Baseball category: 2631 books
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Greatest Baseball Players to Ever Play the Game: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria....
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Greatest Baseball Managers to Ever Coach: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating...
by Joe Pepitone
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
At age seventeen Joe Pepitone signed with the New York Yankees, and soon experts were predicting that he would be the team’s next superstar. He could run, throw, and field, and he had a sweet home run swing.
But during his twelve years in the major leagues Pepitone devoted most of his energy...
Hello, Friends!
Stories from My Life and Blue Jays Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
An honest memoir about life, family, and baseball from the longtime, legendary Toronto Blue Jays radio broadcaster
For 36 years, Jerry Howarth ushered in eternal hope each spring and thrived in the drive of each fall as the voice of the Toronto Blue Jays. In 1982, the lifelong avid sports fan...
Death Row All Stars
A Story of Baseball, Corruption, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
It was the golden age of baseball, and all over the country teams gathered on town fields in front of throngs of fans to compete for local glory. In Rawlins, Wyoming, residents lined up for tickets to see slugger Joseph Seng and the rest of the Wyoming Penitentiary Death Row All Stars as they took...
Base Ball Founders
The Clubs, Players and Cities of the Northeast That Established the Game
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base Ball Pioneers, 1850–1870 (McFarland 2011). Forty clubs and hundreds of pioneer players from the first hotbeds of New York City, Philadelphia, New Jersey,...
Rock Solid
My Life in Baseball's Fast Lane
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
For more than a decade, Tim Raines patrolled left field for the nascent Montreal Expos, igniting the powder keg of what would become one of the most innovative, entertaining, and talented teams of the modern era. Raines, nicknamed "Rock," hit and stole his way into the hearts of baseball...
Feeding the Green Monster
One Man's Season at Fenway Park
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Feeding the Green Monster is an invaluable and unique addition to baseball writing from one of its best informed columnists.
In the spring of 2000, baseball fanatic and ESPN.com columnist Rob Neyer set out to live every baseball fan's dream. He would spend the next six months attending every...
Lou
Fifty Years of Kicking Dirt, Playing Hard, and Winning Big in the Sweet Spot of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In this candid, revealing, and entertaining memoir, the beloved New York Yankee legend looks back over his nearly fifty-year career as a player and a manager, sharing insights and stories about some of his most memorable moments and some of the biggest names in Major League Baseball.
For nearly...
When the Red Sox Ruled
Baseball's First Dynasty, 1912-1918
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
In the years before the Curse of the Bambino descended on New England, the Boston Red Sox rode major league baseball like a colossus, capturing four World Series titles in seven seasons. Blessed with legendary players like Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, and Smokey Joe Wood, and a brand new,...
by Harvey Frommer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
During the more than one hundred years that baseball has been our national pastime, all types of individuals have been managers of teams. They have run the gamut from political appointees to tyrants, schemers, incompetents and geniuses. Legendary baseball stars have been managers such as Ty Cobb,...
A Summer to Remember
Bill Veeck, Lou Boudreau, Bob Feller, and the 1948 Cleveland Indians
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
While the Cleveland Indians are known lately more for being cellar dwellers than world champions, that wasn’t the case in 1948. Ranked by the Sporting News as the ninth-best team in baseball history, the ’48 Indians were a colorful group of guys, led by the always colorful Bill Veeck, the future...
Baseball's Funnymen
Twenty-Four Jokers, Screwballs, Pranksters and Storytellers
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
From Nick Altrock to Casey Stengel, Dizzy Dean to Satchel Paige, Bill Veeck to Bob Uecker, baseball has always admired the clever. This book tells the stories of some of the players, coaches, managers and broadcasters who had the most fun in the Major Leagues and made fans laugh out loud (or shake...
The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand!
The Game as Umpires See It
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
A fascinating and revealing look inside the lives of umpires, from the godfather of creative nonfiction
In 1974, Lee Gutkind walked into Shea Stadium, then home of the New York Mets, with an unusual proposal. He wanted to chronicle one of the least celebrated cadres in professional baseball:...