Baseball category: 2631 books
by Robert Kimmel Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Ten-year-old Bobby Ellis loves everything about baseball, from the hits to the hot dogs. That's why he calls himself Bobby Baseball! Every day he dreams of becoming a major league pitcher and joining the stars in the Baseball Hall of Fame. And what better place to start his career than right here...
by John Ritter
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
The exciting prequel to the bestselling The Boy Who Saved Baseball
The fate of a Wild West gold-mining town rests in the hands of two individuals. One is a twelve-year-old boy with a love and instinct for baseball unmatched by any grown-up. The other is the country's most infamous outlaw, on...
by Sue Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2008
Felix knows his dad was a famous baseball player in Cuba—and that his father risked everything to send Felix to America. But his mom won’t reveal anything else. When a baseball team with Cuban players comes to town, Felix wonders if they knew his dad and sneaks into their locker room to ask. That’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
How magical is the experience of attending your very first baseball game and hearing the crack of the bat resound throughout the stadium? What?s more terrifying than being out in left field praying the ball doesn?t come your way? Who better are the friends you make while playing out on that diamond?...
Barbed Wire Baseball
How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A true story set in a Japanese-American internment camp in World War II. As a young boy, Kenichi Zenimura (Zeni) wanted to be a baseball player, even though everyone told him he was too small. He grew up to become a successful athlete, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. But when the Japanese attacked...
by Frank Foster
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Rube Foster, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard…they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people heard of them? Because they never played in the MLB; they were the heroes of a baseball league often forgotten: The Negro League.
This book traces...
Is This a Great Game, or What?
From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head--My 25 Years in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
ESPN's Tim Kurkjian has spent over twenty-five years covering almost 3,000 Major League Baseball games and interviewing about that many players, coaches, managers and executives.
In Is This a Great Game, or What?, Kurkjian combines his years of experience, uncanny knowledge and deep love of the game,...
Roger Maris
Baseball's Reluctant Hero
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Tom Clavin and Danny Peary chronicle the life and career of baseball’s “natural home run king” in the first definitive biography of Roger Maris—including a brand-new chapter to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his record breaking season.
Roger Maris may be the greatest ballplayer...
The Mental Game of Baseball
A Guide to Peak Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1989
Without a doubt the classic guide to mental performance enhancement for baseball. Here in the third edition, authors H.A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl present their practical and proven strategy for developing the mental skills needed to achieve peak performance at every level of the game. The theory and...
We Would Have Played for Nothing
Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Former Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent brings together a stellar roster of ballplayers from the 1950s and 1960s in this wonderful new history of the game. These were the decades when baseball expanded across the country and truly became the national pastime. The era opened, though,...
by Johnny Depot
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
This book is a complete system for wagering on Baseball. This system uses C.O.N.T.R.O.L., which is a complete selection and money management technique that can help the bettor make huge money. This is a follow up to the best selling "Betting under CONTROL - Baseball Underdogs" and includes...
The Unwritten Rules of Baseball
The Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
From beanballs to basebrawls, the most important rules governing the game of baseball have never been officially written down—until now.
They have no sanction from the Commissioner, appear nowhere in any official publication, and are generally not posted on any clubhouse wall. They represent...
The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers
An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and Pitches
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them -- these days it's the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a comprehensive source for such information. That's what preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer realized over...
Wizardry:Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed
Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The systematic analysis of baseball statistics, often called "sabermetrics," has evolved in recent years to resemble something of a science, attracting fans from diverse professional and educational backgrounds, all fascinated by the analysis itself and its insights into the game. But one...