Baseball category: 2631 books
The Miracle Braves of 1914: Boston's Original Worst-to-First World Series Champions
SABR Digital Library, #18
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Long before the Red Sox "Impossible Dream" season, Boston's now nearly forgotten "other" team, the 1914 Boston Braves, performed a baseball "miracle" that resounds to this very day. The "Miracle Braves" were Boston's first "worst-to-first" winners...
Dick Bosman on Pitching
Lessons from the Life of a Major League Ballplayer and Pitching Coach
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Dick Bosman’s career in Major League Baseball as a player and coach has spanned more than 50 years. He pitched eleven seasons in the American League, was the Major League pitching coach for multiple teams, and has served as a minor league pitching coordinator for the Tampa Bay Rays since 2001. Throughout...
500 Great Boston Red Sox Quotes
A History of Baseball Quotations From Fenway Park's Finest
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
"Baseball got in me when I was little. It runs in my family, and it rubbed off on me. It's a disease." —Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, Red Sox pitcher (1982-1989)
Baseball is woven into the fabric of American life. For every New Englander, the Boston Red Sox are an institution: kids...
Brooklyn's Dodgers
The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947-1957
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 1997
During the 1952 World Series, a Yankee fan trying to watch the game in a Brooklyn bar was told, "Why don't you go back where you belong, Yankee lover?" "I got a right to cheer my team," the intruder responded, "this is a free country." "This ain't no free country, chum," countered the Dodger fan,...
2015 Baseball Forecaster
& Encyclopedia of Fanalytics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
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,...
by Andres Wirkmaa
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
With the aim of providing anyone interested in baseball scorekeeping everything he or she needs to perform the task, this book serves as a comprehensive manual on keeping a scorecard and analyzes each of the numerous, and often complex, official rules governing scorekeeping in baseball (many of which...
Spring 2016 Baseball Research Journal
SABR Digital Library, #45.1
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
The semi-annual interdisciplinary journal of research by members of the Society for American Baseball Research.
Moments of Joy and Heartbreak 66 Significant Episodes in the History of the Pittsburgh Pirates
SABR Digital Library, #46
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The Pittsburgh Pirates have a long history, peppered with
moments significant both to Pirates fans and Major League
Baseball. While the Pirates are recognized as fielding the first
all-black lineup in 1971, the 66 games in this book include one
of the first matchups in the majors to involve two non-white
opening...
Overcoming Adversity: Baseball's Tony Conigliaro Award
SABR Digital Library, #44
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
The Tony Conigliaro Award is given each year to the MLB player who "overcomes an obstacle and adversity through the attributes of spirit, determination, and courage that were trademarks of Tony Conigliaro." Conigliaro was hit in the face by a pitch in 1967. His injuries were so severe that...
The SABR Book of Umpires and Umpiring
SABR Digital Library, #46
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
A collaboration of 34 SABR members. This book includes biographies of all the umpires in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, other notable arbiters, essays about professional female umpires, umpiring in the Negro Leagues, explorations of the baseball rules, umpire equipment, and much...
The St. Paul Saints
Baseball in the Capital City
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
From Pig's Eye to a pig on the field, the long and rich legacy of the St. Paul Saints is central to the history of baseball in Minnesota. Celebrate the players, owners, managers, and fans— and the Saints' return to downtown St. Paul near the spot where the Olympic team first played in 1859.
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by Josh Pahigian
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Now in paperback! From sandlots and skyboxes to TV rooms and sports bars, America’s love for baseball has inspired too-numerous-to-count memories, discussions, and tributes. Josh Pahigian takes us on a road trip across America to honor the game’s players, fans, and ballparks. Through a series of...
Painting the Corners Again
Off-Center Baseball Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Painting the Corners Again is Bob Weintraub’s second marvelous collection of baseball stories. It goes directly to the core of what America’s pastime does for us when we watch it being played on the field. Weintraub shows us that baseball has its heroes and its villains, and that they can reach...
The Stars Are Back
The St. Louis Cardinals, the Boston Red Sox, and Player Unrest in 1946
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In 1946, as the aftershocks of World War II still trembled across the globe, America returned to its favorite pastime: baseball. In The Stars Are Back, Jerome M. Mileur offers a fascinating account of this storied season and of the backstage battle that would forever transform the game of professional...