Baseball category: 2631 books
by Bill Veeck, Ed Linn
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Baseball Hall of Famer Bill Veeck (1914–86) was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, and one of the greatest baseball men ever involved in the game. Bill Veeck’s Crosstown Classic, drawn from his uproarious autobiography (cowritten with the talented sportswriter Ed Linn), is an unforgettable...
Taking the Field
A Fan's Quest to Run the Team He Loves
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
With 162 games a year, the playoffs, and an active offseason, baseball fans almost never stop thinking about their team. And Howard Megdal is no exception: a lifelong and feverish Mets fan, he has been there through thick and (more often) thin. And yet-year in and year out, the Mets seem to find ways...
Intangiball
The Subtle Things That Win Baseball Games
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
A unique and refreshing ode to the “little things” that represent baseball’s heartbeat—the player who, in countless ways, makes other players better.
Intangiball tracks the progress of the Cincinnati Reds through five years of culture change, beginning with the trades of decorated veterans...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker are both legendary Hall of Fame baseball players. The men were icons in the early 20th Century sports world where baseball was truly the national pastime and the biggest sport of them all in America. In the summer and fall of 1926 a former major league pitcher, Hubert Dutch...
Life from the Press Box
Life from the Press Box: Forty Years with the Mustache Gang, O.J., John Madden, the Big Unit, Sweet Lou, Junior Griffey and Ichiro…
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Jim Street learned early in his career that fairness and accuracy were two of the most important words of his profession. From the beginning to the end of his forty-year career as a sportswriter covering major league baseball and professional football on the West Coast, Street strived to listen to...
The Card
Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Since its limited release just after the turn of the twentieth century, this American Tobacco cigarette card has beguiled and bedeviled collectors. First identified as valuable in the 1930s, when the whole notion of card collecting was still young, the T206 Wagner has remained the big score for collectors...
Waite Hoyt
A Biography of the Yankees' Schoolboy Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
Waite Hoyt was much more than a baseball player. A multi-faceted, sometimes troubled man, Hoyt was a vaudevillian, a mortician, a writer, a painter, and (of course) a Hall of Fame pitcher. He was also an alcoholic who overcame his demons and became one of the first players to make the transition to...
by Diana Star Helmer, Thomas S. Owens
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Belles of the Ballpark: Celebrating the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League recaptures the AAGPBL’s 12 amazing seasons. From its inspiring beginnings during World War II, thanks to the innovation of Chicago Cubs owner P.K. Wrigley, the “Girls League” gave Midwestern towns a league...
by Bob Levin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
An exploration of the often-fraught relationship between fathers and sons is at the heart of Bob Levin’s baseball-themed novel Away Game. It’s the story of Hank Bauman who, through the magic of an old baseball board game, is transported from the present to 1955, to Game 7 of the Yankees-Dodgers...
Tony Oliva
The Life and Times of a Minnesota Twins Legend
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
If not for the botched Bay of Pigs invasion, Minnesota might never have known one of its most popular baseball players, Twins three-time batting champion and eight-time All-Star Tony Oliva. In April 1961, the twenty-two-year-old Cuban prospect failed to impress the Twins in a tryout, but the sudden...
by Doug Feldmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
With a legacy that goes back to the Brown Stockings of the old American Association, the St. Louis Cardinals have one of the longest and greatest traditions in the history of baseball. Winners of ten World Series titles (second only to the New York Yankees) and twenty-one pennants dating back to 1885,...
The Haymakers, Unions and Trojans of Troy, New York
Big-Time Baseball in the Collar City, 1860-1883
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
The Troy Haymakers were a pioneer baseball team legendary for exploits on and off the field. Formed in 1860 in Troy, New York—a rapidly growing industrial city—the team was embraced by the tough-minded Trojans as emblematic of their vigorous boomtown, rivaling larger, better established cities....
by Bucky Fox
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
Since the Orioles' flight into Baltimore, stars from Brooks Robinson to Miguel Tejada have shot across baseball's stratosphere.
This swingin' team keeps the hits flying. Out of the park. Off the charts. How high?
To the world title in 1966, starring Frank Robinson.
To baseball's top...
The 1969 Seattle Pilots
Major League Baseball's One-Year Team
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The Mariners were not Seattle’s first major league baseball team. In 1937, Seattle businessman Emil Sick bought the city’s failing Pacific Coast League team, the Indians, renamed them the Rainiers and constructed a new, state-of-the-art stadium. Over the next few decades, at least two teams—the...