Baseball category: 2631 books
Baseball in Altoona
From the Mountain City to the Curve
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
For 46 days in the spring of 1884, Altoona had the honor of having a major-league baseball team, the Mountain City. For the next 115 years, despite the fact that baseball flourished here in the form of the game that the men of the Pennsylvania Railroad played, professional baseball floundered as six...
Baseball Dads
The Game's Greatest Players Reflect on Their Fathers and the Game They Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Baseball Dads is a heartwarming collection of notable major league players’ favorite baseball-related memories about how their relationships with their fathers shaped them, not only as players, but as the men they are today. From superstars like David Wright, Josh Hamilton, CC Sabathia, Adrian Gonzalez,...
The Black Press and Black Baseball, 1915-1955
A Devil’s Bargain
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book brings into dramatic relief the dilemma, or devil's bargain, that faced the black press in first building up black baseball, then crusading for the sport's integration and, as a result of that largely successful campaign, ultimately encouraging and even ensuring the demise of those same...
Unbreakable
The 25 Most Unapproachable Records in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Unbreakable gives fans the fascinating stories behind incredible records and the players who made them and provides a basis for comparing players of the Deadball era with those of today. Most importantly, it gives the true baseball fan quantitative objective data to bring to arguments about players...
by Marty Schupak
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Marty Schupak has coached youth sports for over twenty years. He has run over 2,000 youth practices. In this interactive ebook, coach Marty Schupak shares his 21 years coaching Little League baseball. From picking teams to dealing with parents, this book covers just about everything a coach or parent...
Knack Coaching Youth Baseball
Tips on Building a Winning Team
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
After years of watching, reporting on, and photographing pro baseball, Kevin T. Czerwinski and Beth Balbierz began coaching Little League in their respective home towns. In Knack Coaching Youth Baseball, this expert team combine real-life know-how about how to deal with kids with the best lessons...
by Daniel R. Grimes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Ten-Cent Beer Night in Cleveland on June 4, 1974, was a promotion — at a Cleveland Indians vs. Texas Rangers game — that led to the biggest riot by spectators in the history of sporting events in North America. The 1974 baseball season was significant for many other events as well. In that year,...
by Gary Herron
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Albuquerque, New Mexico, is more than a refueling place for motorists on I-40. Professional baseball has been played here for more than 70 years, and fans have had the opportunity to see future Dodgers stars like Don Sutton, Ron Cey, Steve Garvey, Orel Hershiser, Eric Karros, and Mike Piazza hone their...
The Beauty of Short Hops
How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Sabermetrics, the search for objective knowledge about baseball through statistical analysis, has taken over the national pastime. The authors argue that this approach began as a useful corrective but has come to harm baseball. The book demonstrates that the so-called moneyball approach, based on...
by Linda Sue Park
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Both Maggie Fortini and her brother, Joey-Mick, were named for baseball great Joe DiMaggio. Unlike Joey-Mick, Maggie doesn’t play baseball—but at almost ten years old, she is a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Maggie can recite all the players’ statistics and understands the subtleties...
Tales from the Dodgers Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Dodgers Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
To baseball fans of today, the name Dodgers” is synonymous with Hollywood, the warm California sun, and names like Tommy Lasorda, Kirk Gibson, Steve Garvey, and Orel Hershiser. The Dodgers mean much more than that to fans of baseball history, however. Namely, these fans remember the famed Boys...
The Funniest Man in Baseball
The True Story of Max Patkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A hilarious picture book biography about Max Patkin, a professional ballplayer turned legendary baseball clown, from the author of the acclaimed Brothers at Bat and other baseball nonfiction.
Max Patkin was pitching in the minor leagues when he was injured and had to leave his dreams behind....
Out at Home
A Choose Your Path Baseball Book
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
You may have read sports books before, but you’ve never read one like this. You’re the main character, and life’s not easy. You’ve been in and out of foster care for much of your life. At least you have baseball. It’s the one thing that keeps you in school and out of trouble. But will you...
by David A. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
It’s the BIGGEST baseball mystery yet—at the WORLD SERIES!
Red Sox versus Cubs. Game five. It looks like Mike and Kate are about to watch the Cubs win it all. But then someone starts messing with the team—ruining equipment, getting Cubs players in trouble, and even stirring up an old...