Baseball category: 2631 books
by Jon M. Fishman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge became a fan favorite in his rookie season with the team. This title's reader-friendly text, critical thinking questions, and bright design will attract young baseball fans.
by Nolan Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Spring is in the air, and all boys' thoughts turn to baseball in Belford, Kansas. The Mustangs haven't won a single game,and Mick and the Spiders are making Carley and Troop's lives miserable.
They can't hit, they can't catch, and they can't pitch. They need a coach badly. They never expected...
by Tara Langton
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Travis Tinley is an eleven year old boy who lives in Durango, Colorado with his mom, his five year old sister and their Border Collie Mesa. Travis lost his dad to Synovial Sarcoma cancer almost two years ago. Travis and his dad shared a love of baseball. Many years earlier, Travis' dad played professional...
by Buzz Bissinger, Marvin E. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In The Classic Mantle, acclaimed sportswriter Buzz Bissinger tells the story of Mickey Mantle’s unforgettable career. Mantle has long been considered one of baseball’s most memorable figuresplaying his entire 18-year baseball career for the New York Yankees (195168), winning 3 American League...
The Baseball Starter
A Handbook for Coaching Children and Teens
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
With an emphasis on instilling a love for the game, this handbook instructs parents and coaches on teaching the basics of baseball to young players. More than 80 photos demonstrate the proper techniques for hitting, fielding, and pitching, and appendices of games and drills reinforce the lessons in...
by Stuart Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In Good Wood, New York Times contributor Stuart Miller takes readers on a journey through the rich and storied—and occasionally nefarious—story of the baseball bat and those who have made them and swung them. With over 50 photos, Miller reveals the creation, history, and development of the bat, brings...
Amazing Tales from the Cleveland Indians Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Tribe Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Calling all Tribe fans! In this one-of-a-kind compendium of anecdotes, stats, and facts, 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 Cleveland Indians. It includes...
Field of Screams
Haunted Tales from the Baseball Diamond, the Locker Room, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
A collection of ghost stories collected from baseball players, stadium personnel, umpires, front-office folks, and fans, whichexplores the sometimes amusing and sometimes spooky connection between baseball and the paranormal.
Burleigh Grimes
Baseball's Last Legal Spitballer
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Burleigh Grimes—forever to be remembered as the ill-tempered spitballer with the perpetual five o’clock shadow. For nearly two decades, he brought his surly disposition to the pitcher’s mound. His life-or-death mentality resulted in a reputation as one of the game’s great competitors and a...
Playing with the Enemy
A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
A memoir of fathers and sons, baseball, a world at war, and second chances. “I loved [it]. You will, too” (Jim Morris, author of The Oldest Rookie).
Gene Moore was a small-town Illinois farm boy whose passion for “America’s Pastime” made him a local legend. It wasn’t long before...
New York Sluggers
The First 75 Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
New York City was the original hotbed of baseball, so it is not surprising that fans in the five boroughs are very knowledgeable about the game. It did not take long after baseball was established in the city in the late 1850s for heavy hitters to rise in popularity. New York has continued to set the...
Man in the Crowd
A Fan's Notes on Four Generations of New York Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
For Stanley Cohen, baseball is the prism through which he views the events of the last seventy years. In The Man in the Crowd, Cohen chronicles America’s changing mood and lifestyle from the years of World War II through the silent generation of the fifties, the revolutionary turmoil of the sixties...
Ebbets to Veeck to Busch
Eight Owners Who Shaped Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Of baseball there have been countless books, but, surprisingly, relatively few about the owners, the men and women who invested their time—and, frequently, their fortunes—in baseball teams. What has been written tends to concentrate on the financial aspects of ownership or individual owners and...
They Played for the Love of the Game
Untold Stories of Black Baseball in Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A century before Kirby Puckett led the Minnesota Twins to World Series championships, Minnesota was home to countless talented African American baseball players, yet few of them are known to fans today. During the many decades that Major League Baseball and its affiliates imposed a strict policy of...