Baseball category: 2631 books
When Baseball Met Big Bill Haywood
The Battle for Manchester, New Hampshire, 1912-1916
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
In the early 20th century, immigration, labor unrest, social reforms and government regulations threatened the power of the country’s largest employers. The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New Hampshire, remained successful by controlling its workforce, the local media, and local and...
Going, Going, Gone!
The Art of the Trade in Major League Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Early in the history of America's favorite pastime, trading baseball players was almost as easy as trading baseball cards. This was before the end of the reserve clause and the advent of arbitration, free agency, gargantuan salaries, and no-trade contracts. Fran Zimniuch takes an in-depth look at...
Tumultuous Times in America's Game
From Jackie Robinson's Breakthrough to the War over Free Agency
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
In Tumultuous Times in America’s Game: From Jackie Robinson's Breakthrough to the War over Free Agency, Bryan Soderholm-Difatte provides a comprehensive examination of major developments and key figures in Major League Baseball from the integration of Jackie Robinson in 1947 to the owners-instigated...
Baseball in Alabama
Tales of Hardball in the Heart of Dixie
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Although football may first spring to mind when talking about sports in Alabama, the state has certainly made its mark with the national pastime. Thirteen players with Alabama roots are enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, including all-time greats like Hank Aaron, Ozzie Smith and Satchel...
The Hit Men and the Kid Who Batted Ninth
Biggio, Valentin, Vaughn & Robinson: Together Again in the Big Leagues
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Each played baseball as kids. They all played together on a college baseball juggernaut at Seton Hall. All of them wanted to make baseball their life. The Hit Men and the Kid Who Batted Ninth traces the baseball lives of Craig Biggio, Mo Vaughn, John Valentin, and Marteese Robinson—from the playgrounds...
by Phil Pepe
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
A collection of quotes, anecdotes, and malaprops from one of baseball’s wisest and wittiest personalities.
New York Times–bestselling author Phil Pepe takes readers along on Yogi Berra’s journey from St. Louis to New York’s Yankee Stadium, including all the stops along the way—from...
Francona
The Red Sox Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
From 2004 to 2011, Terry Francona managed the Boston Red Sox, perhaps the most scrutinized team in all of sports. During that time, every home game was a sellout. Every play, call, word, gesture—on the field and off—was analyzed by thousands. And every decision was either genius, or disastrous....
Branch Rickey
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
The book that inspired Harrison Ford in his portrayal of Branch Rickey in the hit movie “42”
The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied racism on and off the field to bring...
Luckiest Man
The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.
Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears...
Cobb
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 1996
A New York Times Notable Book; Spitball Award for Best Baseball Book of 1994; Basis for a major Hollywood motion picture. Now in paperback, the biography that baseball fans all across the country have been talking about. Al Stump redefined America's perception of one of its most famous sports heroes...
Jackie Robinson
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale biography by Arnold Rampersad, who was chosen by Jack's widow, Rachel, to tell her husband's story, and was given unprecedented access to his private papers. We are brought closer than we have ever been to...
by Doug Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The first biography of the eccentric pitcher, rookie All-Star starter, 70s pop icon, and first athlete on the cover of Rolling Stone
For those who remember him, Mark Fidrych is still that player who brings a smile to your face, the irresistibly likable pitcher whose sudden rise brightened the...
Knuckler
My Life with Baseball's Most Confounding Pitch
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
At forty-four years old, Tim Wakefield is the longest-serving member of one of baseball’s most popular franchises. He is close to eclipsing the winning records of two of the greatest pitchers to have played the game, yet few realize the full measure of his success. That his career can be characterized...
Forever Blue
The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes a revealing biography of "one of the most polarizing figures in baseball history" (The New York Times).
If ever there was a figure who changed the game of baseball, it was Walter...