Baseball category: 2631 books
Spalding's World Tour
The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe - And Made it America's Game
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
In October of 1888, Albert Goodwill Spalding-baseball star, sporting-goods magnate, promotional genius, serial fabulist-departed Chicago on a trip that would take him and two baseball teams on a journey clear around the globe. Their mission, closely followed in the American and international press,...
by Mike Podhorzer
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
In Projecting X: How to Forecast Baseball Player Performance, FanGraphs expert Mike Podhorzer takes you on a journey through the process of projecting baseball player performance. As he walks you through an assortment of both basic and advanced metrics, citing various pieces of relevant research along...
by Jim Worsley
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
The1960s is a decade that has stood the test of time. It has been remembered, talked about, embraced, and encapsulated more, by far, than any other decade before or since. The times were a-changin’ in the 1960s and there was much going on. This included the Vietnam War, the British Invasion, the Space...
The Knucklebook
Everything You Need to Know About Baseball's Strangest Pitch—the Knuckleball
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
This little book will teach you all you need to know about the most frustrating yet entertaining pitch in baseball: the knuckleball. It makes batters look foolish when it works; it embarrasses pitchers when it doesn't...or if it works too well. It humiliates catchers and umpires. It confounds spectators....
California: The Baseball Capital of the World
From the Majors, College, High School and More, the State Has No Equal
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Is there a better place in the world for baseball than California? This look at the sport from the major leagues down through the colleges, high schools and even Little League argues that there may not be anywhere as strong. With an emphasis on the many great baseball players from California high schools,...
Frank Robinson
A Baseball Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Frank Robinson was one of the greatest baseball players of the 20th century. He was Rookie of the Year for the Cincinnati Reds in 1956, won the Triple Crown in 1966, led the Baltimore Orioles to four World Series appearances, and is the only player in baseball history to be voted Most Valuable Player...
Ballpark
Baseball in the American City
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic.
From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union...
Japanese American Baseball in California
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Four generations of Japanese Americans broke down racial and cultural barriers in California by playing baseball. Behind the barbed wire of concentration camps during World War II, baseball became a tonic of spiritual renewal for disenfranchised Japanese Americans who played America's pastime while illegally...
At the Old Ballgame
Stories from Baseball's Golden Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
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...
National Pastime
U.S. History Through Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
From its modest beginnings in rural America to its current status as an entertainment industry in postindustrial America enjoyed worldwide by millions each season, the linkages between baseball’s evolution and our nation’s history are undeniable. Through war, depression, times of tumultuous upheaval...
The Negro Leagues
Celebrating Baseball's Unsung Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
When modern baseball fans think of African American players, they may think of Ken Griffey Jr. or Derek Jeter. But what about the black stars who didn't play Major League Baseball? In the early 1900s, black players were not allowed in the Major Leagues. The Negro Leagues provided an alternative for...
Baseball in the Lone Star State
The Texas League's Greatest Hits
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
In short episodic chapters, Kayser and King create a history of this storied minor league, providing a broad picture of the shifting character of baseball operations over the past century or so. Portrayed are the many and varied and often colorful owners, managers, and players who did so much to give...
Iowa Baseball Greats
Sixteen Major Leaguers Who Were in the Game for Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
In the world of sports, Iowa is probably best known for wrestling but the state has also produced more than 200 major league baseball players. Sixteen of them are profiled here, including six Hall of Famers, the game’s brightest star of the 19th century, an American League batting champion, the...
Baseball Meets the Law
A Chronology of Decisions, Statutes and Other Legal Events
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Baseball and law have intersected since the primordial days. In 1791, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance prohibited ball playing near the town’s meeting house. Ball games on Sundays were barred by a Pennsylvania statute in 1794. In 2015, a federal court held that baseball’s exemption from...