Baseball category: 2631 books
Old Time Baseball
America's Pastime in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball. Starting with its invention in 1842 by the descendant of a British sea captain (and not Abner Doubleday), Frommer traces the development of the sport from the first games on a...
Marietta College Baseball
The Story of the 'Etta Express
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
Nestled at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers in the first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory resides one of the most dominant college baseball dynasties in the nation. The Marietta College Pioneers�known as the �Etta Express for the way they�ve barreled over opponents...
by James Rada Jr
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
"Babe" Ruth was a baseball legend. You can find out why in "When the Babe Came to Town." This book shows how the Babe connected with the fans through his many exhibition and barnstorming games."When the Babe Came to Town" is a collection of some of these stories highlighting...
by Mick Cochrane
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
For an eighth grader, Molly Williams has more than her fair share of problems. Her father has just died in a car accident, and her mother has become a withdrawn, quiet version of herself.
Molly doesn’t want to be seen as “Miss Difficulty Overcome”; she wants to make herself known to the...
by Christy Mathewson, Cap Anson, John Montgomery Ward
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
This volume, formatted to current ebook standards and with an active table of contents, contains three complete books that provide an inside view of early baseball. Two of the authors are members of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Works included are: “Pitching in a Pinch,” by Christy...
The Greatest Game
The Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Playoff of '78
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
In this spellbinding book, Richard Bradley tells the story of what was surely the greatest major league game of our lifetime and perhaps in the history of professional baseball. That game, played at Fenway Park on the afternoon of October 4, 1978, was the culmination of one of the most tense, emotionally...
New York Times Story of the Yankees
382 Articles, Profiles and Essays from 1903 to Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Experience a century of the pride, power, and pinstripes of the Yankees, Major League Baseball's most successful team, as told through the stories of their hometown newspaper, The New York Times.
The New York Yankees are the most storied franchise in baseball history. They consistently draw...
A Nice Little Place on the North Side
A History of Triumph, Mostly Defeat, and Incurable Hope at Wrigley Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
**Now with bonus material on the Chicago Cubs' World Series win, the New York Times-bestselling history of America's most beloved baseball stadium, Wrigley Field, and the Cubs’ century-long search for World Series glory
In A Nice Little Place on the North Side, leading columnist George Will...
Baseball on the Brink
The Crisis of 1968
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Major League Baseball was in crisis in 1968. The commissioner was inept, professional football was challenging the sport’s popularity and the game on the field was boring, with pitchers dominating hitters in a succession of dull, low-scoring games. The major league expanded for the 1969 season but...
Old Time Baseball
America's Pastime in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball. Starting with its invention in 1842 by the descendant of a British sea captain (and not Abner Doubleday), Frommer traces the development of the sport from the first games on a...
Pittsburgh Cocaine Seven
How a Ragtag Group of Fans Took the Fall for Major League Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Eerily prescient of times to come, this exposé examines drug use in Major League Baseball (MLB) during the mid-1980s and one of the biggest drug trials in baseball history. Through a series of exclusive interviews with FBI agents, U.S. attorneys, defense lawyers, journalists, former baseball executives,...
The Ticket Out
Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The year was 1979 and the fifteen teenagers on the Crenshaw High Cougars were the most talented team in the history of high school baseball. They were pure ballplayers, sluggers and sweet fielders who played with unbridled joy and breathtaking skill.
The national press converged on Crenshaw....
The Baby Bombers
The Inside Story of the Next Yankees Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Now updated to include the Yankees’ 100-win 2018 season! The meteoric rise of the new generation of superstar Yankees, including Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez, Giancarlo Stanton, Gleyber Torres, and Luis Severino—from the “inside baseball” strategy in assembling the roster, their fascinating paths...
I Don't Care if We Never Get Back
30 Games in 30 Days on the Best Worst Baseball Road Trip Ever
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Two friends take a wild month-long road trip to hit every Major League Baseball stadium in America: “A fun ride” (The Boston Globe).
Ben, a sports analytics wizard, loves baseball. Eric, his best friend, hates it. But when Ben writes an algorithm for the optimal baseball road trip, an impossible...