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Baseball's No-Hit Wonders

More Than a Century of Pitching's Greatest Feats

by Dirk Lammers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016

Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders honors such legendary pitchers as Cy Young, Bob Feller, Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax, while introducing readers to other eccentrics and one-shot wonders who have thrown no-hitters. The book, the first of its kind in more than fifteen years, fleshes out the colorful characters,...

A Game of Brawl

The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant

by Bill Felber
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

Not only was it probably the most cutthroat pennant race in baseball history; it was also a struggle to define how baseball would be played. This book re-creates the rowdy, season-long 1897 battle between the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Beaneaters. The Orioles had acquired a reputation as the...

Black Baseball in New York City

An Illustrated History, 1885-1959

by Larry Lester
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017

Covering the post–Civil War period through the 1950s, this richly illustrated—300 photographs!—history examines black baseball in and around New York City, focusing on its economic impact and cultural legacy. The author documents such famed teams as the Cuban Giants, Lincoln Stars/Giants, Black...

The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960

by Leslie A. Heaphy
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015

At his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, former Negro League player Buck Leonard said, “Now, we in the Negro Leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing.... We loved the game.... But we thought that we should have and could have made the major...

Ed Bolden and Black Baseball in Philadelphia

by Courtney Michelle Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017

For nearly 40 years, Ed Bolden dominated black baseball in Philadelphia. He owned two teams, the Darby-based Hilldale Club and the Philadelphia Stars, and briefly led the Eastern Colored League, which he founded. Winner of two championships—one with each team—he experienced the highs and lows...

Winning in Both Leagues

Reflections from Baseball's Front Office

by J. Frank Cashen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

In Winning in Both Leagues J. Frank Cashen looks back over his twenty-five-year career in baseball. Best known as the general manager of the New York Mets during their remaking and rise to glory in the 1980s, Cashen fills the pages with lively stories from his baseball tenure during the last half...

Matty: An American Hero

Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants

by Ray Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 1994

When all-time pitching great Christy Mathewson died of tuberculosis in 1925 at the age of 45, it touched off a wave of national mourning that remains without precedent for an American athlete. The World Series was underway, and the game the day after Mathewson's death took on the trappings of a state...

The Boyer Brothers of Baseball

by Lew Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015

This the story of the seven baseball-playing Boyer brothers from western Missouri who signed professional contracts in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Led by oldest brother Cloyd, a pitcher, third baseman Ken and third baseman Clete, three of the seven brothers reached the majors. This book recounts their...

High Scoring Baseball

by Todd L. Guilliams
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

What is the definition of a high-scoring offense? How do you measure a player’s offensive productivity? How do you keep your team on track throughout the course of a long season? High-Scoring Baseball is the definitive guide for establishing an aggressive, opportunistic, and disciplined offense....

Sweet Spot

125 Years of Baseball and the Louisville Slugger

by David Magee, Philip Shirley
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009

Away from the game and the players for which it was crafted, the baseball bat is a sleek but humble creation. Yet in the hands of batters both young and old who have been stepping to the plate on diamonds around the world for more than a century, the bat is a powerful tool, capable of yielding lasting...

I Am #8: Roberto Clemente

by Jim Gigliotti
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013

I was a baseball hero and an inspiring humanitarian. I am Roberto Clemente. A unique hero, Roberto Clemente is not only famous for his impressive baseball career, but also for his generous humanitarian efforts. Nearly 40 years ago, the same year he swung his 3,000th major league baseball hit, he died...

Alfonso Soriano

by Tania Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014

Alfonso Soriano has had a great career in baseball. He has won two World Series and played in the All-Star Game seven times. He's even part of the 40-40 club for hitting 40 home runs and stealing 40 bases in one season. Not many baseball players can say they've done the things that Soriano has! Learn...

Miracle Mud

Lena Blackburne and the Secret Mud That Changed Baseball

by David A. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

Lena Blackburne loved baseball. He watched it, he played it, he coached it. But he didn't love the ways players broke in new baseballs. Tired of soggy, blackened, stinky baseballs, he found a better way. Thanks to a well-timed fishing trip and a top-secret mud recipe, Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing...

Thrown a Curve

by Sara Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007

She's never known her mother. Her father seems to hate her. She has only one true friend, who's a boy. A mediocre student and a social misfit, she's downright miserable.This is the life of Taylor Dresden, a freshman in a gritty New Jersey high school. The only pleasure she's ever had was playing baseball....