Baseball category: 2631 books
Clemente
The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss’s brilliant rendering of the life of one of baseball’s most iconic figures captures both myth and man in daunting sweep and meticulous detail.
On New Year’s Eve 1972, beloved Pittsburgh Pirate Roberto Clemente died a hero’s death, killed in a plane...
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey
How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Chris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about base¬ball when he risked his life's savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor would become one of the most important-and funniest-figures in the game's history.
Von der Ahe...
Ten Innings at Wrigley
The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
The dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, full of runs, hits, and subplots, at the tipping point of a new era in baseball history
It was a Thursday at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, mostly sunny with the wind blowing out. Nobody expected...
by Philip Ross
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
La Russa (typically misspelled LaRussa) was signed by the Kansas City Athletics as a middle infielder prior to the start of the 1962 year. He reached the A's the next season, making his launching on May 10, 1963. In the following off-season he suffered a shoulder injury while playing softball with...
Mickey and Willie
Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they...
The Crowd Sounds Happy
A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed,...
Astroball
The New Way to Win It All
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
When Sports Illustrated declared on the cover of a June 2014 issue that the Houston Astros would win the World Series in 2017, people thought Ben Reiter, the article’s author, was crazy. The Astros were the worst baseball team in half a century, but they were more...
Mo'ne Davis: Remember My Name
My Story from First Pitch to Game Changer
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Be inspired to reach for your dreams!
At the age of thirteen, Mo'ne Davis became the first female pitcher to win a game in the Little League World Series and the first Little Leaguer to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated. A month later she earned a place in the National Baseball...
by Dan Gutman
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
With more than 1.5 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures series brings the greatest players in history to life!
Joe "Stosh" Stoshack has an incredible ability. He can travel through time using baseball cards. But the FBI has learned of his talent, and now they have a mission...
by Michael Dahl
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
A sweet, nostalgic goodnight to the thrill of a baseball game. This edition is produced in partnership with Sports Illustrated KIDS.
by Dan Gutman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
"This chapter book series by Dan Gutman is a more advanced version of the Magic Tree House series where the historical adventures are all baseball focused. I highly recommend this book to baseball fans and action/adventure fans" (Brightly.com).
When Joe Stoshack's dad ends up in the...
by Alan M. Gratz
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
1845: Felix Schneider, an immigrant from Germany, cheers the New York Knickerbockers as they play Three-Out, All-Out.
1908: Walter Snider, batboy for the Brooklyn Superbas, arranges a team tryout for a black pitcher by pretending he is Cuban.
1945: Kat Snider of Brooklyn plays for the...
by Dan Gutman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Cannons are blasting!
Bullets are flying!
Wounded soldiers are everywhere!
Stosh has time-traveled to 1863, right into the middle of the Civil War. In possibly his most exciting and definitely his most dangerous trip yet, Stosh has decided to answer the question for all time: did Abner Doubleday,...
Babe Ruth and the Baseball Curse (Totally True Adventures)
How the Red Sox Curse Became a Legend . . .
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Before 1918, the Boston Red Sox were unstoppable. They won World Series after World Series, thanks in part to their charismatic pitcher-slugger Babe Ruth. But some people on the Red Sox felt the Babe was more trouble than he was worth, and he was traded away to one of the worst teams in baseball,...