Baseball category: 2631 books
Out of My League:
A Rookie's Survival in the Bigs
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
"A humorous, candid and insightful memoir of Hayhurst's rookie season in the majors. . .Grade: Home Run." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
After six years in the minors, pitcher Dirk Hayhurst hopes 2008 is the year he breaks into the big leagues. But every time Dirk looks up, the bases are...
by Susan Fornoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
New edition! Now in development for the silver screen by CBS Films, “Lady in the Locker Room” represents one woman’s account of the days when locker room sentries ignored credentials and observed tradition. Upon its release in 1993, the book took on not only men’s pro sports, but the male-dominated...
Seeing Home: The Ed Lucas Story
A Blind Broadcaster's Story of Overcoming Life's Greatest Obstacles
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Soon to be a major motion picture, Seeing Home: The Ed Lucas Story is the incredible true tale of a beloved Emmy-winning blind broadcaster who refused to let his disability prevent him from overcoming many challenging obstacles and achieving his dreams.
In 1951, when he was only twelve years...
by W.C. Madden, John E. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
Since 1950, Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium (formerly Municipal Stadium) has hosted the nation's top college baseball programs in the College World Series. Baseball fans from every corner of the country have taken the annual "Road to Omaha" and packed the seats to see championship baseball at its best. In...
Core Four
The Heart and Soul of the Yankees Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Tracing the careers of four instrumental players who turned around the Yankees ball club, this book shares behind-the-scenes stories from their early days together in the minors through the 2012 season, and follows them on their majestic ride to the top of the baseball world. At a time when the New...
by Mark Rucker
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
If there was ever a place in America where a city and its baseball team were as close as family, it was Brooklyn. The legacy of this relationship comes down to us in stories of childhoods spent at Ebbets Field and in the stories of Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey, whose courage changed the face of...
Major League Dads
Baseball's Best Players Reflect on the Fathers Who Inspired Them to Love the Game
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Baseball is America's favorite pastime and one of the best ways for fathers and sons to bond. Major League Dads is an inspirational look at such connections through a collection of heartfelt essays from interviews with 150 of the top players in Major League Baseball, such as David Wright, Carlos Pena,...
Rickey and Robinson
The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie’s widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie’s brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Ralph Kiner, and others, celebrated author Harvey Frommer evokes the lives of general manager Branch Rickey and Jackie...
Plie Ball!
Baseball Meets Dance on Stage and Screen
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
From the vaudeville gyrations of New York Giants star pitchers Rube Marquard and Christy Mathewson, to Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as hoofing infielders in Take Me Out to the Ball Game, to the stage and screen versions of Damn Yankees, the connection between baseball and dance is an intimate, perhaps...
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning
1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
A passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harrowing periods.
By early 1977, the metropolis was in the grip of hysteria caused by a murderer...
The Streak
Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
The fascinating story of baseball’s legendary “Ironmen,” two players from different eras who each achieved the coveted and sometimes confounding record of most consecutive games played
When Cal Ripken Jr. began his career with the Baltimore Orioles at age twenty-one, he had no idea he...
Donnie Baseball
The Definitive Biography of Don Mattingly
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Known affectionately as 'Donnie Baseball,' Don Mattingly was an example of consistency and greatness at first base for the New York Yankees for 14 seasons. A nine-time Gold Glove winner, the mustachioed defensive ace was a fan favorite on the underachieving Yankees teams of the 1980's and early 1990's....
Thurman Munson
A Baseball Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
When in 2000 the Baseball Writers Association of America elected the ever-durable Carlton Fisk to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, many fans quietly pointed to the Hall’s omission of Fisk’ greatest American League contemporary, Thurman Munson. And when in 2001 the writers honored Kirby Puckett,...
My Team
Choosing My Dream Team from My Forty Years in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2006
Mantle or Mays? A-Rod or Jeter? Biggio or Morgan? Clemens, Maddux, and Randy Johnson -- or Pedro, Palmer, and Carlton? These are questions baseball fans can spend endless hours debating. Former All-Star pitcher and National League Manager of the Year Larry Dierker has his own opinions, and he shares...