Baseball category: 2631 books
by Dan Gutman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
With more than 2 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures bring the greatest players in history to life!
Like every other kid in his class, Joe Stoshack has to write a report on an African American who's made an important contribution to society. Unlike every other kid in his class,...
Incredible Baseball Stories
Tales from the Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
An incomparable collection of true-life tales from the rich history of America’s pastime.
Spanning more than a hundred years, and featuring some of the game’s iconic stars, the stories in this one-of-a-kind book bring the legends of the baseball diamond to life once more. Fans of all ages...
Scandal on the South Side: The 1919 Chicago White Sox
SABR Digital Library, #28
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The Black Sox Scandal is a cold case, not a closed case.
When Eliot Asinof wrote his classic history about the fixing of the 1919 World Series, Eight Men Out, he told a dramatic story of undereducated and underpaid Chicago White Sox ballplayers, disgruntled by their low pay and poor treatment...
Big League Dreams
Baseball Hall of Fame's first African-Canadian, Fergie Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This is a history of black major league baseball players and the crumbling of the colour barrier in sport, and the story of how Fergie Jenkins rose to the top to become Canada's first inductee into the American Baseball Hall of Fame.
Fergie Jenkins grew up in the era when Jackie Robinson became...
The Baseball Economist
The Real Game Exposed
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Freakonomics meets Moneyball in this provocative exposé of baseball’s most fiercely debated controversies and some of its oldest, most dearly held myths.
Providing far more than a mere collection of numbers, economics professor and popular blogger J.C. Bradbury shines the light of his economic...
The Cardinals Way
How One Team Embraced Tradition and Moneyball at the Same Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
The St. Louis Cardinals have experienced the kind of success that is rare in baseball. Regarded by many as the premier organization in Major League Baseball, they not only win, but do so with an apparently bottomless pool of talent, one that is mostly homegrown.
Despite years of phenomenal...
by Tania Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Robinson Canó has had an amazing life in baseball. He's won the World Series. He's played in All-Star Games, won awards, and made millions of dollars. He's played for one of baseball's most popular teams, the New York Yankees. He's even won the Home Run Derby. Read how Canó learned to love baseball...
Cracking Baseball's Cold Cases
Filling in the Facts About 17 Mystery Major Leaguers
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
This book is the result of one man's twenty-year quest to solve some of baseball's most enduring mysteries--the "cold cases" of major leaguers about whom virtually nothing is known. (In many instances, the various baseball encyclopedias list only their names and one other word: "deceased.")...
The Shutout in Major League Baseball
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The shutout—a game in which a team prevents its opponent from scoring—remains relatively rare. Of the roughly 200,000 regular season games that have been played since the origins of the major leagues, only about 10 percent have been shutouts. Gold Glove defense, astonishing pitching talent, and...
League Park
Historic Home of Cleveland Baseball, 1891-1946
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This is a comprehensive history of League Park, primary home field for Major League Baseball in Cleveland from 1891 to 1946, but with a significant history that includes the National Football League, Negro League baseball, college football and boxing, and an uncanny multitude of amazing events and...
Honus Wagner
The Life of Baseball's "Flying Dutchman"
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
Regarded by many of his contemporaries as the greatest baseball player of all time, John Peter "Honus" Wagner enjoyed a remarkable career with the Pittsburgh Pirates. His record of 17 consecutive .300-plus seasons is a mark that will probably never be broken. He led the National League eight...
by Jerrold I. Casway
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Evolving in an urban landscape, professional baseball attracted a dedicated fan base among the inhabitants of major cities, including ethnic and racial minorities, for whom the game was a vehicle for assimilation. But to what extent were these groups welcomed within the world of baseball, and what...
I'm Just Getting Started
Baseball's Best Storyteller on Old School Baseball, Defying the Odds, and Good Cigars
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Jack McKeon, who in 2003 became the oldest manager to ever lead a team to the World Series championship, proved that old doesn't mean you're over, and these stories offer a look into his storied career, from baseball's forgotten fields to the World Series. In his 55-year career in professional baseball,...
Willie Keeler
From the Playgrounds of Brooklyn to the Hall of Fame
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Playing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Willie Keeler is still considered one of baseball’s most accomplished batters in the history of the game. Wee Willie’s popular “Hit ‘em where they ain’t” explanation for his batting success has become part of baseball lore....