Baseball category: 2631 books
Billy Southworth
A Biography of the Hall of Fame Manager and Ballplayer
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Billy Southworth was the most successful major league baseball manager of the 1940s including the three straight years in which his St. Louis Cardinal teams won more than 100 games. He won three National League pennants with the Cardinals and one with the Boston Braves, and his .597 winning percentage...
Game Six
Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America's Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Boston, Tuesday, October 21, 1975. The Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds have endured an excruciating three-day rain delay. Tonight, at last, they will play Game Six of the World Series. Leading three games to two, Cincinnati hopes to win it all; Boston is desperate to stay alive. But for all the anticipation,...
by Dan Gutman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The ball hit me. It sounded like a bomb going off in my head. Everything went dark. The last thing I remember was hearing somebody yell, "Call 911!"
When Stosh gets hit in the head with a baseball, he's lucky to survive. Then he learns about another player who wasn't so lucky—Ray...
Suicide Squeeze
Taylor Hooton, Rob Garibaldi, and the Fight against Teenage Steroid Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs—specifically, anabolic steroids (APEDs)—provide a tempting competitive advantage for amateur baseball players. But this shortcut can exact a fatal cost on talented athletes. In his urgent book Suicide Squeeze, William Kashatus chronicles the experiences...
Faithful to Fenway
Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America’s Most Beloved Ballpark
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
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The Green Monster. Pesky's Pole. The Lone Red Seat. Yawkey Way. To baseball fans this list of bizarre phrases evokes only one place: Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Built in 1912, Fenway Park is Americas oldest major league ballpark still in use. In Faithful to...
by Kurt Varricchio
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Kurt Varricchio redefines the meaning of a difficult childhood in his intimate memoir, Behind in the Count: My Journey from Juvenile Delinquent to Baseball Agent. Whether it was trying to fill his empty stomach with one last scoop of Ovaltine, getting tied to a tree, being punished with a wrench,...
A Scout's Report
My 70 Years in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Many in baseball consider the scout to be the most important figure in any organization: It is the scout’s work in the high school and college bleachers that unearths future legends. Few have achieved more—and in such grand style—than George Genovese. In a game that values numbers, Genovese’s...
by Michael Seidel
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
As the title suggests, the focus of the book is Ted Williams’ on-the-field career. Each year is covered in detail, as the narrative presents numerous game accounts and detailed stats against a carefully drawn historical backdrop. Classic Williams anecdotes are stripped of embellishment and presented...
Amazing Tales from the Cleveland Indians Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Tribe Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Calling all Tribe fans! In this one-of-a-kind compendium of anecdotes from players, managers, and beat writers, Russell Schneider captures all the magic and passion of Cleveland Indians baseball. Amazing Tales from the Cleveland Indians Dugout is a colorful journey through the history of the franchise....
by Joan M. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Baseball came to St. Louis before the dawn of the major leagues. It was a gentleman's game, a simple summer pastime, and its popularity grew as the city evolved. Local amateur teams proliferated, and interest in forming a team of professionals resulted in two such St. Louis teams in 1875, the Brown Stockings...
Who's on First: Replacement Players in World War II
SABR Digital Library, #26
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
During the four seasons the U.S. was at war in World War II (1942-1945), 533 players made their major-league debuts. There were 67 first-time major leaguers under the age of 21 (Joe Nuxhall the youngest at 15 in 1944). More than 60 percent of the players in the 1941 Opening Day lineups departed for...
The Night Casey Was Born
The True Story Behind the Great American Ballad "Casey at the Bat"
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The acclaimed biographer offers a social history of the poem that helped America fall in love with baseball—a lively story that “hits it out of the park” (The Baltimore Sun).
The sport that came to be known as America’s Pastime was still in its infancy when a journalist for the San Francisco...
The Art of Snag
A Fan's Guide to Catching Major League Baseballs
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
From Zack Hample’s The Baseball, this is the definitive, always-entertaining, never-fail guide to successfully snagging baseballs at Major League games.
Luck—or hard work and skill? Zack Hample has caught more than 7,600 baseballs from the stands of 51 major league stadiums. His snags include...
by Allen Barra
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
“Allen Barra brings a legendary figure from the true golden age of baseball to life.”—Bob Costas
Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history, and the most quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. Part clown, part feisty competitor, Berra is also the winningest...