Baseball category: 2631 books
by Matt Christopher
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2009
Voted captain of his baseball team, Jimmie declares himself pitcher even though Paul is a better pitcher. Paul leaves for another team, and Jimmie's team starts losing. Can Jimmie regain the confidence of his friends?
by Walter Dean Myers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Newbery and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Walter Dean Myers's baseball story THE JOURNAL OF BIDDY OWENS is now available in paperback, with an exciting repackaging! Seventeen-year-old Biddy Owens is part of the Birmingham Black Barons baseball team and dreams of becoming a major league baseball...
by Gail Herman, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
"Strike – you’re out!" "He’s safe!" "Homerun!" Every October, millions of baseball fans around the country anxiously wait to see which team wins baseball's biggest championship. But the original games of the 1900s hardly look like they do today. Take a look back...
Baseball's Greatest Hitters
From Ty Cobb to Miguel Cabrera
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Young ball fans can now get the stats on the champions of the bat in this companion to the best-selling Baseball's Greatest Pitchers. Lively illustrations accompany fact-filled profiles of the legendary hitters of the game, including Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, and Ted Williams.
Men at Work
The Craft of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
In his classic tribute to America's pastime—now with a new introduction—political commentator, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and lifelong sports enthusiast George F. Will travels from the baseball field to the dugout to the locker room to get to the root of the game we all love. He breaks...
Born to Play
My Life in the Game
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
The inspirational story of Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia—a giant talent in a small package—who defied his critics to become one of the greatest players in the game today.
Dustin Pedroia, at five feet seven inches and 170 pounds, is not the biggest, the strongest, or the fastest...
Willie Mays
The Life, The Legend
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2010
The “enormously entertaining and wide-ranging” (Seattle Times)authorized, definitive, New York Times bestselling biography of Willie Mays, the most complete baseball player of all time.
Willie Mays is arguably the greatest player in baseball history, still revered for the passion he brought...
by Frank Foster
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Jackie Robinson was one of the greatest baseball players of all time--MLB Rookie of the Year, World Series Champion, six-time all-star, MVP, and a lifetime batting average of .311. But he is most remembered for breaking racial barriers by becoming the first African American to play in the major leagues...
The Best Team Money Can Buy
The Los Angeles Dodgers' Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
With a new Afterword covering the 2015 season.
The bestselling, inside-the-clubhouse story of two tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were re-made from top to bottom, becoming the most talked-about and most colorful team in baseball. “It’s as if Molly Knight ushers you behind...
The Big Bam
The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
National Bestseller
He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam.
Babe Ruth was more than baseball’s original superstar. For eighty-five years, he has remained the sport’s reigning titan. He has been named...
The Last Hero
A Life of Henry Aaron
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry Aaron’s reputation has only grown in magnitude: he broke existing records (rbis, total bases, extra-base hits) and set new ones (hitting at least thirty home runs per season fifteen times, becoming the first player in history to hammer five hundred...
Why Is The Foul Pole Fair?
Answers to 101 of the Most Perplexing Baseball Questions
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Chicken soup for the baseball lover's soul -- the inimitable Vince Staten takes you out to the ol' ballgame and answers all the baseball questions your dad hoped you wouldn't ask.
Driving Mr. Yogi
Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
“A warm, sentimental look at a baseball icon” (The Tampa Tribune).
Driving Mr. Yogi is the story of a unique friendship between two New York Yankees legends—a pitcher and catcher—who share rides, meals, and a bond that transcends the twenty-five-year difference in their ages.
The...
by Roger Angell
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Angell’s absorbing collection traces the highs and lows of major-league baseball in the 1980s
Roger Angell once again journeys through five seasons of America’s national pastime—chronicling the larger-than-life narratives and on-field intricacies of baseball from 1982 to 1987. Angell’s...