Baseball category: 2631 books
3 Nights in August
Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
This inside view with the Cardinals’ Tony La Russa by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Friday Night Lights “should appeal to any baseball fan” (Publishers Weekly).
A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
“Plenty of books have taken us inside baseball, but August takes...
by Brent Mayne
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
An aspiring baseball catcher could do himself no greater favor than acquiring this manual. Whereas the techniques of hitting, pitching, and other baseball positions are well covered by valuable instruction books, the techniques of catching arguably the most difficult and most crucial position of all...
by Jeffrey Ourvan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Coaching youth baseball is tough. Not only do coaches have to teach kids the fundamental skills of the game, they also have to know how to select a team, how to run efficient practices, and how to deal with parents and umpires. Furthermore, they have to make sure the game is fun for all the kids on...
The Gashouse Gang
How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, and Their Colorful, Come-from-Behind Ball Club Won the World Series-and Americas Heart-During the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
With The Gashouse Gang, John Heidenry delivers the definitive account of one the greatest and most colorful baseball teams of all times, the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals, filled with larger-than-life baseball personalities like Branch Rickey, Leo Durocher, Pepper Martin, Casey Stengel, Satchel Paige,...
The Battle that Forged Modern Baseball
The Federal League Challenge and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
In late 1913 the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues. Backed by some of America’s wealthiest merchants and industrialists, the new organization posed a real challenge to baseball’s prevailing structure. For...
by Roger Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
For one full baseball season in 1976, Roger Kahn returned to his favorite sport to see how it was doing, talk to some of its practitioners and veterans, and try to find out whether it still the same old magic. His search led him from small college teams in rural Arkansas, whose every member hopes to...
God's Lineup
Testimonies of Major League Baseball Players
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
God’s Lineup is a collection of testimonies from Major League baseball players and how Christ has impacted their lives on and off the field. There are trying times in the sport of baseball and among Christians. This book is a breath of fresh air for both baseball fans and Christians. It illustrates...
Outsider Baseball
The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 18761950
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
With new research and revelations that will surprise even the most ardent baseball history buffs, this engaging account tells the story of the mostly forgotten world of the mercenaries, scalawags, and outcasts who made up the independent professional ball clubs. Combining meticulous research with...
Life Is Yours to Win
Lessons Forged from the Purpose, Passion, and Magic of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
PRACTICE PERFECT,PLAY FOR FUN
August “Augie” Garrido has led his baseball teams to more victories than any coach in any sport in NCAA Division I history. He is also the winner of more National Coach of the Year awards than any other college coach. Garrido’s former teams at Cal State Fullerton...
The Rotation
A Season with the Phillies and the Greatest Pitching Staff Ever Assembled
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Not since 1957 has one major league team's pitching staff boasted three pitchers (Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, and Roy Oswalt) in the Top Ten in career winning-percentage. Plus, the Philadelphia Phillies' 2011 rotation also happens to include Cole Hamels-the 2008 NLCS and World Series MVP-and an alternating...
by Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
An intriguing collection of the characters, teams, history, philosophy, stadiums, equipment, best books, best movies and dumbest ideas of baseball.
Why is baseball such a great subject for a Bathroom Reader? Because it’s steeped in history and tradition, it’s rife with scandals and controversy,...
Baseball Gold
Mining Nuggets from Our National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Even the most ardent baseball fan will be amazed at the quirks, quips, and comments in Baseball Gold. Consisting entirely of bits and pieces of baseball’s offbeat history, this volume covers teams and a myriad of players, owners, managers, and broadcasters—from their exploits on the field to those...
Home Game
Big-League Stories from My Life in Baseball's First Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
From the first third-generation player in Major League history, a sometimes moving, always candid inside look at his family’s seventy years in baseball
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A five-foot-ten fireball questioned by scouts because of his small stature, supposed lack of power, and cocky attitude, Bret Boone didn’t...
The Jerome Holtzman Baseball Reader
A Treasury of Award-Winning Writing from the Official Historian of Major League Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Jerome Holtzman has covered the sport of baseball for the Chicago Daily Times, Chicago Sun-Times, and Chicago Tribune since the mid 1940s, now his thoughts and best columns are collected together in one edition as an official history of Major League Baseball.