Baseball category: 2631 books
by Jeremy Deloney, Rob Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The first book of its kind to fully integrate sabermetrics and scouting, the 2019 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...
The Theater of the Impossible
Baseball as a Free Enterprise Pastime and a Protestant Miracle Play
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2002
Mark Twain called baseball "the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteeth-century". This book searches the concrete actions typical of baseball games for the meaning of what they represent. For example,...
Breaking Babe Ruth
Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball’s draconian labor system. To the baseball establishment, Ruth’s immense popularity represented opportunity, but his rebelliousness...
by Damon Gulczynski
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Damon J. Gulczynksi, Ph.D. has been a baseball fan since 1984, and he has been using people's names since even before that. In "Urban Shocker All-Stars," he shepherds the reader through the definitive list of the 100 greatest baseball names ever. From the dawn of the sport to modern times, Gulczynski's...
Great American Baseball Stories
Lyons Press Classics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Before multimillion-dollar salaries, luxury boxes, and player strikes became synonymous with professional sports, there existed the belief in playing simply "for the love of the game." Nothing captures that spirit better than these twenty classic pieces about America's favorite pastime.
Collected...
The Call-Up 2012 (CUSTOM)
The Essential Guide to the Rest of the 2012 Baseball Season
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Like the bestselling Baseball Prospectus annual, this midseason debut provides the latest scoops and analysis to help super-fans follow their favorite teams, and fantasy players win their leagues. July and August is when the smartest teams pull off the big trades or see big contributions from previously...
Unwritten
Bat Flips, the Fun Police, and Baseball's New Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Don't bunt in a blowout. Don't pimp your home runs. Act like you've been here before. In Unwritten: Bat Flips, the Fun Police, and Baseball's New Future, national baseball writer Danny Knobler dives deep beyond the brushbacks and brawls to examine shifting attitudes towards Major League Baseball's...
An October to Remember 1968
The Tigers-Cardinals World Series as Told by the Men Who Played in It
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
An October to Remember 1968: The Tigers-Cardinals World Series as Told by the Men Who Played in It recalls one of baseball's most celebrated championship series from the voices of the players who still remain--a collected narrative from a bygone era of major-league baseball as they reflect fifty years...
Waiting for a Sign
Highlights and Inside Stories From a Lifetime of Collecting Baseball Autographs
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
If you were a baseball fan in the 60’s and 70’s—or a lover of baseball history—then Waiting for a Sign will be a page-turner you can’t put down. Kevin Keating spent his youth collecting autographs from some of the biggest stars baseball has ever produced. And along the way, he befriended...
Shortstop … or Bust!
The Traveling Tales of Youth Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Under the attentive guidance of a volunteer manager passionate about baseball, a group of boys assembled as the B team to play travel baseball for their town team. In Shortstop or Bust!, author Linda Padilla-Diaz shares a compilation of stories covering the journey through the five years her two sons...
The Four Home Runs Club
Sluggers Who Achieved Baseball's Rarest Feat
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
In all of baseball, one record shines as perhaps the most coveted: four home runs by one player in a single game. If the pinnacle of pitching is the perfect game, then the highpoint of hitting is four home runs, and only eighteen players in the history of the sport can boast this accomplishment.
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by Joe Torre, Tom Verducci
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
The definitive story of one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, Joe Torre's New York Yankees.
When Joe Torre took over as manager of the Yankees in 1996, they had not won a World Series title in eighteen years. In that time seventeen others had tried to take the helm of America’s...
by Mariano Rivera
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story of survival, love, and baseball.
Mariano Rivera, the man who intimidated thousands of batters merely by opening a bullpen door, began his incredible journey as the son of a poor Panamanian fisherman. When first scouted by...
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Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself.
Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his...