a tragic figure in the classic sense—a man destroyed by the very qualities that made him great." — Wall Street Journal
“Bill Pennington gives long-overdue...
The 33-Year-Old Rookie
How I Finally Made it to the Big Leagues After Eleven Years in the Minors
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Chris Coste dreamed of playing major-league baseball from the age of seven. But after eleven grueling years in the minors, a spot on a major-league roster still seemed just out of his reach–until that fateful call came from the Philadelphia Phillies in May 2006. At age thirty-three (“going on...