Baseball category: 2631 books
Bigger Than the Game
Restitching a Major League Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
"The best writer in a baseball uniform." —Tyler Kepner, The New York Times
After nearly a decade in the minors, Dirk Hayhurst defied the odds to climb onto the pitcher's mound for the Toronto Blue Jays. Newly married, with a big league paycheck and a brand new house, Hayhurst was...
O, Gigantic Victory! + Orange Waves of Giants! Baseball Poems
The San Francisco Giants and the 2010 + 2012 World Championships
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
Every serious baseball fan, especially San Francisco Giants fans, should own these two books. Hermanos' poetry is sharp, and will make fans of a lot of people who have been turned off by the boring fluff that constitutes most of American poetry. Hermanos' poems are a fresh, exciting way to enjoy baseball....
The Pride of the Yankees
Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
"I CONSIDER MYSELF THE LUCKIEST MAN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH."
On July 4, 1939, baseball great Lou Gehrig delivered what has been called "baseball's Gettysburg Address" at Yankee Stadium and gave a speech that included the phrase that would become legendary. He died two...
Rube Foster in His Time
On the Field and in the Papers with Black Baseball's Greatest Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Although Andrew “Rube” Foster (1879–1930) stands among the best African American pitchers of the 1900s, this baseball pioneer made his name as the founder and president of the Negro National League, the first all-black league to survive a full season. In addition to founding this groundbreaking...
The Perfect Yankee
The Incredible Story of the Greatest Miracle in Baseball History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
It was one perfect moment, one singular feat unparalleled in the half a century of baseball that followed. It was Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. In an age when nobody spat in anyone’s face, strikes were called only on the field, and New York was baseball’s battlefield, Don Larsen pitched the...
Baseball in Pensacola
America's Pastime & the City of Five Flags
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The Western Gate to the Sunshine State boasts an epic history of hardball, dating back nearly to the beginning of the sport. Sunshine, loyal fans and pristine beaches have attracted baseball's best athletes to Pensacola--from stars like Babe Ruth and Ted Williams to the Blue Wahoos, modern-day affiliate...
Vindicated
Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In 2005, Jose Canseco blew the lid off Major League Baseball's steroid scandal -- and no one believed him. His New York Times bestselling memoir Juiced met a firestorm of criticism and outrage from the media, coaches, clubs, and players, many of whom Canseco had personally introduced to steroids --...
by Floyd Conner
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2002
Edd Roush was once ejected from a game for falling asleep in the outfield. Dan Friend played left field while dressed in a bathrobe. Outfielder Len Koenecke was killed attempting historys first skyjacking. Pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich swapped not only their wives but also their children,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Novelist W. P. Kinsella wrote that baseball is a game where little gems of wisdom or whimsy can be created in the dugout, the bullpen, or the press box during long, hot afternoons and evenings of baseball.” The Little Red Book of Baseball Wisdom unearths a treasury of quotes reflecting more than...
The Golden Game
The Story of California Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Golden Game presents in words and pictures 150 years of baseball history, from sandlot ball in the 1850s and the Pacific Coast League to the western arrival of the Dodgers, Giants, Angels, Athletics, and Padres. Here is a stirring, colorfully written narrative about the state that has been the...
The 34-Ton Bat
The Story of Baseball as Told Through Bobbleheads, Cracker Jacks, Jockstraps, Eye Black, and 375 Other Strange and Unforgettable Objects
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
An unorthodox history of baseball told through the enthralling stories of the game's objects, equipment, and characters.
No sport embraces its wild history quite like baseball, especially in memorabilia and objects. Sure, there are baseball cards and team pennants. But there are also huge balls,...
Rickey & Robinson
The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
In Rickey & Robinson, legendary sportswriter Roger Kahn at last reveals the true, unsanitized account of the integration of baseball, a story that for decades has relied on inaccurate, second-hand reports. This story contains exclusive reporting and personal reminiscences that no other writer...
The Great Baseball Revolt
The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a response to the National League’s salary cap and “reserve rule,” which bound players for life to one particular team. Led by John Montgomery Ward, the...
The Fenway Project
SABR Digital Library, #13
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
On June 28, 2002, more than six hundred members of the Society for American Baseball Research descended on Fenway Park for an interleague contest between the hometown Boston Red Sox and their National League rivals, the former Boston — now Atlanta — Braves, during SABR's 32nd national convention.
Sixty-four...