Baseball category: 2631 books
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Baseball
World Series Heroics! Greatest Homerun Hitters! Classic Rivalries! And Much, Much More!
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
“With the LEGENDS series, Howard Bryant brings to life the best that sports has to offer—the heroes, the bitter rivalries, the moments that every sports-loving kid should know.”—Mike Lupica, #1 bestselling author of Travel Team, Heat, and Fantasy League
Experience baseball's most exciting...
by Matthew Kasper Repplinger II
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Images of Baseball: Baseball in Denver shares the city�s prominent role in America�s great game. The lore of baseball�s first pioneers plays out in a real-life soap opera for this Western city. From the early Hall-of-Fame players to the storied baseball-talent barons of Denver�s primitive days,...
The New Boys of Summer
Baseball's Radical Transformation in the Late Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
The 1960s were among the most compelling years in the history of the United States, from the intensifying clamor for civil rights to the tragic incidents of assassination and war. Caught up in this sea of restlessness was major league baseball, and the manner in which baseball addressed the challenges...
Latino Stars in Major League Baseball
From Bobby Abreu to Carlos Zambrano
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Some of the best players in Major League Baseball were born outside the United States, with Latino players representing one of the fastest growing ethnicities in the league. Current and former stars such as Albert Pujols, Rod Carew, and Miguel Cabrera all found incredible success in MLB. They have...
The Everything Kids' Baseball Book, 11th Edition
From Baseball's History to Today's Favorite Players—with Lots of Home Run Fun in Between!
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2020
This newest edition to the long-running Everything Kids’ Baseball series updated with current information on the 2018 and 2019 baseball seasons, refreshed bios, and an expanded look at fantasy baseball is “everything you want in a kid’s book” (Associated Press).
Now you can introduce...
by Tucker Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Three full-length sports history and trivia books from Black Mesa Publishing and author Tucker Elliot.Cincinnati Reds IQ: The Ultimate Test of True FandomIn 1968, Johnny Bench was a 20-year-old rookie embarking on his first full Major League season with the Cincinnati Reds. He was also the Reds starting...
Baseball America 2016 Prospect Handbook
Scouting Reports and Rankings of the Best Young Talent in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Baseball America's Prospect Handbook is, quite simply, the only source you need to find out about the future stars of baseball. Baseball America made its name on finding the best players as amateurs and following them through the minors on the way to the big leagues, and the Prospect Handbook is the...
Creating the National Pastime
Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
At a time when many baseball fans wish for the game to return to a purer past, G. Edward White shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their nostalgia for the game, transformed baseball into the national pastime. Not simply...
Baseball's Business: The Winter Meetings: 1901-1957
SABR Digital Library, #43
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
"I treasured going to the Winter Meetings. You don't see people for a whole year and then here you are, face to face, and trying to make a deal." — Roland Hemond (Winter Meetings attendee since 1952)
This new SABR book about the history of the Winter Meetings contains stories...
The View from the Dugout
The Journals of Red Rolfe
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
"Somewhere, if they haven't been destroyed, there are hundreds of pages of typewritten notes about American League players of that era, notes which I would love to get my hands on."
-Bill James, in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, on the journals of Red Rolfe
"Red...
Baseball's Power Shift
How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
From Major League Baseball’s inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry. Despite the players’ desire to form a viable union, every attempt to do so failed. The labor consciousness of baseball players lagged behind that of workers in other...
The Nats and the Grays
How Baseball in the Nation's Capital Survived WWII and Changed the Game Forever
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
On a chilly Sunday, December 7, 1941, major league baseball’s owners gathered in Chicago for their annual winter meetings, just two months after one of baseball’s greatest seasons. For the owners, the attack on Pearl Harbor that morning was also an attack on baseball. They feared a complete shutdown...
Jews and Baseball
Volume 1, Entering the American Mainstream, 1871-1948
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Long before Hank Greenberg earned recognition as baseball’s greatest Jewish player, Jews had developed a unique, and very close, relationship with the American pastime. In the late nineteenth century, as both the American Jewish population and baseball’s popularity grew rapidly, baseball became...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
The one player guide every true baseball fan will want - the leading resource for the next generation of rising stars.
The Baseball America 2019 Prospect Handbook is the ultimate guide to the next generation of baseball stars. The Prospect Handbook features in-depth analysis and statistics...