Baseball category: 2631 books
This Side of Cooperstown
An Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Enshrinement in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, is the ultimate honor for any major leaguer. This rousing, you-are-there history tells the story of seventeen legendary players who came up just short of Cooperstown: Virgil Trucks, Gene Woodling, Carl Erskine, Frank Thomas,...
Reporting Baseball's Sensational Season of 1890
The Brotherhood War and the Rise of Modern Sports Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
When the members of the first baseball players’ union formed their own league in open revolt against the reserve clause and other restrictive practices of the National League, baseball journalism became less of a “curiosity shop” phenomenon and moved into the mainstream. Baseball writers Henry...
Research Notes for Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball
Maud Nelson, Margaret Nabel
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2010
Research Notes for Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball is a chronological collection of public domain newspaper articles - research information on which Barbara Gregorich's book detailing the history of women in hardball, 1893 to 1993, was based. The reprints and notes are arranged...
2017 Baseball Forecaster
& Encyclopedia of Fanalytics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, the 2017 Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts. Rather than predicting batting average, for instance,...
2014 Baseball Forecaster
And Encyclopedia of Fanalytics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, the 2014 Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts. Rather than predicting batting average, for instance,...
The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals: The World Champion Gas House Gang
SABR Digital Library, #20
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals were one of the most colorful crews ever to play the National Pastime. Sportswriters delighted in assigning nicknames to the players, based on their real or imagined qualities. What a cast of characters it was! None was more picturesque than Pepper Martin, the "Wild...
by A.M. de Quesada
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2000
Tampa Bay�s interest in baseball spans from the sport�s earliest days to the region�s win of a national league franchise in the last decade of the 20th century. Hosting more major league spring training games than any other region inthe United States, Tampa has been home to a number of springtraining...
by Mark LaFlamme
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
In the future, baseball will have its heroes. But where men compete, there will always be those who cheat at the game. And when history judges them, their names will be marked by the baseball equivalent of a scarlet letter. Their names will be marked with an asterisk.
In the year 2086, the...
Finding the Hidden Ball Trick
The Colorful History of Baseball's Oldest Ruse
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
The dying art of the hidden-ball trick dates back to the early days of pro baseball, with seven successful executions documented in 1876 alone. This ruse occurs when a baseman conceals the ball instead of returning it to the pitcher. When the runner steps off the base, he is summarily tagged out with...
Baseball Italian Style
Great Stories Told by Italian American Major Leaguers from Crosetti to Piazza
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Baseball Italian Style brings together the memories of major leaguers of Italian heritage whose collective careers span almost a century, from the 1930s up to today. In these first-person accounts, baseball fans will meet at an intimate level the players they cheered as heroes or jeered as adversaries,...
Research Notes for Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball
Maud Nelson, The Philadelphia Bobbies, Leona Kearns, Margaret Gisolo, Nellie Kearns
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Research Notes for Women at Play, Volume 3 is the final volume in Barbara Gregorich’s Research Notesseries — a collection of newspaper articles, interviews, and public records that served as the raw materials from which she wrote her award-winning book, Women at Play: The Story...
Baseball in Territorial Arizona
A History, 1863-1912
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
The Arizona Territory is known for saloons, gunfights, outlaws and strong women. But the history of baseball in Arizona is long forgotten. The national pastime came first to the territory’s many military posts and soon gained a foothold in early towns such as Tucson, Prescott, Tombstone and Phoenix....
by Jeremy Deloney, Rob Gordon, Brent Hershey
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The first book of its kind to fully integrate sabermetrics and scouting, the 2017 Minor League Baseball Analyst provides a distinctive brand of analysis for more than 1,000 minor league baseball players. Features include scouting reports for all players, batter skills ratings, pitch repertoires, performance...
by Ron Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Propounding his “small ball theory” of sports literature, George Plimpton proposed that “the smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature.” Of course he had the relatively small baseball in mind, because its literature is formidable—vast and varied, instructive, often wildly entertaining,...