Baseball category: 2631 books
by Robert W. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
The Boston Red Sox are one of the most iconic baseball teams, representing not just a city or a state, but an entire region—it’s the only professional baseball team in New England. Baseball greats such as Cy Young and Babe Ruth wore the uniform early in their careers and many other players, including...
Baseball's Greatest Hit
The Story of Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Authorized book tie-in to 100th anniversary of this beloved song.
With the release of this special-edition book/CD, authored by three baseball insiders and history experts, the book recounts how “Ball Game” has won a unique and permanent place in our hearts and our cultural landscape. The CD includes many rare, classic, fun, and innovative renditions of the song.
by Kerry Keene
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
On September 11, 1985, baseball legend Pete Rose entered his name into the record books by passing Ty Cobb's longstanding record for most hits in a career. Ever since, Rose has embraced the title of "Hit King", and it had been apparent to many that it was a goal on which he had fixated for many...
Where's Harry?
Steve Stone Remembers 25 Years with Harry Caray
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
When legendary Chicago Cubs' broadcaster Harry Caray passed away in February of 1998, thousands of baseball fans mourned the loss. In Where's Harry?, Steve Stone pays tribute to one of baseball's biggest legends never to take the field, remembering the unique baseball commentator who was also the game's biggest fan.
Hal Trosky
A Baseball Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Hal Trosky played first base (and was team captain) for the Cleveland Indians during the Great Depression. His career stretched from the heyday of Babe Ruth through the end of World War II. It was a time when the American League had perhaps the three greatest ever first basemen—Lou Gehrig, Jimmie...
by Joan Wendl Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
While new railroad tracks cut through Northwestern Iowa in the mid-19th century, hardy pioneers cultivated the fertile soil, and the burgeoning sport of baseball took root and flourished. An integral element of the developing culture, it promoted community pride. Eight Northwestern Iowa towns supported...
Tales from the Toronto Blue Jays Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Blue Jays Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
From the club’s inception in the late ’70s; to winning the division for the first time in the ’80s; Joe Carter’s epic home run; the two World Series titles in the early ’90s; the reign of Roy Halliday; and everything in between, the Blue Jays have continued to build a storied history as...
Amazing Tales from the Boston Red Sox Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Red Sox Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Calling all BoSox fans! In this one-of-a-kind compendium of anecdotes from players, managers, and beat writers, Jim Prime and Bill Nowlin capture all the magic and passion of Boston Red Sox baseball. Amazing Tales from the Boston Red Sox Dugout is a colorful journey through the history of the franchise....
Black Ball 9
New Research in African American Baseball History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre–Negro League organization and...
An Irishman’S Tribute to the Negro Leagues
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
An Irishmans Tribute to the Negro Leagues is the first in a trilogy of Irishmans Tributes by Thomas Porky McDonald. In it, the long-ago world of Negro League Baseball is celebrated on factual, fictional, and emotional platforms. Profiles of over fifty former Negro Leaguers pay homage to the wondrous...
The Coal Barons Played Cuban Giants
A History of Early Professional Baseball in Pennsylvania, 1886-1896
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
The Pennsylvania state leagues of the 1880s and 1890s rank among the most interesting minor leagues in the history of baseball. The rules were changing, the world around baseball, particularly the economy, was changing and things that would seem impossible in a later time were happening every year....
Wrigley Field Year by Year
A Century at the Friendly Confines
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
More than just a lavishly illustrated and highly readable book, Wrigley Field Year by Year, originally published in 2014, is the result of a quarter century of meticulous research. Written by a baseball historian and recognized authority on the Friendly Confines,” this is the first book to detail...
The Middle Atlantic League, 1925-1952
A Baseball History
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
The small and midsized cities of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia reached their peaks of population and prosperity in the second quarter of the 20th century. The baseball teams from these towns formed the Middle Atlantic League, the strongest circuit in the low minors and the one with...
Juan Marichal
My Journey from the Dominican Republic to Cooperstown
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In a decade that featured such legendary hurlers as Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Don Drysdale, and other Hall of Famers, no pitcher won more games than Juan Marichal in the 1960s. His unique, high-kick pitching style was imitated by kids from New York to San Francisco to Santo Domingo, and it is immortalized...