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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
The Detroit Tigers Reader celebrates the great moments and personalities of the city's rich baseball history.
The story of the Tigers---like the story of Detroit itself---is one of resilience and endurance. For baseball fans it's also an intensely personal one: Detroit Tigers baseball has flowed...
Change Up
An Oral History of 8 Key Events That Shaped Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Change Up is every fan's box-seat ticket to a remarkable baseball event: a round-table conversation among the participants themselves about pivotal developments that changed the game, from the 1960s to today. Here, through the eyes and words of star players like Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, and Ichiro...
by Michael Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Go deep inside the game with Seamheads.com founder and SABR stalwart Mike Lynch. Amazing stories about the players, managers, and owners that will educate and fascinate even the most ardent students of the game.From “cup of coffee” cases--some tragic, some incredible--to owners who make Marge...
Cleburne Baseball
A Railroader History
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Shortly after Cleburne landed the largest railroad shops west of the Mississippi, it set its sights on securing a professional baseball team. Against the odds, Cleburne became a Texas League town in 1906. After the first championship, the Railroaders loaded a train and left Cleburne. The town's professional...
Twilight of the Long-ball Gods
Dispatches from the Disappearing Heart of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A report from the true heart of baseball, this anthology leaves behind the bad boys and big names of the major leagues to take readers to the places where the spirit of America’s game resides. These are a veteran sportswriter’s dispatches from the bush leagues and the sandlot, his tributes to...
Baseball
Great Records, Weird Happenings, Odd Facts, Amazing Moments & Other Cool Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Jam-packed with cool baseball trivia, history-making records, unforgettable moments, and wacky true tales of your favorite games, players and events. This book hits a grand slam right out of the park!
A perfect gift for the die-hard fan of America's favorite pasttime. Baseball is rich in anecdotes...
by Roger P. Hadix
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
From Boulevard Park and Memorial Field to Security Service Field (formerly Sky Sox Stadium), Colorado Springs is a baseball town. Professional baseball arrived in 1901; the Brown Bombers, a semiprofessional black team, came in the 1940s; and the original Sky Sox won the Western League Championship in...
Amazin'
The Miraculous History of New York's Most Beloved Baseball Team
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
From Tom Seaver to Gary Carter, Ron Swoboda to Al Leiter, from the team's inception to the current day, the New York Mets' road to success has been a rutted and furrowed path. Now, with the help of New York Times bestselling author Peter Golenbock, the complete story of one of the most controversial...
by Tucker Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Think you know everything about our National Pastime? Think again! It's time to find out how much trivia you really know about Major League Baseball.
Are you a rookie? Are you a tested, hardcore veteran? Or will you be clearing waivers for your pending release halfway through the book? We'll...
Inventing Baseball
The 100 Greatest Games of the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A project of SABR's Nineteenth Century Committee, INVENTING BASEBALL brings to life the greatest games to be played in the game's early years, starting with a game in 1833. From the "prisoner of war" game that took place among captive Union soldiers during the Civil War (immortalized in...
by Maury Allen, Bruce Markusen
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
No two phrases in American baseball go together better than World Series Champions” and New York Yankees.” The most iconic franchise in American sports, the Yankees have taken home 27 World Series titles. Out of the thousands of games and millions of memories that have come to define this...
Baseball's Game Changers
Icons, Record Breakers, Scandals, Sensational Series, and More
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The first book in the new Lyons Press GAME CHANGERS sports series answers the questions: What were the 50 most revolutionary personalities, rules, pieces of equipment, controversies, organizational changes, radio and television advancements, and more in the history National Pastime? And how, exactly,...
by Dale Tafoya; Fay Vincent
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Mark McGwire and Jose Cansecothe Bash Brothersushered in a new era of muscle-bound power hitters in baseball in the late 1980s. Suddenly balls were flying out of the parks like never before, and the rest of baseball stood up, took notice, and followed suit. Baseballs bodybuilding revolution, with its...
The Knuckleball Club
The Extraordinary Men Who Mastered Baseball's Most Difficult Pitch
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
The knuckleball—so difficult to hit but also difficult to control and catch—has been a part of major league baseball since the early 1900s and continues to be used to this day. This remarkable and unusual pitch is the instrument of a special breed of pitcher, a determined athlete possessing tremendous...